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.

Just to back up this flavourless point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkers_(snack_foods)#History

"Prior to the 1950s, crisps were sold without flavour; Smith's of London sold plain potato crisps which came with a small blue sachet of salt that could be sprinkled over them. The first crisps manufactured by Walkers in 1948 were sprinkled with salt and sold for threepence a bag.

After Archer Martin and Richard Synge (while working in Leeds) received a Nobel Prize for the invention of partition chromatography in 1952, food scientists began to develop flavours via a gas chromatograph, a device that allowed scientists to understand chemical compounds behind complex flavours such as cheese. In 1954, the first flavoured crisps were invented by Joe “Spud” Murphy (owner of the Irish company Tayto) who developed a technique to add cheese and onion seasoning during production. Later that year, Walkers introduced Cheese and Onion (inspired by the Ploughman's lunch), and Salt and Vinegar was launched in 1967 (inspired by the nation's love of fish and chips)."

Ready salted, or, just adding a sachet of salt, is not a proper flavour. It's boarding on tasteless. Have never eaten a worse "flavour" than ready bloody salted. I love crisps too much to eat them.

*bordering

I buy salt &Shake in homebargains sometimes just for the nostalgia 😀

As a major aside a bag of Bovril crisps from the municipal baths’ vending machine was the biggest treat. What happened to them? They used to leave an inpenetrable sticky brown yummy goo on your fingers

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

Now that is the most ridiculous thing I've read in a while. They taste of salt and are the purest of crisps. Ridiculous flavours like paprika and the heinous lime and coriander that someone mentioned upthread are for people who don't like crisps. Ready salted are of course for crisp purists.

Oh yes they really hit the hunger spot after swimming.

Walkers Worcester sauce have been back a while now. Our local Tesco stocks them.

YABVU unreasonable to even eat crappy Walkers thin, nasty crisps.
Get yourself some Kettles or Tyrrells.

The packet is a different colour as is the picture on the front, unless you are blind no excuse for getting it wrong.

I hate kettle chips.they are like cardboard.

I read this as curlywurly flavour!

I adore tomato ketchup crisps 😀 Where do you get them?

@Aaron95 "Ready Salted should be Dark Blue. Salt and Vinegar Light Blue. Cheese and Onion Green."

Yep. Picked up a packet of what I thought was cheese & onion back in 1987. Turned out it was salt and bloody vinegar. I sooo wanted cheese & onion that day. I will never forgive or forget.

Loved the post swimming Bovril crisps along with the chicken soup from the vending machine.
It was so hot you could barely hold it far less drink it. No cardboard cup sleeves in those days.😂

That's bringing back memories of the advert with all the singing potatoes that wanted to be Salt'n'Shake.

So do I. They are fatty and greasy and always feel stale.

I'm baffled that the first crisps were three pence a bag in 1948 because I remember Chipmunk crisps (Bovril flavour) being advertised as 'Still only 2d' which was two old pence, or less than one penny in decimal money. And that was in 1970s. Did they go down in price?

Completely agree. I love a crisp to taste of potato not some mouth-lacerating artificial flavour.

Though Bovril crisps after swimming were the best thing ever in childhood.

Did you read the flavour on the fro t or just go by colour

Ketchup flavour chips are my favourite ❤️❤️❤️ we have them in Australia

Op I think you have been very brave, I would literally die if that happened to me. But, and I say this kindly, you are very unreasonable to expect to enjoy any crisp that is not Tayto cheese and onion flavour. Educate yourself, and choose more carefully next time.

the colour system does not go across all makes, so what is blue cheese and onion in Walkers may be salt and vinegar in other makes. the trouble with my partner not being able to see so well is that it's always a gamble what he's going to bring home for me!

I thought you were going to say that the texture and consistency of the crisps has changed. Has anyone else noticed this?

I love tomato ketchup ones though!!

Sainsburys sell Worcester sauce Walkers, just had a packet.

However Asda have stopped selling Pickled Onion Walkers (best if they take the skin off your tongue/lips), so my DH got me some from Amazon!

BTW hate with a passion Tomato Sauce flavour

I'm torn - one one hand anyone who thinks ready salted crisps are the best has very questionable taste, and perhaps it is a valuable life experience to be forcibly exposed to more adventurous flavours, even if it is through so such underhand tactics by walkers.

On the other hand, I sympathise with the trauma you must have experienced when settling down for a crispy treat to find yourself faced with such duplicity.