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

Oooo the Mandela effect!

@DappledThings Ahh am I thinking Golden Wonder and Smiths ? You didn't see Walkers very much where I lived then.

The old packaging makes so much more sense

It's not the old packaging. The green = c&o is more common across more brands but is not what Walkers ever were. I agree it makes more sense though!

How many people taking a TV prop to be proof of something that never happened?

I remember when Walkers became popular.They tasted better than they so now but I can't help the debate as my favourite was the ready salted.

Isn’t it that back in the old days, Walkers weren’t a popular brand and other brands did it the right way round. So now in the mind of us oldies all cheese and onion crisps are green and salt and vinegar are blue.

Walkers are doing it wrong.

Walkers aren't lying, they did the colours that way round to stand out among the competition. Golden Wonder and KP were the leading brands, it was hard to get Walkers. Except in our local village pub where my Dad used to park us kids in the beer garden while he got pissed. And we regularly ended up with vile Cheese & Onion after asking for Salt & Vinegar. Then we gave up and asked for plain.

Weren't Chipmunk crisps a thing?

There was a great thread on here a few years back about Walkers changing colours.

So many posters giving really specific recollection of when it happened.

Problem was, that spanned about 20 years if everyone was correct 😂

I got massively over-invested😂 on the previous thread I mentioned and clearly still am so..

www.google.com/search?q=walkers+crisps+vintage+packets&client=ms-android-samsung-ga-rev1&source=android-browser&prmd=sinv&sxsrf=ALeKk02DDByFFcrXZzFtDq3iImkWODrf3w:1585136408023&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw6ZSkxbXoAhWZUhUIHeqDD_IQ_AUoAnoECAsQAg&biw=360&bih=572&dpr=3

C and O blue. S and V green. Always.

Looks like the thread i'm talking about was in chat so disappeared but here's one referencing it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_unexplained/2768806-The-Mandella-Effect

With a poster 'remembering' the 'change' happening in the early 1990s.

A poster on this thread 'remembers' it happening late 70s - early 80s.

I 'remember' it happening mid 80s and the 'change' being advertised in red top newspapers. Though God knows why a) Walkers would need to change colours of crisp packets anyway or b) why it would be in newspapers.

So I know it wasn't a real memory at all.

Does anyone want to say when they 'remember' it happening?

I could use the distraction tbh!

And a 35 year old poster remembering the 'change' so..that must mean late 80s at the earliest/early 90s

So I know it wasn't a real memory at all.

It’s so weird isn’t it? I wonder what else we ‘remember’.

Lays (walkers) s&v are blue and c&o is green.

Naht true

RedRed9 Yes! It's so fascinating. Lots of posters here and on the previous thread quite sure they remember when it happened (and that will span years) despite all the evidence it didn't. Even saying Walkers are 'liars' for publically stating it never happened 😂

Why would they? And why would they have swapped the colours in the first place?

We 'remember' a lot of false things.

There was a programme 'The Wonder Years' that aired from late 80s-early 90s and my Mum is utterly convinced she saw the last episode and Kevins brother Wayne died in the Vietnam War.

Never happened but she can describe the scenes she 'remembers' very clearly.

If anyone watched the last episode of Criminal Minds it references the Mandela effect!

This thread is surely at least proof that Green is definitely not the colour of Salt and Vinegar.

With regards to the Mandela Effect I found it a bit annoying that so many of the references seem to be very US childhood specific. I wanted to find more I could test my own memories against but Walkers colours seems to be the only real UK one.

@dappledthings did you read the monopoly man one and the Queen song ‘we are the champions’ one?

Memories are weird. My mum was at university in the late 60s and a few of them used to have socials in her lecturer's flat. She was adamant that at one of these they all got together and watched the first episode of Monty Python but this wasnt actually broadcast till some months after she graduated.

She has accepted her memory is wrong but is a bit freaked out by how utterly certain she was of it and had been for years.

When I was growing up in Scotland in the 1960s we never had Walkers crisps, only Smith's and Golden Wonder. Walkers only became national brand decades after that.

Thepigeonsarecoming I did, they are universal that's true. But with both I don't think I have enough impression of them to really be surprised either way. I kind of want to find one that makes me go "No way!"

I'm 52 and a lifelong crisp fanatic Walkers cheese and onion have always been blue and salt and vinegar green.

It seems far more likely that a combination of false memory and shoddy research is at play here rather than that Walkers are lying for some unknown reason.

I remember cheese and onion walkers being green I used to have them in my packed lunch every day in the 90s! I asked my mum why they were suddenly blue one day and she was huge believer in Mandela effect

Thank you soupdragon spent far too long trying to Google it and gave up in the end. Now I can Google and have my mind blown at all the things I've gotten wrong all my life!

I have no idea where the dragon emoticon came from, it was meant to be a smiley!!