CycleChat Investigates - Crisps

[classic33]

Pringles anyone?

They come on card tubes not packets though.

 

[Edwardoka]

They don’t taste of any cheese. They taste of cheese and onion flavour, in the same way as banana or strawberry flavoured things don’t taste of banana or strawberry.

Banana things do taste of banana, they just don't taste of the variant of bananas we have nowadays.
The previously dominant banana cultivar, "Gros Michel" tasted like things we consider "banana-flavoured", but they were almost entirely wiped out by a fungus, so we replaced them with a cultivar resistant to that fungus. The current cultivar we eat worldwide, "Cavendish", are now under attack by a similar fungus - enjoy them while you can, because chances are they'll be gone in a few decades.

The things you learn when you have nothing better to do with your life

 

[Julia9054]

Banana things do taste of banana, they just don't taste of the variant of bananas we have nowadays.
The previously dominant banana cultivar, "Gros Michel" tasted like things we consider "banana-flavoured", but they were almost entirely wiped out by a fungus, so we replaced them with a cultivar resistant to that fungus. The current cultivar we eat worldwide, "Cavendish", are now under attack by a similar fungus - enjoy them while you can, because chances are they'll be gone in a few decades.

The things you learn when you have nothing better to do with your life

That's really interesting - I've learned something new.
Would love to get hold of the old variety and taste it (though that doesn't look possible)

 

[Accy cyclist]

Or bloody salted caramel. Everything is salted caramel flavour

Salted caramel trifle

 

[roley poley]

As a kid i would crush up a pack of frazzles , put them in a sandwich and enjoy bacon flavour burps for about an hour.Those halcyon days of youth

 

[Drago]

Don't start me on salted caramel. It's foul, like Marmite ice cream or beef flavoured cappuccino.

 

[FrankCrank]

I've tried these occasionally

But don't worry you durian haters, all you taste is the oil they were cooked in, so same as any other crisps really

 

[Durango Bay]

I only eat crisps with beer and if I am in the pub and they have Prawn Cocktail I am a happy man.

 

[Pale Rider]

Vegetable crisps make a nice change.

Nor sure who makes them, but I think they are made of parsnip, carrot, swede, and maybe one or two other vegetables.

 

[Brandane]

Vegetable crisps make a nice change.

Nor sure who makes them, but I think they are made of parsnip, carrot, swede, and maybe one or two other vegetables.

Plantain chips, from Jamaica and probably elsewhere, are nice. Occasionally! Can be found in the "world food" section of Sainsbury's.

 

[mistyoptic]

That's really interesting - I've learned something new.
Would love to get hold of the old variety and taste it (though that doesn't look possible)

Plenty of varieties to try if you go to Sri Lanka

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've noticed a fairly recent and annoying trend in crisps in the last couple of years: Embellishing the name of the basic flavour quite unecessarily, I think it's a trick most beloved of the "posher" makes.

So cheese and onion has become "mature cheddar and spring onion" (Burts) or "mature cheddar and chives" (Tyrells). Waitrose somehow manage to up the wanky ante a step further with "West country cheddar and caremelised onion".
Beef has become "Devon roast beef" (Burts), or even more cringe inducing, "Wagyu beef and honey mustard" (Savoursmiths).
Salt and vinegar is becoming "sea salt and cider vinegar" (Tyrells), "sea salt and malt vinegar" (Burts). Just no need.
Salt and pepper becomes "sea salt and cracked black pepper" (Waitrose).

I guess the makers feel that the two extra and redundant words fully justifies them being an extra quid per bag. The dicks.

 

[Fnaar]

I don't know if this has been addressed yet, and quite frankly I can't be arsed to check, but the sooner we return to cheese 'n' onion = green and salt 'n' vinegar = blue, the better the world will be. A return to sanity, if you will.

 

[PK99]

Walker's Crisps did at one time consider extending the Salt'n'Lineker idea through the whole England team at the time, but dropped the idea after running into problems with the goalkeeper.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

I only eat crisps with beer and if I am in the pub and they have Prawn Cocktail I am a happy man.

I’m glad that Cheese & Onion, the prince of crisps is winning, but my crisp of choice with a pint has always been beef. Particularly Samuel Smiths Beef crisps with a pint of Taddy. Sigh.