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[Gowans]

There has been so many Crisp threads recently I decided to check what are the top flavours in the UK, this is what I found.




Current information available reveals the top ten best-selling flavours of Walkers Crisps in the UK are:

1) Ready Salted

2) Cheese & Onion

3) Salt & Vinegar

4) Steak & Onion

5) Smoky Bacon

6) Roast Chicken

7) Prawn Cocktail

8) Pickled Onion

9) Tomato Ketchup

10) BBQ Rib

Walkers, owned by PepsiCo Inc. (which also owns US crisp producer Frito-Lay), holds a 47% share of the British crisp market, with sales of $85 billion per year. The Walkers site in Leicester produces over 11 million bags of crisps per day, using about 800t of potatoes (280,000t per year).

Source: http://www.pepsico.co.uk/


In 1994 it was

1 Cheese & onion
2 Salt & vinegar
3 Ready salted
4 Smoky bacon
5 Prawn cocktail
6 Roast chicken
7 Spring onion
8 Beef
9 Cream cheese and chives
10 Chilli

Source: Independent

 

[EvetS]

Lays chips?

 

[Gowans]

Lays chips?

Yeah it's the name used in the UK when Pepsico bought Walkers they merged the brand.

 

[speedline]

Am I in the Twilight Zone or something?

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Crisps? ya'll ninjas call chips, crisps?

 

[Community Forum]

Chips > Crisps

 

[Gowans]

Chips > Crisps

You're not wrong

 

[schroddycat]

Don't like all of it. It's a list of crisps that give me severe thirst.

Original flavour for life.

 

[Tenacious-V]

Fuck yeah Ketchup chips!! Good job UK, Canada approves. But it should be higher up on the list.

 

[SoilBreak]

Crisps? Chips? Crips?

 

[Community Forum]

Don't like all of it. It's a list of crisps that give me severe thirst.

Original flavour for life.

flavor > flavour

 

[Angry Puppy]

is sour cream & onion similar to cheese & onion? cause otherwise, its a shame that one of the best isnt up there.

 

[Epic Drop]

what is "ready salted"? In America our "normal" chips are covered in salt with no additional flavorst... is this the same thing?

 

[Siegmeyer]

The Pickled Onion ones are awesome, far and away my favourite, but really hard to find outside of supermarkets. Most shops just have Ready Salted, C&O and S&V and maybe one or two others.

They still don't come close to Pickled Onion Monster Munch from the 80s/90s. Might be the strongest flavour of any crisp I've ever tasted, it was like there was w whole bottle of vinegar in each bite (which was strangely awesome). They dialled them back at some point in both size and flavour, and haven't been the same since.

Ketchup flavour crisps are awful, I've yet to taste a good one, and it's easily the worst crisp flavour available.

Edit:

Only sour cream and onion I've tasted is Pringles. Fairly similar to cheese & onion, and both are god-tier flavours for me.

Yes, Ready Salted are just your standard regular crisps.

 

[Viewt]

So I get the chips = crisps thing.

But what I don't get is calling cookies biscuits. What do Brits call biscuits? Are they just caught under the umbrella of "scones?"

 

[Gowans]

what is "ready salted"? In America our "normal" chips are covered in salt with no additional flavorst... is this the same thing?

yeah, the most boring of crisps.

 

[Gowans]

My favourite crisps Walkers used to make, then they went black packet and are a mare to find, they are awesome tho

 

[speedline]

Vinegar and Salt is the best, but I find that Lays (umm...Walkers) is a bit too light on the vinegar. I want my mouth to ache in regret from the acid burn after eating V&S chips.

 

[sohois]

So I get the chips = crisps thing.

But what I don't get is calling cookies biscuits. What do Brits call biscuits? Are they just caught under the umbrella of "scones?"

This has been covered many times, but basically Britain does not have American style biscuits. Scones are fairly similar in appearance but ultimately a different kind of food. Thus there is no confusion arising from calling biscuits biscuits.

 

[Sex]

Ready salted is the best by far.

I'll accept salt and vinegar. Cheese and Onion is for madmen. Prawn Cocktail is worse than Hitler.

 

[Siegmeyer]

My favourite crisps Walkers used to make, then they went black packet and are a mare to find, they are awesome tho

WHAT!!??? Why have I never seen these anywhere? I MUST HAVE THEM NOW.

Also, seeing it written 'Vinegar & Salt' is really jarring, it makes my brain ache. It's like talking about Hardy & Laurel, Clyde & Bonnie or Clank & Ratchet. It's just wrong.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Would try 1, 5, 6, 9, and 10. No thanks on all the onion ones and yuck at "Prawn Cocktail".

 

[SRG01]

Prawn cocktail = shrimp cracker flavor then?

 

[Gowans]

Prawn cocktail and awesome, Pringles make the best Prawn Cocktail crisps, after marmite they are my second fave.


yeah I can't even write the salt and vinegar the other way round, my brain isn't capable.

 

[lastplayed]

Surprised chicken is that low.

 

[Gowans]

Surprised chicken is that low.

Yeah I was surprised Worcester sauce wasn't on, must be number 11.

The multipacks are the supermarkets sell are normally
Ready salted, salt and vinegar, cheese & onion
Beefy, Chicken, Worcester

 

[Slamtastic]

>

Your favorite chips

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Smoky bacon is the worst, disgusting aftertaste.

Surprised that steak & onion beats roast chicken.

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Ready Salted is just regular right? Seems like such a drawn out way to phrase that.

Prawn cocktail sounds disgusting, and chicken seems like an odd choice.

 

[GhettoGamer]

Crisps? ya'll ninjas call chips, crisps?

Those kooky brits also call cookies "biscuits"

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Prawn cocktail crisps taste nothing like prawn cocktail, and they are AMAZING.

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

What's with the free range chicken part? The roast chicken has actually chicken in it?

 

[sohois]

Prawn Cocktail is definitely the GOAT flavour, the name's a bit misleading as to how the taste

 

[Avixph]

Prawn Cocktail is definitely the GOAT flavour, the name's a bit misleading as to how the taste

So it tastes like goat meat?

 

[Gowans]

So it tastes like goat meat?

Greatest Of All Time

 

[Phat Michael]

Prawn cocktail = shrimp cracker flavor then?

Nah its like..more like an actual prawn cocktail (Prawn, tomato sauce, mayonaise mixed) - its fairly good.

The best chips ive had in ages have been the Kettle Jalapeno. absolutely fantastic.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Tomato Ketchup ones are seriously amazing.

 

[Avixph]

Greatest Of All Time

Oh okay thanks.

 

[Lunchbox]

oh

you mean chips

 

[Juicy Bob]

Prawn Cocktail is definitely the GOAT flavour, the name's a bit misleading as to how the taste

Aye. Unbeatable flavour.

 

[mxgt]

oh

you mean chips

No, otherwise these would have been posted:

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Walkers till I die. I don't want to hear about any of his Lays bullshit.

oh

you mean chips

No.

 

[CyclopsRock]

Ready Salted is just regular right? Seems like such a drawn out way to phrase that.

History, dear boy. Back in the day, crisps didn't come flavoured - you needed to salt them yourself. Then these amazing crisps came out that were ready salted and the name has stuck.

 

[Addnan]

Tomato Ketchup, I didn't know they were on sale anymore. Huh.

Salt & Vinegar is I guess my go to flavour, but I do like prawn cocktail a lot.

 

[Fou-Lu]

Salt and vinegar is green in the UK?... For some reason that is the biggest mind blow in months to me.

 

[poppabk]

Prawn cocktail is my favorite. Oh and prawn = shrimp.

 

[Lunchbox]

No, otherwise these would have been posted:

those are freedom fries

 

[Gowans]

Salt and vinegar is green in the UK?... For some reason that is the biggest mind blow in months to me.

Nah it's blue, always blue and Cheese and onion is green, always green.

Apart from WALKERS you bastards!

 

[Gowans]

Ps UK GAF did you know Space Raiders are now priced at 20p a pack!!!!

OUTRAGOUS!

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Just salt.

It's the only way.