My Salt and Vinegar Quest

Sajan

I am on a quest to find the best Salt and Vinegar Crisps. The rules are open. Not strictly just salt and vinegar. This includes Sea Salt, Malt Vinegar, Balsamic Vingear etc. So far I have come up with the following.

1. Kettle Chips - Sea Salt and Balsamis Vinegar.
An elusive crisp. This is possibly the reason why I love it so. You go to the Crisp section expecting to see it nestled in amongst it's Kettle Brothers and Sisters only to be let down time and time again. Tastalicious.

2. Red Rock Deli - Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar.
Oh how I miss Australia's weather and out going outlook. And these amazingly delicious Crisps. If you have not been to Australia yet Go for these. I mean it. Ayers Rock and the Great Barrier Reef are cool but pale in comparison to the pleasure you get from visiting this little pleasure. Yum.

3. Tayto Bistro - Salt and Vinegar.
The local hero. Pulling out all the punches flavour wise to keep up with it's more exotic and elusive competitors. It's strong and robust. It is a Bistro/up market take on Tayto but that Bistro happens to be in Mullingar. Tasty unpretentious crisp.

Please tell me I am missing an amazing crisp to break into my top 3 and blow my taste buds outta the water.. Please.

Melissa89

I love Tyrrells Cider Vinegar and Sea Salt crisps. They're my faves.

mojesius

Walkers sensations balsamic vinegar and caramelised onion, yummy

Sorry Sajan, I may be breaking the rules here (they do have salt in them, just not in the name):o

Sajan

They kinda do have to have Salt in the name.. Or any variation of salt.

An honourable mention will go to M&S Salt and Vinegar full on flavour range. You know the ones in the big silver plain bag.. Nose twitchingly strong flavour.. Yeeaaaahhh

emeraldstar

Good call on your number one. I'm not even a crisps fan, but Kettle Chips, delish!

Sajan

Picked up a few bags of them in Tesco today. The looks of envy were ridiculous.. I was nearly jumped.

Any others?

the beer revolu

It pi***s me off that almost all S&V crisps on the market are sweet (they nearly all have sugar and/or artificial sweetener in them.
Why?????:eek::eek::eek:

Hunky Dory's don't but they are a very harsh S&V flavour.

Eviledna

Red sky cider vinegar and sea salt are a fave of my OH, it's not the weekend without them!

cml387

Tesco had a Cider vinegar flavour. Highly recommended.
+1 on Tayto Bistro S&V.

geecee

My Top 3:

• Real McCoys Crinkled S+V
• Walkers Baked S+V (very hard to get these days - but found them in Dunnes Ilac centre this week)
• Chipsticks... technically not crisps... but make fantatic sandwich filler!

As for kettle crisps.. they remind me of soggy greasy crisps that we used to make at home when those moulinex food processors were in style...

i.e Absolutely awful!

The Real B-man

Lidl do they own Brand Sea salt & Balsamic Vinegar they match up to the more well known brands and come in a big bag

Sajan

geecee wrote: »

My Top 3:

• Real McCoys Crinkled S+V
• Walkers Baked S+V (very hard to get these days - but found them in Dunnes Ilac centre this week)
• Chipsticks... technically not crisps... but make fantatic sandwich filler!

As for kettle crisps.. they remind me of soggy greasy crisps that we used to make at home when those moulinex food processors were in style...

i.e Absolutely awful!

Blasphemous.

Magic Eight Ball

It was salt and vinegar discos FTW back in the day.

Toto Wolfcastle

I used to love Salt and Vinegar Discos.

They don't taste like they used to now though.

smallgarden

love hunky dorys, theyre so strong they sting nearly!
and mini chips!theyre like they took hunky dorys and sliced them into little bits,mmmmm!

UrbanSea

Loved the Disco's,miss them.

star-pants

S&V frisps were awesome up until recent enough, they taste a bit greasy now

dmc17

McCoys for me

sudzs

Melissa89 wrote: »

I love Tyrrells Cider Vinegar and Sea Salt crisps. They're my faves.

Me too!

Not a huge fan of their cheese and onion though... but the Salt & Vinegar are the biz!

foodaholic

It has to be hunky doreys - they make my lips numb

Little Alex

They're not crisps, I know, but you're looking for a really powerful Salt and Vinegar blast like the old Discos used to deliver.

Give KP Salt and Vinegar peanuts a go. They will without a doubt blow your taste buds out of the water. They are eye-wateringly vinegary!

As for actual crisps I guess Hunky Dorys are pretty good.

Pittybitty

smallgarden wrote: »

love hunky dorys, theyre so strong they sting nearly!
and mini chips!theyre like they took hunky dorys and sliced them into little bits,mmmmm!

Do they still make mini chips? I used to love them! Please tell me where they stock them?

Mayo Miss

Chipsticks salt and vinegar are great hangover food.

lazygit

janeybabe wrote: »

I used to love Salt and Vinegar Discos.

They don't taste like they used to now though.

Does anyone remember they used to include little extra packets of "salt", im sure it wasn't salt, but what ever it was it was yummy!

sofireland

I've not seen them over here but seabrook salt and vinegar are awesome. U can get them in northern England.

Lornen

Red Sky do a beautiful bag of S&V crisps!
No votes for the S&V Pringles no? Always sidelined I think, but they are super vinegary!

TeletextPear

Tesco Salt and Vinegar Twirls are the greatest S&V crisp ever. Buy a bag, and buy a second back-up bag. And then eat both immediately. *Droooool*

Mellor

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

It was salt and vinegar discos FTW back in the day.

BOOM!
/thread imo
how did it take 13 posts to get mentioned


Seriously, I opened this thread with the sole purpose of posting discos FTW

Little Alex wrote: »

They're not crisps, I know, but you're looking for a really powerful Salt and Vinegar blast like the old Discos used to deliver.

Little Alex, go to bed. They are quite clearly crisps

emeraldstar

Not crisps, but salt & vinegar Snack-a-Jacks are LOVELY.

ebbsy

Tipperary crisps deserve a mention.

dammitjanet

My favourite salt and vinegar crisps are still the same as when I was a kid- banshee bones!! Actually those snack-a-jack rice cakes taste really like them emeraldstar!!

emeraldstar

Ahh, I forgot about Banshee Bones... so good!

zing

Right now my fav S&V is prob the 150g bag of Hunky Dorys. Haven't managed to get into any of the sea salt & whatever type of vineger - -just give me regular S&V anyday.

From the past two I miss are:
- the big bags of Perri S&V. iirc there were two larger bags - one was a regular crisp and I guess the bag size was around 100g and the second was a crinkle crisp (iirc) in an even larger bag (150g maybe ?). The former weren't bad but the later were just delicious.
- S&V Rancheros altought I only found these for sale on maybe 3 or 4 occassions but they tasted so goood.

Washout

Not crisps but s+v hula hoops are my fav

Hunky doreys and then mccoys make up my top 3 s+v snacks