Tomato salsa and prawn shells crisps

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Waitrose, M&S and Tesco have been DEVOID of pots of tomato salsa and prawn shell crisps for months. Months.

Aibu to ask why? Has anyone else noticed?

Vaguely remember a tomato shortage being mentioned, so maybe that explains the salsa. But the prawn shell crisps (like skips)…?

Well this is quite niche

@UmbilicusSuperficialis It really is 🤣🤣🤣

I have to say I was expecting an exciting recipe involving prawn crisps and salsa....

I too was here expecting an interesting combo. Perhaps for a coronation street party..like prawn nachos.

I've noticed a shortage of salsa.

I thought this was about your preferred snack combo 😄

I've noticed no salsa I've only tried Tesco I think its probably been the tomato shortage. Skips I've no idea !

There's no tomato salsa in Aldi, I wondered if it was a seasonal thing? Do people eat more salsa in summer? It's annoying as I use it for one of my regular weeknight recipes and I can't face having to make my own just to tip into quesadillas.

You can still get multipacks of branded skips on Ocado.
don’t all stampede at once….

Oh and salsa as well I just checked.

Ugh now imagining salsa on prawn shell crisps and the mush they would turn into.

I think you'd need to dip them rather than fill them all and put out on a platter. Sounds rather appealing.

A pity m&s are out of both though

Prawn shell crisps - do you mean Skips? Not a big loss surely?

Don't understand why anyone buys salsa, so easy to make and freeze!

DS is devastated (yes an 18 year Old's extreme reaction 😂) that M&S are no longer doing prawn shell crisps, he's asked in most branches and can't get a reply as to why!!

I need to make it clear that I’m not talking about skips. I’m talking about the M&S and Tesco big bag own brand version which are tangier and slightly crisper than skips.

The M&S skips were amazing. Much better than actual Skips. They've been gone for ages though, with something else in their place on the shelf, which makes me think they've been discontinued. Sad, sad times.

I agree the M&S ones were the best I think they have been discontinued though .

Yes sorry that was me my head said prawn shells my finger typed skips 😃

But why would they discontinue them?! And for Tesco to discontinue them too makes me think they were the same/from the same factory.

Skips just don’t cut the mustard.

I m not sure but I think I read that M&S discontinued them!

Yes I have definitely noticed the tomato salsa in Marks but they do do it in the Mexican dip selection so why not individually. I like to buy just it with the guacamole but ended up buying the selection last weekend. I wanted to have it with crisps while watching the Masters on Sunday evening with a glass of wine.
Just another item I can no longer rely on in M&S.
I live in NI and my local one is getting worse. Have noticed lately that even on a Friday it's not as busy as it once was. To get to a bigger one I would have to travel 30 miles which I get to occasionally.

Because not enough people bought them, or they wanted to introduce new lines of stock, or they were not profitable to sell

We need someone on the thread who can recommend another M&S Perfect Pairing 😁

It's sad isn't it. I like to think I can keep things going just by buying them every week but alas no they won't make things just for me.

I really don’t believe that not enough people were buying the prawn shells. They’re not that niche surely.

The salsa thing is probably the tomato shortage but it’s annoying when you just want a bit of salsa but don’t want to buy the “tex mex” selection pot. Our family nacho night is lacking. But making just a bit seems like a faff. I guess I’ll just have to get on with making some. Maybe I won’t ever go back to the pots?!

I make my own salsa using a carton of chopped tomatoes and adding jalapenos, chopped onions and Tabasco sauce.