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So myself and my missus got into a surprisingly heated conversation (fist fight) about what is the best type and flavour of crisp.

Fortunately we came to the agreed decision that the McCoy salt and vinegar crips are the best. 
 

Are we right....? 

 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Sorry, but it is definitely these guys:

https://germandeli.co.uk/funny-frisch-chipsfrisch-ungarisch.html

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Salt and vinegar, yes, but Kettle and Tyrrells do better versions, especially the furrows ones and cider vinegar. Actually, Tesco's own brand sea salt and cider vinegar are pretty good.

I'm also partial to Walkers Max Paprika, when I fancy a change.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

With your name, it has to be 'Tayto' brand every time.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Acid flavoured Space Raiders.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

All of the packets of meaty flavours in a walkers meaty super bag over a 2 day sitting. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I see your McCoys S&V and raise you with CO-OP Sea Salt and Chardonnay wine Vinegar crisps. Tongue tinglingly tasty. 
 

In reply to mick taylor:

Oh dear. You have outed yourself as non-British and deeply suspect by not going with Salt and Vinegar. After January 1st, I'm afraid you'll have to leave and take your repugnant snacks with you. 

I refer you to Q4 in this test. http://realcitizenshiptest.co.uk/quiz.php?n=1

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Bovril flavour was once the pinnacle for crisps. Any self-respecting spud would have poked its own eyes out to be sliced up and coated in Bovril... My mate Dave told me that the EU banned them, and that's exactly why I backed Brexit. We need to take back control of our crisps.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

There is no debate.

XL cheese.

If you are from cumbria

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Flaming Hot Dorito's are the number one for me. Is that controversial? is that even a 'flavour'?

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

What are you drinking with them?

Cheese and Onion Kettle chips with Rioja.

Walkers Worcestershire Sauce with Guinness.

In reply to Clauso:

I don’t think it was the flavour that got them banned. I’m sure it was the excessive curvature of the crisps.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Blue flavour

Except that Walkers break the international convention on crisp packets in which case it's green flavour (who the hell in their right mind thinks "cheese and onion"=blue? madness)

In reply to Graeme G:

With a nice refreshing pale ale (ideally a Pictish) - Piper's Black Pepper & Sea Salt.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

1) Scampi Fries

2) Flaming Hot Monster Munch

3) Worcester Wheat Crunchies

4) Pickled Onion Discos

5) Chilli Heatwave Doritos / Walkers Max Paprika / Nik Naks Rib n Saucy (3-way tie)

I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. 

In reply to BenSends:

You can also use Doritos to start fires, so they're high on my list. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

The best ever was Monster Munch Spaghetti Sauce flavour, but that's been extinct for many years.

Prawn Cocktail is the best flavour across the board IMO. The debate for overall best flavour/brand/style is too complex to sort out.

Can we all agree that people who claim Ready Salted as their favourite cannot be trusted?

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I've noticed that very strong salt and vingear crisps like McCoy's give me a reaction that transcends tongue tingling into a flushed prickly feeling in my whole face, mouth watering profusely and sweating.

I've started to wonder if I'm allergic.

The really weird thing is I dont even have to eat them.  Just thinking about the flavour sets me off, as it has done right now.

But to answer the question I'm a fan of:

Cheese and onion anything

Worcester sauce french fries

Crinkly mini cheddars (either s&v or c&

Paprika ridge cut ones

Salt and pepper kettle cooked crunchy crisps

Lime tortilla chips

Ready salted beetroot ones

Dont think I could pick a favourite.

In reply to jdh90:

Pork scratchings. The pub snack of Kings. 

In reply to jdh90:

Since when are savoury biscuits a type of crisp?! Have you no honour?  

In reply to PaulJepson:

Yeah, but he asked about crisps. Nice as those are they're not crisps. 

The best were salsa and mesquite kettle chips, RIP.

In reply to Sir Chasm:

My wheat beats your potato. 

In reply to PaulJepson:

Unless you want some crisps.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Without a doubt Mackie's make the finest crisps I have ever tasted. For a full appreciation of this quality crisp I usually stick to their plain old sea salted classic. They do do a range of interesting flavours though.

As a bit of an aside, and although a quality crisp nowhere near as good as Mackie's, Co-op's Posh Prawn cocktail crisps are one of the best flavours I think. Haven't seen them in a while in my local coop though, hope they haven't stopped making them.

In reply to Qwerty2019:

KP Roast Pork and Apple Sauce, if you are from the North-East and it is approximately 1986. 

Late 80s/early 90s it was KP Hot Dog and Tomato Ketchup

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

And just another little thought about flavours, I am also a big fan of some of the ones you get in France. Pesto flavour crisps as well as the Garlic flavour crisps both big favourites.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Seabrooks salt and vinegar. No contest.

In reply to PaulJepson:

Fair point!  Not crisps, but are being treated as functionally similar since a "health and wellbeing" drive at work replaced all the real crisps in the vending machine with more expensive savoury products that share a flavour tangent and come in similar shaped packaging.  The crinklies have been the go-to as best of the bunch and the only ones that still feel a treat.  Was stung on some flavourless abominations that looked like a wotsit but made of something obscure - maybe chickpeas. Its has lead to me sampling popchips too, which are pretty good. Their bbq flavour also give me the weird reaction though.

Smith's salt and vinegar chopsticks

You know where you stand with them, full of flavour and haven't changed

In reply to JimbotheScot:

I could never work out if the injuries I got from these were caused by physical or chemical attack...

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Salt'n'vinegar Squares. I remember my saliva glands literally squirting saliva out of my mouth as I opened a packet once.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Walkers Smokey Bacon 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

The answer is simple: Walkers Worcestershire Sauce is the king of crisp flavours, although surprisingly difficult to find.

Second place goes to the ones in the brown bags, with flavours such as ham and mustard, lamb and mint and something else. Can't remember the brand name...

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Cheese and onion.

Although I'm partial to Nik-naks (or I was before they started putting those foul 'scampi and lemon' things in the variety packs).

Then of course, there's monster munch. And bacon fries. And poundland's cheesy balls...

In reply to Yanis Nayu:

Walkers everything but starting with Cheese and Onion and closely followed by Prawn Cocktail. 

My kids swear by Salt and Vinegar.

Square crisps are great as well as are Walkers Sensations Red Thai Chilli.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

WOTSITS™

Here endeth the thread...

In reply to gravy:

I've been saying that about Walkers colour coding for years and most people don't get it.

Anyway, as for crisps, root vegetable  by absolutely anyone.

In reply to LastBoyScout:

The Walkers Paprika are good, but they are a knock off of the German ones.  Taste pretty much exactly the same but the Germans had them for years before Walkers.

In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:

I'm also partial to these.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/438467713693771303/

(I waited, but somebody had to do it.)

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

There can only be one winner,

Fiddlers Crisps - Lancashire black pudding and mustard flavour. 

In reply to TomD89:

Prawn Cocktail crisps used as Covid detector

A builder I know had to self isolate because one of his colleagues tested positive for Covid. Every day in his 14 day isolation he had a packet of Prawn Cocktail crisps, smelling, eating them and checking the flavour/smell was exactly the same.

He used them to reassure himself that he wasn't coming down with Covid

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

No class....you and your woman deserve eachother.....

I'm single but am after a woman who appreciates a good pack of Frazzles....or a a Spick Niknak!!

In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

What about Super Cockle, the man in a white coat with his wicker basket full of dodgy seafood  who visited pubs, perhaps a northern thing. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Brannigans Beef and Mustard. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Used to be Yorkshire Crisps Henderson's Relish were the best but I see they have now dropped them in favour of Worcester Sauce.  It's a bloody disgrace.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Quavers

or

skips

In reply to Albert Tatlock:

I'd forgotten that! Friday night in the Rose and Crown in Walmgate, York - for a while, indisputably the best pub in the universe - pints of Tetley, a copy of Warcry and dodgy seafood . 

In reply to Albert Tatlock:

I'd forgotten all about those seafood purveyors. Very 80s. We had one come into the pub when I lived in Leicester. For some reason he used to shout out random things like "sheep, penguins, sperm whales" to attract attention. It did seem to work.

In reply to Albert Tatlock:

The routine.

Vendor: "Cockles, mussels, shrimps, prawns!"

Sniggering punter: "Got any crabs, mate?"

Vendor: "Aye, got 'em off your lass...."

In reply to tjdodd:

Apparently it's Hendeson's decision not to supply the crisp maker.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Nik Naks - Nice 'n' Spicy!

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish on The Adam And Joe Show twenty years ago addressed it directly with Walkers 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Squares or Discos - Salt 'n' Vinegar 

Wheat Crunchies - bacon flavour

Seabrooks - Canadian Ham and Bacon flavours

not really too fond of the "posh" crisps like Kettle or Tyrell - I find them too thick and greasy. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I'd climb a mountain for a canny bag Tudor.

youtube.com/watch?v=EbxJw-6kha4&

In reply to Graeme G:

Now that’s a good question! Ideally I’d be drinking too many pints of avocet (Exeter brewery) after a day on the moor 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Rib n Saucy NikNaks. Food of the gods. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Sorry but you are all wrong. 

Best Crisp ever, Frazzles (if you get a good pack, they are also the most inconsistent crisps ever) 

Most moorish crisp, ready salted hula hoop puffs. 

Best snack pork scratchings. 

This is my area, I am a crisp monster

In reply to Dax H: and so far no mention of the king of snacks .... snyders jalapeño pretzels washed down with A pint of perfectly kept hawks head the lakes best beer pub ( now defunct ) . Also ...  Spanish crisps taste better than British crisps . Ahhh.....Several glasses of ice cold estrella (or whatever they ve got ) after a day cragging and getting just a bit too much sun for December accompanied by whatever.crisps they ve got hanging up .  The universal laws no . 33c “ beer tastes better after climbing and accompanied by crisps “

In reply to Dax H:

Oh yes ... scratchings, the ALL almighty Uncle Alberts!

Best crisp - Brannigans Beef and Mustard, definitely needs washing down with a decent ale though.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Burts salt and vinegar,  while necking Korev, sat outside the Old Success, as my surfing gets better and better in the memory!

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I can't see any mention of Walkers roast chicken crisps yet. They get my vote.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I’m not a fan of potato crisps flavoured with chemicals. Unless it’s just sodium chloride.

Salt and shake are the best. Sometimes I put the salt on, sometimes I don’t

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Marmite crisps, when they are available.

Kettle crisps are too crunchy for me.

I'm partial to Bugles dipped in cream cheese too.

In reply to SFM:

If you're a crisp purist and potato is the only medium to qualify as a true crisp then 100% this: the Co-operative sea salt and Chard. No other S'nV can make my mouth feel the same, they're soooo strong tasting. 

If you're allowing slumming with the non crispy crisps then there are other excellent products like spicy Mixups and flaming hot and pickled onion Monster Munch.

Dirty dirty goodness

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I agree with overall salt and vinegar. But I really miss prawn cocktail (not a thing here).

I impluse bought a imported bag of pickled onion monster munch at the weekend (I went to a special shop to stock up on irn bru for christmas). I couldn't finish them. One of us has changed....

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

This thread is great, might even beat Radcliffe and Maconie's excellent 'Crisps on the Radio' feature.  Check it out if you've not heard it, a rare treat 

In reply to TomD89:

No, because you can add reeel vinnneger and shake!

In reply to wercat:

Seabrooks, Sea salt and vinegar, Cheese and Onion or Beefy, but best of all -

Brannigan's Roast Beef and Mustard, sadly no more since September when KP pulled the plug.

Dave

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Chinese salt and chilli flavour I would love. Not invented yet though. Jeez.

In reply to Tringa:

And the remaining precious packets are trading at elevated prices on a popular auction website apparently. I should have invested in Brannigans rather than Bitcoin. Dammit.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

I also like big supermarket own-brand bags of 'posh' salt and vinegar. (i.e. Himalayan rock salt & red wine artisan vinegar..... type thing).

The best of the bunch is, in my opinion, the Co-Op Sea Salt & Chardonnay Wine Vinegar. I don't shop at the Co-Op, but I will sometimes go out of my way to pick up some of those bad-boys. 

In reply to NaCl:

But but but. They've got milk in them which is very disappointing for my daughter who used to love them until she went Vegan!!

In reply to LastBoyScout:

I'd also like to have onion rings and Walkers prawn cocktail taken into consideration.

In reply to Tringa:

Brannigan's has gone? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

This thread brings back memories of the "favourite biscuit" and similar threads back in the days when JCT was the Queen of UKC...

In reply to LastBoyScout:

If you're allowed onion rings I might as well propose those little ploughmans lunch bags with a couple of crackers, a cheese triangle and a silverskin onion.

I foresee an upturn in their sales since it could be seen as constituting a substantial meal.

In reply to Blue Straggler:

Surely if you're from the North-East it's a "canny bag o' Tudor", or nothing? or was that a few years earlier than your time window?

In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:

Yes but the Royal family are German and they're English and they're oppressing us you f*cking traitor! 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Potato flavour.

In reply to Gone for good:

I know right? My g/f (also vegan) was absolutely spewing when they did that. 

Ah well, more for me,

edit to amend appalling typing

In reply to Anotherclimber:

Walkers Worcestershire sauce for me, but you don’t see them in many shops so need to stock up when you see ‘em.

As for Scampi Fries, I was put off them for life after an unfortunate encounter one night with a girl I met at University! 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Not even top 5 (I would have said top 10 but I don't want to look pretentious by admitting to knowing more than half a dozen flavours of crisps).

In reply to Rob Exile Ward:

Oh my god they're disgusting. What is it with English people and pig skin that's baked fried and dried till it's so hard that biting it breaks your teeth? Vile. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

The best type and flavour of crisp is salt one. The most simple and tasty.

In reply to aln:

Years ago a friend was visiting having emigrated to New Zealand. We sat in the long gone but wonderful Spotted Cow pub in York, where he amazed the landlady by eating at leàst 5 packets, one after another.  It was pretty much the only thing he was missing.

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Branningans roast beef and mustard , no contest.

In reply to aln:

I love them.

In reply to ripper:

In my youth I'd 'climb a moontain for a canny bag of Tudor' but those days are sadly long gone (along with the tudor brand)

Nowadays, given a choice I'll go for Walkers' ready salted every time. 

In reply to Paddy_nolan:

Salt and vinegar Discos. The hydrogen bomb of crisps.