Fuck you Walkers crisps

[Liesmorelies]

Just opened a bag of what I thought was ready salted crisps. It's a red bag, obviously. A foul sweet taste ensued causing me to check the bag. Fucking tomato ketchup flavour. Firstly, who asked for tomato ketchup flavour crisps? Secondly, who wants to be reading the bags when buying a bag of crisps? We all have enough on our plates without needing to do that. Bags' colours denote the flavour and if they want to bring in stupid novelty flavours for weirdos to eat and run out of colours (changing the shade slightly is not sufficient) then these atrocities should be relegated to the bottom shelves where no one will pick them up in error. Heads should roll for this. I'm left having to decide between no crisps or getting dressed, which was not on my agenda for today, and going out in the rain.

I've never quite fogiven Walkers for using Gary Linekar to advertise their crisps, so you don't have my sympathies. Soz. Ordinarily you would get a support emoji, but as it's Walkers it serves you right really.

Tomato crisps are my favourite and have been for years.
They are virtually impossible to buy - Tesco and Co-op used to have them but none for months.

I'd be equally disappointed if I opened a bag expecting tomato crisps and got tasteless ready salted.

I for one do read the labels. But the only one I really like is the Walkers Sensations Lime and Coriander ‘poppadums’. So lethally moreish!

The fact that they have green bags for Salt and Vinegar and blue for Cheese and Onion when the rest of the crisp world has the opposite - it’s just so fucking arrogant!

Not only do I love the ketchup flavoured crisps but I buy in bulk 😂😂. I feel your pain though when you were expecting ready salted!

Ketchup crisps are amazing - YABU for having awful taste 😉

100% this.

I love a ketchup flavoured crisp. Very like Prawn Cocktail.

your namesake 'Discos' are making a come back and are bloody lovely but god the salt and vinegar flavour is so strong it makes my eyes water...still eat the whole bag though!

Walkers ketchup crisps aren't new or novelty! I like the odd rare packet of them.

I'd have been furious too. Tomato ketchup flavoured crisps wtf!

I think you should LTB.

YANBU.

Haha. I think discos never disappeared from my corner shop. But yeah they are sooo strong. I actually wish they did a plain version. Did they ever do?

My fave discontinued crisps had to be the Doner kebab wheat crunchie! I hate doner but they were delicious!

Yep. And ready salted are bottom.

In those multipack bags with 4 flavours each of Salt & Vinegar, Cheese & Onion, and ready bloody salted (which aren't even a proper flavour, like eating cardboard), the latter 4 always end up in the bin.

Only time I'd eat them (and mushrooms) was if it was a life or death situation and I had to eat to survive (like that film Alive when they are stuck on the mountain after the plane crash when they resort to eating human flesh).

Agree with other posters that Walkers are the devil with their green salt and vinegar. This caused many a meltdown with my child who always goes for the blue packets but only likes salt and vinegar. Now she can read it is less of a thing but even she was incredulous at their stupidity and she is only 4.

Ready salted and Paprika are the only acceptable flavours in my book.

I think you should contact a no win no fee solicitor @Liesmorelies for redress.

What kind of heathen limits when they eat crisps?

Tasteless is right.

Ready salted is for people who don't like crisps.

Not the 90s - Walkers have had that colour scheme for at least 50 years. They were less dominant as a crisp brand in the 70s/80s which is why you always get people swearing the blue and green used to be the other way round, but it wasn't. Smiths and Golden Wonder used the other colours and they were dominant back then.

Used to love a bag of tomato sauce crisps but they've changed the flavouring so much now they're dreadful 😔

Completely with you on this, OP. I love Walkers crisps but I had a similar appalling experience when Walkers tampered with my two favourite flavours, roast chicken and smoky bacon, by adding (from memory) mayonnaise to one and tomato ketchup to the other. I bought packs of each thinking that Walkers would surely not do anything to ruin the original flavours and that I was willing to try what the Walkers flavour teams must have intended as enhancements. They were awful. Couldn't finish either pack. Fortunately, they seem to have been a passing aberration. Haven't seen either of those flavours since.

Sorry you had to go through. Tomato ketchup is awful 💐

Thoughts and prayers.

I'm having a bag of Walkers salt and vinegar with my lunch wishing they were tomato 😪

We never buy the variety packs because the ready salted would end up in the bin

I need crisps now and that’s your fault OP

Absolute lol at your OP, @Liesmorelies .

How about the orange and red stripes that you get on the back of a highway maintenance vehicle? That might be enough of a hi-viz warning.

I've no idea what red normally signals on a Walkers crisps packet? Presumably one of the only two legitimate flavours - ready salted or cheese 'n' onion?