What’s the best crisps flavour and why is everyone else wrong?
29d 16h ago by piefed.blahaj.zone/u/LadyButterfly in casualuk@feddit.uk
Salt and vinegar are the king of crisps and everyone who disagrees is clearly barmy
The co-op fancy own brand salt & vinegar crisps are phenomenal. Vinegary enough to clean old brass with
The problem is though, if you buy them enough, any other salt and vinegar crisps just taste like ready salted.
I agree and will follow you into battle about this
Yup. I could eat salt and vinegar crisps til my tongue burns and my eyes are watering. People can have their flavour of choice, but in a multipack, they're my number one.
Salt and vinegar thick cut, extra crunchy.
Also great on dirt
You haven't had enough ketchup chips.
I mean, you're right, I don't think I've had any ketchup chips.
Ketchup chips are government supplied staples in Socialist countries.
They're called Prawn Cocktail in Britain.
Salt and vinegar, pickled onion, anything that makes me feel like the crisps are eating my mouth while i eat them
Happy cake day!!
Prawn cocktail, and I will fight to the death to defend it.
Fun fact: most brands don't contain any prawn and are vegetarian
Same with many "bacon" crisps.
I don't think I've ever encountered Prawn Cocktail crisps with dairy or egg derived ingridients either, unlike Salt and Vinegar which is always a toss up for containing milk powder.
They are good for sure!
If I had to save one flavour it would probably be Cheese & Onion. However, there's so many excellent varieties out there beyond the old guard.
I've been off crisps completely for a month as part of my diet. I've lost nearly 2kg. Which is great, but fuck I miss them. I'm going cold turkey until the October holidays. Probably easier getting the jab to be honest, as crisps are my like crack to me.
Most recent fave flavour was the Walker's Jalapeno & Nacho Cheese crinkle cuts. They go amazing with beer. And therein lies the problem.
monster munch are 98 calories
True, but i tended to use that as a pass to have several packets. See also: Quavers, Space Raiders & Squares
You haven't got to eat the entire multipack, the odd packet here and there is okay.
True OGs just have salted.
Kettle chips, Walkers baked, Pringles original, French Fries, best all just salted
Everyday? It has to be salt & vinegar. So many bangers to choose from, too: McCoy’s, Discos, Pringles, supermarket own-brand twirls, Chipsticks…
If I want a special treat, though? I recently discovered Croky À L’Ancienne Sweet Paprika and let me tell you, they blow every other paprika crisp out of the water. Don’t know what they’re doing over there in Belgium but it’s truly a game changer.
Slap some in a ham sandwich and it's like a flavour explosion in your mouth.
My favourite of all time were Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard. Unbeatable.
They were class, to be fair. And for a while every pub in the country seemed to stock them. Now... where?
Don't make them anymore 😭
Gosh I miss them. Burts roast beef is pretty good, but just not the same.
If we're taking the classic red, blue green flavours, it's cheese and onion. But the packet should be green. Salt and vinegar should be blue.
This is correct, righteous and holy. Blue is salt and vinegar.
Nope. You're wrong. Vinegar is green, everyone knows this
Well I love your passion but I think the green of cheese is greener than the green of vinegar. Also salt is blue.
Pervert.
Red is ketchup. Fight me.
Do Scampi-Fries fall into the crisp family? If so then I’d put fish pillows up there with S&V
Scampi fries and a pint of Guinness. A punch in the mouth followed by a sweet caress.
Roast chicken for me if we're speaking generally. Salt & vinegar chipsticks however are easily the most addictive crisps.
Pffft. Dirty bacon flavour fries would like a word.
The best potato chip I have had is the most recent Lay's promo flavor, Brazillian Garlic Sauce.
Those suckers taste like a crispy variant of the mashed potatoes I make at home. It's even buttery! It's soooo good, and I hate that it's just a promo flavor and not something they will keep around forever.
They taste like confit garlic
Canadian ketchup chips. Not sold in US because it hyper--stimulates women to hysteria.
All dressed.
This is known.
Miss Vickie's Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar.
Kettle Chips, sour cream and onion. Hardly ever see it anymore, but that's my all-timer. Everyone else is right about their pick, reason being I don't want to share.
I had to give up Takis, too "hyper-palatable" and addictive by design.
Salt and vinegar
Skill issue
That's a difficult choice.
But it's very easy to pick the worst flavour - salt and vinegar.
You mad bastard.
Which colour is that?
The colour is Puke
Blue!
Discos-level salt and vinegar is top of the league
(Thai sweet chilli sensations are also pretty elite)
Why are others wrong? Clearly scared of their own tastebuds
It was the Brannigans Beef and Mustard but that's just showing my age.
Now?
Prolly the Tesco own brand Beef and Horseradish
Why?
They actually taste of something. Most of the population are basic as as fuck and can't handle flavour
I still daydream about the Brannigans beef and mustard, nothing is ever going to touch that greatness again
You tried the Real Ham and Mustard flavour?
Their jalapeño ones were pretty decent so hopefully these will be peng.
I saw them in a pub but unfortunately I didn't exactly have an appetite
I always liked Walkers Max Paprika!
And any flavour Kettle chips
I like to hear alternative views
If we're talking standard Walkers flavours - prawn cocktail!
Never liked salt & vinegar
Paprika
Found these wasabi flavoured bad boys in Costco once upon a time, they were insanely good. The perfect crunch and flavour. Sadly I've never been able to find them again.
As someone who reads Japanese, that font always makes me want to punch the designer. It's like someone writing in a foreign language with letters that kinda look like the alphabet, some exactly some not, and your brain cannot figure out WTF is going on.
Can't read Japanese and also hate the font
Agreed, the font is awful. But definitely don't judge a book by its cover on this one.
May I recommend Herr's Horseradish Cheddar? I believe they will hit the spot. Same punch of horseradish that comes & goes so fast. I have only seen them at WaWa.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to have a look around to see if I can get them.
My partner recently bought some Tesco Finest beef and horseradish crisps, they are good but don't quite hit the same spot.
Salt is the best one, and it's because there is no crap in those, just potatoes, oil, salt yet they taste divine.
Runner up is Horseradish Cheddar and if you don't like those I understand, but the pungent horseradish and salty cheddar are so wonderful. And importantly, they don't have the disgusting powdered vinegar that ruins so many flavored chips.
Walkers are utterly evil and a product of Satan's manky arse (because of their complete madness around packet colours). But, their pickled onion crisps make your mouth know you're alive.
I initially thought this was about a few species of apples.
McCoy’s Thai Sweet Chicken are top tier for me. Do they still make that?
Scampi'n'Lemon Nick Naks, but if the shop doesn't have them, Prawn Cocktail. I actually prefer how sour Prawn Cocktail is but as the Nick Naks are rarer to find, they defacto get top choice.
Both of these are strong flavours that are really tangy and full of umami, and best of all both are vegan too. More crisps should have these qualities.
Top crisp, but will ruin your fingers for about 6 days.
Skill issue. Eat them with chopsticks and you won't get smelly fingers.
Atomic Tomato.
I think that people outside of Australia will not even comprehend this
Beef monster munch. Because I have spent over 40 years honing my crisp palette, no other crisp (technically, corn snack) comes close to the satisfaction of Beef monster munch.
Now I know that right now, many of you are screaming "NOOOOO IT'S PICKLED ONION, YOU KNOBHEAD" and those people have a point, but they just haven't eaten enough beef.
If you're even mentioning flaming hot, you can get to fuck.
NOOOOO IT’S PICKLED ONION, YOU KNOBHEAD!
Eat more beef
Well, it's a good rule for life, if not necessarily the environment.
Lay's Brazilian style Garlic Sauce
Peanut butter & ranch
Is that in the same bag?
Where does one find this delicacy?
Lays “Wow” regular potato chips. Those things were the shit and no one else can argue otherwise.
Also…from reading some rando qz article, they apparently could purge your body from some forever chemicals. What other flavor can attest to that!?
Idk forever chemicals but the "olay from olestra" oil they used to cook them was indigestible by your body so if you eat enough you would start slowly shitting yourself constantly.
Takis Dragon Sweet Chili
Not the best but it seems like they discontinued it after I developed a habit of getting a bag or two each grocery trip: Cheddar Crispers. Or maybe it's just a cheese shortage like that pepper shortage caused Hoy Fong Sriracha sauce to be hard to find for a bit.
OLW Dill & Chives probably or Doritos Sweet sour chili