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What's your favourite crisp flavour?

Salted
5
12%
Cheese (& Onion)
6
15%
Smokey Bacon
4
10%
Pickled Onion
2
5%
Sour Cream & Chive
4
10%
Beef/Steak (& something else)
2
5%
Salt & Vinegar
3
7%
Prawn Cocktail
5
12%
Chicken
0
No votes
BBQ
0
No votes
Worchester Sauce
4
10%
Chilli/Hot
5
12%
Other/Exotic
1
2%
 
Total votes: 41

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Post by Nickface »

What I'm rocking right now:
<img src="http://nickface.org/random/chips.jpg">
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Post by Roman Totale »

Beef Monster Munch destroy all other crisps around.

I'm also quite partial to blue Doritos, Walkers Thai Red Chilli and Nobbys Chicken Balti.
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Post by cashy »

my mom got me a bag of lays from her stay in the big apple, quite possibly the worst thing ever. wafer thin and soaked in fat. my hand was wet with grease just from reaching into the bag. ugh
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Post by Roman Totale »

cashy wrote:my mom got me a bag of lays from her stay in the big apple, quite possibly the worst thing ever. wafer thin and soaked in fat. my hand was wet with grease just from reaching into the bag. ugh
I was going to do a "comedy requote" involving moms, lays and greasy bags - but I felt it was too easy.
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Post by Lateralus »

Roman Totale wrote:
I was going to do a "comedy requote" involving moms, lays and greasy bags - but I felt it was too easy.
So was she :lol:
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Post by pixie pie »

I've gotta love the Walkers Cheese and Onion purely due to its brilliance when accompanied with lager.
I am also particularly fond of the Thai Sweet Chili ones, and in my experience Kettle > Tyrells. Parsnip crisps? What are they trying to be.. healthy?!
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cashy wrote:my mom got me a bag of lays from her stay in the big apple, quite possibly the worst thing ever. wafer thin and soaked in fat. my hand was wet with grease just from reaching into the bag. ugh
I don't know if that was directed toward my bag or not, but if it was, the brand I'm eating are Jay's potato chips.

<a href="http://www.chefsbest.org/images/logos/lays.jpg">Lay's Logo</a>

<a href="http://www.jaysfoods.com/images/animate ... gif">Jay's Logo</a>

Lay's chips are pretty thin and greasy. I tend to prefer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffles">Ruffles</a> if I'm getting anything from Frito-Lay because they're a bit thicker.
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Post by Grimmie »

Nickface wrote:Image Image
While in America, I pondered if these two companies were related?
I couldn't see a similar 'parent company' on either product.
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Grimmie wrote:While in America, I pondered if these two companies were related?
I couldn't see a similar 'parent company' on either product.
there is, pepsico.
Last edited by Dr. kitteny berk on September 13th, 2006, 18:59, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Lateralus »

They have Lays in France too, and I always assumed that Lays and Walkers were one and the same, although this may have been in error.
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Post by Dog Pants »

Lateralus wrote:SEABROOK'S CRISPS PWN YOU ALL.
This :above:

Seabrook Prawn Cocktail are the kings of crisps.
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Post by spoodie »

Pepsico pwns your snacks!
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Post by Loxy »

I'm a worcester sauce girl m'self!
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Post by FatherJack »

Even if some of them are supposedly healthier, I don't really go for the massive packets, I just get bored before the end. The exception would be the mini poppadoms where you get a little pot of mango chutney inside.

McCoy's have some interesting Pub Grub flavours out at the moment - the sausage one's a bit iffy (as sausage crisps usually are) but the steak & ale and cheese & pickle are quite nice, although I don't like the texture of ridged crisps as much for some reason. Brannigan's were sort of like a non-ridged version, but I haven't seen them for a while - once they did pub grub flavours, the best being lamb & mint - which were a lot nicer than recent efforts by Walker's at the flavour.

I've had some mad "extreme" crisps and some rather harsh asian ones, but like most salt & vinegar I find them a bit much to eat on their own. Less harsh salt & vinegar ones are Disco's, Smith's Square and French Fries.

Prawn cocktail has always seemed like the seafood sauce without any prawns in, except Skips which were okay. Scampi Fries win for seafood-related flavours, and fingers-dipped-in-guinness-after-eating-them smell.

Don't if it's still the case, but the only vegan Walker's used to be Ready Salted and, er.. Beef.

Frazzles are my favourite bacon crisps, as they make the effort to look like little bits of bacon.

Salt and shake give you a bit of interaction, as do hula hoops as you can put them on your fingers - although that's a bit harder to do than when I was a kid.
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Post by Roman Totale »

FatherJack wrote:the sausage one's a bit iffy (as sausage crisps usually are)
Actually Walkers did a Sausage and Tomato Sauce flavour not too long ago - they were rather tasty.
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Post by spoodie »

FatherJack wrote:Discos
I hate these. I think it's the texture, even if they have a strong flavour they still feel bland.

The regular walker's lamb and mint is a bit lame but I think the Sensations edition is/was superb but I havent seen them around lately.
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Post by spoodie »

I AM THE KING OF THE CRISPS *
These are all large bags, 150g

Image

* may not be KING OF THE CRISPS
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Post by Fear »

You fat bastard! (or soon to be)

In other news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5355818.stm
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Post by spoodie »

Good on 'im. Fight the power and all that. Tescos is scum, even though I shop there because it's the nearest.
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Post by deject »

OOoooooo, mango chilli! that sounds deliscious!
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