DH has been eating crisps he doesn’t want for years

[Gobelinoisawitchescat]

Ok not really an Aibu - but Dh just came home with a meal deal for us each - so two sandwiches drinks etc, and one packet of salt and vinegar and one cheese and onion.

I don’t like c&o (which he knows) and Dh just leaves his crisps. I said “oh are you not eating the ... he said no I don’t fancy that flavour...

It turns out that he always buys both for me as he still gets confused the by the green/blue packet thing! He’s being doing it for years and I’ve never noticed.

So Aibu to ask - is it really that hard to tell the difference between the two - even though walkers does muddy the waters!

@Gobelinoisawitchescat

Ha-ha! Only three?
Even the bottles look worse for wear!

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I remember Walkers always being ‘different’. Yes thank you @vanillandhoney I just saw your post. I definitely agree.

Every other brand has always been green for cheese and blue for vinegar, but I’ve known about Walkers being exceptional since I was a young girl (helped by the fact I used to have to serve them at the café at Open Days my Dad used to help set up 😁).

Apologies my last comment was meant for @StephenKong not you op

This is my favourite thread of 2020.

I love all things crisps.

Someone mentioned Asda fake chipsticks - what are they? I could cry that they don’t make them anymore !

@Crumpetsforthequeen poor StephenKong - it must take them about seven hours to do a weekly shop as they scrutinise every label, painstakingly showing their reading prowess and assuming anyone who accidentally picks up the normal rather than light butter must be illiterate.

That is so sweet though!

@PunishmentSnart groceries.asda.com/product/sharing-crisps-party-snacks/asda-ready-salted-potato-sticks/910002726262
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I actually think this is really sweet & in fairness, some things just don’t stick for some reason. I’ve been married for 10 years now but I still have to be reminded of what size clothes my husband wears if I am ever buying something for him. No matter how many times he tells me, or how many times I check one of his T-shirt’s, I never ever remember!

No Yanbu. It still gets me sometimes. And there’s still some brands do blue for s&v. It never used to be blue. It ways green. Or maybe yellow!???

[quote Gobelinoisawitchescat]@Crumpetsforthequeen poor StephenKong - it must take them about seven hours to do a weekly shop as they scrutinise every label, painstakingly showing their reading prowess and assuming anyone who accidentally picks up the normal rather than light butter must be illiterate. [/quote]
To be fair, reading ‘Cheese and Onion’ or ‘Salt and Vinegar’ on a packet doesn’t take a lot of reading ‘prowess’, so that was a bit snippy to StephenKong.

Lidl do their own chipsticks too in ready salted, cheese and onion and salt and vinegar.

I get this. In most brands cheese and onion is green in colour (eg Hula hoops) but in Walkers it's blue.

So I can imagine the confusion.

Walkers totally fucks with your system 1 thinking.

We use colour to navigate when we’re shopping on autopilot.

Walkers are horrid anyway. Switch to better crisps that play by the rules.

[quote vanillandhoney]Green walkers have always been Salt and Vinegar.
Blue ones have always been Cheese and Onion.

From their website:

Answer: Contrary to popular belief, Walkers Cheese and Onion have always been in blue packets, and Salt and Vinegar have always been in green packets. We don't have a plan to change this, as it's signature to our brand.

walkers.co.uk/faq/brands-flavours[/quote]
Absolutely not true. I remember the change .

@Cadent it was I agree but I wouldn’t say unprovoked if you read back though the comments - I ignored most which were aimed at me, but got a bit fed up when starting to aim at others.

@Middle123

I actually think this is really sweet & in fairness, some things just don’t stick for some reason. I’ve been married for 10 years now but I still have to be reminded of what size clothes my husband wears if I am ever buying something for him. No matter how many times he tells me, or how many times I check one of his T-shirt’s, I never ever remember!

I'm going after work

Oops! Quoted wrong person - Im going for the Asda crisps !

@PunishmentSnart enjoy!

I’m very disappointed- they’re nothing like chipsticks! Was expecting the melty, stick to your teeth types.

True love