It used to be tha5 there were big bags and multi-packs. I guess big bags became less popular as people became more health conscious: they don't front of the TV with a family and hare a bowl of crisps any more. Even in kids parties they are often just put into the table unopened: the wastage is less.
I have seen small bags being stitched together and you can rip a bag off. Still a lot of packaging for what it is, but the outer shell really is useless
@ Yeah, I remember! I realised that the image they show in the video with the £1.25 label is a multipack. Individual packets now cost 40p which is still outrageous when you consider they remained 10p for 20 years.
I would be mad at that, if it wasn’t for the fact that inflation always happens as time passes. What was a lot of money 100 years ago is chump change today
@@ashhabimran239 Of course we know that inflation is a thing, but it’s kind of a running joke in British pop culture that Space Raiders are supposed to be inflation proof. During the 2008 recession, there were memes on Facebook about how we were all doomed because even Space Raiders had risen in price, and they were supposed to be 10p forever! (It was the first price increase in 20 years) A similar thing happened with Cadbury’s Freddos. They cost 10p until around 2005, then the price began to increase. There’s even something known as the ‘Freddo Index’ where people use the cost of a single Freddo to demonstrate the effects of inflation.
@@sirgaz8699I love them too, but I cannot explain why, especially given that, to me, the flavour is that of the smell you get when washing up a dish with burned on beef casserole. I, weirdly, like that smell.
When the likes of Spicy Nik Naks were introduced, the term spicy was more commonly used as a descriptor indicating that the product contained spices. It wasn’t an indication of heat. That is why so many from the US think that it’s hilarious to claim that people from the UK can’t take spice (meaning heat from chilis) in their food. So unless it is something that has been recently introduced or originates from the US, the term spicy in the UK has just traditionally meant that the item contains spices like coriander, cinnamon, nutmeg or even ground pepper but in large enough quantities to make them a predominant flavour.
Yeah, actual spicy food in terms of heat seems pretty popular in the uk and currys and indians are both extremely popular, so it seems this is true and british people actually like "spice" a lot
Our Christmas food traditionally contains the spices Lynne mentions, which are cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, none of which are "hot". We have curries containing garam masala, turmeric, coriander, cardamom, cumin none of which are particularly hot. We obtained our spices from the East via the Spice Route since the 10th century and this led to increased trade with India and from there to the British East India Company and from there to the expansion of the British Empire. Spices led to the globalisation of the world.
I love this crossover. I never expected them to know each other, but it's a lot of fun watching them chat. They bring out each other's inner naughty boy.
You're in luck - this isn't the first collab they've had! They did a similar video on ice creams a while back that was exactly the same vibes. Edit: you can probably tell I wrote this before the video finished, since they refer to that exact video at the very end 🙈
is it just me or is the pickled onion space raider wayyy more common than the beef one? pretty sure the shop near me only sells the pickled onion ones (they’re also way better than the beef imo, but they still don’t top monster munch)
Similar boat here, but I find them quite filling so it would take 2-3 sessions to eat a whole tub. But I can tell right off neither of the two in the vid like Marmite, as Twiglets are Marmite flavour snacks. I love Marmite, which is why I love Twiglets
Loving the variety, no pun intended, of your content Evan, it's great not knowing what to expect every week. And fab to see Matt again, he's fun and your chemistry together works wonderfully. Seabrooks all the way for me!
I sit here watching this with a half-eaten tube of mini twiglets that have remained that way for several weeks. This is not because I dislike twiglets. This is because I can't eat them in my bedroom or the smell would overwhelm the space, I can't eat them in my flat living room in the middle of the night because the sound would keep my flatmate awake, and I can't eat them in my flat living room in the middle of the day, because then I am at risk of my flatmate discovering that I like twiglets. So until my flatmate goes away for the weekend or I sacrifice my dignity and go on a walk to a park bench purely for the sake of eating twiglets in a respectful manner, I am stuck. In here. With them.
Fun fact for Matt: onion powder is just dried onion ground up, it's entirely natural and has been around for basically forever. Same thing for garlic powder, just literally garlic in dust form.
I think one reason for the popularity of small bags of crisps is that unrealistically small portions of unhealthy food allows the manufacturer to use friendlier colour nutritional traffic lights on the packet. e.g. they can say one portion contains a low fraction of your daily salt or sugar or fat and have the nutritional sign be a nice green or yellow, but realistically nobody's eating fewer than 3 "portions" at once.
This is definitely true. But also, I do think there is something psychologically about the small bags that still encourages you to eat less. Like each time you open a new bag it is more obvious how much you are consuming. True I would eat 2-3 small bags at a time but if I have a big sharing bag I will easily eat the equivalent of like 6-7 small bags without conceptualising it that way
When I first moved to the UK five years ago I used to get a craving for a big amount of crisps, and missed the 300g bags I used to buy, so I definitely ate 3-4 small single portion bags at once. After a while it dropped to 2 bags, and now I often have just one. I don't know why, but somehow it works for me! I'm not even consciously restricting calories or anything, it's just that finishing the small bag brings some kind of satisfaction that even five times that amount taken from a bigger bag can never give me if there's still some left 🤷
It's kind of like how one of those small mint chocolates you often get from a restaurant or a hotel can feel enough because there's just that one to begin with. But give me a box of After Eights with nobody watching (so no need to share or worry about what anyone will think of me) and I'll eat half of them in one go 😂
I could tell they was twiglets by the thumbnail i love them that much! They are flavoured with yeast extract which is why alot of people say it tastes like marmite, which people have a love or hate relationship with in the UK.
I also love twiglets, whilst absolutely understanding why people hate them. They are an objectively confusing pleasure. Sometimes, while I’m eating them, I actively wonder whether I actually hate them and am just kidding myself… but then I irresistibly want to put more in my mouth, so 🤷♀️😂
Love that you instantly described prawn cocktail crisps as ketchup flavour. I use that description to describe them to my Kiwi friends (you can't get then there) but my British friends think I'm mad. They are a guilty pleasure except the posh ones which have real prawn in them and are rank.
We do have share size bags of crisps in UK supermarkets but what Evan says is true - I’ve been to the US and generally when you buy a large bag of crisps, it’s filled entirely with that crisp. Here share size bags are quite limited in range and it’s mostly multipacks you’ll find. I agree it’s much better in the US 😅 whenever ive found share bags it’s often supermarkets own brands and things whereas in the US you can get known brands like Cheetos. Also Nik Naks nice n spicy are one of the best crisps for sure!
Disco crisps used to have bubbles in them, presumably the method changed. Chipsticks are frenemy crisps - they taste good but then get thoroughly stuck in my teeth and no amount of tongue gymnastics will get the stuff out.
I loved Discos as a kid, but I don’t remember them having bubbles. The recipe’s definitely changed though. Does anyone remember Roysters crisps? They had bubbles.
That is definitely Roysters you are thinking of. Discos never had bubbles. On the Roysters for the two commenting, try your local cheap as chips corner shop. Mine is a Premier and sells all kinds of stuff I can't get at supermarkets. Roysters being one.
Most of the crisps like Ringo's, Monster Munch, Discos and Chipsticks tasted so much better when the were first released. They used to be more condensed and powdery. They are all maize rubbish now (probably cheaper to make), which just tears up your mouth and give you indigestion. Thanks for the video guys, took me back.
i really want that mr blobby t shirt, you know you should do a video reviewing the weirdest usa mascots vs the weirdest UK mascots i think that would make a fun spooky video for halloween
The thing about McCoys is when you get the Daddy Crisp, which has way more of the flavouring. Some of them stay in the drum (basially the freshly cooked/drained crisps get put in revolving drum where the flavouring is added) through a couple of applications of the flavouring, and - especially with the 'meat' flavours, it results in a way darker crisp.
For some reason the multipack McCoy's are awful but the slightly bigger packs you get in meal deals are absolutely banging, especially the thai chicken flavour
Watching this made me kind of sad. A lot of these crisps (e.g. Discos, Squares, Space Invaders) used to be _amazing_ 30 years ago, whereas now they're all carpboardy trash. We used to have hundreds of different factory/brands but now almost all crisp companies have been bought out by the same few monopolies, which in turn have all switched to "healthier" oils, no MSG, etc etc. Much like Sugar Tax recently ruined the drinks aisle :(
And a classic British flavour that was leaving a gaping hole in your crisp experience, is the good old Worcester sauce! Seabrook do a banging one but the walkers , purple packet are fab too. Different texture experience depending on your preference.
Twiglets are one of those ones that mums across the uk add to their Christmas food shop, and they sit on the table for the next month half eaten - everyone takes a handful thinking maybe they’ll like them this year…nope
I love Frazzles but I prefer Bacon Fries. They’re similar, and they’re both made by Smiths (who are now owned by Walkers), but they’re crispier, less oily, and taste even more bacony. If you think Frazzles are a pub snack then you should try Bacon Fries. I think they’re exclusively sold in pubs (unless you buy a multipack which consists of 24 packets stapled to a cardboard hanger instead of in a box), and they’re sold in tiny packets like peanuts. They also sell Scampi Fries which are yummy but they stink.
As a kid I always used to eat Quiche and Hula Hoops together by using the hoops as a sort of "Cookie Cutter" and then getting small bites of creamy filling encircled by salted crispy potato. I do recommend it.
Couple of things: Walker's 'Supreme' prawn cocktail is to differentiate from the low salt version, which are branded 'Delicate'; Monster Munch shapes are mini monsters, not feet or teeth - the protrusions are arms and legs (they also come in roast beef flavour, among others); Twiglets are S tier.
No, they're definitely meant to be monster feet - Walkers came out and said: "A spokesperson for Walkers said: “We love that everyone is in a pickle over the shape of Monster Munch. “They are one of Britain’s favourite snacks and whilst we think of them as monsters’ feet, we don’t want that to stop people from coming up with their own imaginative ideas.”"
Pom-bears are the only crisps I would ever eat, not something I would buy as I don't buy junk food or snacks, but my nephew had a birthday party and my parents had bought multiple big bags but the party ended up not working out (combination of barely any RSVPs and he felt like he was going to be ill and was enough of a reason to cancel) so I ended up taking like 22 packets home, lasted almost 3 months. I care far more about texture than taste and pom-bears have my ideal texture I forgot chipsticks existed, they were my main choice as a little kid, amazing texture
5:40 This is a very common exp amongst us ADHDers and other NDs too; just like smth a lot and then suddenly one day it shifts into meh territory - and then it **may** shift back, but it def wont if forced to eat the thing that now tastes meh
@@Thurgosh_OG Youd be shocked by how common neurodivergence rly is; we make up easily a quarter of the population, likely much more, if not for the medicalisation of ND existence which makes us jump thru hoops and pay out of pocket to get diagnosed Like, most my biofams ND and either dont even know it or theyre of the younger biofam and maybe got dxd if their traits were clear enuf at the right times and posed a problem to those around them Theres many an NT out there who can eat the exact same meatloaf every wk and nvr get tired of it. Its also just the frequency with which the change of taste hits; for ND folk like Matt and myself, particularly bein ADHD, that sudden taste change is a much more common occurence and it can even hit extra hard, usually for folks with ARFID but others as well - like to the pt where a prev safe food suddenly doesnt just taste meh, but it tastes gagworthy and may even make them throw up if forced to eat it A lot of ND exps are things that arent entirely unheard amongst NTs, but just with the frequency and intensity turned up quite a bit. Like, some NTs can hear the hum of electricity sure, but NDs who hear such; its much much more intense, harder to just parse out from other sounds and ignore, and to the pt where it causes a physical reaction (like me grindin my teeth when i hear loud noises or lots of noise; or feelin deeply furious at the noise; or just feelin sick to my stomach from the noise)
I get Twiglets as a Xmas present most years. Love them. Very moorish. That is a nice big container you have there. DON'T dispose of them. Send them to me.
How DARE you disparage Twiglets!!! It wouldn’t be Christmas in my family without my Yorkshire aunt constructing the fabled Tower of Twiglehem, aka ten tubs of Twiglets stacked in a pyramid in her living room as we arrive, which WILL all be consumed before New Year’s Eve (alright, maybe only my family is the entire Twiglets market these days 😂😂😂)
Twiglets... oh yes... but I like bitter flavours! Or simple salt and shake. I used to eat half the pack clean, then double salt the other half. Oh and Frazzles....
My husband loves twiglets and we always have them at Christmas. For me, they are OK, nothing special. My favourite crisps are Walkers Prawn Cocktail, Skips and Walkers Cheese & Onion.
Shoutout to the discontinued haggis and cracked black pepper crisps from Mackies, and next time definitely try the Tyrells sweet chilli and sour cream!
Twiglets are Delicious! As a child they were one of the only things I would eat. I didn't like crisps then and even though I tend to eat crisps more now twiglets are still a treat!
15:24 Some of us get them because we’re allergic to uncooked salt, so we buy crisps where the salt is separate and simply store the salt elsewhere for cooking/other people.
I like how you experienced such a range of styles of crisps. From the ones that are just 'eat a pack as a snack' like Squares to the ones which I really want to see next to a ploughman's lunch (like Tyrells) to give some crunch and different flavour. I'd never eat Tyrells as a snack, but with a big slab of some bread, cheese, ham, etc, mmmm.
Salt and shake were sold in the UK from the mid seventies as gimmick that being you got the choice of plain or salted crisps from the same bag, previous to this the only flavours I remember being available were plain, ready salted and cheese and onion. I think smokey bacon and prawn cocktail were next to be released with chicken after this.
well.... I mean Smiths started making them in the 1920's they were the first commercially availably Crisp, and came with a twist of salt in blue paper. Smiths was bought by walkers in 1982 (I mean they were both bough by nabisco then were both sold to Pepsico and then they killed off the Smiths branding in favour of Walkers.
This video has reminded me that I need to stock up on twiglets for Christmas. I was the kid at the birthday parties eating all the twiglets. And the egg sandwiches!
the point of the smaller bags inside the big bags are for putting in like kids lunch boxes to take to school and not being a mess
it surprised me every single time it happened in this video, its just so bizarre.
It used to be tha5 there were big bags and multi-packs. I guess big bags became less popular as people became more health conscious: they don't front of the TV with a family and hare a bowl of crisps any more. Even in kids parties they are often just put into the table unopened: the wastage is less.
@@oakstrong1 Except for the huge amount of added plastic.
I have seen small bags being stitched together and you can rip a bag off. Still a lot of packaging for what it is, but the outer shell really is useless
You literally just made that up
The first Quaver from the packet, when you've not had them for ages, is S-tier. But then the rest of the bag is B-tier 😅
That is true for all crisps more or less.
Yes. You hope someone else buys a packet.
@@57thornschips*
@@Khloya69this is a video about British CRISPS - take your incorrect Americanisms elsewhere !
@ Americanisms are never incorrect
The fact that Space Raiders are now £1.25 is the ultimate sign that inflation has gotten out of control. I could swear they were 10p for decades!
They were. It was a minor scandal when they went up to 15p.
@ Yeah, I remember! I realised that the image they show in the video with the £1.25 label is a multipack. Individual packets now cost 40p which is still outrageous when you consider they remained 10p for 20 years.
I would be mad at that, if it wasn’t for the fact that inflation always happens as time passes. What was a lot of money 100 years ago is chump change today
@ashhabimran239 Sure - but 10p in 1995 adjusted for inflation is still only 13p.
@@ashhabimran239 Of course we know that inflation is a thing, but it’s kind of a running joke in British pop culture that Space Raiders are supposed to be inflation proof. During the 2008 recession, there were memes on Facebook about how we were all doomed because even Space Raiders had risen in price, and they were supposed to be 10p forever! (It was the first price increase in 20 years) A similar thing happened with Cadbury’s Freddos. They cost 10p until around 2005, then the price began to increase. There’s even something known as the ‘Freddo Index’ where people use the cost of a single Freddo to demonstrate the effects of inflation.
I was the kid at the party that ate the whole bowl of Twiglets, I bloody love them
What do they taste like to you?
Twiglets are such a disappointment nowadays. They used to be great. Not now.
@@sirgaz8699I love them too, but I cannot explain why, especially given that, to me, the flavour is that of the smell you get when washing up a dish with burned on beef casserole. I, weirdly, like that smell.
@@sirgaz8699 like burnt wood, but i like it
same here, but I also love the smell of smoke so may be something in that perhaps?
When the likes of Spicy Nik Naks were introduced, the term spicy was more commonly used as a descriptor indicating that the product contained spices. It wasn’t an indication of heat. That is why so many from the US think that it’s hilarious to claim that people from the UK can’t take spice (meaning heat from chilis) in their food.
So unless it is something that has been recently introduced or originates from the US, the term spicy in the UK has just traditionally meant that the item contains spices like coriander, cinnamon, nutmeg or even ground pepper but in large enough quantities to make them a predominant flavour.
Yep. It does seem that the only spice Americans are aware of is chili powder.
@@felonmarmer more like fake capsaicin, all of their food is super artificial
Yeah, actual spicy food in terms of heat seems pretty popular in the uk and currys and indians are both extremely popular, so it seems this is true and british people actually like "spice" a lot
Spicy means spices. Ppl don’t understand this
Our Christmas food traditionally contains the spices Lynne mentions, which are cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, none of which are "hot". We have curries containing garam masala, turmeric, coriander, cardamom, cumin none of which are particularly hot. We obtained our spices from the East via the Spice Route since the 10th century and this led to increased trade with India and from there to the British East India Company and from there to the expansion of the British Empire. Spices led to the globalisation of the world.
I love this crossover. I never expected them to know each other, but it's a lot of fun watching them chat. They bring out each other's inner naughty boy.
You're in luck - this isn't the first collab they've had! They did a similar video on ice creams a while back that was exactly the same vibes.
Edit: you can probably tell I wrote this before the video finished, since they refer to that exact video at the very end 🙈
OK, I'm wrong but I love Twiglets. LOL
me too lol
@@Flutterbi twiglets are wonderful!
theyre so goooood
Me three.
at least we can all admit we're wrong for liking twiglets, those sick puppies ate Skips like they aren't a crime against humanity
is it just me or is the pickled onion space raider wayyy more common than the beef one? pretty sure the shop near me only sells the pickled onion ones (they’re also way better than the beef imo, but they still don’t top monster munch)
Yes, always pickled onion. Imo, should be S tier because they were priced by the manufacturer not the retailer at around a third of the price.
Haven't seen any flavour other than Beef for years.
I only ate the spicy flavour (like nik naks) ones, and the shop didn't always have them but always had the other flavours you mentioned 😢
Best part of every Sunday is when Evan drops his vids
Double Matt and Evan is just an extra treat!
I love Twiglets. I would eat the whole tub within 30 minutes
Similar boat here, but I find them quite filling so it would take 2-3 sessions to eat a whole tub. But I can tell right off neither of the two in the vid like Marmite, as Twiglets are Marmite flavour snacks. I love Marmite, which is why I love Twiglets
i love them but can see why someone would hate them
same, nothing else beats twiglets for me
I love them but surprisingly I hate marmite
for me they are the tier above s-tier, league of their own at the top
Loving the variety, no pun intended, of your content Evan, it's great not knowing what to expect every week. And fab to see Matt again, he's fun and your chemistry together works wonderfully. Seabrooks all the way for me!
Not only do I love Twiglets, but as a Brit living abroad, I literally have Twiglet cravings, and ship them out whenever I'm placing a big order.
I sit here watching this with a half-eaten tube of mini twiglets that have remained that way for several weeks. This is not because I dislike twiglets. This is because I can't eat them in my bedroom or the smell would overwhelm the space, I can't eat them in my flat living room in the middle of the night because the sound would keep my flatmate awake, and I can't eat them in my flat living room in the middle of the day, because then I am at risk of my flatmate discovering that I like twiglets. So until my flatmate goes away for the weekend or I sacrifice my dignity and go on a walk to a park bench purely for the sake of eating twiglets in a respectful manner, I am stuck. In here. With them.
If you have so many restrictions, how the hell were you able to eat half of them? 😂😂
Surely a first world problem, woe is you.
😂
a crip packet would wake tour flatmate? wtf
@@Alfonso162008 That's how they found out about the smell overwhelming their bedroom.
Twiglets are a very much Christmas crisps and no one i know has ever had them any other time of year
This. But also love them 🤣.
?? Every day at work. Best part - licking your fingers with the excess flavouring. But I am a Marmite lover.
Do you give them to kids who’ve been naughty in place of coal?
We just put it on their plates, always seem to have at least a few somehow
I have them at Easter along with chocolate eggs.
1:45 "Better recipe! Improved*! (*profit margins)" 😂
Fun fact for Matt: onion powder is just dried onion ground up, it's entirely natural and has been around for basically forever. Same thing for garlic powder, just literally garlic in dust form.
I will admit that I am a twiglet fan - i really like the texture, and in small enough quantities the flavour is quite nice
I think one reason for the popularity of small bags of crisps is that unrealistically small portions of unhealthy food allows the manufacturer to use friendlier colour nutritional traffic lights on the packet. e.g. they can say one portion contains a low fraction of your daily salt or sugar or fat and have the nutritional sign be a nice green or yellow, but realistically nobody's eating fewer than 3 "portions" at once.
This is definitely true. But also, I do think there is something psychologically about the small bags that still encourages you to eat less. Like each time you open a new bag it is more obvious how much you are consuming. True I would eat 2-3 small bags at a time but if I have a big sharing bag I will easily eat the equivalent of like 6-7 small bags without conceptualising it that way
When I first moved to the UK five years ago I used to get a craving for a big amount of crisps, and missed the 300g bags I used to buy, so I definitely ate 3-4 small single portion bags at once. After a while it dropped to 2 bags, and now I often have just one. I don't know why, but somehow it works for me! I'm not even consciously restricting calories or anything, it's just that finishing the small bag brings some kind of satisfaction that even five times that amount taken from a bigger bag can never give me if there's still some left 🤷
It's kind of like how one of those small mint chocolates you often get from a restaurant or a hotel can feel enough because there's just that one to begin with. But give me a box of After Eights with nobody watching (so no need to share or worry about what anyone will think of me) and I'll eat half of them in one go 😂
the traffic light system is proportional to its weight though
Love Twiglets... So there
Evan and Matt, what a delightfull combination!
Hula Hoops got done hard in this video- solid S tier! 😅
Best. Episode. Ever.
PS Send me the Twiglets. I love em.
NO NO SEND THE TWIGLETS TO ME!!
Your delivery driver wasn't wrong, Scampi Fries (and Bacon Fries) are S-tier classics
14:30 seriously, they are legit A+
Square crisps come in the 3 standard flavours of read salted, cheese and onion and salt and vinegar.
Ready salted are the best of the 3
@@jadebel7006 cheese & onion for me.
I could tell they was twiglets by the thumbnail i love them that much! They are flavoured with yeast extract which is why alot of people say it tastes like marmite, which people have a love or hate relationship with in the UK.
I also love twiglets, whilst absolutely understanding why people hate them. They are an objectively confusing pleasure. Sometimes, while I’m eating them, I actively wonder whether I actually hate them and am just kidding myself… but then I irresistibly want to put more in my mouth, so 🤷♀️😂
8:15 I don't really like Marmite but there are a few exceptions, and Twiglets are one of them. I love Twiglets
Same. Can't stand Marmite, Love Twiglets.
@@Thurgosh_OGalso, same
Salt & Vinegar McCoys is by far the best McCoys and my favourite crisp
Mine too!
Not going to lie this was a hilarious watch. My 3 year old asked me about Matt’s T-shirt so now I’m having to introduce him to Mr Blobby 😂
Do we need to call social services? 😂
Anybody else remember brannigans road beef and mustard flavour? Those were the best crisp
very nice
Yeah the mustard strong enough it feels like it's burning your mouth 🙃
Although you have to wash your hands about 5 times before the flavour goes off them.
@@sburton84 So it wasn't just that I was a child and unused to hot food that made them so painful then?
everybody's favourite gary brannigans road beef and mustard
That minge joke was even more hilarious coming from an American.
It does always bring the letter M from the 'Buffy Swears keyboard' to mind. You're welcome.
Holy shit that's a memory
Matt in a video automatically makes it an S tier
Love that you instantly described prawn cocktail crisps as ketchup flavour. I use that description to describe them to my Kiwi friends (you can't get then there) but my British friends think I'm mad. They are a guilty pleasure except the posh ones which have real prawn in them and are rank.
Also, I’ve done a total 180 on twiglets, couldn’t stand them as a kid,but totally addicted to them now!
You should have your mom send a box of American chips and do this again with the same guy.
Great duo!
We do have share size bags of crisps in UK supermarkets but what Evan says is true - I’ve been to the US and generally when you buy a large bag of crisps, it’s filled entirely with that crisp.
Here share size bags are quite limited in range and it’s mostly multipacks you’ll find. I agree it’s much better in the US 😅 whenever ive found share bags it’s often supermarkets own brands and things whereas in the US you can get known brands like Cheetos.
Also Nik Naks nice n spicy are one of the best crisps for sure!
Loving seeing Matt on your channel Evan!❤
Evan's taste is so based. I share the S tier, though the fact he didn't try Rib N Saucy Nik Naks is a crime. Love that crisp.
Agreed, this is the correct nik nak flavour
Disco crisps used to have bubbles in them, presumably the method changed. Chipsticks are frenemy crisps - they taste good but then get thoroughly stuck in my teeth and no amount of tongue gymnastics will get the stuff out.
I loved Discos as a kid, but I don’t remember them having bubbles. The recipe’s definitely changed though. Does anyone remember Roysters crisps? They had bubbles.
@@CarysCreatesThings They're still out there. My brother bought home a multi-pack of steak flavoured ones the other week.
That is definitely Roysters you are thinking of. Discos never had bubbles. On the Roysters for the two commenting, try your local cheap as chips corner shop. Mine is a Premier and sells all kinds of stuff I can't get at supermarkets. Roysters being one.
i absolutely LOVE twiglets hahah!! really enjoyed this one evan!
Most of the crisps like Ringo's, Monster Munch, Discos and Chipsticks tasted so much better when the were first released. They used to be more condensed and powdery. They are all maize rubbish now (probably cheaper to make), which just tears up your mouth and give you indigestion. Thanks for the video guys, took me back.
I'm old enough to remember Discos from the 90s and I definitely noticed the texture change
Prawn cocktail is awesome I love them ❤❤❤
i really want that mr blobby t shirt, you know you should do a video reviewing the weirdest usa mascots vs the weirdest UK mascots i think that would make a fun spooky video for halloween
Jim'll paint it
The thing about McCoys is when you get the Daddy Crisp, which has way more of the flavouring. Some of them stay in the drum (basially the freshly cooked/drained crisps get put in revolving drum where the flavouring is added) through a couple of applications of the flavouring, and - especially with the 'meat' flavours, it results in a way darker crisp.
For some reason the multipack McCoy's are awful but the slightly bigger packs you get in meal deals are absolutely banging, especially the thai chicken flavour
This was great fun! Loved seeing Matt on here (just finished watching the last season of Technical Difficulties 🙌🏼)
Twiglets are my fave flavour . . . but then, that's marmite for you!! LOL
Not true. I and others in this comments section hate Marmite and Love Twiglets, they do not taste the same.
More Evan and Matt please? British chocolates, sandwiches, breakfast cereals, cheeses and crackers?
Watching this made me kind of sad. A lot of these crisps (e.g. Discos, Squares, Space Invaders) used to be _amazing_ 30 years ago, whereas now they're all carpboardy trash. We used to have hundreds of different factory/brands but now almost all crisp companies have been bought out by the same few monopolies, which in turn have all switched to "healthier" oils, no MSG, etc etc.
Much like Sugar Tax recently ruined the drinks aisle :(
Honestly watching your videos every Sunday is one of my favourite times of the week
Matt with the Jim'll Paint It T-shirt... Nice 👍
yay Matt is back!
And a classic British flavour that was leaving a gaping hole in your crisp experience, is the good old Worcester sauce! Seabrook do a banging one but the walkers , purple packet are fab too. Different texture experience depending on your preference.
I can’t believe you didn’t like twiglets! They are amazing!
Tyrrell's hand-cooked English crisps "Now Made With 25% Recycled Plastic" 🤣
Mini Cheddars Red Leicester flavour are top of S tier
Twiglets are one of those ones that mums across the uk add to their Christmas food shop, and they sit on the table for the next month half eaten - everyone takes a handful thinking maybe they’ll like them this year…nope
Watching Evan laugh at the word 'minge' has made my day.
I really love Twiglets so much. Nothing says Christmas party season is here more than Twiglets.
Matt is an expert at describing things
Love him from the Technical Difficulties
As soon as they brought our the twiglets I was thinking "definitely S Tier" 😂 what can I say they are delicious
I love Frazzles but I prefer Bacon Fries. They’re similar, and they’re both made by Smiths (who are now owned by Walkers), but they’re crispier, less oily, and taste even more bacony. If you think Frazzles are a pub snack then you should try Bacon Fries. I think they’re exclusively sold in pubs (unless you buy a multipack which consists of 24 packets stapled to a cardboard hanger instead of in a box), and they’re sold in tiny packets like peanuts. They also sell Scampi Fries which are yummy but they stink.
Sometimes I get a craving for Twiglets and enjoy a packet, then I do not touch them again for a few years !!
haha i have a couple of foods like that
As a kid I always used to eat Quiche and Hula Hoops together by using the hoops as a sort of "Cookie Cutter" and then getting small bites of creamy filling encircled by salted crispy potato. I do recommend it.
Pish and piffle, twiglets are an S tier any day of the week. Especially when dipped in marmite for an extra hit
Couple of things: Walker's 'Supreme' prawn cocktail is to differentiate from the low salt version, which are branded 'Delicate'; Monster Munch shapes are mini monsters, not feet or teeth - the protrusions are arms and legs (they also come in roast beef flavour, among others); Twiglets are S tier.
No, they're definitely meant to be monster feet - Walkers came out and said: "A spokesperson for Walkers said: “We love that everyone is in a pickle over the shape of Monster Munch.
“They are one of Britain’s favourite snacks and whilst we think of them as monsters’ feet, we don’t want that to stop people from coming up with their own imaginative ideas.”"
Monster Munch originally had 2 shapes, a monster eye and a monster paw. They changed this and have been Monster Paw for decades.
Pom-bears are the only crisps I would ever eat, not something I would buy as I don't buy junk food or snacks, but my nephew had a birthday party and my parents had bought multiple big bags but the party ended up not working out (combination of barely any RSVPs and he felt like he was going to be ill and was enough of a reason to cancel) so I ended up taking like 22 packets home, lasted almost 3 months. I care far more about texture than taste and pom-bears have my ideal texture
I forgot chipsticks existed, they were my main choice as a little kid, amazing texture
I like both the texture and the taste of them.
I was worried you had missed out on Chipsticks, and then you saved them to the end. My absolute favourite!
5:40 This is a very common exp amongst us ADHDers and other NDs too; just like smth a lot and then suddenly one day it shifts into meh territory - and then it **may** shift back, but it def wont if forced to eat the thing that now tastes meh
I'm pretty sure this is just normal 'taste' behaviour for most people, as everyone I know goes through these phases with foods and snacks.
@@Thurgosh_OG Youd be shocked by how common neurodivergence rly is; we make up easily a quarter of the population, likely much more, if not for the medicalisation of ND existence which makes us jump thru hoops and pay out of pocket to get diagnosed
Like, most my biofams ND and either dont even know it or theyre of the younger biofam and maybe got dxd if their traits were clear enuf at the right times and posed a problem to those around them
Theres many an NT out there who can eat the exact same meatloaf every wk and nvr get tired of it. Its also just the frequency with which the change of taste hits; for ND folk like Matt and myself, particularly bein ADHD, that sudden taste change is a much more common occurence and it can even hit extra hard, usually for folks with ARFID but others as well - like to the pt where a prev safe food suddenly doesnt just taste meh, but it tastes gagworthy and may even make them throw up if forced to eat it
A lot of ND exps are things that arent entirely unheard amongst NTs, but just with the frequency and intensity turned up quite a bit. Like, some NTs can hear the hum of electricity sure, but NDs who hear such; its much much more intense, harder to just parse out from other sounds and ignore, and to the pt where it causes a physical reaction (like me grindin my teeth when i hear loud noises or lots of noise; or feelin deeply furious at the noise; or just feelin sick to my stomach from the noise)
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@@mytube001 i type shorthand due to a fine motor control disability; this saves me energy fixin even more typos than i alrdy do
@@mytube001 Also, i wanna pt out, docs legit write dx and dxd all the time on the job - why is it incorrect for me to follow suit?
Matt's t-shirt exudes quintessential Britishness.
Twiglets are amazing and you are insane. But they are usually at Christmas for no apparent reason.
I get Twiglets as a Xmas present most years. Love them. Very moorish.
That is a nice big container you have there. DON'T dispose of them. Send them to me.
How DARE you disparage Twiglets!!! It wouldn’t be Christmas in my family without my Yorkshire aunt constructing the fabled Tower of Twiglehem, aka ten tubs of Twiglets stacked in a pyramid in her living room as we arrive, which WILL all be consumed before New Year’s Eve (alright, maybe only my family is the entire Twiglets market these days 😂😂😂)
I love this 😂 wish we had a twiglet tower. I agree, twiglets are so good
please do a part 2! gotta do the Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chili - solid S tier
Twiglets are solid A-tier for me. Massively addictive …
Twiglets... oh yes... but I like bitter flavours!
Or simple salt and shake. I used to eat half the pack clean, then double salt the other half.
Oh and Frazzles....
My husband loves twiglets and we always have them at Christmas. For me, they are OK, nothing special. My favourite crisps are Walkers Prawn Cocktail, Skips and Walkers Cheese & Onion.
I loved this video so much. Please make more videos of the two of you trying food.
I can understand Evan not liking Twiglets but Matt wow :-)
Shoutout to the discontinued haggis and cracked black pepper crisps from Mackies, and next time definitely try the Tyrells sweet chilli and sour cream!
Twiglets are Delicious! As a child they were one of the only things I would eat. I didn't like crisps then and even though I tend to eat crisps more now twiglets are still a treat!
There is nothing redeeming at all about Twiglets imo 😬 texture bad, flavour bad, smell bad
@@beccasalt8960 Well in mine they are perfect. Texure perfect, flavour great, smell lovely! 🤩
15:24 Some of us get them because we’re allergic to uncooked salt, so we buy crisps where the salt is separate and simply store the salt elsewhere for cooking/other people.
Also good if you need more accurate salt regulation so you. An accurate determine how much you need
Really? That's a new one on me.
Thanks for putting them in S tier, but Seabrook crisps are from Bradford, not Sheffield!
None of that namby pamby South Yorkshire rubbish - proper West Yorkshire fare, I tell the’!
Seabrook's roast chicken 😘 do they still make them?
I've got to admit, I bloody love Twiglets.
I'm actually disappointed wheat crunches weren't there, I always remember them next to nik naks as a kid
Yeah these should have been included
The smoky bacon flavour.
I hope frazzles are on here
It's weird that Frito-Lays (walkers) have kept the Smith's brand for frazzles and chipsticks, but not for Salt'n'Shake.
Nor Squares which also used to be Smiths.
Love twiglets!!!
Love Twiglets - but they're only for Christmas! ...also love McCoys!
OK the dude recommends Seabrooks - he knows his shit!
Bradford finest
Used to pass the factory on the way home. Mmmmmmm
I like how you experienced such a range of styles of crisps. From the ones that are just 'eat a pack as a snack' like Squares to the ones which I really want to see next to a ploughman's lunch (like Tyrells) to give some crunch and different flavour. I'd never eat Tyrells as a snack, but with a big slab of some bread, cheese, ham, etc, mmmm.
Salt and shake were sold in the UK from the mid seventies as gimmick that being you got the choice of plain or salted crisps from the same bag, previous to this the only flavours I remember being available were plain, ready salted and cheese and onion. I think smokey bacon and prawn cocktail were next to be released with chicken after this.
well.... I mean Smiths started making them in the 1920's they were the first commercially availably Crisp, and came with a twist of salt in blue paper. Smiths was bought by walkers in 1982 (I mean they were both bough by nabisco then were both sold to Pepsico and then they killed off the Smiths branding in favour of Walkers.
After the salt bag ones I remember they did other flavours as well,they never seemed to last long though.
My favourites. The only ones I didn't have to wipe the salt off of. 🤐
I love Twiglets. They have a great texture and their flavour is very calming(?). It’s like ASMR for my mouth.
Should have not watched this while the shop is closed, now I want mini chedders.
This video has reminded me that I need to stock up on twiglets for Christmas.
I was the kid at the birthday parties eating all the twiglets. And the egg sandwiches!
As a lover of strong flavours, this was painful to watch 😂
I'm a simple man . I see Matt , I see Evan , I press like . The real question is when are we getting a Halo trilogy play through video
Disappointed at the lack of Worcestershire Sauce flavour Walkers, while I'm pretty sure Evan would like Cheese & Onion McCoys
I was waiting for Worcester sauce flavour French fries to make an appearance
EVAN YOUR ACCENT 😭 I remember when u sounded like u were from NJ omfg I haven’t seen ur vids in years and u speak so differently