Crisps

[grahamthomson]

Organic salt and vinegar crisps are a sham, I say! How can they be organic??!

My message must be heard!

[chrisl]

Organik Potatoez (fried in organic olive oil) + Saltz from da C not extracted from chemicals + organic vinegar = Organik s & v krisps - init!

[karla]

free range potatoes!

potatoes really have small legs that they can only use to run round free when organically grown, this makes them happy and dance. Where as battery underground grown potatoes with strange genes pupped into them live a dark, cramp, damp and unfullfilling life. I thought everyone knew that?

[legios]

Organic materials are things that ame from a living or once-living thing or are subject to decay. By that definition I'd give them the potato as being organic, but the salt and the vinegar and don't really fit the bill

However..... organic molecules are those that are based on Carbon (mostly). So.... Hmmm. Salt, being composed of Sodium and Chlorine definitely isn't organic. Vinegar is mostly Acetic Acid, which is a carbon-based molecule. So even by that definition I can give them the Vinegar and the crisp itself but the salt just isn't going to pass muster.

I guess the best they can get to is "Salt and Vinegar crisps made partly from organic materials".

Karl
(This is one that grinds my gears when I am in a supermarket and see potatos labeled specifically as Organic. As if the ones sitting alongside them aren't just as organic. After all, I wouldn't fancy my changes of being able to digest an inorganic potato - I'm not really set up to subsist on Silicon or something).

[chrisl]

Quick: someone call trading standards have these things renamed as "Salt and Vinegar Organic Potato Crisps" before it's too late!

[The Doctor]

I have no idea what this thread is about.

-Ralph

[Pinwig]

I've just learned that Walkers actually invented cheese and onion crisps, so they're quite within their rights to make the packet blue. Golden Wonder went green just so theirs was different. All my life I thought it was the other way round.

[The Doctor]

Lies.

-Ralph

[Pinwig]

I'm surprised. When I was a kid, Walkers were non-existant round here. Golden Wonder was it. I've always thought Walkers were 80s upstarts but Golden Wonder were founded in 1947 and Walkers in 1948. Walkers introduced Cheese and Onion in 1954 because of the popularity at the time of ploughman's lunches and they thought the flavour captured that in a crisp! Golden Wonder didn't do cheese and onion until eight years later.

[Philip Ayres]

I think we need to ask a related question: who did salt & vinegar first, when and what colour were those packets?

Also where do KP figure in all this?

[The Doctor]

I am still angry at how Walkers (by far the least good crisps) came to dominate the market. It is very hard to find Golden Wonder now!

-Ralph

[Fortmax2020]

Market forces pushed the rubbish crisps out. The market is never wrong you know.

[The Doctor]

Oh it frequently is!

-Ralph

[Fortmax2020]

Stop talking Britain down!

[Pinwig]

Mar 11, 2024 22:51:19 GMT Philip Ayres said:

I think we need to ask a related question: who did salt & vinegar first, when and what colour were those packets?

Also where do KP figure in all this?

Further research suggests in the 50s Golden Wonder's biggest rival was Smiths, so after Golden Wonder launched their cheese and onion brand, Smiths replied in 1967 with Salt and Vinegar - this being distinct from potato crisps with a salt sachet, which Smiths were doing before anyone else. Smiths' slat and vinegar seem to have started out life as blue, but are currently purple. What the fuck. Purple salt and vinegar crisps?

I also read though that Irish company Tayto also introduced cheese and onion crisps in the 50s, along with salt and vinegar.

KP I've only ever thought about as being nuts, do they do crisps?

[primenova]

Walkers did those disgusting cheese & onion crisps & did the bag blue because they are based in leicester & the colour there is blue. But they should be in green bags because they smell like sick. Salt & vinegar should be in blue because you get the smell from fish & chip shops that are always coloured with some blue in the shop (blue fish on walls)

Golden wonder was Scotland company bought out by Irish Tayto

GW currently do C&O blue bag for Aldi, Tesco but green for own brand

[Pinwig]

Mar 15, 2024 20:58:25 GMT primenova said:

GW currently do C&O blue bag for Aldi, Tesco but green for own brand

Do they?! That's mad!

[primenova]

The crisps I like the most are beef & onion or chicken.

Golden wonder currently make the following crisps - Golden wonder, Tesco, Sainsburys, Co=op, Aldi, Morrisons, Bobbys Spar Marmite, Asda

[Andy Turnbull]

Worcester Sauce are the best.

Especially since Bacon Monster Munch were taken from us.

[Fortmax2020]

Mar 17, 2024 22:17:17 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Worcester Sauce are the best.

Entirely true.

[Pinwig]

You young whippersnappers with your modern flavourings!

[Benn]

Mar 17, 2024 22:17:17 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Especially since Bacon Monster Munch were taken from us.

I still grieve.

[Andy Turnbull]

Mar 17, 2024 22:41:24 GMT Benn said:

Mar 17, 2024 22:17:17 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Especially since Bacon Monster Munch were taken from us.

I still grieve.

As do I, every day.

[The Doctor]

The only true Monster Munch is Roast Beef.

-Ralph

[primenova]

What about the red bagged flame ones? Smiths made good crisps but got bought by walkers

[Andy Turnbull]

All are mere shadows to the greatness of Monster Munch Sizzling Bacon.

From the cheapie crips clearly Spicy Bikers and Tangy Toms are the elite class there.

[Benn]

I am partial to a packet of Oinks, it must be said.

[Philip Ayres]

I still miss Piglets

[primenova]

Yes we do have lots Awesome Oinks being made in those slim boxes