flavoured crisps

[missmazza]

i was wondering what kind of flavoured crisps from years gone by can anyone remember i remember way back in the early seventies sweet and sour crisps and they were always firsst sold out at tuck shop

[Mortartube]

Golden Wonder Baked Bean flavour also from the early 70's. The famous hedgehog from the early 90's.

[Ethel]

Curry flavour - mid 70s I think.

[joanne713]

my mum always goes on about Bovril crisps- sounds horrible to me!

[Nick.Detroit]

joanne ...Bovril crips were lush

[kate1976]

Piglets, anyone remember those delicious 3D piggy shaped crisps? they were yummylicious!! I wish they'd bring them out again!

I also remember our ice cream man at school used to sell crisps called nosebags, they were gorgeous!

Hedgehog flavour really upset me as I had a 'pet' hedgehog called harry!!

[brachiopod]

Hanky Pankies? They were a pre-cursor to Skips.
The advert featured Arthur Lowe (Dad's Army's 'Captain Mainwaring', or the narrator for the original Mister Men)

[Metz]

snaps spicy tomato but i think they still make them?not had them for years though!

[bendigedig]

disco were the best!

[Buenchico]

There are some of us who are old enough to remember when crisps were just that, crisps. No flavours, no salt and just one manufacturer, Smith's.

Of course, that bit about 'no salt' isn't really accurate. Smith's crisps came supplied with a little blue bag of salt lurking somewhere deep inside the packet. Or at least they were meant to. Occasionally, you might find that your packet of crisps didn't have that all important little blue bag but it rarely mattered; all you had to do was to swipe one from your friend who probably found that his bag of crisps had two or three portions of salt in it. (I remember my feeling of utter joy when, as a young child, I opened a bag of Smith's crisps that beat all known records by containing no fewer than 5 packets of salt!).

Eventually, of course, someone had the idea of adding flavourings. The reference works all state that cheese & onion was the first flavour but my earliest recollection of eating flavoured crisps was trying a bag from a new manufacturer, Chipmunk, and absolutely loving the flavour. So what was that flavour? Oxo! (They didn't seem to be on the market for long. Bovril flavour, which came later, was nowhere near as good)

This website might be of interest:
http://www.ilovecrisps.com/

Chris

[SteveD]

My first recollection of flavoured crisps is also Oxo but made by Cristo.

[aly8166]

Tudor crisps. I remember when they were two and a half pence.

[violetblue]

What about Potato Puffs? Delicious!

[natalie_1982]

Kate I remember piglets!!!

Also remember fish and chips, that were fish and chip shaped but tasted like cardboard!

My favourites, were the original beef monster munch, not the ones they sell now but from about 15 years ago. they had the pink monster on the packet, which was yellow.

[pessimist]

I have a vague memory of mint sauce flavor crisps, I think they were by tudor, they were absolutely vile!!!

[tubeway]

No arguements on this one - the best ever flavour crisps were in the mid seventies - were by golden wonder and were sausage and tomato

[Brennan69]

I liked golden wonder cheese and onion. And remember the horror when walkers came out with theirs. As at the time it was like 'doesn't taste like cheese and onion' because we were so used to golden wonders taste. I remember hedgehog flavour lol. I also remember another favourite came from the ice cream van. Curry, it was a vile coloured chip shop curry coloured bag with a Chinese man with those Chinese hats and chopsticks.