To think prawn cocktail are not a core flavour of crisp

[NamelessNancy]

What is this madness? Walkers classic multipack have ready salted, cheese and onion, salt and vinegar and prawn cocktail. The meaty multipack have smoky bacon, roast chicken, cheese and onion and prawn cocktail. I question the inclusion of cheese and onion in both a little but at least it is one of the holy trinity of flavours. Prawn cocktail though? AIBU or have Walkers lost the plot?

Before anyone asks yes, I do have more important things to worry about but still!

I've just seen Seabrook are pulling the same stunt only without the cheese and onion duplication. The world's gone mad!

Correct. PC are lovely, but a whimsical, flighty choice of crisp. Not a staple.

Cheese and onion in a meaty multipack is downright rude

What happened to beef and onion? It's insanity.

What?! Prawn cocktail is the best flavour! It was my favourite back in my teens, around 50 years ago, and always was a core flavour, along with cheese & onion and salt & vinegar, so YABmassivelyU!

They are fourth most classic imo. So they should be in a classic pack with four flavours.

Exactly. Prawn cocktail have their place in the crispy rainbow of flavours but double billing in the multipacks? Surely not!

The weird fringe of the crisp world.

They are a tier two flavour alongside smoky bacon. Perfectly lovely in their own place.

YABVU

Prawn cocktail have always been a core flavour.

If you don’t like them, fine. I don’t like cheese and onion, couldn’t even eat one, but I have to grudgingly admit their core status (would probably not admit it if I was in that sort of argumentative mood!)

my favourite crisps are prawn cocktail. Seabrooks especially!!

Utter nonsense. Most normal people would choose Prawn Cocktail over Ready Salted or Salt and Vinegar.

IMHO the classic pack should be Ready Salted, Cheese and Onion, Roast Chicken (or maybe Smokey Bacon)and Salt and Vinegar. Though I really dislike the latter I do acknowledge its rightful place in the canon.

Well I refuse to accept I am BU despite having asked the question and am seriously considering flouncing. (I'm supposed to be doing my tax return today so might be for the best)

Why has beef and onion disappeared from the meaty multipack?
Either way Prawn Coctail are disgusting.
So imo are Salt and Vinegar.
This why I buy single flavour packs Marmite, Cheese and Onion, Ready Salted and Pickled Onion

Prawn cocktail have been around for decades, unlike some of the Johnny come lately flavours Walkers have used in marketing of recent years. So YABU. They're a core flavour. No one says you have to like all the core flavours.

I agree it is not necessary to like a flavour to consider it core and actually quite enjoy the occasional prawn cocktail but only in the right circumstances. They are most definitely a fringe flavour though.

YABVU

Ready Salted
Cheese and Onion
Salt and Vinegar
Prawn Cocktail

Always have and always will be the "core" flavours. Go back and reread the old testament, it's all in the book of genesis.

I do agree that cheese and onion in a meaty multipack is taking the piss though.

Agree OP. It’s all PC gorn mad these days.

But cheese and onion is not part of the holy trinity. It is the godhead of crisp flavours. Some might argue for ready salted or salt ‘n vinegar as the one true source, but I declare those to be merely saintly.

Meat flavoured crisps are Satan’s skin flakes.

Walkers Beef and onion crisps have been discontinued.

Prawn cocktail is my favourite flavour but I have to agree with you OP they are not a core flavour that should be included in either of the multi packs.

See ready salted is the crisp I am most likely to shun but I cannot deny its place as the bedrock of the crisp world. For it to be outnumbered across the multipack series 2:1 by prawn cocktail is just offensive!

100%. This is the correct order and you are wrong on this one, OP. It is weird, it doesn't make sense but that doesn't make it any less true.

Nobody in my family likes the dreaded prawn cocktail, which rules out a whole load of multipacks! 🤢

YANBU!!

I'm torn here. Prawn cocktail are my favourite but they're not really spiritually a core crisp - that's part of their charm.

You've been brainwashed! I refuse to change my stance. Sometimes it's important to stand up for what's right and I will not be swayed.

Tier one:
Ready salted
Salt and vinegar
Chese and onion

Tier two:
Prawn cocktail
Smoky bacon
Roast chicken

Tier three:
Things like Worcestershire sauce and other oddball flavours.