WHAT'S happened with salt and vinegar crisps?
Once they were everyone's first choice (or at least in the top three) now you can hardly buy them
Our staff snack dispenser which carries the usual array of artery clogging potato snacks - cheese puffs, Quavers as well as the standard salted, cheese and onion and Bovril crisps. But no salt and vinegar. To be fair they do do salt and vinegar French Fries but somehow that's not the same.
The sandwich shop opposite the Rat and Ratchet pub stopped stocking them months ago - no demand they said.
Today, I couldn't get a packet anywhere in Huddersfield Market. Ready Salted Cheese and Onion but no salt and vinegar.
Why? Salty-vinegar is easily the best flavour. The top brands - like Seabrooks - are the Capstan Full Strength of potato chips.
You know when you've had them because your cheeks suck in and any cuts on your fingers start to hurt.
I suspect the rot set in when there was dissent over the brand colours for salt and vinegar.
As a kid I always associated light and dark blue with S&V. Might be a Golden Wonder thing.
But then Walkers took over the world and now they're green.
Well. it's time to fight back. Everyone must buy salt and vinegar. Let's re-establish this once proud flavour to it's rightful place.
