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!

May I gently suggest that you “get with it”,
Tis a modern day update within the crisp community.

It’s the equivalent of the introduction of mayonnaise in favour of salad cream on salads and the staple of avocado on rye bread as opposed to jam on toast..

Prawn cocktail crisps are here to stay within multipacks, prepare yourself, they may even appear in meal deals.. much much Pearl clutching is on the horizon.

🤣
I bloody love a snack based debate I do.

Google says younger demographics tend to favour Prawn Cocktail more than older groups. It was the single most favoured flavour by those aged 18-24 in a 2014 survey.

I don't see anything wrong with this tbh. But, whoever decided that prawn cocktail crisps actually remotely resemble the flavour of a prawn cocktail,must have had a sense of taste bypass.

Prawn cocktail is the king of flavours. My ideal multipack would be prawn cocktail, bbq, cheese and onion and plain. Plain only because my family haven't inherited my love of prawn cocktail. Or possibly because they never have a chance to try prawn cocktail.
Cheese and onion has grown on me. Id take it as an equal to salt and vinegar.

I haven't read the full thread as I'm too overcome with emotion. I won't be having any of this. Prawn Cocktail is the Prince of Crisps and that's bloody final.

You are being very unreasonable. It’s the best flavour

I like a prawn cocktail crisp, but it’s an occasional treat rather than a staple.

I don’t like cheese n onion though.

What a bleak future awaits us

To reiterate, I absolutely accept that a prawn cocktail crisp can be a wonderful thing. There is a place for all flavours in my view of the crispiverse. Pickled onion? Worcestershire sauce? Yes please. It's a case of knowing their place.

Absolute truth telling here. The oracle of crisps.

My point backed up by statistics.

My work here, is done.
Thank you and goodnight.

I like prawns, I like cocktails and I like crisps. Prawn cocktail crisps however are horrible and shouldn't be included with sensible ones like salt and vinegar and cheese and onion.

Worcester sauce is clearly the best flavour and should be in the multipacks 🫣

Prawn cocktail is the best flavour

Thank you. I don't eat Walkers very often as they're an inferior crisp but Seabrooks prawn cocktail 😍
Costco now sell a box of 80 packs of Seabrooks and 20 of them are prawn cocktail. No one else likes them so I'm very happy.

I don’t know why prawn cocktail are still a choice. Surely anyone who ate them were taken out by Covid or the last election?

Forgot to add - followed a close second by... Marmite crisps.

The big three are cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, and prawn cocktail.

Why are prawn cocktail, and cheese, in the ‘meaty’ pack?
Bring back beef and onion and barbecue flavours please Walkers.
I love an M and S Hiney Roast Ham but their beef are not the same.
And stop with the fancy Christmas flavours!

The best Prawn Cocktail crisp is Sizzling King Prawn, McCoy's.
I first discovered them in Camberwell Magistrate's Court in a vending machine and it was love at first sight.

Classic status is not derived from current popularity. It is far deeper than that. Does nothing mean anything any more?

If we were going to be truly classic it would just be utterly plain crisps with salt in a tiny twist of blue paper lurking somewhere in the bag!
OMG, I've just teleported back to 1963.

Salt and Shake crisps are indeed proper classic crisps. And still available.

Prawn cocktail crisps where about the only thing I could eat without throwing up when I was pregnant. It was a very long time ago so they have been around for aeons.

I'm ashamed to admit some ignorance of crisp history. I always thought the blue salt packet in salt 'n' shake was an '80s gimmick but did it in fact hark back to the origin story of the mighty crisp?