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FFS walkers crisps have been around for yeeeeears, so why do I still expect a blue bag of crisps to be salt and vinegar?

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CaptainKirksNipples · 18/09/2011 12:09

I'm 29 but this makes me feel so old! Kids look at me like I'm daft, and also though I have made up opal fruits!!

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firsttimemama · 18/09/2011 20:05

I had the same convo with my DH last week - I will never get used to blue being C & O!

BimboNo5 · 18/09/2011 20:29

teehee I got sniggered at the other day at work when I called a starburst an opal fruit

BobblyGussets · 18/09/2011 20:42

Arrgh the arrogance of Walkers!

Incidentally, does anyone remember beefy Wotsits? They were the best. And Bovril flavoured Smiths crips before CJD came out.

FantasticVoyage · 18/09/2011 21:01

YANBU. In a just world, the marketing people at Walkers would all be wheeled out and shot for trying to go against the natural order of things.

CaptainKirksNipples · 18/09/2011 21:18

Fantasticvoyage Grin

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Tigerinmysoup · 18/09/2011 21:39

The reason that Walkers salt & vinegar crisps are in a green bag started as an April Fools joke on customers years ago - they swapped the packaging of S&V and cheese & onion. And then they decided to stick with it.

CaptainKirksNipples · 18/09/2011 22:26

Really!?! How do you know that?

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ThatStupidCat · 18/09/2011 22:49

In other countries isn't Walkers called "Lays"? Regardless they look exactly the same but the cheese and onion is green and the salt and vinegar is blue :) stupid walkers

Tigerinmysoup · 19/09/2011 14:52

Yep - they did it sometime in the 90s. My DH remembers it well as they caught him out at the time (and he still complains now) Grin

Choufleur · 19/09/2011 18:04

They've always been the same colour here in Leicestershire (home of walkers!). It's not something that changed in the 90s.

multipoodles · 19/09/2011 20:24

Give me Tayto crisps any day lol.. oh and I will show my age here, I remember when crisps were 2 1/2 p a packet, and remember buying them, they were golden wonder pickled onion in a see through bag. I can remember being able to buy a bag of crisps, can of coke and 1/2p bubbly for 10p going to school!

Stoirin · 19/09/2011 21:54

Cheese and Onion should be green.

And this should be in Chat.

YABU.

PurpleLostPrincess · 26/09/2011 01:45

kazamm I'm in Basingstoke, although I haven't checked the shelves just recently...

stepaway we have caramacs everywhere here... yummy!!! Smile

Insomnia11 · 26/09/2011 04:38

Aren't Hula Hoops also made by Walkers? HH have green cheese n onion & blue salt n vinegar.

By the way, why do people say "old" when they mean "grown up/an adult"? I'm 36 and don't plan on being old for another 40 years at least...

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