Which crisps are the best crisps?

horseburger · 06-03-2015 1:43am

Pocoyo wrote: »

Nik Naks...No other crisp or cornsnack compares...except for maybe scampi fries...

http://www.kpsnacks.com/assets/images/brands/niknaks.png

Nik Naks are nice enough but the Tayto Crun Chos (hot dog flavour) were much crunchier!:)

horseburger · 06-03-2015 2:09am

PandaPoo wrote: »

Johnny onion rings are always good, going to get some tomorrow.

Some onions rings have a smooth texture which I find are not as flavoursome as the ones with the rough edges, for some reason.

I find that Perri onion rings tend to have that smooth texture, the same as the Jonnie onion rings, but that the bags of Onion Rings from SuperValu have that nice crunchy rough texture and have a nicer flavour, a more oniony salty flavour than the Perri and Jonnie brands, but perhaps a bit greasier.

Tesco had big bags of onion rings - I got them before Christmas, similar to the SuperValu ones - which I considered quite delicious!:)

Mysteriouschic · 06-03-2015 2:42am

Pringles
Taytos
Doritios
Mccoys
Walkers
Quavers

physiopad · 06-03-2015 2:52am

Keogh's Shamrock & Sourcream
O Donnell's Cheese & Onion

Ruu · 06-03-2015 4:29am

Ghosties, bacon flavoured..very strange.

stehyl15 · 06-03-2015 9:17am

What about Hula Hoops

dudeeile · 06-03-2015 9:21am

kfallon wrote: »

Used to love Alien Spacers and Meanies too

Turpentine wrote: »

Meanies all the way.

Got to say it's hard to pass off the big bag of Meanies in the supermarket so there's generally a few packets in my cupboard.

BeerWolf · 06-03-2015 11:39am

Pringles; Texas BBQ or Sour Cream & Onion.

Irish brands; Kings easily.

Toots · 06-03-2015 11:51am

Hula Hoops are awesome (except salt & vinegar, but I don't like s&v on anything)

There's also the tayto version of the walkers sensations. Bistro, I think they're called. The cheese and onion flavour is super, but you'll stink afterwards, it's like if you imagine your breath after a regular old pack of cheese and onion, then multiply it by around 10.

horseburger · 06-03-2015 1:15pm

In Dealz a while back I got the Marmite crisps, they were ok,

I found they tasted a bit bitter, and reminded me of the Guinness crisps.

Anyone else tried them?

http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/902702/unilever-manufacture-marmite-crisps-deal-walkers-comes-end

http://www.waitrose.com/shop/ProductView-10317-10001-72274-Marmite+crisps

http://www.burtschips.com/guinness/

http://www.dealz.ie/food-and-drink/sweets-and-snacks/crisps-and-snacks

Rosie Rant · 06-03-2015 1:15pm

So many people are mentioning King Cheese and onion! I've always found that they smell like feet and taste like armpit! Don't hurt me....

A cheese and onion crisp I do like - Pom Bears. I know they're for kids, but damn they're good!

miezekatze · 06-03-2015 1:38pm

I like the own brand stuff at m&s, or kettle chips. Pringles are also ok. I can't stand tayto, kings etc, the smell really puts me off and the flavours are too strong imo.

Get Real · 06-03-2015 1:45pm

Having always been a strong tayto and king man, I feel guilty in saying I may have found a new favourite.

While in a popular sports bar in Dublin, I was horrified that they didn't have either of the brands above to go with my cold beer.

However, I wasn't fussy, and took whatever they had- O'Donnells cheese and onion.

wow. wow. amazingly crunchy, flavoursome and satisfying. I see them now popping up in Spar etc.

thelad95 · 06-03-2015 1:54pm

I'm glad to see so many people mentioning O'Donnells cheese and onion. The college shops stocks them here and I'm addicted. Tayto, walkers etc. all seem so bland and flavourless in comparison.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Rancheros yet.

Toots · 06-03-2015 2:04pm

When I was in australia there were the most amazing crisps in the vending machine in the canteen where I worked. I can't remember the brand, but they were honey soy chicken flavour. They were out of this world! If I'd been thinking smart, I'd have shipped a big box of them home, so I could have weaned myself off them gradually, rather than the cold turkey shock I got when I arrived back to find they didn't sell them anywhere here

Mesrine65 · 06-03-2015 2:06pm

O'Donnell's Jalapeno & Sour Cream.

Dunnie1982 · 06-03-2015 2:09pm

1. O'Donnells Cheese and Onion
2. King Cheese and Onion
3. Walkers Max Cheese and Onion.

Mesrine65 · 06-03-2015 2:12pm

King Gold Standard Wexford Vintage Cheddar Cheese & Spring Onion, King Gold Standard Leo Burdock's salt & vinegar flavour.

Littlehorny · 06-03-2015 8:22pm

There used to be a Perri Pub Crisp, nicest cheese n onion crisp ever. I heard there is no market any more for the oul "pub" crisp anymore.:(

Foxhound38 · 06-03-2015 8:32pm

Littlehorny wrote: »

There used to be a Perri Pub Crisp, nicest cheese n onion crisp ever. I heard there is no market any more for the oul "pub" crisp anymore.:(

The secret ingredient was extra salt

Patty O Furniture · 09-03-2015 1:41am

eternal wrote: »

I think it's a Tayto sandwich pop up emulating the one up north.

Yeah, i've just come across it here, yer wan Eva Longoria missed out on that as when i heard her on the LLS, she couldn't believe there was a Mr Tayto

She even mentioned them on Seth Myers :P

PTH2009 · 09-11-2021 2:26am

Had a packet of 'Hot Lips' there and they weren't great

Yet another Perri to Tayto changeover that's disappointing

Esel · 09-11-2021 8:36am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118139339#Comment_118139339

Were they six and a half years old?

siblers · 09-11-2021 8:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/94561797#Comment_94561797

Hot Lips are **** now. They're incredibly bland

tom1ie · 09-11-2021 8:51am

Bikers. Amazing. Haven’t seen them in years though.

lee_baby_simms · 09-11-2021 8:53am

I’m old enough to remember when Hot Lips had Dirk Benedict’s mug, Face from A-Team, on the bag complete with the white corvette.

Dunnes Salt & Vinegar own brand posh crisps are sensational. They’re so salty that can actually feel your systolic blood pressure rising as you snaffle through the bag.

darragh o meara · 09-11-2021 9:18am

Have to say my favourite at the moment is O Donnell's cheese and onion. Decent enough crisp.

Since tayto have taken over a few of the traditional brands ie. Meanies, banshee bones etc. they are gone very bland.

Mike Litoris · 09-11-2021 9:55am

Cheetos when I can get my hands on them. Got a few bags of Jalepno Cheetos in Stale or Stolen (Breathnachs) in Tallaght last month. Jesus they were divine! :D

EmmetSpiceland · 09-11-2021 10:05am

Has anyone tried the new ‘Cheesatees’ from Taytos?

Loafing Oaf · 09-11-2021 10:21am

Current favourite

Fattybojangles · 09-11-2021 10:35am

Barbeque beef hula hoops are the GOAT

storker · 09-11-2021 10:37am

King/Tayto Cheese & Onion.

HeidiHeidi · 09-11-2021 10:48am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118139901#Comment_118139901

Only improved by being squashed between two slices of super-fresh Brennan's white bread and soft butter.

Loafing Oaf · 09-11-2021 10:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118139948#Comment_118139948

Roll over Jamie Oliver and tell Gordon Ramsay the news!

09-11-2021 11:02am

Nordie Tayto Cheese and Onion. Clearly.

When in France Lays Bolognese crisps are the first thing into the trolley. Well the first non-alcoholic thing anyway.

Fattybojangles · 09-11-2021 11:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118139948#Comment_118139948

Testify!

honeyjo · 09-11-2021 11:12am

I love crisps.

Tesco own brand onion rings

Tesco own brand bacon fries

Tesco Finest Sea Salt and White Wine Vinegar

M&S Honey Roast Ham crinkle cut crisps

Crunchy Cheetos

theteal · 09-11-2021 11:14am

Old thread. Crun-chos have definitely been mentioned. Screw it, they deserve a mention on every page!

lee_baby_simms · 09-11-2021 11:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140058#Comment_118140058

I was in a supermarket in France a few years ago and came across a snack called Belin Croustilles that were IDENTICAL in shape and texture to our departed Crun-chos. Nik Naks are the closest thing we have to them now I suppose

https://www.frenchclick.co.uk/p-4303-belin-croustilles-emmental-90g.aspx

igCorcaigh · 09-11-2021 11:25am

The best:

littlevillage · 09-11-2021 11:40am

I don't eat that much crisps anymore, it always makes me a little sad when I have a pack of something I useta love as a youngster, and when I taste them now they are either changed a lot (see McCoys, Perri) or are just plain nasty (Hunky Dory's, Tayto's)

King Cheese & Onion are still decent.

Pringles are fine.

Skips have stayed more of less intact.

Somebody else's poll 👇

https://www.dailyedge.ie/best-irish-crisps-950791-Jun2013/

09-11-2021 12:25pm

The accountants and food scientists operating out of Tayto HQ are absolute monsters. Every brand they produce is declining in taste and quality.

There really is a gap in the market for a new crisp company producing premium deep-fried corn snacks. Loaded with msg and E numbers. Proper meanies, monster munch, bikers, and, of course, the triumphant return of the legendary crunch-chos

Freddie Mcinerney · 09-11-2021 12:33pm

Sam Spuds Smoky Bacon.

SourSessions · 09-11-2021 12:33pm

Ballymaloe O'Donnells are my current guilty pleasure but love all kinds of crisps

ohnonotgmail · 09-11-2021 12:36pm

Banshee bones. I shall accept no discussion on this matter.

Mysteriouschic1 · 09-11-2021 12:36pm

Tayto - Cheese and Onion

Sensations -Thai Sweet Chilli

Mccoys- Flame Grilled Steak / Cheese and Onion

09-11-2021 12:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140532#Comment_118140532

Very disappointed with the relaunch. Poor texture and lacking in flavour. The move from deep fat frying to air frying was a disaster for corn snack aficionados.

ohnonotgmail · 09-11-2021 12:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140550#Comment_118140550

in these difficult times one must be grateful for the pleasures that are available. the past is gone and no amount of lamenting will bring it back. Banshee Bones are a superior snack in a terrible world and we should all be grateful that they exist.

SourSessions · 09-11-2021 12:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140575#Comment_118140575

They don't taste of anything

dxhound2005 · 09-11-2021 3:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140112#Comment_118140112

Marina O'Loughlin in her Plate of the Nation, Sunday Times 31 October does a review of Black Truffle Hand Cooked Potato Crisps from Waitrose.

She starts off "Spanish crisps are the world's greatest. This is not a discussion. The now familiar Torres brand is the gateway drug to a world beyond salt'n'vinegar, and its truffle and jamon iberico varieties are justifiably famous: gorgeous indulgence"

Later in the article "Meanwhile Torres's success hasn't gone unnoticed here. Tyrrells has added truffle to its line-up (disappointing), and now here's Waitrose with a seasonal offering. Also disappointing" And later "Torres crisps are a dangerously addictive luxury".

Makes me want to try them, if they can be got in Ireland.

Which crisps are the best crisps?

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