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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.