Flavored Crisp Mania
Britons love crisps (known as potato chips here in North America.) There are few places in the world where you will find more flavors of potato chips and especially the really weird highly-flavored versions that you are not likely to find in any other country.
The Britons really like foods that taste like vinegar and that really does reflect in some of the flavors of crisps available across the country. Salt and Vinegar chips and crackers of all kinds are everywhere with Morrison’s Salt and vinegar Twists and Salt and Vinegar Monster Much being a big favorite. However things start getting a bit more unusual with flavors such as Pickled Onion Space Raider, which tastes a bit like the small pearl onions that you drop in a martini. You can also get Cheese and Pickle flavor, which is a popular combination for sandwiches made with white bread in England.
The British also like flavors that just taste like common sauces. For instance there is a flavor of crisps just known as “Brown Sauce. You can also get Worcester Sauce, Worcester and French Fries, Bacon and Brown Sauce. Marmite and Flaming Hot Sauce flavors.
Meat flavored potato chips are also quite popular including Beef flavored, Roysters T-Bone Steak, Walker Sensations Slow Roasted Lamb with Moroccan Spices, McCoy’s Flame Grilled Steaks, Walkers Sensations Roasted Chicken and Thyme Spare Rib Nik Naks, Xmas Special Turkey and Stuffing, Walker’s smokey bacon, beef puffs, Piglets, Spicy Meatballs and BBQ Rib flavors (just to name a few!
If you feel like seafood there are all kinds of variations including flavors such as fish and chips scampi and lemon and prawn cocktail crisps.
The influence of Indian cuisine with it’s many curries and chutneys are also felt in the British crisp industry. You can get creamy Passander and Chicken Poppadoms Crisps, Yogurt and Mint Crisps, McCoy’s Chicken Madras, Walkers Chicken Tikka and KP Outer Spacers Chutney Flavor.
If Italian food is your thing you can also get Pizza, Spaghettie Bolognese and Spicy Meatball flavored crisps. Tomato wheat crackers and Tomato snaps are also very popular.
Tomato and cheese are also a mainstay in the British crisp industry with Pringles Ploughman’s Cheese and Tomato flavor being quite popular all over the country.
Other gourmet and quite strange and uniquely British crisp flavors are Paprika Walkers Max that are heavy with the smoky red spice, Steak and Ale which tastes like beer and Sweetcorn relish which tastes just like the traditional condiment.
Like many foods in Britain crisps are often flavored with a great deal of salt, sodium and MSG. As delicious as they are they are not exactly a health food so read the labels.