What are the best & the worst crisps?

The_Dark_Lord

What are your favourite crisps and what are the ones you think are overrated or just plain awful? The most delicious crisps right now are Burts Vintage Cheddar and Spring Onion flavour, they leave Tayto Cheese & Onion in the shade. An honourable mention for Golden Wonder Sausage and Tomato flavour crisps - they're delicious.

The worst crisps I've ever tasted were Keogh's Truffle flavour crisps, awful flavour.

HeidiHeidi

For a crisp sandwich, has to be Tayto Cheese & Onion (with King C&O a close second)


For a nibble of an evening, any Keoghs ones (the beef stew ones, or whatever they're called, sound revolting but are DELICIOUS!).


Lidl and Aldi come out with some zinger gourmet flavours every now then, esp coming up to Christmas.

furiousox

Manhattan cheese & onion.
The crack cocaine of crisps.

jinkybhoy

Quite partial to Bistro salt and vinegar.

Cheese onion tayto for sandwich.

GLaDOS

Walkers crisps are the worst, regardless of flavour.

megaten

Don't know whats the best but Walkers are definitely the worst.

biko

King's Cheese & Onion have been a fav of mine for years.

cameramonkey

walkers salted red packet the best. any salt and vinegar the worst.

Church on Tuesday

furiousox wrote: »

Manhattan cheese & onion.
The crack cocaine of crisps.

Where can you get these (apart from things they used to call "pubs"), have never had them before.

recyclops

kp crunchies were, everyone going on about the second coming of banshee bones, they are nothing but a poor salt and vinegar

GreeBo

"lays" basically fake crisps and the worst thing about being on holidays.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Soft prawn cocktails ones. Looked like little flowers. Loved them as a kid.

Riddle101

Best: Tayto Salt and Vinegar.

Honorable Mentions: Johnny's Onion Rings

dxhound2005

The_Dark_Lord wrote: »

What are your favourite crisps and what are the ones you think are overrated or just plain awful? The most delicious crisps right now are Burts Vintage Cheddar and Spring Onion flavour, they leave Tayto Cheese & Onion in the shade. An honourable mention for Golden Wonder Sausage and Tomato flavour crisps - they're delicious.

The worst crisps I've ever tasted were Keogh's Truffle flavour crisps, awful flavour.

Calling them a fancy name does not guarantee they are any good. They are Cheese and Onion

Hyperbollix

King Cheese and Onion. Breakfast of champions.

Skeetur

Best: Tayto source cream and onion ripples

Worst: Wheelies. Everything about them is wrong.

yerwanthere123

Ó Donnells cheese and red onion crisps are unreal, can't get enough of them.

Sheep Shagger

GreeBo wrote: »

"lays" basically fake crisps and the worst thing about being on holidays.

WTF ?!?!

Walkers or Lays ready salted are the business. The proof they are popular is that most shops who sell them are almost always sold out.

IAMAMORON

best - Waffles
Worst - the shight they sell in Spain, woeful phucking things.

JohnnyFlash

furiousox wrote: »

Manhattan cheese & onion.
The crack cocaine of crisps.

This guy knows his crisps. Manhattan are a top class snack company

pauliebdub

King cheese and onion are great, also have to mention Aldi's which are cheap but also rather good.

Walker's are the worst that I can think of but there another UK brand with atrocious crisps that I can't think of the name.

pauliebdub

GreeBo wrote: »

"lays" basically fake crisps and the worst thing about being on holidays.

Are they not the same brand as Walker's only a different name on the continent?

theteal

Be thankful you're not stuck living over here (UK). Bloody Walkers everywhere -sweet chili Sensations are good, the standard crisps are muck. Gimme a packet of King or Tayto any day. . .actually it's getting to that time of the year when we order in a big box for xmas

Badly Drunk Boy

pauliebdub wrote: »

King cheese and onion are great, also have to mention Aldi's which are cheap but also rather good.

Walker's are the worst that I can think of but there another UK brand with atrocious crisps that I can't think of the name.

Golden Wonder? Their texture is alright but they're a bit stingy with the flavourings.

Relikk

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Where can you get these (apart from things they used to call "pubs"), have never had them before.

You can buy boxes of them from the Manhattan website.

https://manhattan.ie/shop-online-popcorn-peanuts/

JustAThought

currently obsessed with Thai Sweet Sensations - black bag, red design : often on sale for e2. OMG addictive.

Also Pringles Malaysian Curry. Hard to find buy OMG - you woiudn’t be bothering to get a take away they are just as good as the best take away!!! Not their Japanese Terriaki Duck flavour thou - too meaty and overpowering.

km991148

GreeBo wrote: »

"lays" basically fake crisps and the worst thing about being on holidays.

They are just walkers - but I always like trying out the random local flavours

km991148

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

This guy knows his crisps. Manhattan are a top class snack company

Popcorn, sure, crisps, sh!te.

McCoys cheese and onion are the best for me and all salt and vinegar are the worst.

XVII

Oven baked walkers are the best I've tried lately, hands down.

Immortal Starlight

I love hunky dorys

dotsman

I cannot, for the life of me, understand people's love of Manhattan. They are flavourless (the C&O anyway, never had any of the others).

And at the same time, people complaining about Walker's? The Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli are definitely the best crisp.

dotsman

dotsman wrote: »

I cannot, for the life of me, understand people's love of Manhattan. They are flavourless (the C&O anyway, never had any of the others).

And at the same time, people complaining about Walker's? The Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli are definitely the best crisp.

Whether you like the flavour or not, nobody could rightly describe Manhattan C&O as flavourless. I’ve never had a bag that wasn’t seriously strong compared to most other brands.

ancapailldorcha

I do love the Irish crisps but I do feel like the Brits have us beat on that one. Taytos and Hunky Dory's are wonderful but they can't compete with the likes of Piper, Tyrrells and Kettle. I like my crisps and don't think I've ever had a bad pack that wasn't stale.

budgie412

Keoghs crinkle cut sea salt and balsamic vinegar, and Walkers Max jalapeno cheese. Nearly always polish off a sharing pack of these in 1 go every time

JupiterKid

Keoghs cheese & onion.

As close to crisp perfection as possible. :pac:


Worst? Pringles is down there in my book - dusty and the flavors are sub-par.

Zebra3

KP Mini Chips are amazing which is weird as I don't like regular S&V stuff.

Chipsticks. Sensational stuff.

Lot of crap about, but hard to say what's worst if I don't like something, I don't go back.

AMKC

Seabrooks Crisps are the best you can buy just yum. Everything else is just horrible.

Thelonious Monk

Peanuts

Beanntraigheach

The_Dark_Lord wrote: »

What are your favourite crisps and what are the ones you think are overrated or just plain awful? The most delicious crisps right now are Burts Vintage Cheddar and Spring Onion flavour, they leave Tayto Cheese & Onion in the shade. An honourable mention for Golden Wonder Sausage and Tomato flavour crisps - they're delicious.

The worst crisps I've ever tasted were Keogh's Truffle flavour crisps, awful flavour.

I bought myself a bag of truffle flavoured crisps in Lidl/Aldi a couple of years ago.
The fetid stench that punched me in the face on opening the bag was just indescribable. It was unnatural, like an alien's fart.

Into the bin. Never again.

Zaph

Best - it's hard to beat Tayto or Hunky Dorys cheese and onion really. Keogh's C&O were incredible when they first appeared, but I'm convinced they changed something about them as they just aren't anywhere near as good any more.

Worst - sour cream and onion anything. Who the fcuk decided that was a flavour?

Darc19

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Where can you get these (apart from things they used to call "pubs"), have never had them before.

https://manhattan.ie/product/crisps-cheese-onion-best-cheese-onions-crisps-world/

Nom Nom...

Seriously delicious

Darc19

dotsman wrote: »

I cannot, for the life of me, understand people's love of Manhattan. They are flavourless (the C&O anyway, never had any of the others).

And at the same time, people complaining about Walker's? The Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli are definitely the best crisp.

LOL.

Maybe you had a dose of covid when you were eating the Manhattan as they are strong on flavor.

As for walkers sensations - advertising standards should go after them for false advertising.

Or maybe different people have different tastes

Anyone for marmite crisps?

NSAman

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

WTF ?!?!

Walkers or Lays ready salted are the business. The proof they are popular is that most shops who sell them are almost always sold out.

Could be that they are one of the largest companies in the world? Tayto beat them hands down. Lays/Walkers are reconstituted muck same as Pringles.

The_Dark_Lord

Zaph wrote: »

Keogh's C&O were incredible when they first appeared, but I'm convinced they changed something about them as they just aren't anywhere near as good any more.

Same thing happened to Tayto Cheese & Onion. In the last few years they've completely changed the recipe. Where the Tayto C&O of 10 years ago were more full bodied and extremely moreish, the crisps that exist now are brittle and not so savoury. The flavouring is also completely different. Tayto C&O and King C&O are the same crisps, only in different packaging.

Sorolla

NSAman wrote: »

Could be that they are one of the largest companies in the world? Tayto beat them hands down. Lays/Walkers are reconstituted muck same as Pringles.

You know being the first one is not always best.

When the iPhone one came out a lot of people waited until the iPhone X came out and it was worth the wait.

You cannot beat an auld Pringle - I’m awful parshalled to the sour cream and onion

Whenever I am going up to Dublin on the train I like nothing better than a tube of sour cream and onion

con747

Tesco Finest Barbecue Beef Crisps 150G are the best I have had in a long time for flavour. Tayto was never the same after the Germans bought it fully in 2015, still nice but hit and miss. I'll be trying the rest of Tesco's finest to see if they live up to the bbq beef.

Piehead

Best - old snax

Worst - new snax


Catch the criminal !

Dynomutt

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Where can you get these (apart from things they used to call "pubs"), have never had them before.

I often see them in SuperValu. However, they always seem to be placed on the bottom shelf out of clear sight.

Parabellum9

Banshee Bones are god tier, I’ve become hooked on them since they came back.

The worst by far are those ones you get in Lidl with like 50 packs in a bag, Snackbrite or something. A microsecond of something that very vaguely tastes of the flavour it claims to be, then nothing but a bland 3rd rate crisp to chew on.

Godeatsboogers

Sam Spuds Smokey bacon flavour