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Cheese XL.

If you've never had the pleasure, do it. It'll change your life...

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Posted : 16/05/2014 5:08 pm
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Kettle Chips Smokey Barbeque nom nom nom


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:10 pm
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Walkers cheese and onion. King of crisps.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:13 pm
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Ketchup. The king of proper crisps


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:16 pm
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Brannigans Beef and Mustard FTW 😛


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:18 pm
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McCoy's 😉


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:19 pm
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Pickled onion monster munch, never fails


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:20 pm
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Tayto Cheese and Onion


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:21 pm
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Pickled onion monster munch, never fails

Yup! Just got back into them after a 25yr hiatus...


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:24 pm
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Wasabi. I get them in the local Spar when in the Alps. Awesome.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:24 pm
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Nik Naks, Nice 'n Spicy.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:25 pm
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Tomato Snaps


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:25 pm
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salt and vinegar discos 🙂


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:29 pm
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Lays, Barbeque Ham. For folks of a certain age, Tudor Gammon reincarnated.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 5:30 pm
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These are amazing and also on the grand scale of crisps they're pretty good for you
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Posted : 16/05/2014 5:30 pm
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Brannigans Beef and Mustard FTW

This. Though they are disappointingly hard to get.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:14 pm
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This. Though they are disappointingly hard to get.

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brannigans-McCoys-Mustard-Flavour-Potato/dp/B006523FTK ]Something for the weekend, Sir?[/url]*

*Works out at 75p a pack, though.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:18 pm
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It's been said already by others but it's worth repeating:

Pickled onion monster munch.

Great taste, great crunch and surprisingly lowish in calories.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:19 pm
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Co-op sea salt and chardonnay wine vinegar


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:22 pm
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I've just done a bag of these; I don't understand the haters.

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Posted : 16/05/2014 6:23 pm
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Any nik naks that aren't 'scampi and lemon'
Yorkshire crisps (especially the hendo's sauce flavour)
Bacon fries


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:31 pm
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I don't understand the haters.

If taste buds are connected to the haters understanding part of the brain, then that is understandable.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:34 pm
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[url= http://www.piperscrisps.com/ ]http://www.piperscrisps.com/[/url]


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:41 pm
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[quote=bigshep ]Brannigans Beef and Mustard FTW

+1, pickled onion and flamin' hot Monster Munch are also quite excellent.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:48 pm
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Just Seebrook. That is all


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 6:58 pm
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BEEF monster munch.
Get on 'em, before they take them away again.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 7:06 pm
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co-op own brand "truly irresistible" salt and vinegar


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 8:19 pm
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No love for scampi Fries?

Posh vegetable crisps too 🙂


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 8:27 pm
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Brannigans smoked ham and pickle and beef monster munch and bacon Frazzles and Walkers sweet chilli, I could go on. 🙂


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 8:30 pm
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Beef Monster Munch
Salt & Vinegar Squares
T-Bone Steak flavour Roysters


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 8:32 pm
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Tomhoward is the winner


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 9:07 pm
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cheese xl taste like old socks compared to tayto cheese n onion
what other crisp is made in a castle ....
tayto rocks...


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 9:11 pm
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Golden Wonder Cheese & Onion. Knocks Walkers into last week


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 9:20 pm
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One word: Seabrook


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 9:38 pm
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Yep, Seabrook. Malt vinegar and sea salt OMG.


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 9:47 pm
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Beef Space Raiders - spot on flavour and only 20p (used to be 10p so a little disappointed).

Also,

Beef Monster Munch
Sea Salt and Cider Vinegar Tyrells
Sea salt and black pepper


 
Posted : 16/05/2014 10:00 pm
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Today - McCoys ULTIMATE twice flavoured crisps - not once but TWICE-flavoured sizzling BBQ chicken. Think they're new, thats what says on packet.

Thickly cut, ridged, spicy, herb-y (garlic, chilli, smoke, sage, thyme), quite salty yet full of flavour. Mrs MR seconds this promotion. Veggie/vegan friendly (take note Walkers) overall a HIT!


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 1:31 pm
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Veggie/vegan friendly (take note Walkers)

Huh?


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 1:36 pm
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Huh?

As in some flavours of Walkers were a reliable sometimes tasty snack for anyone including veggies until recently when they started putting animal products into them.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 2:49 pm
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Ironically Smoky Bacon Walkers are veggie friendly. Pity they're minging!

Anyway, back on topic....

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and recently rediscovered, that my daughters are loving....

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Posted : 31/07/2014 2:54 pm
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At the risk of being slated, I'm going to say sour cream and onion Pringles. Less controversially, cheesy puffs*.

*I know that neither of these are strictly crisps


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 2:57 pm
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Walkers sensation smokey Mexican chipotle crisps.....addictive joint favourite with the good old Walkers Tomato Snaps


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 2:59 pm
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Smiths Twisters in flaming hot flavour, newish but just right.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 2:59 pm
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I'll probably be flamed for these choices:

Pickled onion Monster Munch
Cheese Quavers
Scampi & Lemon Nik Naks
Paprika Bugels - hard to get over here.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:06 pm
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Oooooooooo they sound interesting Joolsburger. How do they compare to the benchmark of flaming hot - Monster Munch?


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:06 pm
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These, however are probably the worst. Tasteless and yet when you put one into your mouth the flavouring powder immediately gets into the back of your throat and makes you cough like you're huffing on a vaccum cleaner bag.

Whatever the hell it is that they put on the wretched things could easily be uses for riot dispersal.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:09 pm
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Binners - They are equally tooth filling in texture being a corn puff not a potato snack, very flaming hot, generally all good and 39p a pack.

I love them, they are unpretentious snack food, not like some of these twice fried, salted by virgins and flavoured with saffron 3 quid a bag nightmares.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:11 pm
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Ironically Smoky Bacon Walkers are veggie friendly. Pity they're minging!

Are you sure? Seem to remember liking them but being disappointed since read they had real pig dust shaken in them? Am sticking to pork scratchings.

*edit*. Yep (from Tesco online - bla edits mine)

Potatoes, Sunflower Oil (24%), Rapeseed Oil, Smoky Bacon Seasoning, Smoky Bacon Seasoning contains: Dried milk, bla bla bla Norfolk Dried Pork Shoulder

[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/not-suitable-for-vegetarians-walkers-new-potato-crisps-range-uses-real-ingredients--including-meat-8513660.html ]Walkers range not suitable for vegetarians[/url]

Cheese and onion used to use rennet, which was a pain for veggies, but now they see, to have gone 'the whole hog', boom-cha 🙁


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:16 pm
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until recently when they started putting animal products into them.

First I've heard about that. Which ones?

I've half a memory that it was the case years ago; something random like the meat-flavoured ones being veggie but cheese & onion (or something similar) not being. Far as I knew, they've all been veggie-friendly for ages?


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 3:18 pm
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Cheers Joolsburger. They're going on the shopping list then, for sure. I know what you mean about poncey crisps. Theres something life-affirmingly, spirit-soaringly wonderful about ravenously diving into a huge bag of roast beef Monster Munch, that something featuring the word Artisan on the packaging just isn't going to deliver

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Damn right you know these aren't getting dipped in yoghurt and mint[img] [/img]


 
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was never a fan of McCoys, until I chanced across a packet of Thai Sweet Chicken flavour.
These somewhat 'rarer' McCoys never fail to have my lips smacking.

Agree with all monster munch shouts, takes me back to vending machines during trips to the swimming pool on school days out. Time machine crisps.

Nik-Naks nice'n'spicy flavour however, they've done something wrong to them and they now no longer hit the spot.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:16 pm
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Monster Munch Flamin' Hot.
Walkers Worcester Sauce.
Sensations Thai Sweet Chili

the king of crisps for me is Kettle Chips Buffalo Bleu though. I haven't found them in the UK yet.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:21 pm
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Walkers Ready Salted - simplez


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:34 pm
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Walkers range not suitable for vegetarians

Wow. That's good to know, thanks for the link.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:37 pm
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Brannigans Beef and Mustard FTW

Going to have to disagree there, the mustardy-ness of them has noticeably decreased and they just don't have that oomph anymore.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:38 pm
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+1 for flaming hot and pickled onion Monster Munch.
Walkers salt & shake.
Tyrrell's vegetable crisps.
And from left field, Aldi Belight ready salted.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 4:51 pm
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Fall into the niche crisp category, but very very nice. Good honest crunch of a bit of potato that's been sliced, fried & seasoned.

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Convivial? FFS.


 
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These.

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And these.

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Posted : 31/07/2014 5:12 pm
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Pffft. Walkers sensations poppadums. Coriander and lime chutney. 2 words: div ine


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 5:16 pm
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They're pub crisps. You shove them in your gob and swill some ale, not critique their marketing!

Agreed though, odd word to use. Never noticed.


 
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Are there really so many veggies surprised that their walkers meat flavour crisps have meat in?

On a related note, very disappointed with the aldi pringles i just opened.


 
Posted : 31/07/2014 5:30 pm
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Are there really so many veggies surprised that their walkers meat flavour crisps have meat in?

Well, it's pretty unusual, in the UK at any rate. Most crisps are veggie-friendly.


 
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Posted : 31/07/2014 6:02 pm
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These are Ok...but loads of the 🙂

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Posted : 31/07/2014 6:05 pm
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and any tortilla snack 🙂


 
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Frazzles.


 
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^^ Good call.

Not much beats a frazzle sandwich with lots of butter between 2 sliced of dirty white bread.


 
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Accept no substitute. Should be eaten with a quality pint, to calm down the tingling tongue.
Well, that's my excuse, anyway.


 
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tyrells


 
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I broke my cardinal rule, never stray from the holy trinity of Salt/Vinegar, Prawn Cocktail & BBQ, and bought a la-dee-daa flavour today.

They are rubbish.

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So I devoured a pack of Beef Monster Munch today - the flavour is still there (delicious) but it feels like the recipe has changed making them more crunchy and harder on the soft pallet.

Probably a switch to a 'healthier' cooking oil or something, but for me, not as legendary as before.


 
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Them Aldi sea salt and cider vinegar crisps. Proper strong flavour decent with an ale or three


 
Posted : 01/08/2014 3:43 pm
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Don't get kettle chips or similar rock hard crisps. Hurt your mouth and the flavors trend to be too strong.
Love walkers sensations thai sweet chilli but for fake crisps any flavour of monster munch, quavers, wotsits!


 
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Friend found this in a packet of Kettle Crisps 😯

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