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”
Category Archives: All the flavours
The weird and the wonderful: 30 of the strangest crisp flavours
One of the joys of being a crisp professional is the opportunity to explore the variety of crisp flavours worldwide. We’ve now charted more than 600 and the list is growing all the time, thanks our growing network of crisp spotters. With crisp curation comes great responsibility. We’re very strict about crisps and rightly so.Continue reading “The weird and the wonderful: 30 of the strangest crisp flavours”
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”
US first: Barbecue flavour crisps
The first flavoured crisps in the United States, barbecue flavour, were being manufactured and sold by 1954. Herr’s and Ley’s both produced crisps with that flavour in the 1950s. It was the only flavour available in the United States other than the conventional salted chip until the introduction of Sour Cream & Onion in theContinue reading “US first: Barbecue flavour crisps”
Ready Salted
In 1960, Golden Wonder became the first company to sell crisps with the salt already sprinkled over them. Up until then, all plain crisps had been provided with a small sachet of salt.
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”
Museum of Crisps 