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Packet of unsalted crisps with a salt sachet - ?

Does anyone actually buy these and then empty the salt into the bag? If so, why would you not buy ready salted in the first place. I hate salt and each time I chuck the salt away it seems so pointless to me.

Cindy Carloss ● 2442d39 Comments

Let's you choose how much salt you want on your crisps.Ready salted is the manufacturer's choice.

Will Watson ● 2442d

Like Will said. And you could always buy unsalted crips without the salt sachet.

Gordon McDonald ● 2442d

"And you could always buy unsalted crips"Can you?

Ken Munn ● 2442d

Tyrrells, 'naked'.

Gordon McDonald ● 2442d

Mind boggling..

Keith Iddon ● 2442d

Tried those Gordon...not bad, but still prefer Walkers.

Cindy Carloss ● 2442d

My mum buys those smiths crisps with the blue salt packet inside. If i ever have a pack i quite like them without the salt but i dont by crisps because like biscuits which i dont buy either, i would have one pack or biscuit and eat the rest straight after until they have gone. Same for chocolate these days,i try not to buy but if so would by the high coco bars. PS. Allways loved a yorkie bar when i was younger for its taste,but prefer dark choc these days

Julian Pavey ● 2442d

Yorkie bars there's a name from the past. “Yorkie – it’s not for girls!”.

Brian Coyle ● 2442d

As for crisps - try Aldi's own - Red onion and Cheddar - gorgeous!

Vanessa Smith ● 2442d

I grew up with these - instead of a blue sachet the packet contained a blue twisted bag and the salt was often stuck together and needed to be crumbled (the humidity in India was to blame). It's clever marketing - playing on nostalgia. They trialled them a few years ago; lovely idea.

Joanna Biddolph ● 2442d

fond memories of having to cut out the tokens from the back of the packet and send self address envelope and look forward to receiving my poster of Daley Thompson! happy days.

James Smith-Jones ● 2442d

Always remember eating the crisps in the cinema and being so involved in the film that I regularly chewed on the little blue bag those were the days.

Bob Guyett ● 2442d

bet you were also one of those who would than be making bubbles with your hubba bubba chewing gum during the film!!!!

James Smith-Jones ● 2442d

Not in the cinema as far as I recall, but I was pretty good at blowing face size bubbles with the Hubba Bubba. Unfortunately, I was also fairly good at peeling it off my face.Wonderful carefree days then, long gone now.

Bob Guyett ● 2442d

Yes, there was the twist of blue paper with the salt in it before the little blue packet.Loved being able to eat them like this with some with no salt at all and then some with a little salt.Just like the Greek yoghurt which is nicer with some honey swirled into it.  So much nicer with one sweet spoonful and one without.  All mixed up evenly - yuck!

Philippa Bond ● 2441d

I grew up in St Helens and was lucky enough to have locally made”Clock Face Crisps”. They had a blue twisted bag of salt. Those were the days when we didn’t care about how bad salt was. Used to have a bowl of salt with celery sticks too.

Maureen Yakoubi ● 2441d

Perhaps also before any marketing department had realised that if you made the crisps salty enough people would buy more drinks!

Philippa Bond ● 2441d

What joy did a packet of smiths crisps, bottle of r whites( am a secret lemonade drinker!), 3 black jacks, couple of flying saucers and a 1/4 of midget gems on a Saturday afternoon sitting in the tuck shop with my mates watching big daddy wrestling on tv, happy days! Oh that was after chips( tv programmes)

James Smith-Jones ● 2441d

And at this time of year watching the 5 nations with the wonderful Bill Mc Claren having to hide your loot before the scrounges or senior prefects .What joy.

James Smith-Jones ● 2441d

Together with Smiths crisps plus blue twist of paper containing salt, does anyone remember the Farthing ? I could buy 8 aniseed balls or 4 shrimps, absolute joy !

Loraine Pemberton ● 2441d

In the days when sweets in jars were '6d a quarter' I lived next door to a tiny shop,and my 6d pocket money bought me 2 ounces of pineapple chunks and 2 ounces of peanut sweets. Because they knew me they were very generous with the weights!  Found a shop in Twickenham that sold 'old fashioned sweets' and treated myself to some peanut sweets - yuk nothing like the originals. Still got pre-decimal coins....remember the little wren on the farthing.

Cindy Carloss ● 2441d

Poor 'em into a bowl and shake some Worcestershire sauce onto them.

Carl Wynne ● 2441d

i have just tried Worcester sauce with peanut butter and kind of see where you going with this, nuttyWooster flavoured crisps!!!!

James Smith-Jones ● 2441d

I would recommend peanut butter on toast with chillie sauce for breakfast, give it a go and you will be very surprised.

James Smith-Jones ● 2441d

I like peanuts, hate peanut butter.Thin layer of marmite and thin layer of strawberry/raspberry jam is surprisingly good on wholemeal toast.

Keith Iddon ● 2440d

STOP WASTING SPACE ON THIS FORUM ON SUCH A LITTLE PROBLEM,GROW UP,THERE ARE MORE PROBLEMS NEED MORE URGENT ATTENTION.

Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 2440d

Ahhh, Dr Stolworthy, it's called nostalgia. Perhaps you misunderstand the meaning of life? Do you remember when you could get a Mars Bar and a packet of crisps for a bob with a penny change?

James Petri ● 2440d

1st world problem agreed.  But a locked Cap-Lock key can be devastating.

Philip Coe ● 2440d

Blimey Dr J you need to chill out. So how do you propose we fix the global corona virus, stock market crash, global warming, another bastard in 10 Downing st in the summer to name a few? Lets see, I recommend a dose of sherbet dib dab, bottle of cream soda and a marathon bar tomorrow and you will be a happy bunny again. Now back to nostalgia, marathon or topic bar?

James Smith-Jones ● 2440d

Your Caps Loc has taken up a lot of unnecessary space.

Carl Wynne ● 2440d

I can never take seriously anyone who calls himself "Dr" outside an academic or medical context.

Robert Fish ● 2440d

There is only one thing worse than a "ready salted" or blue bag crisp, and that is a plain crisp.Quite honestly, the world owes an enormous debt of gratitude to two Irishmen, Joe "Spud" Murphy and Seamus Burke, who devised the technology in the 1950's to add seasoning to crisps during the manufacturing process at their company, "Tayto". (Google it)Their first efforts were Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar, to this day the standard by which all new crisp flavours must be judged.In fact, I'd say only Walkers Sensations "Roast Chicken & Thyme" deserves elevation to the same Classic Status. So that were I ever to be invited to appear on "Desert Island Crisps", I wouldn't need 8 choices, those three would suffice, with maybe only Prawn Cocktail added, should a fourth be forced upon me.

Richard Cathcart ● 2439d

A Ready Salted crisp sandwich is a treat. Has to be on white bread. The sound it makes when you squash it is a treat in itself. Enjoy...

Georgina Flint ● 2439d

Richard, I am going to tempt you on your dessert island with Cheesy Puffs but some might argue is not a crisp. Personaly no interest in smelly breath cheese n onion crisp. packed and ready for my desert island is ready salted, prawn cocktail and salt n vinegar with cheesy puff chaser!

James Smith-Jones ● 2439d

If you're on a desert island, who else cares if your breath smells of cheese & onion?And there can only be room for true crisps on Desert Island Crisps, not puffs or other snacks.You have to think these things through.

Richard Cathcart ● 2438d

A friend of mine had a summer job with Walkers. In those days the flavouring was dispensed onto the cooked crisps by hand. Absolutely nobody wanted to do the cheese and onion job.

Carl Wynne ● 2438d

A second for the crisp buttie. Cheese and onion on white (preferably Warburton's Toastie) my fave.. gotta have a squeeze of tomato sauce.

Keith Iddon ● 2438d

Ah, Warburtons a fine Bolton family firm.I'm not sure if their produce travels though.A steak pudding slappy in a Warbies barm cake is a creation beyond the wit of the most imaginative Masterchef.

Will Watson ● 2438d

Yep crip buttie and has to be Warburtons, as good as a chip buttie.

Janice Evans ● 2438d