Is this the Mandela effect?

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French fries crisps!
So we have a multi bag in the house, earlier on DD asked for a bag, I said yeah but not the blue ones because you don’t like salt and vinegar.. cue DH looking at me like 🤨. He said green are s&v! We debated for a good 10 minutes before I got up to go and see for myself, he’s right! I’ve always remembered blue being salt and vinegar, green bring cheese and onion! Please tell me I’m not the only one!!

Nah, they're Walkers and Walkers has always had the colours backwards. This used to make me really cross as a child - oddly so, now I look back on it!

Generally green and salt and vinegar and blue are cheese and onion, but I have seen cheese and onion being green too!

Golden wonder and smiths were green for cheese and onion, and blue for s and v. Walkers fucked it all up

Yeah, it's just Walkers being the wrong way round. Always have done. Salt and vinegar are blue in other brands and correctly so. Blue like the salty sea. Green for cheese and onion because onions are vegetables.

Came on to say exactly this

But Walkers are green for s&v and bike for cheese and onion, aren’t they?

Blue!!

I associate blue with salt and vin and green with cheese and onion.

The Mandela effect is fascinating! The Berenstein bears for example, and Mirror Mirror ...

Yep it was Walkers. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, dark blue was plain, light blue was salt and vinegar, green was cheese and onion.

Can't absolutely swear to all brands being dark blue for ready salted, but the other 2 were definites.

Another one for me is the Macarena dance!!

Earliest packet of salt and vinegar I can find online. Anything older is the ready salted!

Arms crossed over the chest bit has disappeared !?!?!? 😳

<wanders off mumbling>

I don't understand - this is what you've said the colours were in your OP, but that you thought they used to be the other way round. I was saying Walkers (inc FF) has always been that way round so you're misremembering.

Yes I associate blue with salt and vinegar and green with cheese and onion

These colours make sense because the sea is blue and is salty and fish and chips are 'seaside' food and they are salt and vinegary

Onions, particularly spring onions are green so this also makes sense

Any manufacturers who do it the wrong way round are just wrong.

I think in the 70s and 80s these were the colours for crisp packets of all brands and after that the crisp colour packet issue became a debacle.