Best Cheese and Onion crisps?

BobbyPropane · 23-01-2013 12:49AM

Tayto (When they are good, they're really good!)
King (Always nice no matter what the bag)
Walkers (Nice but only get one crisp per bag)
McCoys (More of a I'm really ****ing hungry crisp)
Hunky Dory (See above)

Bad Santa · 23-01-2013 12:50AM

Fixer Upper wrote: »

I find Tayto a tad too greasy.

Tayto are horrible now. I get more flavour just looking at this packet, than I do eating today's muck:

http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2012/11/tayto3p.jpg

blaze1 · 23-01-2013 12:53AM

Walkers for a cheese & onion crisp. But can someone answer me as to why these gems of a savoury snack are not availible anywhere in Ireland?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savoury-Selection-Cheese-Moments-24/dp/B003S3RJLO

zenno · 23-01-2013 12:54AM

Alien spacers dipped in curry sauce, can't get them anymore though, they were the best but no longer available. :mad:

Ihatecuddles-old · 23-01-2013 12:54AM

blaze1 wrote: »

Walkers for a cheese & onion crisp. But can someone answer me as to why these gems of a savoury snack are not availible anywhere in Ireland?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savoury-Selection-Cheese-Moments-24/dp/B003S3RJLO

I love that brand. Bacon fries are absolutely gorgeous!

ITS_A_BADGER · 23-01-2013 12:55AM

blaze1 wrote: »

Walkers for a cheese & onion crisp. But can someone answer me as to why these gems of a savoury snack are not availible anywhere in Ireland?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savoury-Selection-Cheese-Moments-24/dp/B003S3RJLO

Ive seen those in pubs

SV · 23-01-2013 12:57AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Cadbury's dairy milk in particular

Try some smarties with them.
I know it sounds risky but you're already mixing chocolate and tayto, ya might as well go one more and add in the crisp shell.

It is the venison steak of the sweet world.

Holsten · 23-01-2013 12:59AM

Walkers Baked ones, lovely!

Mince Pie · 23-01-2013 01:01AM

RossyG wrote: »

I can't get Taytos here in England. I can't even order them on the website. They'll send them to mainland Europe but not here.

Sorry, not sure if you've been answered but you can. Home Bargains sell Taytos and there are two suppliers who sell irish goods online. Google it. I love King and couldn't find them but you can get Tayto.

Truncheon Rouge · 23-01-2013 01:01AM

Its midnight.
Im in bed.
....and now I want crisps

blaze1 · 23-01-2013 01:02AM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Ive seen those in pubs

They have them on the boards for bacon/scampi but never a cheese moment in sight!

ITS_A_BADGER · 23-01-2013 01:06AM

blaze1 wrote: »

They have them on the boards for bacon/scampi but never a cheese moment in site!

whoops my bad i thought they were the scampis

im tired

zweton · 23-01-2013 01:07AM

Discos:)

Celly Smunt · 23-01-2013 01:09AM

Manhatten pub crisps.

Eathrin · 23-01-2013 01:10AM

I just had a packet of Tayto after a packet of O'Donnells.

I knew the O'Donnells were really nice when I ate them but now the Tayto tastes awful!

Hank Scorpio · 23-01-2013 01:17AM

Have to give it to Kings! Tayto too salty

Hunky dorys are always like 1/4 full, WTF!

rachaelf750 · 23-01-2013 01:18AM

Any cheese & onion crisps dosed in vinegar and all crunched & shook up !!! Delicious

pragmatic1 · 23-01-2013 01:21AM

zweton wrote: »

Discos:)

+1 million. Never see them around anymore though.

Zaph · 23-01-2013 01:21AM

rainbowdrop wrote: »

Does anybody remember the bags of plain crisps you could get years ago that had a little dark blue sachet of salt in them so you could add your own if you wanted? Yum

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Don't think I've ever seen them. Anyone know what there called. ?

They were originally made by Smiths, which was bought by PepsiCo, who also own Walkers. They pretty much dropped the Smiths brand in favour of Walkers.

ricero wrote: »

Has anyone tried mahatten the popcorn brand new cheese and onion crisps ? Very nice

Absolutely vile things they are. The only thing worse is their salt and vinegar crisps.

Best cheese and onion - Keoghs by a mile. They're so addictive they're like crack in fried potato form.

TheUsual · 23-01-2013 01:22AM

Chocolate !!! Some sick people on here - names and ip-addresses are being taken as speak.

Dorritos Cheese & Onion FTW.

You can't dip Tayto crisps in a jar of dip, they fall apart, like prince Harry's promise not to get his royal jewels out again.

TheUsual · 23-01-2013 01:25AM

Zaph wrote: »

They're so addictive they're like crack in fried potato form.

So you have tried crack. I knew it.

munster87 · 23-01-2013 01:27AM

O Donnell's more expensive but worth it.

23-01-2013 01:29AM

Sir Oxman wrote: »

Tayto first, Golden Wonder a close second.
GW only seem to be on sale every few months, on special offer though - Centras have them at 1e for a six-pack the last week or so.

You'd get them in the pound shops too i reckon. I remember the packaging in particular on Golden Wonders in the 1990s was super. Very retro even for that time.

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Tayto (When they are good, they're really good!)
King (Always nice no matter what the bag)
Walkers (Nice but only get one crisp per bag)
McCoys (More of a I'm really ****ing hungry crisp)
Hunky Dory (See above)

Anyone subscribe to the theory that a crisp of any sort always tastes nicer when offered from someone elses bag?

What do posters feel about the supermarket brand crisps? Aldi have nice cheese and onion type which are probably made by Largo or someone if truth be known.

23-01-2013 01:30AM

munster87 wrote: »

O Donnell's more expensive but worth it.

All good things come from the Premier County

TheUsual · 23-01-2013 01:34AM

The devil prefers Tayto ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZ9yIKwkOQ

StaticNoise · 23-01-2013 01:35AM

Walkers by a mile. O'Donnells if I am feeling generous today.

Tayto are genuinely mushed up, blackened, old potatoed shite. It is typically Irish: crap spuds, thrown together with some manky flavouring, slapped in a bag and with a silly little label on the front. Marketed as the 'Irish crisp' and tooting its own horn, and does well solely on the back of latter part of the description.

Very Irish that. Something not-so-great and half-arsed, but we will praise it and stand by it as a pride thing.

O'Donnells are the business, however. A quality crisp, and a good small-medium(ish) Irish business that just does it right, and doesn't go on about it.

Update: Nearly forgot the pack of King with the pint. Perfect bliss.
Oh, and popcorn at home. Never crisps.

nocoverart · 23-01-2013 01:51AM

I once had a horse called Tayto, and we went Into the West.

EDIT: God damn it! the horse wasn't called Tayto

Mr Benevolent · 23-01-2013 01:55AM

Keogh's, no contest.

StaticNoise · 23-01-2013 02:10AM

Seriously? Even compared to O'Donnells? Because that is a big statement.
That said, and I need to ask: what the hell is with the tins?
It just seems like an excuse to make something look posher and to charge more.

//Side note:
O'Donnells are going on offer in Superquinn today, 23rd.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are going on special to €1 (AFAIK), from €2.29 per large pack.

twinQuins · 23-01-2013 02:26AM

King, easily. Maybe it's just me but in recent years I've found Tayto changed the taste of their cheese and onion to something unfit for human consumption.

King though, have always been my firm favourite.

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