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Crisp flavour packet colours
Cheese & Onion crisps using different colours pictured recently
I was in a rush the other day grabbing crisps for lunch and I went for an unfamiliar brand because I live life on the edge like that, but in my haste, I must have only registered the predominant packet colour, not the actual wording and grabbed the colour I liked the taste of.
As you can imagine, discovering that I had purchased Salt 'N' Vinegar over my EDC of Cheese & Onion, I was pretty distressed.
I'm fine with 142mm axles, boost hubs, non-boost hubs, 25.4 and 31.8mm handlebars etc, but crisps? Shouldn't there be a standard in place to stop us falling foul of it in our busy modern lives?
Cheese 'n' Onion should be blue incidentally.
The standards on crisp packet colours were broken years ago. Blame Walkers.
100% salt & vinegar should be blue.
Yep! I would have:
Red - Ready Salted
Blue - Salt and Vinegar
Green - Cheese and Onion
Pink - Prawn Cocktail
Brown - Beef
Yellow - Anything with mustard
Never visit Australia… pink is…
I’m not sure you’re ready for this…
It’s hard to even type it…
Salt
And
Vinegar?!?!?!
I, just, no
Never visit Australia… pink is
Salt
And
Vinegar?!?!?!
Wtf? 😳👆
Exactly why we need global action.
Certainly, it should be as follows:-
Red for ready salted
Blue for salt and vinegar
Green for cheese & onion
Pink for prawn cocktail
Brown or yellow for beef/steak
Whatever for plain, because nobody cares
I blame Walkers.
Damn, beaten to it.
Cheese & Onion should definitely be blue
Salt n Vinegar should be made illegal
Smiths probably. The Squares salt and vinegar are blue because they were made by smiths.
Salt n Vinegar should be made illegal
They are basically Crack.
Is this not why we all voted for brexit?
Returning to the traditional golden wonder colours.
Red – Ready Salted
Blue – Salt and Vinegar
Green – Cheese and Onion
Pink – Prawn Cocktail
Brown – Beef
Yellow – Anything with mustard
These are correct. Yellow can also be cheese flavoured non-crisps, eg wotsits
Laws against
non-crisps
should be introduced. I want to see an end to pomme bears and not because of Brexit. Because they're disgusting, greasy, and void of taste.
The standards on crisp packet colours were broken years ago. Blame Walkers.
... is the right answer. Blue was always S&V, green C&O, it was Walkers who switched them.
Walkers cheese & onion have *always* been blue and they've been available for 70 years!
I want to see an end to pomme bears and not because of Brexit. Because they’re disgusting, greasy, and void of taste
🤔
Adds @sirromj name to the list....
I had never heard of Walkers until the 90's, not long after Pepsi bought them.
It was about then that I first saw Salt and Vinegar in a green bag.
Absolute wranguns.
Welcome to 1997.
Walkers cheese & onion have *always* been blue and they’ve been available for 70 years
But for much of those 70 years they were an obscure Midlands brand, available only within walking distance of Leicester
Way, way back in the distant past when I was young there were two brands of crisp available in my local area: Walkers and Golden Wonder. If I remember correctly one brand had blue for salt and vinegar, green for cheese and onion (these were the only flavours available other than ready salted). The other brand had it the other way around.
This has been going on longer than you think.
Laws against
non-crisps
should be introduced. I want to see an end to pomme bears and not because of Brexit. Because they’re disgusting, greasy, and void of taste.
Careful. First they'll come for the Pomme Bears but next they'll be outlawing Frazzles, Wotsits and Monster Munch.
Would the buffoons who think cheese and onion should be blue please explain their thinking? And if all you've got is 'but Walkers do it like that....' I'm going to be very disappointed.
When you visualise a lump of cheese and visualise an onion, where does the colour blue come to mind for you?
Edit - but if we could just remember, we are all on the side of the righteous here.....unless you've sold your soul to the yankie devil and call the bloody things 'chips'.
Walkers cheese & onion have *always* been blue and they’ve been available for 70 years!
Golden Wonder didn’t introduce cheese & onion crisps until 1962 so they can do one
Away with you and your so-called "facts" based on a suspiciously thorough knowledge of the historic crisp market.
Green = cheese and onion
Blue = salt and vinegar
Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard was sort of purple iirc, so purple should be retired as tribute. Not that it's come up!
Would the buffoons who think cheese and onion should be blue please explain their thinking? And if all you’ve got is ‘but Walkers do it like that….’ I’m going to be very disappointed.
Ummm 😬
To be fair, the specific colour is less important to me than the need for all nations to agree to settle on one colour for each 'basic ' flavour before 2030.
When you visualise a lump of cheese
I'm not seeing green. If anything, at least you have blue cheese, but cheese is mainly shades of yellow
And onions are brown, or red (which are purple, but meh). Maybe a greenish tinge in the actual flesh, but mainly white. In the whole picture of some cheese and an onion I'm not seeing green as the predominant colour.
Likewise vinegar which is brown, and salt is white.
Crisp pack colours are arbitrary and blue is a marginally better choice for cheese.
I blame Walkers.
Yep they implemented their decision to swap S&V and C&O package colours years ago (late 80s?) And ever since it's been a disaster. Is it taken from 'Lays' their merican/foreign counterpart?
Either way the sensible solution is normally just to not buy walkers, but if other brands are adopting their colour coding madness, we're just going to have to start reading the words like peasants.
Also: McCoy's, salt and vinegar FTW...
I’m not seeing green. If anything, at least you have blue cheese, but cheese is mainly shades of yellow
And onions are brown, or red (which are purple, but meh). Maybe a greenish tinge in the actual flesh, but mainly white. In the whole picture of some cheese and an onion I’m not seeing green as the predominant colour.
Likewise vinegar which is brown, and salt is white.
Crisp pack colours are arbitrary and blue is a marginally better choice for cheese.
So it's arguable that kettle chips have the 'best' colour coding? Their ready salted is white, their cheese and onion is yellow and Salt and vinegar is a darker blue (to represent the salty, briny ocean perhaps?).
Yep they implemented their decision to swap S&V and C&O package colours years ago (late 80s?) And ever since it’s been a disaster
So they've always been 'wrong'? It's probably just my misremembered childhood.
Interestingly (or not) 'squares' are the other way round for, so they're not even consistent between their own products...
Would the buffoons who think cheese and onion should be blue please explain their thinking? And if all you’ve got is ‘but Walkers do it like that….’ I’m going to be very disappointed.
Blue cheese. HTH.
Tudor up here.
Of Smiths and Golden Wonder too but the main one was Tudor
Long gone now just like every building in this ad
Salt and Vinegar should be blue.Interestingly (or not) ‘squares’ are the other way round for, so they’re not even consistent between their own products…
Squares were originally made by Smiths Crisps and acquired by Walkers who presumably kept the colours (different from their classic flavours) for brand continuity.
I totally agree. There should be laws insisting that those who eat cheese and onion crisps sit outside with the vapers and their foul halitocis inducing concoction that is only one step removed from the devil that is scampi fries.
Salt and vinegar, preferably Seabrook's in a blue patterned bag. Either that or Canadian Ham flavour (these have never either been to Canada or anywhere near even entrails of pig).
my EDC of Cheese & Onion
What's your tip of the spear crisps though, when all you care about is masticating?
I'm going with Monster Munch.
If anyone doesn't think they are crisps, that's their problem, not mine. Yum.
Just on the subject of crisps ( a happy and dream like place) over Christmas we rant out of crackers so I improvised using salt and black pepper crisps to demolish a block of cambozola. Next level shit, i’m telling yer.
To the OP, its all crisps, baby, just go with it
Whatever the canny bag o'Tudor says. Which was green. But they also had some questionable flavours.
I’m not seeing green. If anything, at least you have blue cheese, but cheese is mainly shades of yellow
And onions are brown, or red (which are purple, but meh). Maybe a greenish tinge in the actual flesh, but mainly white. In the whole picture of some cheese and an onion I’m not seeing green as the predominant colour.
Likewise vinegar which is brown, and salt is white.
Crisp pack colours are arbitrary and blue is a marginally better choice for cheese.
Right, lots of wrong to unpack here....
First this is an onion...
See the green leafy bits......
Then the cheese....now I'll grant you that yellow is the colour that comes to mind and Pisco has got it spot on, C&O should be yellow. But citing blue cheese is just a red herring (or if we're going to play fast and loose with colours, lets have a green herring). No one is going to persuade me the crisp scientists were thinking of stilton when they concocted the god awful taste/smell devilment they call cheese and onion. It's simple - cheese of the generic cheddar variety has nothing to do with blue. If I'm honest I don't really care what colour C&O are in, what with them being the work of the devil; I just want them to respect S&V's god granted right to claim blue. If enough of you sad sacks want to buy them that they are forced to make them, green at least makes more sense than blue - green is closer on the spectrum to yellow than blue is and there's the green leaves too if you can't claim yellow, green seems a reasonable 2nd best.
Blue on the other hand belongs to salt and vinegar. Blue is almost always the predominant colour for salt packaging. I guess its salt's affinity to the sea and everyone knows the sea is blue (apart from when we've shat in it and it's brown). The very first 'flavouring' of crisps was Smiths with the little bags of salt. Did they make the bags green - **** no! They made them blue. Because they had salt in them - obvious! And yes, 'malt' vinegar is brown, but you pay good money for fancy pants malt vinegar crisps. Bog standard, industrial grade vinegar is clear.
As I type this, I see there is a good case for ready salted bagging premium blue, what with it being just salt and the natural descendant of the Smiths salt n' shake. But ready salted is the runt of the litter. The fat kid chosen last in PE. It gets what's left when the real flavours have had their turn.
And what's all this arbitrary nonsense - that's how we got in this mess in the first place!
So by the same rationale, oranges are also green?
So they’ve always been ‘wrong’? It’s probably just my misremembered childhood.
Got a pet theory for this. If you're old, Walkers were a minor player when you were a kid and Golden Wonder were king. So 'most' crisps you came across as a kid were not Walkers. Situation is now reversed so it's easy to jump to the conclusion that they were the major player when you were a kid too.
But Golden Wonder - that's a funny old name for crisps. Better name for a butt plug I'd have thought. Now try to unremember that next time you ask for some.
So by the same rationale, oranges are also green?
Oranges get a say in this when they make orange flavoured crisps.
But Golden Wonder – that’s a funny old name for crisps.
For things that are golden and wonderful?
The obvious solution is to just make all the bags beige and write the flavourings on. Job done.
To be honest both S&V and C&O can git tae flip, I worked in a Golden Wonder factory for a brief spell, and breathing in the dust when dumping a 25kg sack of either into the hopper was horrid.
Ready salted for me, you can keep the rest.
However, MUCH more important than these petty concerns: we need laws about bag sizes first and foremost. Tiny mouse-sized portions in a normal bag, with actual proper servings sold as "party bags"?! It makes no sense whatsoever.
What colour for hedgehog?
But Golden Wonder – that’s a funny old name for crisps
Is it? That's the variety of potato that they're made from.
Is it? That’s the variety of potato that they’re made from.
But you've got to confess, it makes a better name for a butt plug.
Either that or Canadian Ham flavour (these have never either been to Canada or anywhere near even entrails of pig).
Christ only knows what flavourings Seabrook use for those but after you’ve eaten a pack you could literally sand-blast your hands for ten minutes and they’d still smell of Canadian Ham
But Seabrook are the gods of crisps, so their colour coding is the benchmark. Salt’n’vinegar blue, cheese and onion yellow (cheese coloured)
To be fair, the specific colour is less important to me than the need for all nations to agree to settle on one colour for each ‘basic ‘ flavour before 2030.
This is basically what the United Nations was born to do.
Paracetamol is salt and vinegar.
Ibuprofen is ready salted.
I'm with the S&V = blue brigade. Walkers are just being weird, traditional or not.
How about yellow for cheesy cheese and onion, green for oniony cheese and onion?
This +1
Anyway, Kettle black are the best normal crisps. Pepper is the bestest.
Guilty pleasure is giant Cheetos... can stuff down a whole (giant) packet of those if I'm not being careful... probably flavoured with nuclear waste but oh so munchable
Ive had a bag of these this weekend pleasantly suprized
I was convinced they were lying, turns out my childhood memories are all lies. Green is Cheese and Onion FFS
Blame Walkers.
I'm not sure you can blame them for everything but they have an association you can complain to:
https://www.ramblers.org.uk/contact-us
When my eldest was 2 ish, the flavor was irrelevant the only thing that mattered was what color was the packet - it had to be green - which was good news as my local served walkers and I can't stand S&V.
If you’re old, Walkers were a minor player... ‘most’ crisps you came across as a kid were not Walkers.
Yup.
In other news, WTF happened with milk?
Silver top: whole milk.
Red top: semi-skimmed.
Blue top: skimmed.
Enter, stage left, plastic bottles.
Blue top: whole milk.
Green top: semi-skimmed.
Red top: skimmed.
How the actual frank did that happen without a revolt?
But Golden Wonder – that’s a funny old name for crisps. Better name for a butt plug I’d have thought. Now try to unremember that next time you ask for some.
Maybe they stuck potatoes up their It was different times back then, wasn't it.
Milk is a whole different thing. Round my way as a kid green was whole milk and one of the others was a silver and red crosshatch design. Skimmed milk is basically white water and should bring on feelings of great shame when drunk!
Gold Top - full cream (Jersey)
Silver Top - standard
Red Top - Homogenised
and WTF is skimmed milk?
We had gold top jersey full cream milk to go on our shreddies when I was a kid
Why would Golden Wonder make someone think about butt plugs?
Round my way as a kid green was whole milk
Green was unpasteurised.
feelings of great shame when drunk!
We've all been there.
I was convinced they were lying, turns out my childhood memories are all lies.
Are you sure it's not photoshopped?
Why would Golden Wonder make someone think about butt plugs?
This sir is a golden wonder...
It'll set you back 30 whole quid. Or 6 packets of crisps at a motorway service centre.
Every day's a school day.
Green was unpasteurised.
ah! You’re right. That’s what we used to have