Search And Destroy: Crisps

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A lot of people on this board seem to mention poncy versions of food, so it'll be interesting to see how many people cite Gherkin & Marjoram Pan-Fried Kettle Chips made out of Maris Piper potatoes, dipped in taramasalate and lime juice dip as their favourites.

Me? I like Beef & Onion KP.

Greg, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It seems fairly poncey to call "chips" "crisps", but maybe its just English.

Sean, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Tis, Sean, as "chips" would be fries.

Nitsuh, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Potato Chips? wha...?

Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

For fuck's sake. At least this way I don't get Pinefox going: "What are these chips of which you speak?"

Greg, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Golden Wonder Bacon flavour, and those ones that look like rashes of bacon...it's been a while since I ain't any crisps, but instinictively I know things like Dorito's are crap, probably beacuse of their new trendy lifestyle TV ads.

jel, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Tudor's Tomato Crisps. And I won't hear otherwise.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Organic Sun Dried Tomato and Roasted Garlic flavour. I was going to bring some to the picnic, but alas couldn't find any.

Are "Corn snacks" allowed? Nothing quite comes close to gruesomely titled (bacon flavour) Oinks, and they're only 5p. Was there anything more to the cartoons on the back of Space Raiders, or did someone really make up an entire intergalactic war concept just for a couple of 3 frame comic strips?

Graham, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

all dressed

anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Walkers'. And that's just for starters.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Your country is scary. Who says just because you can make it into a dehydrated powder, that you can coat a potato chip with it?

Josh, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hey get this Americans: "Savoury Prawn Flavour" (if you can read that with all the "u"s in it) - ewwwww!

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Miss Vickies Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar kettle chips are the best.

Kim, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Savory Prawn Flavour"??? You're making that up (I hope).

Wasn't "Miss Vicki" the name of Tiny Tim's wife? Whom he married on the Tonight Show or something?

Sean, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Search: Golden Wonder bacon, McCoys cheese and onion, Quavers cheese.

Destroy: Walkers. And that's just for finishers.

Ally C, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is it true that they don't have ketchup chips in the US ? If that's the case, I need to take some with me when I move.

Patrick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dear god, whatever happened to bloody sour cream and onion? Salt & vinegar? PLAIN FOR FUCK'S SAKE. I had no idea how disgusting English potato chips were.

Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh dear, bad question.
Basically, all except Prawn Cocktail, but especially:
Ready Salted McCoys
Tortilla Chips (the Philleas Fogg ones)
'cool' Doritos
Ready Salted Chipsticks, though you only seem to be able to get them in multipacks with ohter crappier crisps
Salt 'N' Vinegar Square Crisps, for nostalgia value.
YOU BASTARDS! I'M HUNGRY AND SUPPOSED TO BE ON A DIET!

DG, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

BAH, your Brit food is not wacky. JAPANESE food, now thats wacky. Baby octopus?

Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Lime nachos are heaven.

Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I will eat lime with almost everything. Nachos do not seem to be on the list.

anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

http://engrish.com/images/snacks/bakedchunk.jpg

nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I actually rarely eat crisps or chips nowadays. When I was a teenager, I used to eat Hula Hoops (with paprica) every single day. I gave up and lost a few pounds only to regain them by eating white chocolate.

nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Walkers are good for cheese and onion, Golden Wonder are the best for prawn cocktail and salt and vinegar.

Search: tomato Wheat Crunchies, salt and vinegar Chipsticks, pickled onion Monsta Munch, pizza Pringles, ready salted Patatine San Carlo.

Destroy: anything claiming to have a percentage of fat freeness.

Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And SEARCH FRAZZLES!

Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Best ever: Golden Wonder Mexican Cheese & Chilli. Discontinued several years ago and still no sign of them coming back, despite my letters of protest.

scott, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Crisps have to have meat flavour (or "Barbeque" at a pinch) to be good. Search: Frazzles, McCoys Flamegrilled Steak, Skips. Actually exception to this - WOTSITS which texturally are the most high.

Destroy: Ready Salted crisps - you can't uninvent artificial flavourings you luddite swines.

Did any American readers think "fish and chips" meant fish with a load of crisps? URGH.

Tom, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Urgghhh, I hate all bacon flavour crisps, particularly Frazzles, it is like coffee flavour stuff, an insult to the fine foodstuff it rips off. I also hate hate hate cheese and onion but everyone else luvs it. Search: salt and vinegar, worcester sauce, ketchup, prawn cocktail, chipsticks, cheese puffs / wotsits, pickled onion Monster Munch, Kettle Chips if I'm feeling posh. Destroy: cheese and onion, bacon, roast chicken, Pringles.

Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

speaking of fish & chips - OK you weren't but - does anyone else who when they were a kid thought f'n'c were THEE tasty ultra treat find that they now, as a adult person, feel like throwing the hell up after eating 1 mouthful of that stinking deep fried filth? 'cause I do.

duane, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Junk Food - Combines The Finest Properties Of Both JUNK AND FOOD".
Does anyone like that advertising slogan? I just made it up.

duane, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Destroy: cheese and onion, bacon, roast chicken, Pringles."

Has Emma just proved she is a hideous invading space-mutant, and can we chase her thru the streets and burn her up in a vat of superheated cooking oil?
(Or, er, not?)

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Damn, you found me out, must get back to the mother ship quickly. This is also why I hate mashed potatoes and profess ignorance of and lack of interest in all sci fi.

Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Apart from those Persil capsules. Or was that Suzy?

Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

search: the only valid use of crisps is for dipping, and only tortilla/kettle chips have the requisite width.

destroy: all meat, salt & vinegar, and cheese flavour crisps. and reconstituted corn based snacks. hell, just destroy crisps. they taste inoffensive at best, and are probably sufficiently complicit in the high levels of heart disease around here for walkers to be next through the courts after the cigarette companies have finished.

kevan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

lennie thetford speaks out: tho what he says = more scary giveaway i-am-alien gibberish.
Tortillas = the cork table mat of the junk food family

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

rumbled. emma, is there space for one more in the mothership?

kevan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nope, Emma is Persil Capsule girl. As for crisps I have to profess a liking for Ready Salted Walkers. Its like fifties rock'n'roll - you can appreciate where the Daft Punk-esque Prawn Cocktail falvour comes from if you get Ready Salted. Also they tastes very similar to egg and chips to me.

Bacon Wheat Crunchies are da bomb, Pringles are however evil. flavour is easily Barbeque flavour - in their evil black packets they taste nothing like barbeques.

By the way, we worked out why Gary Linaker was picked for the Brass Eye last wee'character' in the Walkers Crisps adverts after all preys on young kiddies, lurking in the bushes to steal their crisps. Lucky there aren't cherry flavoured crisps eh?

Pete, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Man, you Brits have some way kick-ass chips flavors.

Patrick, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

After an orgy of (three or four pa of) bacon or chicken or cheese'n'onion, ready salted cleanses the palate, for renewed assault on the more subtle flavours: esp.spring onion (does this still exist) and lea&perrins

Search: any reconsituted corn snack which sucks the flesh of yr tongue into the body of itself before dissolving

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Most kick-ass flavour = hedgehog.

Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ps kettle flavours: they are surely taking the piss? sweet pimenton and goat cheese with olive oil?

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Do Persil Capsules count as sci fi? During BB gathering last Friday old-skool chums who had never seen them insisted I got them out to show. They were greatly impressed but I suddenly realised they bear an uncanny resemblance to very small green breast implants.

Please stop talking about crisps as they are barred from my new diet.

Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

2 recent classics from Brannigans: Smoked Ham & Pickle/Minted Lamb

scott, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

But destroy the horrible new Brannigans packets which are McCoy's in all but name. I used to like the ridiculous olde-worlde-paper-bags- lined-with-space-age-metal-for-freshness. I also liked the picture of the big fat fellow looking happy with his cholesterol-soaked lot in life.

I would buy any drink which advertised itself with a drunk person, apart from a real ale with a ridiculous drunkard cartoon on the pumphead.

Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"olde-worlde-paper-bags- lined-with-space-age-metal-for-freshness" = sinister technology introduced earthside by debris found at Roswell crash site..., to make OK-ish-maybe crisps a million times more soggily greasy than they actually are

Walkers live forever in my memory for introducing actual nice-looking potatoes into the equation: in the mid-70s, Smiths and Golden Wonder used only potatoes-of-the-thousand-eyes variety, which were very often i. purple, or ii. green.

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

search: pringles, duh. don't they put some kind of evil addictive stuff in there? i mean, they even, more or less, admit it in the advertising - "once you pop, you can't stop"

destroy: doritos. or maybe they're not crisps. look, just destroy them anyway, ok?

gareth, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"A million times more greasy than they actually are": are you suggesting some alien-derived mind control which actually makes crisps seem greasier than necessary to us, allowing a reduction in the use of expensive-but-tasty grease in the manufacture of our favourite potato based snack?

And search: bags of those fishy old Scampi Fries containing more than 5 fries. And destroy: Cheese Moments, which surely contain the most repulsive cheese-like substance ever to have been imported from space? Some competition here, I know.

Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

search: walkers ready salted, opened and malt vinegar sprinkled in, then shake bag. Absolutely gorgeous.

I also like the plain ones you get in Europe, no flavour but fried potato, nice.

cabbage, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

As an afficionado of processed cheese I rather liked Cheese Moments - they tasted like nothing else in the world, especially not cheese.

Tom, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Cheese Moments: repulsive cheese-like substance": is it not from the Great Vats left over after the Tolkein-ish epic War of the Cheese Footballs? CFs were destroyed and passed from this Earth at the end of the Third Age, but vile trolls and balrogs in loathesome cracks in the mountains, where the cleansing elven flames did not reach, still guarded the secret of the making of the RCLS...

Brannigans not that greasy IN THEMSELVES: the grease come off the inside of the container stamping itself straight onto the front of the human face forever...

mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

got some fucking A mango/lime pickle crisps from local cheapo freezer shop the other week

Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link

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standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link

anyway, lol at no 'tayto' itt til now

standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link

i don't rate 'em, soz. what was this dodgy website anyhow?

also on a semi-related note, god bless Just-Eat.com you are the lazy bachelor's best friend

Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link

Seabrooks over rated? That’s fighting talk.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link

do Seabrooks still do wasabi flavour? they're like the crisps Jesus wd eat

Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

sozziest thing i ever heard

standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

I ate a gigantic pack of these (pictured below) that some people left at my house. I feel dirty.

http://static.wix.com/media/ebecac_018159d035e763e2829b6b453f78e307.jpg_256

emil.y, Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

Oh man, it's the Bacon Nasty's

a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like americans today don't really respect or appreciate potato chips the way in which they once did. it's sad really

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link

like it's okay to eat them if they have ridges and are a vehicle for some "dip", but if you are just eating a bag of plain unruffled ones then you are automatically the laughing stock of the room, no matter what company you're surrounded by

ever since chips with salsa strutted onto the american snack scene i guess potato chips just aren't "sexy" enough for the average american consumer. again, it's quite sad

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link

is the faux artisan potato chip a thing there?

a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link

best ridged crisps = walkers max paprika flavour, goddamn yes

a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link

is the faux artisan potato chip a thing there?

yup v much

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link

or "v munch" should i say!

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link

REading about the need for dips to go with “potato chips”, whatever the fuck that is, I feel like America probably would not appreciate the textural joy that is the crisp sandwich.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link

(tries to remember the bacon-flavoured KP crisp product, unavailable in the UK, which we got terribly addicted to on our last visit to Ireland)

a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link

Bacon Jawz! Yeah. We need those over here. And Club Lemon to wash them down.

Oh... I'm meant to be on a diet. And I already ate a bag of Walkers (prawn cocktail) and drank a bottle of Irn Bru. It's going really well, this diet thing. Now if you'll excuse me there's some leftover Chinese takeaway in the fridge.

a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link

Idk bacon jawz but club lemon is perfection

standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

I'm getting the same malware warning message when I try to view the entire thread as well.

fuck why did i click on this thread, could murder a bag of hula hoops all of a sudden

― r|t|c, Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:18 PM (1 hour ago)

Great. Now I have to go and source some BBQ Beef flavour hoops. Also their website is flash (ahahaha gedddit? Flash? *gets coat*)

pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link

not a club lemon fan myself. that much citrus and sugar gives me a headache, guaranteed.

the fancy crisp really is so disappointing, most of the time. kettle chips are mainly a great way to slice the inside of your mouth to bits, and the flavours don't taste particularly authentic.

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

the posh pork scratching on the other hand opens up a whole world of competitive quality.

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pekm5EFbGF8/TAejfTYEzDI/AAAAAAAABjY/wIQfLp5aXE4/s1600/IMG_2898.JPG

these are surprisingly good but you can only eat like five of them before they become gross

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link

most posh crisps seem to just prove how important texture is in our enjoyment of food.

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link

yeah otm about the mouth ravaging qualities

Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link

the posh pork scratching on the other hand opens up a whole world of competitive quality.

― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:02 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i somehow contrived to eat only a plate of pork crackling and nothing else for dinner the other week so this post made me feel quite ill

r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link

ever since chips with salsa strutted onto the american snack scene i guess potato chips just aren't "sexy" enough for the average american consumer. again, it's quite sad

hahaha, what? Lay's plain potato chips are the #1 snack food in the USA and have been for like 40 years now. Tortilla chips are a distant second.

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link

read the trade papers and then get back to me. when that Whore salsa came into the picture coupla decades back everything changed

dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link

i somehow contrived to eat only a plate of pork crackling and nothing else for dinner the other week so this post made me feel quite ill

how did this happen? bad restaurant or burnt dinner?

Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

Man, I wish I had access to a savory snacks magazine. I had a great time once reading a magazine for pizza restauranteurs. As for tortilla overtaking potato in chip sales in the USA, I'm not buyin' it.

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link

well i'd made the pork with the original intention of sandwiches & freezing and while i had meant to have a couple bits for dinner too i got started on the crackling and couldnt stop

r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link

Garda this selfloathing gael routine has to fuckin stop man, next you'll be dissing barrys tea and not buying far east magazine ffs

standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

Don't forget to vote

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLlrVpZWEAAUh72.jpg:large

polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

Oh shiiiiiiiit, the biscuits and gravy ones are really good.

phở intellectual (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link

Biscuit flavoured chips: guaranteed to confuse a limey.

ledge, Sunday, 6 December 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link

I wonder if there are UK restaurants that specialize in varieties of American breakfast.

phở intellectual (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 December 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Co-op sea salt and chardonnay vinegar. Try and overcome any instinctive reactions the name might produce, they are tremendous.

ledge, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

http://www.burtschips.com/wp-content/uploads/Hamageddon-40g-small.png

Not bad. More mustardy then Brannigans.

nashwan, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

these are great! thanks, scotland!

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wSqW5egnL._SX466_.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link

got them at my favorite store in massachusetts: THE OCEAN STATE JOB LOT. which means they might not have them the next time i go there and i might not be able to find them again.

scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link

they aren't really fiery hot. but that's okay. they have the most marvelous chip/crisp texture. perfect mouth feel.

scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link

mackie's make fucking great ice-cream too fyi

NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link

i don't really eat chips anymore but i used to love these

https://secretmenus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jalapeno-cheddar-kettle-chips-291x400.gif

and sorry but i also did like old dutch ketchup chips

bald butte (∞), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

Holy God, Torres Selecta Black Truffle has raised the stakes

strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link

Here: https://www.souschef.co.uk/products/crisps-with-black-truffle

The holy grail. I've only just finished my first ever pack and I want this every day forever

strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link

an intense black truffle punch

gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link

you heard

strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link

We just came back from Mexico and I’d like to vouch for Pap’s Chiles Mexicanos (chile puya flavour). Amongst the best uh crisps I have ever encountered.

Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 05:21 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/CdxCRHE.jpg
Mind blown
Basically sour cream and onion with a hint of cool ranch aftertaste

calstars, Monday, 19 September 2022 02:49 (two years ago) link


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