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

Yeah but if you notice a lot of other brands their cheese and onion is green. I think it's just Aldi, Lidl and Walkers that are the weirdos

I've argued with people over this!! Salt and vinegar always used to be blue and cheese and onion green! But people thought I was losing the plot, said that cheese and onion never used to be green BUT THEY WERE AND I KNEW IT AND I'M NOT MAD AFTER ALL!!!

Thank you for posting this!!

Smiths used to be in a greaseproof paper packet with a little blue twist of paper containing the salt. Then it was a white packet with blue writing.

In time the packaging was modernised but they were always blue & white, and then cheese and onion were invented and they were in green.

Golden Wonder cheese & onion were green. I remember thinking that Walkers were in the wrong colour bag and wasn't keen on them due to liking Golden Wonder so am not convinced they actually were green.

I'm as certain as I can be that the crisps I remember from my early childhood have always been Walker's and they did swap the colours rather than it being the newsagent opposite our house where we used to go for crisps changing the brand that they sold from something else to Walker's to explain the colour swap.

I remember watching a TV programme with Zoe Laughlin, who is a materials and food scientist who also often appears on the radio 4 food panel show the kitchen cabinet and she was digging around in a landfill looking at what packaging was still there after decades. She could get some of her PhD students to try and find old crisp packets to prove the assertion that Walker's did swap the colours. Of all the things going on in the world today, that truly is something that we need to know.

You do know, although the programme is called “Back in Time” they didn’t actually go back in time to make it? The items they have on the shelves are props, and as pp has said, this is just shoddy research.

Cheese and onion were always green, never understood why they changed it

Shit www.google.co.uk/amp/s/aminoapps.com/c/conspiracytheory/amp/blog/mandela-effects-england-specific/PJW2_LQzHmudg1E5zZ7vb1gBaxGrxP3PQJ8 it’s like criminal minds 😥

😂 they are not real old packets of crisps. Someone in the design department has recreated them incorrectly. I would hate to be them when this thread is discovered...imagine doing your job sooooo badly. Let’s all complain 😂

Now I’ve just spent 15 mins reading the Mandela theory and it freaky!

Changing the colour was a genius marketing move.

I KNEW IT! I had a debate in work last week about this! Off to go prove a point thank uou 🙌🏽

Would they have had walkers and not Tudor in Sheffield though?

As a kid I distinctly remember that S & V was blue and C & O was green.

I always remember cheese and onion Crisps being in green packets.

Isn't there a name for this? Where large groups of people think one thing, eg that Walkers cheese and onion Crisps were in green packets, only to find out that was never the case.

I remember reading about this on Mumsnet but can't remember what it's actually called!

@allaboardthesinkingship are still wrong. OP spotted an inaccurate prop, that is all

As a kid I distinctly remember that S & V was blue and C & O was green

Yep, in pretty much every other brand. As it remains. But not Walkers who were always the "wrong" way round

Always were Green, Salt and vinegar always blue

We were never a golden wonder family. All our crisps were walkers and I'm pretty sure they were green.

It's amazing how many people think that they are right and Walkers themselves are lying 🙄

I'm sure there are collectors of branded packaging - there's probably a name for it... - someone, somewhere must have a real one, if they ever existed?

It's amazing how many people think that they are right and Walkers themselves are lying

Walkers may not be lying but people might be confusing Golden Wonder with Walkers.

I think there might be a North South Divide as it wasn’t till I moved down south that I first came across Walkers

Isn't there a name for this? Where large groups of people think one thing, eg that Walkers cheese and onion Crisps were in green packets, only to find out that was never the case.

Mandela effect

I still reach for the green thinking it's C&O

Walkers may not be lying but people might be confusing Golden Wonder with Walkers.

The point is that people are saying that they were right that Walkers C&O used to be green even though the company themselves are saying that they were always blue. They are even trying to use a modern manufactured prop as their proof.

The old packaging makes so much more sense. Spring onions are green, the sea (salty, and connected with fish and chips which are traditionally salt+vinegary) is blue.