Walkers cheese and onion were green!

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Just watching Back in Time for the corner shop on BBC 2 - it showed a packet of walkers cheese and onion crisps and they were in a green packet! People have said they were never green only ever blue - but they were

I think the swap must have been later, as I remember S&V were blue and C&O were green. I remember the charge and I was only born in 1979.

But why would they lie?

Back in Time will have produced those surely, they aren't original crisps.

Walkers say it's the Mandela effect. Why would they say they had t changed the colour if they had? And surely someone somewhere would have been able to prove they were lying if they were.

Smokey bacon were maroon, not red. And walkers are liars. Lays (walkers) s&v are blue and c&o is green.

Yep!

Back in Time will have produced those surely, they aren't original crisps

Exactly. This is not proof of a popular misconception. Just an error by a props department due to the strength of the misconception.

I moved to Essex in 1987. In Kent we didn't have walkers only Smiths. First thing I noticed was salt and vinegar were green as were always blue in every brand in Kent. So if this is true must have been prior to 1987.

Golden wonder and KP were like that

This. Smiths too.

The reason it feels like it changed is because in the late 80s, early 90s walkers became the dominant crisp and slowly a lot of other brands changed to their colour scheme.

Sadly I'm at an age where I do remember. C&O were in green packets and S&V in blue...i'm not sure when they changed over but they were definitely those colours.

Mind you, we had Marathons, Toffo, Bar Six, Dipped Flake, Old Jamaica, Ice Breaker etc etc back then too

I always thought they were green too.

Thank you OP I bloody knew it, all this time DH had me convinced I was misremembering but I now have proof! Victory of a long standing silly disagreement

but I now have proof

Proof of a badly researched prop made by a TV company. That is all.

Actually my memory was probably not Walkers. I’m old.

80's golden wonder crisps

I remember them being green, and I was only born in 86 so must have changed in early 90's

KP is still green

You’re wrong. Golden Wonder’s salt & vinegar we’re blue and cheese and onion green. Walkers were always the other way round and as a kid it confused me. This was in the 80’s.

I’ve always thought of cheese and onion as green, and it has always bothered me that Walkers use the wrong colour.

I was born in 85 & I remember them the other way. I remember vividly because I bought the wrong colour with pocket money from our corner shop and I wasn't impressed

My theory is that Walkers never used to be as popular as Golden Wonder so our childhood memory is of ‘normal’ crisps being blue for s&v, green for c&o and Walkers were the rebels who did it differently.

No Walkers Crisps growing up.

Only Golden Wonder

Blue was Salt and Vinegar
Green definitely Cheese and onion

I remember green cheese and onion too.

I started buying walkers crisps from the sandwich trolley at work in 1979. I'd never heard of them before then and was always puzzled that the cheese and onion were in blue whilst salt and vinegar were in green. As someone who lives C&O but hates S&V , it was important to me to remember that difference.

Why did walkers become the dominant brand? Golden Wonder are much nicer.

I think they should go back to the old way, everyone knows, salt and vinegar should be blue and cheese and onion should be green. X