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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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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.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:51

Well I've found this thread very illuminating. What a distorted view of reality some of you have. Broken Britain.

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AnotherDayAnotherStart · 01/11/2025 15:44

Cheese and onion is equal with prawn cocktail - neither has more of a claim than the other to "staple" status but both are (popular) cultural classics which are generally very unusual in other countries.

So yabu to rank (disgusting) cheese and onion above (delicious) prawn cocktail.

EasternStandard · 01/11/2025 15:42

NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:25

You've been brainwashed! I refuse to change my stance. Sometimes it's important to stand up for what's right and I will not be swayed.

Tier one:
Ready salted
Salt and vinegar
Chese and onion

Tier two:
Prawn cocktail
Smoky bacon
Roast chicken

Tier three:
Things like Worcestershire sauce and other oddball flavours.

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Agree

EasternStandard · 01/11/2025 15:40

Yanbu we have a pile of PC because no one likes them

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:39

It's actually quite worrying really. If the general public can be pursuaded to accept PC has a place in not one but BOTH multipacks what next? It's a slippery slope.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:37

Well @guinnessguzzler I agree there's maybe some hierarchy and nuance within the tiers 2 and 3 but 1 vs 2/3 is an absolute truth I'm afraid.

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guinnessguzzler · 01/11/2025 15:34

I mean, the green of the crisp flavours, given green is unfairly ousted from the primary colours, depending on who you ask!

guinnessguzzler · 01/11/2025 15:33

Now you've laid it out like that @NamelessNancy it is a bit more convincing, although I struggle with the idea of Roast Chicken being on a par with PC or Smoky Bacon tbh. I feel like PC is the green of the primary colours.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 01/11/2025 15:32

NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:25

You've been brainwashed! I refuse to change my stance. Sometimes it's important to stand up for what's right and I will not be swayed.

Tier one:
Ready salted
Salt and vinegar
Chese and onion

Tier two:
Prawn cocktail
Smoky bacon
Roast chicken

Tier three:
Things like Worcestershire sauce and other oddball flavours.

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I do like those Tier 3 flavours - Worcester Sauce, Pickled Onion, Marmite. They have a similar tang to the Prawn Cocktail.

coxesorangepippin · 01/11/2025 15:28

Totally a core flavour

Y abvu

TheZanyZebra · 01/11/2025 15:27

I can't stand them, but "prawn cocktail" is absolutely a core flavour, it's always there

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 01/11/2025 15:26

I agree it was always cheese and onion, salt and vinegar and ready salted in the classic multi packs - but I think prawn cocktail is a nicer flavour than c&o or s&v, so that sounds like a good change to me. They can get the c&o out of the meaty packs though!

Clarinet1 · 01/11/2025 15:25

Anyone remember hedgehog flavour?

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 15:25

guinnessguzzler · 01/11/2025 15:17

100%. This is the correct order and you are wrong on this one, OP. It is weird, it doesn't make sense but that doesn't make it any less true.

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You've been brainwashed! I refuse to change my stance. Sometimes it's important to stand up for what's right and I will not be swayed.

Tier one:
Ready salted
Salt and vinegar
Chese and onion

Tier two:
Prawn cocktail
Smoky bacon
Roast chicken

Tier three:
Things like Worcestershire sauce and other oddball flavours.

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SteakBakesAndHotTakes · 01/11/2025 15:23

I'm torn here. Prawn cocktail are my favourite but they're not really spiritually a core crisp - that's part of their charm.

Zippidydoodah · 01/11/2025 15:19

Nobody in my family likes the dreaded prawn cocktail, which rules out a whole load of multipacks! 🤢

YANBU!!

guinnessguzzler · 01/11/2025 15:17

QuantumPanic · 01/11/2025 14:52

YABVU

Ready Salted
Cheese and Onion
Salt and Vinegar
Prawn Cocktail

Always have and always will be the "core" flavours. Go back and reread the old testament, it's all in the book of genesis.

I do agree that cheese and onion in a meaty multipack is taking the piss though.

100%. This is the correct order and you are wrong on this one, OP. It is weird, it doesn't make sense but that doesn't make it any less true.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 14:56

See ready salted is the crisp I am most likely to shun but I cannot deny its place as the bedrock of the crisp world. For it to be outnumbered across the multipack series 2:1 by prawn cocktail is just offensive!

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FOJN · 01/11/2025 14:55

sweeneytoddsrazor · 01/11/2025 14:46

Why has beef and onion disappeared from the meaty multipack?
Either way Prawn Coctail are disgusting.
So imo are Salt and Vinegar.
This why I buy single flavour packs Marmite, Cheese and Onion, Ready Salted and Pickled Onion

Walkers Beef and onion crisps have been discontinued.

Prawn cocktail is my favourite flavour but I have to agree with you OP they are not a core flavour that should be included in either of the multi packs.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 01/11/2025 14:54

Agree OP. It’s all PC gorn mad these days.

But cheese and onion is not part of the holy trinity. It is the godhead of crisp flavours. Some might argue for ready salted or salt ‘n vinegar as the one true source, but I declare those to be merely saintly.

Meat flavoured crisps are Satan’s skin flakes.

QuantumPanic · 01/11/2025 14:52

YABVU

Ready Salted
Cheese and Onion
Salt and Vinegar
Prawn Cocktail

Always have and always will be the "core" flavours. Go back and reread the old testament, it's all in the book of genesis.

I do agree that cheese and onion in a meaty multipack is taking the piss though.

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NamelessNancy · 01/11/2025 14:49

PullTheBricksDown · 01/11/2025 14:47

Prawn cocktail have been around for decades, unlike some of the Johnny come lately flavours Walkers have used in marketing of recent years. So YABU. They're a core flavour. No one says you have to like all the core flavours.

I agree it is not necessary to like a flavour to consider it core and actually quite enjoy the occasional prawn cocktail but only in the right circumstances. They are most definitely a fringe flavour though.

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PullTheBricksDown · 01/11/2025 14:47

Prawn cocktail have been around for decades, unlike some of the Johnny come lately flavours Walkers have used in marketing of recent years. So YABU. They're a core flavour. No one says you have to like all the core flavours.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 01/11/2025 14:46

Why has beef and onion disappeared from the meaty multipack?
Either way Prawn Coctail are disgusting.
So imo are Salt and Vinegar.
This why I buy single flavour packs Marmite, Cheese and Onion, Ready Salted and Pickled Onion