Hildas Hierarchy

Dear Scott & Luke,

I love your website, it's such fun! Here are my top 8 crisps:

1. McCoy's Ridge Cut Cheddar & Onion. The crisps are heavenly, but I just adore the cheesy, oniony shrapnel you get at the end of the bag. Scrumsville.
2. Royster's T-Bone Steak. I can polish off a bag of these in under two minutes. You may be more impressed to discover I wear dentures.
3. Chipsticks - Salt 'n' Vinegar. If only they came in a bigger bag. Ready Salted are nice, but SnV has my mouth watering/stinging instantly. Wonderful.
4. Monster Munch - Roast Beef. I have a notoriously small mouth, so these are hard work, but they're so worth it. Should come with complimentary floss though.
5. Walker's Squares - Cheese and Onion. Crunchy, flavoursome but sadly often overlooked. I enjoy nibbling off the sharp corners before plunging into my mouth.
6. Kettle Chips - Sea Salt & Balsamic Vinegar. I'll buy these if I have company. They're always an impressive crisp to whip out alongside other nibbles.
7. Frazzles. Often imitated, but there really are no substitutes for the real thing. I will sometimes dip in cream cheese for a sneaky indulgent snack.
8. Smith's Cheese Flavoured Moments. Very rare. Often found in pubs and independent newsagents. Not a crisp in the traditional sense, but oh-so delicious. I'm on five bags a day.

Best wishes,

Hilda Lolly,  via Twitter 

Thank you Hilda for your lovely entry into Desert Island Crisps
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Essex's Finest..

Fairfield's Wicks Manor Bacon for number one, 
Walkers Salt &Vinegar, 
Nice & Spicy Nic Naks! 
Cheesy Balls, 
Bacon Fries, 
Chipsticks.....Hmm, how about 
Jackpots Beef and Horseradish and 
Walkers Cheese & Onion. 


Mix of old & new there!

Nicola, BuyBritishFood via Twitter

Family Favourites

Found you through crisp-comments on Twitter, there's an astoundingly

good variety of them around now.

Seabrooks have always been a firm favourite in our family, we used to

buy them regularly when I was growing up in Bradford in the 80s, and I

still buy them now after moving back to Leeds a few years ago after

living on the coast.  They're a good crunchy crinkle-cut crisp, strong

in flavour and not as thick as McCoys.  Shame they don't sell them in

windowed bags so you can go for the non-broken ones.

I tend to switch between these and Morrisons Baked (much better than

walkers) if I'm buying a few packs to go with lunches.

Other than those, I'll sometimes treat myself to Yorkshire crisps,

Real crisps (with the gurning faces on the front) or kettle chips.

Stephen, via Twitter

Big Hitter..

1.  Pickled Onion Monster Munch – Even periodic size changes haven’t dented this colossus of a crisp

2.  Sweet Chilli Walkers Sensations – Best amongst the plethora of contemporary potato based snacks.

3.  Mango Chilli Kettle chips – For some reason this middle class range of burnt crisps is lauded as the thinking-mans crisp. I hate all but one flavour - the majestic mango chilli flavour.  This balance of flavours cleverly counteracts the horrible burnt taste of the Kettle range, creating something that is greater than the sum of it’s parts.

4.  Walkers Cheese and Onion – King of the Walkers classics

5.  Doritos Hint of Lime Tortillas – Brilliant alternative to the typically shit tortilla range.

6.  Quarterbacks – burger flavour American sycophantic corn snacks. Alternative to the supa-crunchies eaten by gippos

7. Cheese Snaps – like a poor mans quaver but actually would kick a quavers face in if they had a fight.

8.  Prawn cocktail skips – melt on the tongue greatness.


Jon, via Facebook

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Peoples Favourite...

1.   Walkers Cheese n Onion.

2.   Cheese Quavers

3.   Cheese Wotsits

4.   Walkers BBQ

5.   Nice n Spicy Nik Naks

6.   Rib n Saucy Nik Naks

7.   Tomato Wheat Crunchies

8.   Salt n Vinegar Chipsticks

9.   Scampi Fries

10. Bacon Frazzles

Ian, via Facebook

Done and Dusted..

1. Walkers Cheese & Onion

2. Cheese Wotsits

3. Salt & Vinegar Twirls/Spirals

4. Walkers Sweet Chilli Sensations

5. Flamin' Hot Monster Munch

6. Spicy Tomato Snaps - from when I was a kid tho!!

7. Frazzles

8. Salt & Vinegar Squares

Top 8 crisps - Done!!

Tracy, via Facebook

'Nothern Raver'

Well, if you really need to know the definative list of what crisps to choose, you could do worse than follow my choices!!

5. Seabrooks Cheese and Onion. Very nice and the ruffles hold the flavour till your tongue gets hold of it. :-)

4. It has to be Prawn Cocktail Skips. Melt in your mouth and let out that burst of flavour! How ace is that?

3. Getting tougher now but my next choice is Pringles Salt and Vinegar, not quite strong enough to get to the top but very addictive. When they say "once you've popped, you can't stop" when they include a re-sealable lid??

2. Seabrooks Worcester Sauce. I know most people won't like this flavour, but i think it is fantastic! Eat more Worcester Sauce!!!

and finally for the top spot in crisp countdown by a bloke from Halifax it is:

1. Quavers Cheese flavour. I know, i know it's a controversial choice of crisp as some will argue it isn't technically a crisp but a curled processed potato snack, but by heck it has a nice hit of cheese in every bite!!

So there you have it, a Northern bloke and his choices of crisp. Pop that on your blog, have a brew and put your feet up with a multipack of Quavers!!

Ta Ta!

Mark S, via Email

Breaking 'The Rules'..

1.  Marmite Rice Cakes

(RICE CAKES????? - Scott)

2.  Sainsburys 'own brand' Tortilla

3.  Flamin' Hot Monster Munch

4.  BBQ Beef Hula Hoops

5.  Sainsburys 'own brand' Onion Rings

6.  Plain (Ready Salted) Walkers

7.  Frazzles

8.  Wotsits

...not sure if rice cakes are allowed?

Dan, via Facebook

Mixed Bag..

1.   Sea Salt and Black Pepper Kettle Chips

2.   Walkers Roast Chicken

3.   Sweet Chill Walkers Sensations

4.   Thai Chicken McCoys

5.   Nice n Spicy Nik Naks

6.   Ready Salted Puffs ( where did they go) :-(

7.   Cheesy Wotsits

8.   Worcester Sauce Wheat Crunchies (sorry about my bad spelling)

9.   Pickled Onion Space Raiders

10. Spars Spicy Twirls

...How did I manage to forget cheesy chilli pringles yum! ;-p

Charlotte, via Facebook

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Bacon's Back...?

1.  Frazzles

2.  Prawn Cocktail Wotsits

3.  Salt n Vinegar Chipstix

4.  Walkers Salt n Vinegar

5.  Skips

6.  Scampi n Lemon Nik Naks

7.  Bacon Wheat Crunchies

8.  Walkers Prawn Cocktail

Lucy, Peterborough

Kathryn's 'Quality' Choice

Can't pick just one so its a top ten .....

10 Scampi NikNaks
9 Frazzles
8 Flamin' Hot Monster Munch
7 Nice & Spicy Nik-Naks
6 Prawn Cocktail
5 Worcester Sauce French Fries (becoming an endangered species I fear)
4 Smokey Bacon
3 Salt & Vinegar
2 BBQ (Tesco's finest)
1 Salsa & Mesquite Kettle Chips (sadly discontinued)


As the failsafe that never disappoints .. Salt & Vinegar! (not ultimate fave but all time classic) Great board :o)


Kathryn, via Facebook

Finger Licking Reaction

Hi Guys,

Thought you would like to know what type of reaction your blog & facebook group is provoking...I went food shopping today and bought some Pickled Onion Monster Munch!! I just HAD to have them! Reading people's choices reminded me of just how good these were - so you can imagine my fury when my partner tried to share them! Haha!

Anyway, as difficult as it was to choose, my top 8 are as follows;

8. I know there are 2 here, but that's because they're only really good together at Christmas! Tescos Onion Rings and Cheese Balls
7. Prawn Cocktail Skips, the Merseyside Muncher was so right about these melting on your Tongue!
6. Nik Naks...Scamp & Lemon or Nice & Spicy...it's Nice & Spicy!
5. Pickled Onion Monster Munch. A classic!
4. Walkers Cheese & Onion. Got to be in the mood for them though.
3. Walkers Ready Salted French Fries - fantastic substitute for proper crisps when on a diet!
2. Not entirely sure these fall in the category of crisps, but...Twiglets!
1. It's got to be Walkers Ready Salted! They go with everything :)

Happy finger licking!
Gillian

Sarah's Salty Selection

Dear Desert Island Crisps. Here's my 8, all conservative Classics!

1)  Lightly Salted Kettle Chips

2)  Salt and Vinegar Walkers

3)  Wotsits

4)  Salt and Vinegar French Fries

5)  Cheese and Onion 

6)  Those crunch square ones – can’t remember name...

(I think you mean Smiths Square Crisps Sarah?! - Scott)

7)  Sweet Chilli Kettle Chips

8)  Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar Kettle Chips

Sarah, Peterborough

Merseyside Muncher....

Hi Luke and Scott...here we go

Ok, after numerous discussions on what actually consitutes a crisp, my list is a mixture of that lovely potato fried comfort food that is a proper crisp and lil snack ones that you cant do without.

8. Skips - love the melt on your tongue effect, and I'm conviced they do give you some omega 3 (prawn cocktail flavour, obviously)
7. Plain Hula Hoops - like potato but not really? Nice n crunchy - if you dont put one on each finger and bite off then you are simply missing out!
6. Walkers French Fries - boss - feel like your eating chips but only 97 calories a bag - I crunch them down like a squiral and nearly chomp me fingers off!
5. Cheetos (nobbly ones) - this are in America only I think, they resemble cheesy nicnaks and are so orange they stain your fingers for a few hours! Nutrition at its best lol
4. Beef McCoys - remind me of drunken sunday sessions, after too many bevvies in the pub these are the only things you can eat (if the kitchen is already shut)
3. Boots Hand cooked vegy crisps - ok maybe a crime to the crisp lovers, but I am a lady and do watch my weight so Im sure these are one of my five a day and a bit of a change from a potato!
2. Meanies - maybe just a northern thing, I remember them being 5p a bag, pickled onion flavouring that made my lil nose run and my eyes water, great green packaging, made you think u were buying a bag of slime - any kid's dream!
1.Walkers Cheese and Onion - I love these best crunched onto a Ham and Mustard Butty - yum! YA CANNY BEAT EM!

Good Luck with it all!!!

Nadine (Liverpool via Peterborough lol ) xxxxx

Old Skool Shaker...

Salt n Shake
Cheese umms - Pringles ( now no longer made :'( )
Roast Beef Monster Munch
Cheese n Onion Walkers ( HAS to be walkers )
Frazzles
Scampi & Lemon Nik Naks
Ready Salted French Fries
Wotsits

Becky :) , Out in the sticks...

Footballs and 'Phooey's'

Dear Desert Island Crisps,


um ... Hong Kong Fueys, Football Crazies, Barbeque Hula Hoops, Beef Monster Munch, Walkers Cheese and Onion, Barbeque Pringles, Cheese Quavers, and Cheese Nik Naks.

The one I couldn't do without is Walkers Cheese and Onion, although as a kid I would have taken up arms against anyone trying to take any of the above away from me!

Love Jon x

Monster Munch Teaser...

So hears a little teaser to get your minds working. The Original Monster Munch flavours were each associated with a particular monster.

So all you have to do is match the monster with the flavour...

A tall, pink, gangly creature with a floppy tongue                                      Saucy

A yellow, one-eyed creature with a red nose                                            Flamin' Hot

A hat-wearing blue creature with floppy-ears and four arms                       Roast Beef

A Fat, Orange creature with pink hair                                                      Pickled Onion

Best ever...??

Rob, Peterborough

SOUR CREAM AND CHIVE PRINGLES

 COOL ORIGINAL DORITOS

WALKERS PRAWN COCKTAIL

CHEESY WOTSITS

SCAMPI NIK NAKS

PICKLED ONION MONSTER MUNCH - BEST EVER

CHILLI MCCOYS

WALKERS SENSATIONS SWEET CHILLI FLAVOUR

Here's the first...

Lizzie, Peterborough

Walkers Salt and Vinegar

Walkers Plain

Walkers Cheese and Onion

McCoys Salt & Vinegar

Pringles Onion  & Chives

Bahlsen's (Lorenz) Paprika Crisps

Hula Hoops Plain Flavour

Quavers Cheese Flavour