We hate you: Smiths (the crisp makers)

The start of an occasional series…

It’s at this time of the year I succumb to my craving for a packet of Cheese Moments, Satan’s work. This year the price had risen to 55p, the packet size had shrunk to 28g, and upon eating what had been previously full of cheese were but tiny morsels!

Smiths, we **** hate you!

Smiths square crisps (cheese and breath -natch),67p.
Walker snaps (tomato- obs),39p.
No contest.

Twiglets have been dumbed down too…used to be much more Marmitey.

Them’s the barstewards who stopped making Tudor Crisps.

*shakes fist*

+1 for loving a canny bag of Tudor!

I’m having a Cheese Moment as we speak.

I’ll need a ‘canny bag of Tudor crisps’ before climbing that (Dunston Rocket)

Hopefully yours are better than mine!

Cheese moments always taste burnt. Scampi Fries though, nom nom nom.

and what happened to scampi nik-naks? Or “fishy fondling fingers” as we used to call them…

Football crazies anyone?

I think I may have spotted a multipack of those in Poundland. I didn’t buy them as the pack seemed ‘lighter than air’, such is the way in Poundland…

winston2005 – Tudor Crisps were the finest snack known to man, except the chocolate flavoured ones… 😐

@Stoner: you can still get ’em. There’s a pack in my cupboard at the moment.

The big crisp issue is Walker’s wanton disregard for the unwritten crisp colour code. I know its been years, but Cheese & Onion are green, Salt & Vinegar are blue.

Golden Wonder are the kings, all but extinct in London.

Football Crazies? Those drums that appear during the chr*stm*s season? They’ve been ‘nobbled’ as well I’m afraid…

Salt and Vinegar Discos have gone downhill recently, no way near salty and tangy enough now
I revisited a Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle recently and this was quite a disappointment as well, my student staple diet ruined! Totally lacking in Salt and MSG goodness! 😀

I’m sure you’ve all considered this, but isn’t it possible that taste buds get less sensitive with age?

No, it’s the H&S nannies at work. Beef flavour Monster Munch isn’t the coated-in-industrial-quantities-of-MSG glory that it was back in 1978…

I’m sure you’ve all considered this, but isn’t it possible that taste buds get less sensitive with age?

It’s more likely because of the food police enforcing taste removal (via salt reduction usually) on anything which doesn’t confrom to their narrow minded view of a balanced diet.

I work in the food industry and it’s constant battle to meet the latest FSA/Dept of Health targets without totally compromising the taste of your product

Smiths? Do they still make crisps? Do they have the little blue bag of salt in them still? Is this an oop North thing again, it’s all Gary Linneker down here, except, Satan has opened a superstore, it’s called Asda when it opened folk threw themselves off it’s roof (true and they are now regularly asked if they have new jumpers in stock), but what devastating temptations they have wrought upon us simple minded weak willed morons with which to watch Eastenders ..

Roast Ox Flavour Crisps.

Worse than this, there are only 6 crisps on average in the ridiculously small bag, unless you break them up a bit and get twelve smaller ones, it’s such a desperate situation only two bags will suffice at a time of course..

and what happened to scampi nik-naks? Or “fishy fondling fingers” as we used to call them…

Still in the multipaks – with rib & saucy (yuk) and spicy (yum) 😀

Smiths Salt n’ shake WERE the best ever, eaten without salt of course.

anyone remember them trialling flavour n’ shake in the eighties, eat the crisps then snort the flavour 😈

Seabrooks rule!

Anyone remember Fish N Chips? The SnV biscuity snacks. So strong they made your eyes water as a child. Mmm lovely!

Fish N Chips? They also made Burger n Chips, and Chicken n Chips.

Magic, I used to get them at the swimming baths when I was a kid.

i get very annoyed a walkers multipack bags.
they have nothing like the same flavour as the single packs. They are clearly saving money by just flavouring them less. to the point where i am thinking of buying six single bags next time i go to sainsburys

Grrrr

Does anyone else remember those crisps (probably a corn snack really) that were little piggies?

EDIT: Found them

Haven’t seen them since my Yorkshire childhood, same as those stripey minty Opal Fruits (Pacers?)

Smiths got bought by PepsiCo who own Walkers years ago. They then stopped making plain crisps under the Smiths name (apart from Salt and Shake) and only used the Smiths brand for stuff like Frazzles etc.

How to beat your competitors? Buy them and shut them down. PepsiCo did the same with Tudor Crisps.