I get Andy’s previews in my RUclips feed. still shot thumbnails of the next three or so videos that haven’t been released yet. I am able to comment on them. Subscribed, but not a patreon.
This may be the greatest channel I've ever encountered. Andy not only is our prog rock/fusion guide but he's the guide for the best snack food in the UK. It would be interesting to see what Andy thinks of american crisps.
Not many people know this but early playground discussion around the disappointing filling of an average British crisp packet is where the term 'content' originally came from...
My top 1970s picks from when crisps were crisps. Smith's Horror Bags (Bones, Ribs, Bats, Fangs and Claws), Burtons Piglets, Smith's Football Crazy and KP Rancheros.
@@danboid Not much different from any other maize and chemical crisp snack except for the additional rose tinted specs. Burton's Piglets were pretty special though.
When I lived in Leeds, I encountered Brannigans crisps at the Fenton pub (where Gang of Four used to play), and they were beyond amazing. Smoked Ham & Pickle I think, but also Roast Lamb & Mint. They did Roast Beef & Mustard but wasn't so keen on them. In the mid-seventies, Golden Wonder did a good Gammon flavour, with a dark blue bag that looked too similar to their Ready Salted. In the eighties, KP Cheese & Onion ruled - my dad used to get a big box of them from Tesco every week.
I played a small part in the development of Doritoes once. I was walking down a high street minding my own business only to be accosted by a friendly face with a clipboard. I was guided down an alleyway, up some stairs to a large office room with loads of people trying/tasting crisps. So I volunteered to give my thoughts and fill in the survey.
The history of the crisp goes back thousands of years. The crisp wars of 1618 sadly claimed over a 100,000 lives. And then there was the crisp embargo of 1751, which saw china without crisps for 27 years. The Chinese people protested for 5 years resulting in people being hung and even executed for dealing in crisps which had by this time gone underground. It’s goes on and one, but to this day there are several people in prison for using crisps as a dangerous weapon. Each prisoner used McCoys thick cut ridged beef barbecue to inflict maximum damage.
Eating those makes you a biohazard to anyone within a mile radius. By far the most anti-social packet of crisps on the market. A true two fingers up to the outside world.
I’m a Yank and I love this video. I only spent three months in the UK, while stationed at RAF Mildenhall in 1994. But I fell in love with crisps. Which I found out, were not just another name for what we call “chips”, but was its own culinary world. So, to be fair to your charge that Yanks won’t get this, I guess I’m the exception that proves your rule.
Thank you for your service. There has been some slow to hold influence of UK crisps on USA chips. Our chips have gotten crunchier with more varieties available now….im certain this is UK crisps greatness finally asserting their power across the pond (think Lays bought out Walkers…which was the key variable).
Lol Andy we haven't eaten crisps for millenia I think we only imported the potato from south America half way through the 16th century but nevertheless, still a good and worthy video. What shocks me most is space raiders were 10 pence for millenia and now they are ONLY 40 pence, shocking.
Minor point m'lud - Space Raiders, Monster Munch, Wotsits, Onion Rings, Chipsticks, Frazzles etc are not potato. They're corn and wheat - usually referred to as Maize snacks. That said, I am equal opportunity snack fan and would take potato or maize based fare over chocolate any day of the week. Nothing like the aftermath dislodging the remnants from your teeth. Pure heaven! Top vid!
Oh, Andy you got so poetic about the prawn cocktail! Who could have guessed that a crisp could inspire poetry? Never seen a prawn cocktail crisp, but I do remember when a prawn cocktail was the fancy thing to serve. Would love an actual prawn cocktail now; could taste the crisp too. Maybe if I ever get to travel to England.
I try to watch all your videos, wading through a sea of jibbering about noodley music with too many notes in hope of something like this. There's so much to say, like, did you know that back in the 60's when I was a kid, there were only plain crisps which always had a twist of blue, wax-proof paper containing salt? Walkers Salt n Shake were the first retro crisp. Thursday was payday so Thursday night was pop and crisp night and I distinctly remember dad bringing home the first packet of cheese and onion I ever saw, They remain my fave to this very day. I was completely unaware of the popularity of prawn cocktail crisps amongst our gay brethren but it makes sense now you mention it. But it reminds me of something we used to say when I was in my teens;- If girls are made of sugar and spice, why do they taste of prawn cocktail crisps? But much more important crisps is your smoking. I never took you for a smoker but now I know you are, I dare you to do an entire video, fag in hand, Dave Allan style. It would be a real blast from a past when it was completely normal for people we watched on screen to smoke. Go on, I double dare ya!
Andy- do you remember Tudor crisps ? founded in mackemland in 1947-it says here -but we won't hold that against them -hot dog and mustard /gammon/mint sauce !!! mental carry on 'a canny bag of Tudor' Great vid -Geordie Dave -still in Thailand (oh-these people have some bonkers flavour crisps ) x
Here in Spain, they do a fried egg flavoured crisp🍳, they taste just like the brown crispy bit you get around the edge of a fried egg. They are delicious. Failing those: pickled onion Monster Munch are the dog's b. 🐶🥚🥚 BTW, I've just noticed there is no crisp emoticon😮 Who do we complain to?
@@adude9882 Thirdly, for having the brass neck to change their cheese and onion flavour crisps recipe...for the worse of course! Not a patch on how they were!
"Upon the blank canvas of the crisp", ahh a beautiful metaphor Andy! If ready salted was the first album, then the second "difficult" album was cheese and onion. Salt and vinegar provided the challenge of the third album's direction, with hints of more acidic fusion to come!
Oh no Andy, I was expecting more research from you. When I was a boy in the 50s the only crisps I could get were Smith's crisps with a blue twist of salt. They were what crisps were. Other flavours came along much later. I would sit on the green while mum and dad popped into the blue lion for a drink and my sister and I would get Smith's crisps (and maybe a lemonade if we were lucky).
Horror bags. Bones and Fangs. Somewhere in the house I have a werewolf medallion, which is Lon Chaney's head, which I got from saving tokens from the bags. I also had something from Quavers, but I can't remember what that was.
When I was a kid my old Dad, who made bespoke computers for manufacturing processes did some work for a little crisp makers in Leicester. After tat the world of crisps changed.
Were Space Raiders originally KP Outer Space's? I love em. Monster Munch pickled onion are fantastic but Space Raiders pickled onion to me were just a tad bit more evily processed which gave me the shivers in a good way. Do they still make salt and vinegar Twisters? Snaps? They were tomato flavoured. Cheese and Onion Ringo's. 49 p for Chipsticks?😩😩😩 I remember when 😭😭😭 Ooooh. Skips. I'd forgotten about those. I'd never associated them with Lee Ritenour before. 😅 This video makes me depressed that I no longer live in the UK. I just feel like popping out to the local garage snack shop.
My all time favourite crisp is the long discontinued Burton's Potato Puffs. They were a staple in school tuck shops of the seventies and eighties. There is a campaign to get Burton's to bring them back but this is unlikely because Burton's claim they no longer have the machinery that made them.
@@colinthorn Yea, they kept the machines lovingly maintained for quite a few years but since the millenium they have been mothballed in the warehouse under tarpaulins. I doubt they even have the staff with the traditional skills to bring them back on line. It might make a good sixth form project for some work experience lads but like everything else the accountants put the kybosh on anything truly worthwhile. Starmer!
Pringles. “Like entering a mystical temple” awesome advertising, written boldly across the package in flair burst letter font. Over the top and funny as hell
I fell asleep last night listening to this, then you woke me up rabidly covering the last 'four' flavours, i was truely entertained, if not mildly informed. Cheers Andy
Okay enough of my silly comments. I actually have a really important question for you. Anthony. If Oliver Reed-Peter O'Toole-Richard Harris-Richard Burton-Keith Moon went into a Pub circa 1972 and had a proper drink off. Who would come out standing. Or semi-reeling. I'm going with Reed! Your thoughts....
12 years since I emigrated to New Zealand and the crisps I miss most are the Walkers cheese & onion... nothing like them, nothing like them here. For my birthday in August, my misses bought me 3 packs from The British Grocer which sells English produce but at an eye-watering price of $2·90 a pack... that's £1·45p! Still, worth every penny. The king of crisps!
I grew up in 1970s’ -Golden Wonder was the big brand -Beef flavor, Chicken, Cheese n Onion etc. Then funky flavors came in like Prawn Coctail. Then weird stuff like Monster munch, Skips etc. Then in the 80’s suddenly GW were no more and Walkers took over! I was shocked. I always lived Hoola Hoops, Wotsits and Chip Sticks though. This is one of your better, more important shows imo. Your biscuit show is still your greatest achievement and I put up with the music nonsense in the desperate, pathetic hope for content like this! I’m sure I’m not the only sad, pathetic, lonely old failure desperately clinging to your depressing Dickensian coat tails hoping for this!
Good choice! Chomped my way through a lot of KP Outer Spacers from the tuck shop to save the tokens for the Britain's space figures promotion. Happy days!
@@fightersweep Hamburger flavour were a solid second but the pickled onion,( accursed flavour), were vile. I’d pay good money to be able to once again wander down to an Off-License and purchase a bag of Chutney Outer Spacers and bottle of Blackcurrant Cresta.
@@davidwylde8426 I don't ever recall buying a pack of the pickled onion flavour. It was always beefburger or the chutney flavour for me too. They always seemed to have cool promotions running as well to help prise more pocket money out of me. Not that I needed much persuading. 70s heaven for me was a pack of Outer Spacers, some Trebor Double Agents and a can of Cider Top Deck.
@@fightersweep People fall into two camps. Those who remember pickled onion space stations and endure years of existential angst and depression, ….and those who have a well developed and sophisticated sense of masking and compartmentalisation, who don’t recall ever buying them and move on to be well adjusted and productive members of society 😉
My favourite crisps of all time were Smiths - Savoury Vinegar....how can you get more savoury than vinegar????? They were absolutely fantastic but are long gone. The closest I've come to that taste is eating a salt and vinegar crisp with a cheese and onion one at the same time. I think Dougal did the same on an episode of Father Ted at some point...have I reached such a nadir in my mental state? Current favourite is probably anything by Seabrooks and Space Raiders Pickled Onion....add to that Walkers Worcester Sauce ... when they don't skimp on the flavour as Walkers so often do....plus they have about 3 crisps in a pack these days so I generally avoid said make unless there is no alternative.
You had me at Beef Space Raiders. The food of the gods. "The lower types in the UK?" The words of a jazzer. PS Golden Wonder had prawn cocktail flavour way before FritoLay bought up all the UK crisp companies. PPS Skips smell bummy and are for weirdos.
In a sea of bland youtube mediocrity, the idiosyncracies of this rather contrarian - but not quite yet grumpy old mannish !!! - and very English youtuber are right up my street. Keep up the great work Andy. You are a treasure.
My parents ran a pub in the early 70's, giving me an early introduction into crisp culture. Cheese & Onion with a pickled egg inserted was the absolute peak of enjoyment
Cheese and Onion seems to be a UK phenomenon - probably because it is sweet (like prawn cocktail and BBQ). In continental Europe, "spicy" seems to be the predominant flavour. I got hooked on Cheese and Onion in the 1960s. I think it was the first flavour to be introduced by XL crisps (in white, opaque bags).
Wow, you really spilled your beans Andy. Once in a while I buy can of Pringles. Very satisfying. I think they are made of potato powder, pressed in shape.😅
According to my crisp'o meter model2600 the results are Gold medal :Niknaks: Scampi n' Lemon. Silver medal :Monster munch :pickled onion. Bronze medal: Cheese n' onion..any brand.
Rumour has it that Scampi n’ Lemon Nik Naks were withdrawn from sale for over a decade as they were found to be more addictive than crack. It was also impossible to open a packet in the office without somebody going “What’s that smell?”.
Been eating cheese n onion, chicken walkers crisps. Tried marmite crisps walkers. Amazing taste it was all i would buy then they stopped making them ??!!!
Finally, some real content.
True but what I want to know is how you posted this comment three days ago when it was only uploaded an hour ago????
@@trevorhoward2254 Patreon..?
I get Andy’s previews in my RUclips feed. still shot thumbnails of the next three or so videos that haven’t been released yet. I am able to comment on them. Subscribed, but not a patreon.
@@apparaoapparao I see. Thanks for explaining. And did it meet your expectations?
Possibly the greatest RUclips video ever. Certainly the most useful.
BETTER THAN any comedy currently on the BBC
Thr bar is pretty low though mate tbh.
@@edgarbaumann6002 That wouldn’t be difficult!
I like it when we talk about the deep stuff.
😅
This may be the greatest channel I've ever encountered. Andy not only is our prog rock/fusion guide but he's the guide for the best snack food in the UK. It would be interesting to see what Andy thinks of american crisps.
Brannigans beef and mustard R.I.P loved them
Hardcore Rock RUclipsr reviewing crisps . Yeah absolutely legend
Good to see this channel finally taking an intellectual turn.
Truly a brave guy. If Andy thought music fan backlash was vicious, he's about to get a rude awakening messing with the crisp audience.
Probably the most important video you've ever made...
☝️😎
I've no idea why this wasn't trailed in cinemas.
Playtime popcorn spend a lot of money keeping Andy's crisp fetish at bay.
The video we’ve all been waiting for
Not many people know this but early playground discussion around the disappointing filling of an average British crisp packet is where the term 'content' originally came from...
❤ pickled onion space raiders
My top 1970s picks from when crisps were crisps. Smith's Horror Bags (Bones, Ribs, Bats, Fangs and Claws), Burtons Piglets, Smith's Football Crazy and KP Rancheros.
The millennial palette boggles.
@@danboid Not much different from any other maize and chemical crisp snack except for the additional rose tinted specs. Burton's Piglets were pretty special though.
Very crisp delivery, Mr. Edwards.
Real ones know how much courage it took for this Top 10.
Thank you, sir.
If McCoy's salt and vinegar aren't top 3, I'm calling the police
What did you call them? Isn't it Salt and MALT vinegar? I'm sure that makes a difference.
Did you get the right jurisdiction?
@@danboid Birmingham cop shop said they gonna get 'im for crimes against crisp-kind
Wrong timeline.
When I lived in Leeds, I encountered Brannigans crisps at the Fenton pub (where Gang of Four used to play), and they were beyond amazing. Smoked Ham & Pickle I think, but also Roast Lamb & Mint. They did Roast Beef & Mustard but wasn't so keen on them. In the mid-seventies, Golden Wonder did a good Gammon flavour, with a dark blue bag that looked too similar to their Ready Salted. In the eighties, KP Cheese & Onion ruled - my dad used to get a big box of them from Tesco every week.
Thus empowering the kid. Another classic Andyism
I played a small part in the development of Doritoes once. I was walking down a high street minding my own business only to be accosted by a friendly face with a clipboard. I was guided down an alleyway, up some stairs to a large office room with loads of people trying/tasting crisps. So I volunteered to give my thoughts and fill in the survey.
Tnis is the big one Andy. Dob't mess it up. No pressure.
Monster Munch are Space Raiders' starch enemy.
I feel like I'm a better person after having watched this.
Cheese and Onion, no contest. Ask The Rutles ...
The history of the crisp goes back thousands of years. The crisp wars of 1618 sadly claimed over a 100,000 lives. And then there was the crisp embargo of 1751, which saw china without crisps for 27 years. The Chinese people protested for 5 years resulting in people being hung and even executed for dealing in crisps which had by this time gone underground. It’s goes on and one, but to this day there are several people in prison for using crisps as a dangerous weapon. Each prisoner used McCoys thick cut ridged beef barbecue to inflict maximum damage.
Low grade puffy corn is what I'm all about... especially 'transform-a-snack' and any supermarket brand cheese puffs or onion rings.
Beato = simply too SCARED to rank crisps.
Andy > Beato
You missed the Pom Bear crisps though, these are of course the ambrosia of the crisp world
Monster Munch, picked onion flavour.
Wise choice
The only ones I have these days, but I also had a thing for the Spaghetti ones.
Sublime. That inhale.
Eating those makes you a biohazard to anyone within a mile radius. By far the most anti-social packet of crisps on the market. A true two fingers up to the outside world.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer 'ow come these comments are 12 hours old when the bloomin' video is only 1 hour old?!
I’m a Yank and I love this video. I only spent three months in the UK, while stationed at RAF Mildenhall in 1994. But I fell in love with crisps. Which I found out, were not just another name for what we call “chips”, but was its own culinary world. So, to be fair to your charge that Yanks won’t get this, I guess I’m the exception that proves your rule.
Suffolk boy here, thank you for your service and I'm glad you enjoyed the crisps!
Thank you for your service. There has been some slow to hold influence of UK crisps on USA chips. Our chips have gotten crunchier with more varieties available now….im certain this is UK crisps greatness finally asserting their power across the pond (think Lays bought out Walkers…which was the key variable).
Another Suffolk boy here. Thanks for your service, too. Do you think Neal Peart is over-rated?
Ha Ha!
You made contact with crisp market at Mildenhall.
Lol Andy we haven't eaten crisps for millenia I think we only imported the potato from south America half way through the 16th century but nevertheless, still a good and worthy video. What shocks me most is space raiders were 10 pence for millenia and now they are ONLY 40 pence, shocking.
Shhhh. Don't ruin his thesis 😂
Minor point m'lud - Space Raiders, Monster Munch, Wotsits, Onion Rings, Chipsticks, Frazzles etc are not potato. They're corn and wheat - usually referred to as Maize snacks.
That said, I am equal opportunity snack fan and would take potato or maize based fare over chocolate any day of the week. Nothing like the aftermath dislodging the remnants from your teeth. Pure heaven!
Top vid!
You are correct and I should have stated this fact
Beato crying in his MOR plain salted Lay's chips right now. Suck it down, Rick.
There's a Dylan reference to be had there for sure.
And wouldn't you know... I had just opened up a bag of crisps as I saw this video pop up... That's...
a piece of information, I suppose...
Oh, Andy you got so poetic about the prawn cocktail! Who could have guessed that a crisp could inspire poetry?
Never seen a prawn cocktail crisp, but I do remember when a prawn cocktail was the fancy thing to serve. Would love an actual prawn cocktail now; could taste the crisp too. Maybe if I ever get to travel to England.
I try to watch all your videos, wading through a sea of jibbering about noodley music with too many notes in hope of something like this. There's so much to say, like, did you know that back in the 60's when I was a kid, there were only plain crisps which always had a twist of blue, wax-proof paper containing salt? Walkers Salt n Shake were the first retro crisp. Thursday was payday so Thursday night was pop and crisp night and I distinctly remember dad bringing home the first packet of cheese and onion I ever saw, They remain my fave to this very day.
I was completely unaware of the popularity of prawn cocktail crisps amongst our gay brethren but it makes sense now you mention it. But it reminds me of something we used to say when I was in my teens;- If girls are made of sugar and spice, why do they taste of prawn cocktail crisps?
But much more important crisps is your smoking. I never took you for a smoker but now I know you are, I dare you to do an entire video, fag in hand, Dave Allan style. It would be a real blast from a past when it was completely normal for people we watched on screen to smoke. Go on, I double dare ya!
Andy- do you remember Tudor crisps ? founded in mackemland in 1947-it says here -but we won't hold that against them -hot dog and mustard /gammon/mint sauce !!! mental carry on 'a canny bag of Tudor' Great vid -Geordie Dave -still in Thailand (oh-these people have some bonkers flavour crisps ) x
I don't, I see a gap in my knowledge
Tudor and Smiths were both taken over by Walkers👍😎
Here in Spain, they do a fried egg flavoured crisp🍳, they taste just like the brown crispy bit you get around the edge of a fried egg. They are delicious. Failing those: pickled onion Monster Munch are the dog's b. 🐶🥚🥚
BTW, I've just noticed there is no crisp emoticon😮 Who do we complain to?
Walker's can eff right off. Firstly for swapping the colours around and secondly for enriching Gary Lineker.
I have neither a TV or licence nor do ever buy walkers crisps. I'm probably on one of Starmer's watchlists.
@@adude9882 Thirdly, for having the brass neck to change their cheese and onion flavour crisps recipe...for the worse of course! Not a patch on how they were!
@@adude9882 Boy, are you badass
"Upon the blank canvas of the crisp", ahh a beautiful metaphor Andy! If ready salted was the first album, then the second "difficult" album was cheese and onion. Salt and vinegar provided the challenge of the third album's direction, with hints of more acidic fusion to come!
Does that make prawn cocktail the psychedelic era?
Oh no Andy, I was expecting more research from you. When I was a boy in the 50s the only crisps I could get were Smith's crisps with a blue twist of salt. They were what crisps were. Other flavours came along much later. I would sit on the green while mum and dad popped into the blue lion for a drink and my sister and I would get Smith's crisps (and maybe a lemonade if we were lucky).
This might be the best thing I've ever seen on RUclips.😍
Andy, some of the funny things you say are the things you dont realise you are saying. It just rolls off and its funny.
i know...it is because I am an idiot.
Horror bags. Bones and Fangs. Somewhere in the house I have a werewolf medallion, which is Lon Chaney's head, which I got from saving tokens from the bags. I also had something from Quavers, but I can't remember what that was.
Got pencil and ready to take notes
Leave it to Andy to do a proper exegesis of the mytho-psychology of alien themed crisps
This video needs a glossary for US viewers.
Personally, I always preferred a packet of KP or a Marathon.
When I was a kid my old Dad, who made bespoke computers for manufacturing processes did some work for a little crisp makers in Leicester. After tat the world of crisps changed.
Were Space Raiders originally KP Outer Space's?
I love em. Monster Munch pickled onion are fantastic but Space Raiders pickled onion to me were just a tad bit more evily processed which gave me the shivers in a good way.
Do they still make salt and vinegar Twisters?
Snaps? They were tomato flavoured.
Cheese and Onion Ringo's.
49 p for Chipsticks?😩😩😩
I remember when 😭😭😭
Ooooh. Skips. I'd forgotten about those. I'd never associated them with Lee Ritenour before. 😅
This video makes me depressed that I no longer live in the UK. I just feel like popping out to the local garage snack shop.
Cheese and Onion ringos! Excellent crisp knowledge
Salt & Shake is a brilliant idea. Greetings from New York where we don't even have crisps. Bastards.
My all time favourite crisp is the long discontinued Burton's Potato Puffs. They were a staple in school tuck shops of the seventies and eighties. There is a campaign to get Burton's to bring them back but this is unlikely because Burton's claim they no longer have the machinery that made them.
Menu Crackers and milk.
Potato Puffs? You can't talk like that in this day and age mate.
They still have the technology to make them, they just don't want you to know ...
@@colinthorn Yea, they kept the machines lovingly maintained for quite a few years but since the millenium they have been mothballed in the warehouse under tarpaulins. I doubt they even have the staff with the traditional skills to bring them back on line. It might make a good sixth form project for some work experience lads but like everything else the accountants put the kybosh on anything truly worthwhile. Starmer!
That's the same excuse NASA use for not having returned to the moon.
did expect this video to be this great Xddd
My Missus likes Salt & Shake and she doesn't put the salt on them.
My missus does that but she doesn't eat them either.
Seabrook crisps were my favourite for a while. I always came across them and bought them in the late 1980s/early 90s but never see them now.
They’re still around - Morrisons and B&M Bargains usually sell them. I love ‘em!
Whereas I had never seen them until the last few years.
I just happen to have a bag of Seabrook Fire Eaters - Trinidad Scorpion Chili ridged crisps. For a crisp they are spicy as F.
Baileys in Ross on Wye
Available in Tescos
Great title. Tells what the post is about and gets right to it. Cheers.
I'm not messing
Awesome video have a great weekend day Andy ❤😊
Pringles. “Like entering a mystical temple” awesome advertising, written boldly across the package in flair burst letter font. Over the top and funny as hell
Pringles are flammable though, or at least they used to be, which I always found a bit weird.
I fell asleep last night listening to this, then you woke me up rabidly covering the last 'four' flavours, i was truely entertained, if not mildly informed. Cheers Andy
The lady flavoured pub crisp...scampi fries
or the bloke flavoured bacon fries
😂
Rib 'n Saucy Nik Naks are criminally underrated, thanks for this video from all of us in the Rib 'n Saucy Nik Nak Community.
KP Outer Spacers - Burger flavour…….with Roysters T Bone steak as a runner-up
Okay enough of my silly comments. I actually have a really important question for you. Anthony. If Oliver Reed-Peter O'Toole-Richard Harris-Richard Burton-Keith Moon went into a Pub circa 1972 and had a proper drink off. Who would come out standing. Or semi-reeling. I'm going with Reed! Your thoughts....
Brilliant!! Utter genius!!! I haven't stopped laughing yet!!
I'm looking forward to Prog Rocksalt & Vinegar.
I'm halfway through this video and its gone exactly how I want it.
Edit: No1 Should have been Frazzles.
12 years since I emigrated to New Zealand and the crisps I miss most are the Walkers cheese & onion... nothing like them, nothing like them here. For my birthday in August, my misses bought me 3 packs from The British Grocer which sells English produce but at an eye-watering price of $2·90 a pack... that's £1·45p! Still, worth every penny. The king of crisps!
Torres black truffle ❤yeahhhh
1. space raiders. 2. transform-a-snack 3. tomato wheat crunchies .. no brainer
1. Walkers Prawn Cocktail
2. Walkers Pickled onion
That is all I need.
"For millennia we've eaten potatoes"
Potatoes are famously exotic foods from the Americas, which Europeans were initially reluctant to eat.
don't taste very 'exotic' though do they... could pass for indigenous uk grub.
I’m tempted to say this video really takes the biscuit but such a comment would be hard to swallow - I’ll eat my words and packet in now!
As long as we don't have to witness you chomping your way through every packet 😂
A great subject to talk about Mr Edwards. The only thing that was missing was Red Leicester cheddars. Another subject for debate is top 10 sandwiches.
I grew up in 1970s’ -Golden Wonder was the big brand -Beef flavor, Chicken, Cheese n Onion etc. Then funky flavors came in like Prawn Coctail. Then weird stuff like Monster munch, Skips etc. Then in the 80’s suddenly GW were no more and Walkers took over! I was shocked. I always lived Hoola Hoops, Wotsits and Chip Sticks though. This is one of your better, more important shows imo. Your biscuit show is still your greatest achievement and I put up with the music nonsense in the desperate, pathetic hope for content like this! I’m sure I’m not the only sad, pathetic, lonely old failure desperately clinging to your depressing Dickensian coat tails hoping for this!
Your hair looks great, Andy.
Works well for a prog man and a crisps maven.
What with that cravatte he's taken to wearing he's a shoe in to play Uncle Monty if they ever do a remake of Withnail and I, which I hope they don't.
No.1 should be ‘Chutney flavour Outer Spacers’, from Mid to Late 70’s. Beyond dispute.
Good choice! Chomped my way through a lot of KP Outer Spacers from the tuck shop to save the tokens for the Britain's space figures promotion. Happy days!
@@fightersweep Hamburger flavour were a solid second but the pickled onion,( accursed flavour), were vile.
I’d pay good money to be able to once again wander down to an Off-License and purchase a bag of Chutney Outer Spacers and bottle of Blackcurrant Cresta.
@@davidwylde8426 I don't ever recall buying a pack of the pickled onion flavour. It was always beefburger or the chutney flavour for me too. They always seemed to have cool promotions running as well to help prise more pocket money out of me. Not that I needed much persuading. 70s heaven for me was a pack of Outer Spacers, some Trebor Double Agents and a can of Cider Top Deck.
@@fightersweep People fall into two camps. Those who remember pickled onion space stations and endure years of existential angst and depression,
….and those who have a well developed and sophisticated sense of masking and compartmentalisation, who don’t recall ever buying them and move on to be well adjusted and productive members of society 😉
Murphy's cheese and onion ... excellent when u have the munchies
You need to start using the tier list tools for this sort of stuff Andy, where you place each packet in the tier list ranked S to E.
5 minutes in ...
I bloody hope Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard or Ham & Pickle flavours are in here 😛
My favourite crisps of all time were Smiths - Savoury Vinegar....how can you get more savoury than vinegar?????
They were absolutely fantastic but are long gone. The closest I've come to that taste is eating a salt and vinegar crisp with a cheese and onion one at the same time. I think Dougal did the same on an episode of Father Ted at some point...have I reached such a nadir in my mental state? Current favourite is probably anything by Seabrooks and Space Raiders Pickled Onion....add to that Walkers Worcester Sauce ... when they don't skimp on the flavour as Walkers so often do....plus they have about 3 crisps in a pack these days so I generally avoid said make unless there is no alternative.
You had me at Beef Space Raiders. The food of the gods. "The lower types in the UK?" The words of a jazzer.
PS Golden Wonder had prawn cocktail flavour way before FritoLay bought up all the UK crisp companies.
PPS Skips smell bummy and are for weirdos.
In a sea of bland youtube mediocrity, the idiosyncracies of this rather contrarian - but not quite yet grumpy old mannish !!! - and very English youtuber are right up my street. Keep up the great work Andy. You are a treasure.
Marvellous. If I had my way everything would be seen in relation to crisps.
Enjoying my smoked pheasant and wild mushroom crisps (from the Chatsworth farm shop) - highly recommended! Great video Andy 🎉
These could be the poshest crisps in the world
My parents ran a pub in the early 70's, giving me an early introduction into crisp culture. Cheese & Onion with a pickled egg inserted was the absolute peak of enjoyment
Where did you insert the pickled egg?
Rick won't be doing this, or will he?
He is not a big crisp eater
That'd be a Top 10 chips and it would be RUBBISH.
Bovril square crisps were lovely.
I would be really interested to know what crisps Mahavishnu John would have eaten during the writing of Inner Mounting Flame.
Heinz are now making Pickled Onion Monster Munch mayonnaise. I couldn't bring myself to buy it.
That would work well in a burger.
No half baked content here Andy. Anyone who could involve Henry VIII in the story of the humble crisp - has my admiration.
Frazzles
Cheese and Onion seems to be a UK phenomenon - probably because it is sweet (like prawn cocktail and BBQ). In continental Europe, "spicy" seems to be the predominant flavour. I got hooked on Cheese and Onion in the 1960s. I think it was the first flavour to be introduced by XL crisps (in white, opaque bags).
Salted Lays chips are top of the pops.
Wow, you really spilled your beans Andy.
Once in a while I buy can of Pringles. Very satisfying. I think they are made of potato powder, pressed in shape.😅
Now I want some!
stay tuned ! next week andy jumps a tank full of kippers !
According to my crisp'o meter model2600 the results are
Gold medal :Niknaks: Scampi n' Lemon.
Silver medal :Monster munch :pickled onion.
Bronze medal: Cheese n' onion..any brand.
Rumour has it that Scampi n’ Lemon Nik Naks were withdrawn from sale for over a decade as they were found to be more addictive than crack. It was also impossible to open a packet in the office without somebody going “What’s that smell?”.
Been eating cheese n onion, chicken walkers crisps. Tried marmite crisps walkers. Amazing taste it was all i would buy then they stopped making them ??!!!
Mate , you can find walkers marmite crisps everywhere still , at least here in the west midlands 👍
@@billyhodges7194 Ok i will try and get some.
Crisps? CRISPS!!!! okay, I'll hear you out I guess.....
I remember when the salt and shake Smith crisp was the only crisp available. These date back to at least the 60s, probably decades before.
Tyrells naked winner everytime ❤😂😂😂😂Ocado