Sausage and tomato is a flavour that time forgot. It belongs to an era when crisp makers threw anything at the wall to see what stuck, before market research and focus groups narrowed everything down to the same safe options.
Golden Wonder keeps it alive, and for that they deserve credit.
The flavour is exactly what the name promises. Meaty, slightly herby sausage notes combined with a sweet tomato tang. It’s breakfast as a snack, the taste of caffs and greasy spoons compressed into crisp form.
Is it good? It’s interesting. The combination works better than it should, with the tomato preventing the sausage from becoming too heavy. There’s a ketchup-on-a-fry-up logic to it that makes sense once you stop questioning.
These are crisps for people bored of the standard rotation. For people who want their snacking to surprise them occasionally. For people who remember when crisp flavours were weird and variety was celebrated.
A survivor from a stranger time.
