Crisp Aficionado
It boggles the mind, how, so many crisp manufacturers fail to present the public with a spot-on ready salted crisp. I mean, you just add salt, right? Wrong! .There is so much more to it! .The balance of salt, and crisp, must be perfect! .There must be an abundance of salt to compliment the crisp perfectly. Sadly, Walkers, Britain's favourite crisp and snack manufacturer, fail to deliver the perfect ready salted crisp. The problem is, the infamous salt/potato ratio. There's just to much salt, a mistake made by many other snack firms. Texture-wise. the crisp is almost perfect, not too greasy and with a healthy crunch. However, the bile inducing amount of salt, is just too much for a tongue to take (and I mean that in the worst possible way).
A blue packet?! For a cheese and onion flavoured crisp?! What?! Have we entered some kind of parallel universe?!. Surely it would be green? Or at least some kind of tint, which slightly resembles the cheese, or indeed the onion. A very misleading packet, to say the least. Anyway, never judge a book by it's cover, or indeed a crisp by its packet. Yes, well the first thing that you'll notice, aside from the ignorant packaging that those cretins at Walkers have wrapped this innocent snack with, is the malodrous stench that emanates from the packet on opening it. Not very pleasent at all. However, aside from the smell, this crisp, surely is one of britain's finest and most popular. Cheese and onion is a very difficult flavour to master, and, I believe, Walkers have provided us, with, the best of the best. A mighty fine cheese and onion crisp.
Usually, I wouldn't review a supermarket brand of crisp. However, Waitrose's take on the popular cheese and onion crisp really does stand out. The packet, for a start, is green, as it should be. Nothing jazzy about the packet, which may put a few customers off. Nevertheless, behind the modest exterior lies a delightfully amiable cheese and onion potato snack. The general flavour is exquisitely balanced, potently cheesy, with a subtle onion tang. Two thumbs up.
Due to the exceptional quality of Waitrose's cheese and onion crisp, I thought i'd give the Roast Chicken flavour a try.
The packet follows the same design as the cheese and onion flavour, however it is now a subtle hue of buff, which is rather easy on the eyes, and quite inviting. On opening the packet, you are greeted with an all too familiar smell, that of the generic roast chicken flavour, not too different to that of the mighty walkers brand. Still, the flavour of the crisp is significantly different. On first taste, I believed it to be one of the finest roast chicken efforts I have yet to taste. Yet, the sad truth is, the taste quickly becomes rather overpowering. the crisp itself, seems to have the texture of a cheese and onion crisp, heavily coated with a dense, almost cheesy film. This is not what the crisp aficionado of today is looking for in a roast chicken crisp. Sorry WAitrose, but this really isn't acceptable.
