Flavour experimentation?

I have now gotten through 4 of Walkers' 6 "New Crazy" flavours. There's been mass hysteria on the subject, more so than on immigration and peadophilia at this stage. People are generally disgusted by what they've tasted, and when there is no registering of disgust, there is mere disppointment. While there is very few positive reports about these crisps, they still must be seen as a resounding success. Everybody is talking about these flavours, and thus everybody is talking about the walkers brand. People are also buying them, me included, and i never buy crisps. Walkers have managed to open new markets and make their brand a major consumer talking point. Cleverer than changing coco-pops to choco-crispies and then changing them back.

But are these walkers crisps actually any good? Here's my rundown. Now admittedly i havent tried The Squirrell (because i know what Cajun flavouring tastes like, and the pack guarantees its not acutally made from squirrells, thus im not convinced this will be and way of a new taste experience) and the Hoi-sin Duck, because of all the chinese flavours, hoi-sin is the only one that is guaranteed to ruin the taste of a nice duck, thus the crisps would be either nasty, or they would be a flavourless disappointment (neither of which options entice me).

1) Builders breakfast.

Hint of tomato, lots of bacon, absolutely no "buttered toast" despite what the packet tells us. The eggs dont come till after, which is not good. Eggy aftertastes are a culinary mistake. Basically this crisp tastes of bacon flavour crisps (been done already), tomato ketchup flavour (also done) and farts (original, but not desirable). not horrific, but not good either. A pointless excercise really.

2) Onion Bahji

This is the laziest of the flavours, because its a simple rehashing of pickled onion crisps put in a new packet. They probably had a stockpile of pickled onion flavouring they needed rid of before the rats got at it. Not a bad flavour of crisp, but not a new flavour, so it would be cheating to pick this as a winner.

3) Chilli & chocolate

Lets get this straight, this is chilli and cocoa, not chilli and chocolate. Its not sweet in any way. Basically its just a bitter chilli flavour, which is good, seeing as sweet chilli seems to dominate the crisp market these days (even skips have ventured into this territory). The crisp itself is good, and a potential winner, but i would be interested to taste a real sweet chocolate crisp. Maybe milkybar flavour. I was hoping this would be the crisp to make my tastebuds go wild, but its not. Still though, worth getting over any apprehensions for.

4) Fish & Chips

One of the nicer ones this one, but the vinegar is probably too strong. I was quite looking forward to the fish taste, but found it was sadly lacking. The crisp istelf tastes like a mild version of salt and vinegar, which i like, because i often find salt and vinegar crisps too strong. Im not sure i undertand the point of having "chips" flavour crisps. Surely the potatoe covers that anyway. Regardless these are a good crisp. Something of a cross between scampi fries and salt and vinegar. Worth a whirl.

So thats basically it. If i was to recommend any it would be chilli and chocolate or fish and chips. Go for it, but dont vote, coz none of them are that good, and text votes are a scam anyway.

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