do you have any proof that salt and vinegar used to be blue?

[Saul Goodman]

I don't remember Walker's crisps at all from when I was a kid. It was Golden Wonder or Smiths or KP. Or cheapo versions like Bobby's.

Bobby's salt and vinegar spirals were excellent. Not as good as the original Smiths Twists, though.

And Salt & Vinegar were always blue, apart from Walkers', which were always green.

 

[Chilli.s]

Smiths and most other salt'n vinegar are blue. Walkers are just wrong, that's their idea of a brand image.

Proof:

 

[Chilli.s]

Always fond of Horror Bags myself.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Anyone remember Smiths Salt 'n' Shake?
"Look for the little blue bag"
"Flavours my arse"

 

[Chilli.s]

Anyone remember Smiths Salt 'n' Shake?
"Look for the little blue bag"
"Flavours my arse"

Still available, good if you want a low salt crisp.

 

[pogofish]

Anyone remember Smiths Salt 'n' Shake?
"Look for the little blue bag"
"Flavours my arse"

They did briefly run a variant called Flavour n'Shake, IIRC half a dozen flavours in little different coloured bags but it was dreadful - can't have lasted much more than a year.

 

[purves grundy]

Smiths and most other salt'n vinegar are blue. Walkers are just wrong, that's their idea of a brand image.

Proof:

Ace pic. I did enjoy Discos and Outer Spacers.

Snaps and Frazzles conspicuous by their absence...

Edit - seen the Snaps

God life was so simple and brilliant and ace back then

 

[Chilli.s]

The 70's really were the decade that invented good taste.

 

[lefteri]

This was the standard bag of salt and vinegar until walkers came from nowhere to dominate the market (sometime in the 80s iirc)

 

[moon]

Did anyone put their empty crisp packets in the oven to shrink them? For some reason this was a 'thing' to do...

 

[gosub]

and they, who invented cheese and onion crisps have now switched to yellow (which makes sense)

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Museum of brands

 

[1927]

Wish you could still get Chipmunk OXO flavour crisps.

Also, on the Walkers subject, they own Smiths at some point, but spelt smoky as in bacon, differently on the different brands, one company used an e the other didn't!!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It's only Walkers who muddle the colours. All is well with Hula Hoops.

 

[lefteri]

Did anyone put their empty crisp packets in the oven to shrink them? For some reason this was a 'thing' to do...

Yes, it was a diy version of these shrinky dink things that came in cereal packets

 

[moon]

 

[krtek a houby]

and they, who invented cheese and onion crisps have now switched to yellow (which makes sense)

They are two different companies. Strange but true. Tayto in the Republic were around for a couple of years before the Armagh effort came into existence. Both taste remarkably similar and god only knows how they sorted out the trademark/copyright business but there you go!

 

[gosub]

They are two different companies. Strange but true. Tayto in the Republic were around for a couple of years before the Armagh effort came into existence. Both taste remarkably similar and god only knows how they sorted out the trademark/copyright business but there you go!

Ahhh, came across the yellow in local Irish cente recently, confused me. That explains it. Proper Tayto are still red

 

[krtek a houby]

Ahhh, came across the yellow in local Irish cente recently, confused me. That explains it. Proper Tayto are still red

Bit difficult to find over here. Not impossible, though. I tend to go for the Armagh brand because my local Morrison sells them...

 

[gosub]

Bit difficult to find over here. Not impossible, though. I tend to go for the Armagh brand because my local Morrison sells them...

When I was in Leith, the local Tesco stocked them on the Irish aisle.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

As far as I know salt is white and vinegar is a sort of brown colour. I have never seen blue or green salt or for that matter vinegar.

 

[krtek a houby]

When I was in Leith, the local Tesco stocked them on the Irish aisle.

When Irish aisles are smiling

 

[Ax^]

and they, who invented cheese and onion crisps have now switched to yellow (which makes sense)

Tayto Cheese and Onion has fuck all on

fact

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyone remember Smiths Salt 'n' Shake?
"Look for the little blue bag"
"Flavours my arse"

The first time I ever came across Smith's Salt 'n' Shake I thought that the blue sachet was a free gift, like in cereal bozes. On opening it up and seeing a white crystalline substance I assumed it was sugar, because, well, obviously sugar. So I emptied it into the sugar bowl. Was pleased as punch with myself for my good deed, and excitedly told Mum what I had done when she got home later that day

 

[krtek a houby]

Tayto Cheese and Onion has fuck all on

fact

Yeah but

 

[gosub]

Tayto Cheese and Onion has fuck all on

fact

Aye, King are grand crisps, but Tayto win it for red, by virtue of having invented the flavour

 

[Vintage Paw]

As far as I know salt is white and vinegar is a sort of brown colour. I have never seen blue or green salt or for that matter vinegar.

The idea is that salt comes from the sea, and the sea is blue.

And onions are green (sort of).

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Tayto Cheese and Onion has fuck all on

fact

Just.. no.

 

[lefteri]

The idea is that salt comes from the sea, and the sea is blue.

And onions are green (sort of).

That would make ready salted prime candidate for blue surely? I thought that cos salt and vinegar is what you put on fish and chips which is associated with the sea then that explains the blue

 

[A380]

Did anyone put their empty crisp packets in the oven to shrink them? For some reason this was a 'thing' to do...

God yes. One school holidays in the 70s I did hundreds. Remember wrapping them in very loose silver foil envelopes to keep them flat. Going to try it again. Must be better than X box 1?