Why are Walkers Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar crisps in the wrong packets?

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Common sense tells us that Cheese & Onion are in the green packet, and Salt & Vinegar are in the blue packet. Walkers have got this the wrong way round, and it bugs me. I like C&O, but hate S&V, so them being mixed up makes me slightly anxious. And they are the wrong way round, right?

Or is it just me?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeah this bugs me alot too. Also Walkers crisps are horrible. I only like their Ready Salted.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

Walkers Worcester Sauce are great. Mind you, I think blue is the right colour for cheese and onion, so what do I know?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

In New Zealand salt and vinegar = green. Also I don't think we get cheese and onion because it sounds like the most disgusting flavour ever.

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

No, no, salt and vinegar is the most disgusting flavour ever.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

You guys, Seabrooks.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

you wacky british!

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

get one packet of Walker's "Sensations" Roasted Onion and balsamic vinegar flavour crisps, & forget all other crisp flavours, fools.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

(Damn, I can't believe I just wrote that!!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

adam and joe did this. i can't remember the upshot but they spoke to walkers, who were really lame.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Mmmm, Mr Pashmina is OTM

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

I find the Sensations crisps have horrible after effects on my teeth.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

we had 'Taytos' in the pub yesterday and this included a bag of each of the above but i can't remember (despite commenting at the time) whether they followed the Walkers or the Smiths scheme of things.

>> get one packet of Walker's "Sensations" Roasted Onion and balsamic vinegar flavour crisps, & forget all other crisp flavours, fools.
> Mmmm, Mr Pashmina is OTM

Made Of Money more like.

bloke here at work keeps borrowing crisps from my stash and insists on replacing them with kettle chips from M&S which are 4 times more expensive and 1/4 as good (too crunchy, like eating teeth).

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

They aren't that expensive!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

& yeah, those kettle chips are pretty vile, aren't they.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

I second the Seabrooks big-up

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

any crisps in a bag: messy and dud
walkers need to get themselves onto the tubes wagon

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

> They aren't that expensive!!

can't find details. one place says 20% more than normal crisps but i think that's talking about the big bags. still, 20%! (i buy the marmite ones 6 at a time from safeways ~= 16p a packet)

(they also tend to be less vegetarian friendly than the non-posh crisps)

(which leads me to another criticism - tora bora tomkinson)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I only buy the little bags! (I bought a big bag once, thingking "I'll save some for later", but of course I scoffed the lot in one go & felt sick!)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

Multi-bags are the way to go. I buy 30 at a time and stick them in my draw at work. 10p a packet? Mustn't grumble.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

anyway, brown bags=meat flavour

always.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

and before you say it, the Walkers Roast Chicken bags are not yellow they are very very very light brown. kthnxbye

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

Walkers crisp are rub
I think Kettle Chips are great
Seabrooks are the best.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

I just slice potatos very thin. salt them lightly, then stuff several in my mouth and gargle with vegetable oil and vinegar. Based on my experience, green would seem the proper colour for Salt and Vinegar crisps.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

Seabrooks pickled onion are scrumptious.

Green is an oniony colour. Don't ask me to justify this.

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

when i was a little lad i used to love Golden Wonder, especially the curry flavoured Ringo's. I think the Ringo's now aren't so good.

Seabrooks pickled onion are scrumptious.
OtM

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I also always get the colours the wrong way around on this, too - I like S&V as well, but they go better with certain kinds of sandwiches.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

Cheese and Onion crisp sandwich = food of the gods.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Well, with egg mayo sandwich, cheese and onion crisps go best. With cheese and onion sandwich, salt and vinnegar is required.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

I always eat Prawn COcktail with ALL sandwiches. The flavour beats everyone up - it's like cleaning your palette but in reverse.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yes, but PRAWNS... even crisps that have been shown pictures of prawns and told to "make like this" would make me blow up in a mess of hives.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

Prawn cocktail crisps neither contain prawns or taste anything like prawn cocktail. Goodness knows who figured that flavouring out, and what they were trying to make at the time.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

I still don't trust them. I would be allergic to the word "prawns" on the package. I mean, I got a reaction to supposedly vegetarian prawn crackers at a Thai restaurant once!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

Easiest way to improve cheese & onion crisps: put a pickled egg in the bag and shake it about for a bit. Eat egg then crisps.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

these colours make no sense and fill me with unease! australian flavour colourchart:

blue - salted
green - chicken
yellow - cheese & onion
purple - salt & vinegar
orange - BBQ

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

CHICKEN?!?!?!?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

GREEEN???

(I feel like Peter Kay shouting 'garlic??? bread????')

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah green+chicken makes absoloutely no sense whatsoever. End world now.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's the purple vinegar that weirds me right out.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

b-b-but cheese + onion is almost certainly more yellow than green!!

cheese = yellow
onion = white
chicken = ...flesh I guess. BUT who would eat chips from a flesh-coloured bag?? green looks nice, hence chicken = green. simple!

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

don't you remember the rhyme? Chicken & green should never be seen

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ready salted crisps with a salad. Right or wrong?

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

Walkers Squares have the colours the other way round to normal Walkers, just to confuse things. I got a pack of green+yellow Squares out of the Reduced To Clear basket today (so I was far too busy looking at the new price sticker to read the packet) and bit into them expecting salt and vinegar.

Fairly sure Taytos are also green for cheese and onion, but I don't know about the salt and vinegar.

Multipacks are not the way to go until someone invents a dispenser I can insert multipacks, biscuit packets, entire weekly shops etc into which will only give me one item a day and won't let me eat the whole lot within half an hour of buying them, murmuring "just one more... two left, can't leave two in the kitchen or people will know I bought a multipack and ate four... oh now there's only one left and it would be stupid to leave it lying around..."

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Ready salted crisps with a salad. Right or wrong?"

YES YES YES!!!!!!

Also heavenly, cheese+onion crisps with cold beef and horseradish sandwich....

― JTS, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

this thread is responsible for me buying salt and vinegar crisps for two days running now.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

& yeah, those kettle chips are pretty vile, aren't they

The standard flavours are good, esp: Salsa & Mosquito, but the seasonal limited editions are pretty meh.

Also search: Jonathan Crisp
: Poco Loco tortilla chips

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

I can do without Mosquito flavored chips, I think.

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Mmmmm, crisps.

Does anybody find multi-pack crisps are less 'flavoury' than single packs?

I've experienced this with all Walkers crisps especially Square.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

well, they're cheaper

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

Mmm, I love squares, haven't had a packet for ages.

I feel that quavers are a bit underappreiciated.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 26 May 2006 10:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

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― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Dog's Bollocks

― cat anatomy expert (ledge), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Lord's Custos

― a small batch bourbon of web board shitfits (stevie), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

chilli and chocolate in weird but not terrible shocker. but then i like the thai chilli things so...

― koogs, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Would they be particularly terrible to people are used to the chilli/chocolate combination anyway?

― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

The chocolate part is terrible. It tastes like chocolate that's gone through Seth Brundle's teleporter.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

the builder's breakfast are... extraordinary but v.sickly after half a bag. buttery, eggy, bacony, tomatoey all in one bag, it's quite an achievement but I wouldn't want to eat another.

bhaji need to tone down the cheese&onion front note and up the actual onion bhaji aftertaste

squirrel are v.greasy and sage-y

chilli and chocolate are not unpleasant, a bit weird, cinnamon & potato wd get you laughed out the masterchef kitchen but... these were the only bag I finished... not very chocolatey it must be said

― my dad has a bazooka (cozwn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

the builder's ~~bum~~ breakfast are a taste sensation. they taste perfectly of those fried eggs that are slightly burnt on the bottom. with a dash of tomato sauce.

not sure in what order i'd rate them all. will pick up the fishy ones tomorrow.

― koogs, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Haven't seen any of these yet :(

― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Walkers Max Cheeseburger flavour are actually nice. I don't know what I believe in anymore.

― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

Still on these:

― James Mitchell, Monday, 28 September 2009 11:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

oh deary me no.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:43 (11 months ago) Permalink

they got the national costume just right

― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

In Britain the hated British have their own colonialist version of tayto which comes in a yellow bag. On the back it has pics of dead Irish heroes post execution. The slogan assures the British eater that the taytos were made with blight free potatoes. Irish mps have to eat a pack before they can take their seats at Westminster.

― Ronan, Monday, 28 September 2009 11:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

:O i did not know that about the blight.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

In the 80s there was brief discussion of whether Adams could be allowed to speak on British tv if he ate a bag of yellow tayto for the duration.

― Ronan, Monday, 28 September 2009 12:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

Paisley was outraged by the amount of crumbs on the mic

― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

Explain Tayto passport?

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

i'd imagine it's a holder for your passport? irish expats will invariably lust for taytos or lyons tea, it seems to be a big identifier for them.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

Why not just keep your passport in an old crisp packet?

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

Barrys tea I thought? And obviously the pint of harp

― Ronan, Monday, 28 September 2009 12:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

barry's tea is for west brits. harp is more of an 'i'm lusting for the 80's' thing imo.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:20 (11 months ago) Permalink

Why not just keep your passport in an old crisp packet?

what? that's clearly a stupid idea. jesus.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

sniffer dogs would go crazy, for a start.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

IRL lol at work = not good

― Oppositional Soup (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 September 2009 12:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

thanks to ilx i enjoyed a packet of the above taste sensations with my lunch. delicious.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

I was in Dublin airport a few months ago and saw Tayto chips for sale and had a literal lol as in "can they really be called that" and was tempted to try but between jetlag and drunk Glaswegians, still finishing their Irish weekend bender in the terminal with cider and Harp, pounding a bag of said chips and drooling over a girl in a Burger King crown reading a Lennon bio waiting for a flight to London, the temptation was easy to fight off. It sounds like I missed something great.

― Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

between jetlag and drunk Glaswegians, still finishing their Irish weekend bender in the terminal with cider and Harp, pounding a bag of said chips and drooling over a girl in a Burger King crown reading a Lennon bio waiting for a flight to London

jeez, tbh i think you had enough going on

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

imo pounding the girl while drooling over the crisps would have been the way fwd, but cultural difference abound etc

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

to be fair, the Glaswegians offered to share

― Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

to share which? we need to be very clear on this.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

chips and cider and beer; and haha they were the ones drooling over the London girl in the crown. She wanted nothing to do with them (different class etc.).

― Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

ok, so there were glaswegians drinking, pounding crisps and drooling at discerning girls wearing burger king crowns while reading lennon biographies.

sounds like quite a trip.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

if only I'd scored the Tayto

― Euler, Monday, 28 September 2009 13:20 (11 months ago) Permalink

they were probably pounding it in order to get it small enough to snort

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 13:22 (11 months ago) Permalink

It amuses me endlessly that Ireland and Northern Ireland both have their own Tayto made by different companies but with almost the same logo and both proudly proclaiming that they've been around since the 50s, and it's kind of hard to find out which came first.

(I preferred the Nornirsh Tayto to the ones from down south because the ones from down south tasted kind of dusty and weird, but then I realised afterwards that the packet had a tiny hole letting air in where it should've joined up at the corners, so that is probably why they tasted of crisps that had been left in the open air for a month. so they are probably delicious but could stand to take a look at their packaging assembly if you ask me. which you did not and nor did they)

― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

bulmers to become magners here as well RIP another part of my chilhood ;_;

i have forwarded your concerns on to tayto ROI manufacturing, we await response.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

Are you sure you didn't just eat some poor fellow's passport?

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:22 (11 months ago) Permalink

A surprising amount of crisp packets are mistakenly left unsealed. I blame an influx of foreign baggers.

― Ronan, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

romanian baggers on grafton st ruin my christmas shopping

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:26 (11 months ago) Permalink

Are you sure you didn't just eat some poor fellow's passport?

oh, well played.

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

lol japan

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

EXPLAIN this image

― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

btw looked for walkers max cheeseburger last night, no joy.

― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

Saw some in the newsagent on Great Eastern Street earlier.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:21 (11 months ago) Permalink

Only relevant if you're a twat in Shoreditch, I guess.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:21 (11 months ago) Permalink

I'm a wanker in Waterloo.

― this must be what FAIL is really like (ledge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

Walkers Max Cheeseburger flavour are actually nice. I don't know what I believe in anymore.

― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 28 September 2009 11:23 (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

finally tracked these down. kudos to walker's, i guess, for pretty accurately capturing the vile taste of a mcdonald's cheeseburger.

― George Mucus (ledge), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:54 (10 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

i burned my tongue on coffee this morning

and then i ate some salt and vinegar chips

is this what it feels like to die

― max, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 17:15 (5 months ago) Permalink

I am such a hardman that no number of cuts and other abrasions on the inside of my mouth could stop me eating salt and vinegar crisps.

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 17:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

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