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Original Hula Hoops
Honestly I do eat healthily as well as unhealthily, but I just felt praise needed to be served upon the humble original hula hoop. The only ready salted crisp that leads me astray from salt & vinegar - the best potato crisp flavour. Discuss. Or don't.
Kettle chips want a word.
Love a hoop but kettle chips actually taste of potato... And salt.
mackies sea salt. just ace.
When we were younger, we'd get the ready salted hula hoops, and pour vinegar in the bag and give them a shake. Nom.
McCoy's Salt and Vinegar FTW, but their ready salted is more than acceptable.
Definitely better than hula hoops, I'm not sure hula hoops would make the top ten TBH.
Kettle chips are a good shout, lovely, can feel the grease lining your arteries as the munch on them...
whenever we go north of the border, we always bring mackies back with us. bought a whole box in berwick a few years ago.
Morrisons occasionally sell them here in W Yorks
If I see them I buy them, their S&V are fantastic
Are XL Cheese crisps still just a Cumbria thing?
I think so. I have to stock up on them every time I’m up there.
I hate to break it to you but Mackies crisps no longer exist.
Seabrooks edge it for me, almost melt in the mouth thinness, but the ridges just provide enough crunch to counter it. Lovely
To my mind, ready salted is the "rose wine" of the crisp world. You don't know if someone would prefer salt & vinegar or cheese & onion, so you buy a bag of plain crisps safe in the knowledge that it will be mildly disliked by both camps. You can always tell a household that buys assorted multipacks because there will be 48 red bags at the back of the cupboard.
Seabrook for me too, they're tasty and well fired, they've got maximum surface area for extra salt retention, they're very consistent, and you can break em down the middle and double stack em, or make little piles of the small bits, crinkles add such versatility.
Honourable mention for tesco's own brand Stockwell, that's a perfectly decent utility crisp.
Proper Chips sea salt lentil chips.
They could dehydrate a camel from 200 yards.
To my mind, ready salted is the “rose wine” of the crisp world. You don’t know if someone would prefer salt & vinegar or cheese & onion, so you buy a bag of plain crisps safe in the knowledge that it will be mildly disliked by both camps. You can always tell a household that buys assorted multipacks because there will be 48 red bags at the back of the cupboard.
Ready salted are always the first to run out in my house. It's Salt and Vinegar that we end up with loads of.
Another vote for Seabrook here. Hula Hoops aren't even a proper crisp FFS
To my mind, ready salted is the “rose wine” of the crisp world.
This is true, but it's also where Original Hula Hoops find their place, they have a level of satisfaction no other ready salted/plain crisp can give. They definitely have salt too. I urge all non believers to try... maybe a couple of packets just to be sure.
I too have a favourite ready salted crisp but I'm not here to tell you about that, rather to say if I had a bag of any of the crisps mentioned here I'd be having a great time. Hooray for crisps
Ready salted are always the first to run out in my house. It’s Salt and Vinegar that we end up with loads of.
Same, closely followed by prawn cocktail which are the Devil's dangleberries. Good call OP, I do like ready salted or "original" hula hoops.
Mackies stick to ice cream as they are now called Taylors the company that actually make them
@chambord and @Northwind have it. Seabrook every time
I always keep the house fully stocked with a range of Seabrooks finest. Ready salted is an ideal mid-morning crisp, then when you’re ready you’ve got the other end of the flavour spectrum…
Ready salted are always the first to run out in my house. It’s Salt and Vinegar that we end up with loads of.
We should set up some sort of exchange programme.
Ready salted are always the first to run out in my house. It’s Salt and Vinegar that we end up with loads of.
We end up with a Prawn Cocktail mountain in our house. Not even Seabrook can make a decent prawn cocktail crisp. They’re rank! Why oh why oh why do they end up in multipacks of crisps? Were the rules on multipacks carved into tablets of stone in 1973 and haven’t been allowed to be changed since?
Seabrook's are good, but the recently introduced Walkers lightly salted run them close.
In related news,
Why do they never do mixed multipacks of new flavours? Walkers have three 'limited edition' crisps out right now (thanks Google): "Roast Chicken and Heinz Mayo; Sausage Sarnie and Heinz Ketchup; Cheese Toastie and Heinz Beanz." If they did a six-pack with two of each I'd be tempted to buy them to try. But you can guarantee that at least one flavour will be absolutely minging and you can equally guarantee that if that is the case then I'd choose the wrong one and wind up with 5.9 bags of shit crisps.
the recently introduced Walkers lightly salted
Isn't that just regular salted Walkers with the word "lightly" tacked in front of it? They've been doing stuff like "seriously salt & vinegar" for ages but I don't recall the older version being any more irreverent.
Those Worcester sauce Seabrook's up there ^^ can only be matched by the other Seabrook's marvel that is Canadian ham. No idea why the pig has to cross the Atlantic but they are very good crisps.
Ready salted or salted vinegar always welcome though, even hoola hoops. Cheese and onion though might actually get me to refuse a bag of crisps.
That exchange programme could just work.
How is "lightly salted" a good thing? The principle, and in fact only flavour component of ready salted crisps is salt. Don't be trying to make a virtue of removing half of it in some marketing wheeze you knobs.
It's akin to trying to flog "lightly chocolated" hob nobs. Gtf!
Those Worcester sauce Seabrook’s up there ^^ can only be matched by the other Seabrook’s marvel that is Canadian ham. No idea why the pig has to cross the Atlantic but they are very good crisps.
Seabrook Canadian ham are ace! The only problem is that whatever flavouring they use is the most adhesive and lingering substance known to man. It laughs in the face of soap. You could literally sandblast your hands and they bloodied stumps would still smell of Canadian ham flavouring. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing
Lidl potato sticks are pretty good, ready salted and salt & vinegar are my favourite.
I used to like their version of Wotsits as well but they changed the recipe and changed them to huge Wotsits instead of the normal size, they're just not the same now :(.
Rosters T bone bubble crisps are pretty good as well.
Discos salt and vinegar are good if you need to strip the lining of your mouth!
And so that was how SNACK was formed.
Singletrack Nuts And Crisps Klatch (it's a type of club apparently).
All hail the salty goodness.
The Sportsman. Cracking pub, could be the Mecca of choice for you afficianados!! You've got until the 20th.
Tyrells Truffle crisps game changing
Seabrooks of any flavour for me. Though I'd give my right arm to discover a supplier of Brannigans Ham and Mustard.
Tyrells Truffle
Pretty sure that was a gruesome punishment in series 6 of Game of Thrones
Golden Wonder are still superior to other brands.
Hula Hoops have to be barbecue beef.
Seabrooks beefy are pretty damn good, as are their original. When the pop van came round, the top of it had many, many flavours of seabrook crisps. Sundays were fundays.
Hula Hoops always seem a bit soft to me, and It's not just because they are the crisp equivalent of MDF, as (fresh) Pringles are crunchy.
Anyway, Seabrook for everyday, and any handcooked Kettle style for special special occasions.
if we're veering off from ready salted, I once picked up some Aldi crinkle cut Croque Monsieur flavoured crisps, and they were frickin' amazing.
Though I’d give my right arm to discover a supplier of Brannigans Ham and Mustard.
@MoreCashThanDash - they are sadly no more. B&M Bargains were the last place they could be found. I’d stick up if I was in the vicinity
However, allow me to introduce you to these beauties, which are even more mustardy. Proper ‘take no prisoners’ crisps…
Proper ‘take no prisoners’ crisps…
Anyone remember Really Ruthless crisps? They were properly good.
Pringles ...
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Sorry, just trying to be controversial 🙂
Hula hoops used to be ace but due to shrinkflation you can’t jam them on your fingers to chomp like you used to be able to, or perhaps my fingers have got fatter due to too many of the above. How about Quavers, they really are melt in the mouth.
Are XL Cheese crisps still just a Cumbria thing?
Can you still get XL cheese crisps? Rishy XL?
Im a big fan of lidl ready salted ridge crisps, but you have to buy a 6pack with cheese/onion and salt/vinegar
The best as far as I know and does not give me stomach (acid reflux) no matter how much I eat. Walkers Crisps always cause acid reflux for me for whatever reason.
The Jumbo XL hula hoops are even better I reckon
I worked on them as a food taster in a previous life. Clearly very good at my job! Also did the Salsa flavour McCoy's
A grated cheese and Hula hoop sandwich is a thing of beauty. Slightly more difficult to arrange than a cheese and crisp sandwich but well worth the extra effort.
Also did the Salsa flavour McCoy’s
Not sure I've ever seen a salsa flavour, but I want to...
Mackies are now Taylors, I think. They've split from the original Ice Cream business. I think I'd rank them no.1 as well - reliable, well salted, good crunch.
The OP must be 6 years old for putting Hula Hoops in first place. They're a reliable petrol station snack in a moment of need, but up against various Doritos and Pringles nonsense it's a no-brainer.
Unless they happen to have Bacon Wheat Crunches, then the Hoops can get in the sea and preferably a heavily buttered, well-fired morning roll is needed to tip in the bacony goodness
Not sure I’ve ever seen a salsa flavour, but I want to…
They were less successful
A grated cheese and Hula hoop sandwich is a thing of beauty. Slightly more difficult to arrange than a cheese and crisp sandwich but well worth the extra effort.
Right… I need to go out and get some hula hoops now and put this to the rest. That sounds great. My own personal favourite crisp butty is Warbies toastie, ridiculous amounts of butter, Seabrook salt and vinegar and a couple of dairylea cheese singles
Just guzzling some of our local crisps. They're a bit rustic, and the maker's hand seems to slip when adding salt. Which is good.
The OP must be 6 years old for putting Hula Hoops in first place.
The cheek! No, my youngest is near that age and they're his favourite. Thanks to him I've rediscovered them, mainly when there was nothing else in the house. It was an actuality these are quite good non non nom moment!
Now you can even buy the book
I feel a bit ashamed for this but, tesco finest lightly salted are really good. They've got that kettle chip "accidentally ate a whole packet" thing but without the mouth lacerations or shame, and each individual crisp is good too. Plus a bit of variation, I love that. Foldy ones, dark ones, lots of shards...
Green crisp. Chomp or not?
Green crisp. Chomp or not?
The name escapes me but the green is actually poisonous, though you'd have to eat a significant amount for it to be an issue.
I'd bin it, other crisps are available.