Salt and vinegar is where crisp brands reveal their character. Some go gentle, some go aggressive, some try to find middle ground and satisfy nobody. Golden Wonder goes aggressive.
These are properly sour. Face-scrunching, lip-stinging, eat-too-many-and-regret-it sour. The vinegar doesn’t apologise for its presence. It announces itself and dares you to complain.
The thin Golden Wonder crisp format actually helps here. Less potato mass means the vinegar hits faster, with less starchy buffer between acid and taste bud. It’s a more direct assault than thicker crisps provide.
Walkers Salt & Vinegar is a polite request. Golden Wonder Salt & Vinegar is a demand.
If you think salt and vinegar should be an experience rather than a background flavour, these deliver. If you prefer your vinegar hinted at rather than stated, you’ll find these exhausting.
No middle ground. Exactly as it should be.
