The first flavoured crisp was Cheese & Onion. Ireland’s Tayto Company has probably the best claim to being first to launch cheese & onion into the crisp market. Joe “Spud” Murphy, founder of Tayto, set out to add flavour to crisps in 1954, launching cheese & onion soon afterwards. The flavoured crisps were an immediate success. Crisp companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto’s technique. Golden Wonder was the first to bring Cheese & Onion to the British mainland, in 1962.
First flavour: Cheese & Onion
Museum of Crisps 
When it comes to flavered crisps, have you ever heard of Fishers crisps. My wifes grandfather was Mr Fisher and his factory was in Hunstanton Norfolk. I will copy an advert for them from 1955 that was posted on Facebook a few days ago.https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159263319875927&set=gm.2253462261515216&idorvanity=179961888865274&__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVNCKI-6pPZB2Ht0SIRNt7baG1LVBZN-KpAJNMzjeM8gXs2nW0BHYu_IaDhnBf6117brFPtQFBA0tN-E9xRGWd50WgUvt_KlM7e8YA_obKy3rJCyfgXNYjQnkmjz5E7eLJSU_vhTocXlxApkeJG3LrQ3DBMSeUQyd3b6GpWJva3rE0SXeSuFrIUc_J_qrVqy84&__cft__%5B1%5D=AZVNCKI-6pPZB2Ht0SIRNt7baG1LVBZN-KpAJNMzjeM8gXs2nW0BHYu_IaDhnBf6117brFPtQFBA0tN-E9xRGWd50WgUvt_KlM7e8YA_obKy3rJCyfgXNYjQnkmjz5E7eLJSU_vhTocXlxApkeJG3LrQ3DBMSeUQyd3b6GpWJva3rE0SXeSuFrIUc_J_qrVqy84&__tn__=EH-R%5D-R
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Sounds really interesting. I’ll have to look into it. Sadly, I can’t see the advert as you have to be a member of the group, but I’d love to see the ad if possible. Does your wife have any more information about Fisher’s Crisps?
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Hi There
Thanks for your swift response. We did have a newspaper cutting about the crisp factory and will have a look for it and scan it for you. Sorry that you could not see the other document, I will see if I can scan that as well and send it to you.
Regards
Mick
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Great! Thanks! You seem to have stumbled on a real mystery here, as there’s so little information. It’d be really good to be able to put a proper post up here about Fisher Crisps
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