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

They were green during the 1970s and 1980s.

They were green during the 1970s and 1980s.

No they weren't.

Do you think Walkers are lying?

They were green during the 1970s and 1980s.

Sorry, they as in S&V not C&O.

In that case, yes, yes they were 😂😂

I remember the swap I am 26now and I remember they changed when I was a kid.

Or is it the Mandela effect !!

If I remember correctly, walkers bought out the 'Tudor' crisps brand in about 1979 and the Tudor cheese and onion packet was green.

Still loving it. A 26 year old poster remembering 'the change' when they were a kid..

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

I still miss Tudor sniff pity that lift's out of order!

Or is it the Mandela effect !!

Well, it's either that or Walkers are lying!

I spotted a few minor errors in that programme - for instance, the Panda Lemonade cans in the 1980 segment were out of period as was the size of the 'Opal Fruit' packaging..

The props makers did a great job overall but it can't be taken as 'evidence'. Walkers C&O have always been blue - I remember my dad buying me a packet of Golden Wonder at Bristol Temple Meads station in the summer of 1978 and me asking why the colours were different from Walkers.

I don’t think it is hard to understand. It isn’t the Mandela effect.

There are 2 different companies.

Golden Wonder had/have Blue packets for Salt and Vinegar and Green for Cheese and Onion

Walkers had Green packets for Salt and Vinegar and Blue for Cheese and Onion

Walkers are a different company to Golden Wonder

It isn’t the Mandela effect.

It is when people specifically state that Walkers changed colour.

There are 2 different companies.

Only 2?

@Oliversmumsarmy it is. The whole idea of the Mandela effect is that a group of people specifically recall something that isn't true; but they all recollect it the same way. Exactly what this is, in every case the way people remember things is incorrect factually, so if people think it was Walkers but it was actually Golden Wonder, it doesn't actually matter, they are still convinced that Walkers were green.

That's the thing though. The people who 'recollect' it happening report a span of it happening across 20+ years.

Golden Wonder cheese and onion were green. That the colour now means S&V still confuses me.

It was around the early 90s when Walkers started to appear more in my area. I'm not sure if they were just advertising more or higher distribution so we noticed them or what but we had definitely been eating Golden Wonder as the main brand here before.

I actually refused to eat Walkers for years back then because their colours were all the wrong way. I would have been in my early years of high school so age 12+ approx.

Yes penguins I couldn’t believe it when Walkers first appeared in my area with the wrong coloured packets. All other brands had blue for salt and vinegar and green for cheese and onion.

Adding clarity to fuzzy memories

I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but Walkers Crisps NEVER sold Cheese & Onion crisps in green packets, or Salt & Vinegar in blue packets. It has ALWAYS been blue for Cheese & Onion, and green for Salt & Vinegar. They never varied, not even for a limited period.

The image shown in this post is fake, they are not real period packets. During the time the packets were coloured with the words "WALKERS CRISPS" at the top, there was a small 'walking man on a W' logo halfway along the blue horizontal stripe under the brand name (and it was always blue, not yellow or other colours as in the image here). Also, the flavour name was in lower case at this time. A later variant used mixed case for the flavour name, but they never used all caps like in this image - another way of spotting that it's fake.

By the way, one last giveaway for these fake packets - the crisps 'inside' are PRINTED on the surface of the packet! It's not a clear window showing the crisps actually inside! And the image is exactly the same on both packets!

Yes everyone around in the early 80s knew they changed the colouring around. At the time the cheese and onion weren’t vegetarian (they contained cow’s rennet from the cheese) and a lot of people didn’t like eating them because of BSE.

This colour switch was happening def until 1990

No. It did not.

I know this is a zombie but ffs!
Walkers, the company who made the damned crisps have repeatedly said they were never different colours. Folks aren't listening to other randoms but they should at least accept what the company that made the bloody things says!

The photo is the zombie op is a prop. It is not proof of anything other than the person who mocked it up also remembered wrong.

I definitely think people are remembering correctly about the colour, but a different brand of crisps.

I'm in my late 50's and I don't remember Walkers as a brand in my childhood. It was all Golden Wonder as the predominant brand where we lived in the Southeast.

I know this is a zombie but ffs!