Kent Crisps Ashmore Cheese and Onion Ham & Mustard Oyster and Vinegar Roast Beef & Spitfire Ale Sea Salt Sea Salt Vinegar and Biddenden Cider Smoked Chipotle Chilli Great British Crisp Co Pure Natural Unseasoned Cornish Sea Salt™ Cornish Sea Salt™ & Cider Vinegar Cornish Sea Salt™ & Luxury Black Pepper Westcountry Cheddar Cheese &Continue reading “Other crisp producers #2: Kent, Great British Crisp Co, Corkers”
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Other crisp producers #1: Burts, Fairfields Farm and Yorkshire Crisps
Burts Aberdeen Angus Bloody Mary Chicken Tikka Colombo Curry (created with Hans van Wolde) Devon Roast Beef Firecracker Lobster Fish n’ Chips Guinness Guinness Rich Chilli Hobgoblin Golden Roasted Ham & Pickle Hobgoblin Spit Roast Steak Hot Chilli Lemon Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey Lamb, Mint & Mango Mature Cheddar & Spring Onion Pesto Roast TurkeyContinue reading “Other crisp producers #1: Burts, Fairfields Farm and Yorkshire Crisps”
80 variations on a Kettle chip
Avocado Oil Chili Lime Avocado Oil Hawaiian Barbeque Avocado Oil Himalayan Salt Avocado Oil Tropical Salsa Backyard Barbecue Baked Camembert & Oak Smoked Garlic Beef, Red Wine & Shallot Blue Stilton & Port Bourbon BBQ Buffalo Bleu Buttermilk Chicken & Sriracha Mayo Carolina BBQ Cheddar & Sour Cream Cheddar Beer Cheshire Cheese & Chutney CheshireContinue reading “80 variations on a Kettle chip”
43 of Tyrrell’s finest
Aberdeen Angus Beef & English Mustard Aphrodisiac Honey & Chilli Beach Barbecue Black Truffle & Sea Salt British Beef & Suffolk Ale Butter & Mint Cheese & Pickled Onion Coronation Chicken Cotswold Brie & Bacon Curry Night Korma English Barbecue English Summer Barbecue Ham & Cranberry Ham, Cheese & Tomato Honey Roast Ham & CranberryContinue reading “43 of Tyrrell’s finest”
More than 180 flavours of Lay’s crisps
You can find Lay’s crisps all around the world, from Lithuania to Argentina, Indonesia to Canada, Romania to India… The list of flavours is immense, so we’re constantly adding more. Lay’s is part of Pepsico, which also owns Walkers (UK and Ireland), Smiths (Australia), Margarita (Columbia), Sabritas (Mexico), Chipsy (Egypt and the Balkans, and TapuchipsContinue reading “More than 180 flavours of Lay’s crisps”
29 flavours from Smiths
The Smiths Potato Crisps Company was the first to add seasoning to crisps, in 1920: a twist of salt, provided with their plain crisps, which were sold in and around London. They expanded into the Australian market in 1932, where the Smiths brand still thrives today. American Pulled Pork Barbecue BBQ Meatlovers Bovril Cheese &Continue reading “29 flavours from Smiths”
141 flavours – Walkers crisps with lots of Special Editions
Walkers Crisps have been extremely busy over the years, creating a huge catalogue of crisp varieties. They’ve encouraged their customers to join in, with the “Do us a Flavour” campaign, and played to a nostalgic affection for crisps of past, too. This list isn’t exhaustive, but should give you a ‘flavour’ of their range. AmericanContinue reading “141 flavours – Walkers crisps with lots of Special Editions”
Salt & Vinegar
By 1934, 200 million packets of crisps were sold in Britain each year, 95 percent of which were manufactured by Smith’s. Smiths was initially slow to join the flavour revolution, but eventually brought out a salt ‘n’ vinegar flavoured crisp, tested first by its Geordie subsidiary Tudor, and launched nationally in 1967. Though they didContinue reading “Salt & Vinegar”
First flavour: Cheese & Onion
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 immediateContinue reading “First flavour: Cheese & Onion”
First commercial crisp: Salt ’n’ Shake
The first company to sell crisps commercially was The Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd, founded in Cricklewood, London in 1920 by Frank Smith and Jim Viney. They provided a twist of salt with their crisps, which were sold in London in greaseproof paper bags. Originally branded as Salt ’n’ Shake crisps, plain crisps with optionalContinue reading “First commercial crisp: Salt ’n’ Shake”
Museum of Crisps 