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To think prawn cocktail are not a core flavour of crisp

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 14:32

What is this madness? Walkers classic multipack have ready salted, cheese and onion, salt and vinegar and prawn cocktail. The meaty multipack have smoky bacon, roast chicken, cheese and onion and prawn cocktail. I question the inclusion of cheese and onion in both a little but at least it is one of the holy trinity of flavours. Prawn cocktail though? AIBU or have Walkers lost the plot?

Before anyone asks yes, I do have more important things to worry about but still!

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Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 03/11/2025 10:08

Oh and my aussie rellies were disgusted by the inclusion of PC crisps.(confused poor dh as their pink packets are not pc)

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 03/11/2025 10:03

They are fucking disgusting. No bugger in our house likes them. Food bank for us. (Though why food bank users have to suffer i don't know)

GetToHeaven · 03/11/2025 09:37

YANBU. I know some people like it but if I was going to choose one flavour to add to the holy trinity it would be near the bottom of my list!

guinnessguzzler · 03/11/2025 08:51

@saltandlineker Agreed. So at least OP got something right 😂

saltandlineker · 03/11/2025 00:11

Excellent thread and crisp based commentary. So nice to be able to leave my problems at the door and just read about crisps for a while. Bravo OP

Pottersciderbar82 · 02/11/2025 09:12

RollyPollyBatFace · 01/11/2025 21:11

What are you on about? They’re top tier. Don’t be weird

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RollyPollyBatFace · 01/11/2025 21:11

What are you on about? They’re top tier. Don’t be weird

Tryingtokeepgoing · 01/11/2025 21:10

Kpo58 · 01/11/2025 16:04

I object to roast chicken flavored crisps. I don't know anyone who actually likes them and I cannot see why it keeps being included. They should have a beef one instead. At least that's a much better flavour than the bland don't really taste of anything let alone chicken flavored crisps.

Completely agree, and I thought roast chicken crisps had disappeared. I haven’t come across them for years - didn’t they die out in the ‘90s?. I’d put them with cheese and onion in the undesirable stakes, though I recognise that the masses do like the cheese and onion ones. Mass market appeal doesn’t mean good however… Brett’s make the best crisp flavours, though I will allow the Torres fried egg ones an honorary position at the top table of crisps.

ChestnutGrove · 01/11/2025 20:19

I think Walkers prawn cocktail tastes like a stronger version of the sauce (marie rose.) Not the actual prawns.
Seabrooks are more fishy though.
I prefer Walkers

ChestnutGrove · 01/11/2025 20:13

NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:28

I'm ashamed to admit some ignorance of crisp history. I always thought the blue salt packet in salt 'n' shake was an '80s gimmick but did it in fact hark back to the origin story of the mighty crisp?

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Yes it did. My mum was born in 43 and she remembers them like that

Fgfgfg · 01/11/2025 19:00

Ready salted only exist so that you can make your own salt and vinegar, with real vinegar.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:39

Vaguelyclassical · 01/11/2025 18:30

Oh yes, I remember eating them like this when I was a little girl. Which was sometime back in the Pleistocene.

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Thank you for educating me. The '80s version is a key part of my childhood snacking memories. Alongside the never to be forgotten Burtons potato puffs. What a loss they are.

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Vaguelyclassical · 01/11/2025 18:30

NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:28

I'm ashamed to admit some ignorance of crisp history. I always thought the blue salt packet in salt 'n' shake was an '80s gimmick but did it in fact hark back to the origin story of the mighty crisp?

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Oh yes, I remember eating them like this when I was a little girl. Which was sometime back in the Pleistocene.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:29

Oh and plain/ready salted are assuredly the most classic of the classics. Not many people's favourite though, I'd guess?

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:28

Vaguelyclassical · 01/11/2025 18:06

If we were going to be truly classic it would just be utterly plain crisps with salt in a tiny twist of blue paper lurking somewhere in the bag!
OMG, I've just teleported back to 1963.

I'm ashamed to admit some ignorance of crisp history. I always thought the blue salt packet in salt 'n' shake was an '80s gimmick but did it in fact hark back to the origin story of the mighty crisp?

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Redrosesposies · 01/11/2025 18:23

Prawn cocktail crisps where about the only thing I could eat without throwing up when I was pregnant. It was a very long time ago so they have been around for aeons.

DontStopMe · 01/11/2025 18:20

Salt and Shake crisps are indeed proper classic crisps. And still available.

Vaguelyclassical · 01/11/2025 18:06

If we were going to be truly classic it would just be utterly plain crisps with salt in a tiny twist of blue paper lurking somewhere in the bag!
OMG, I've just teleported back to 1963.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 18:02

Classic status is not derived from current popularity. It is far deeper than that. Does nothing mean anything any more?

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DarkEyedSailor · 01/11/2025 17:59

The best Prawn Cocktail crisp is Sizzling King Prawn, McCoy's.
I first discovered them in Camberwell Magistrate's Court in a vending machine and it was love at first sight.

GellerYeller · 01/11/2025 17:48

Why are prawn cocktail, and cheese, in the ‘meaty’ pack?
Bring back beef and onion and barbecue flavours please Walkers.
I love an M and S Hiney Roast Ham but their beef are not the same.
And stop with the fancy Christmas flavours!

1457bloom · 01/11/2025 17:42

The big three are cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, and prawn cocktail.

Fgfgfg · 01/11/2025 17:41

Forgot to add - followed a close second by... Marmite crisps.

Exemptfromcontent · 01/11/2025 17:41

I don’t know why prawn cocktail are still a choice. Surely anyone who ate them were taken out by Covid or the last election?

Fgfgfg · 01/11/2025 17:39

MoserRothOrangeandAlmond · 01/11/2025 14:43

my favourite crisps are prawn cocktail. Seabrooks especially!!

Thank you. I don't eat Walkers very often as they're an inferior crisp but Seabrooks prawn cocktail 😍
Costco now sell a box of 80 packs of Seabrooks and 20 of them are prawn cocktail. No one else likes them so I'm very happy.

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