Walkers: Steak & Ale Pie‑n‑alty – Football Series
A novelty crisp with big ambition, Walkers Steak and Ale Pie-n-alty leans into malty sweetness and savoury gravy notes. Thin and fleeting in texture.…
M&S: Prawn Cocktail Crisps
M&S handles the retro classic with characteristic care. Pink nostalgia elevated to food hall standards.…
M&S: Ready Salted Crisps
M&S strips back to basics with their ready salted offering. The truth test for any crisp range, passed with quiet competence.…
M&S: Beef and Onion Flavour Crisps
M&S does the classic meaty flavour with expected competence. Beef and onion for the food hall crowd.…
M&S: Honey Roast Ham Crisps
M&S adds sweetness to ham with honey roast flavouring. Sunday lunch crisps with a glazed twist.…
M&S: Cheddar Cheese and Onion Crisps
M&S specifies cheddar for their cheese and onion. The specificity signals quality intentions, and the crisp delivers on them.…
M&S: Salt and Malt Vinegar Crisps
M&S specifies malt vinegar for their salt and vinegar offering. British sourness on British crisps from a British institution.…
M&S: Worcester Sauce Crisps
M&S embraces the British fermented classic. Worcester sauce on crisps, as God and Lea & Perrins intended.…
Waitrose: Essential Salt & Malt Vinegar
Waitrose's value range attempts salt and vinegar. Malt vinegar specified for British authenticity at budget pricing.…
Waitrose: Essential Ready Salted
Waitrose's value range does the baseline crisp. Ready salted for budget-conscious premium supermarket shoppers.…
Waitrose: Essential Cheese & Onion
Waitrose's value range tackles Britain's favourite flavour. Budget cheese and onion with essential supermarket standards.…
Tyrrells: Smoked paprika
The retro photo on the pack shows a woman eating fire. I'm not sure this is promising, or what I want/expect from paprika. From the moment the bag opened there was indeed that unmistakable aroma of paprika smoke, thick and rich, like a Hungarian sweat shop.…
Tyrrells: Naked (unsalted)
Tyrrells offers crisps with literally no seasoning. Potato and oil and nothing else for the truly minimalist snacker.…
Tyrrells: Sea salt and cider vinegar
Tyrrells uses cider vinegar for their salt and vinegar variant. Apple-derived sourness on premium hand-cooked crisps.…
Tyrrells: Truffle and sea salt
Tyrrells adds fungal luxury to their premium range. Black truffle on hand-cooked crisps for maximum sophistication signalling.…
Tyrrells: Posh prawn cocktail
If you want a crisp that blends nostalgia and sophistication, this hits the mark. Fun, moreish and polished enough to feel like a treat.…
Tyrrells: Black Garlic and sour cream
From the moment you tear into the bag you get a hint that these are not your usual flavour-tourist crisps. Black garlic is not simply garlic times two, but the deeper, fermented, mellow version that smells of sweet umami and caramel shadow.…
Tyrrells: British Beef and Ale
Tyrrells goes full pub with beef and ale flavouring. Meaty depth with boozy undertones on premium hand-cooked crisps.…
Tyrrells: Roast Chicken & Sage
Tyrrells elevates Sunday dinner with herby sophistication. Roast chicken and sage on premium hand-cooked crisps.…
Tyrrells: Wensleydale and cranberry
Tyrrells goes festive with Yorkshire cheese and Christmas fruit. An unlikely pairing that works better than it should.…
Tyrrells: Lightly Sea Salted
Tyrrells' foundation flavour reveals true crisp quality. Hand-cooked simplicity from the Herefordshire premium brand.…
Tesco: Salt & Vinegar
Tesco's vinegar offering enters the most competitive crisp category. It does not win.…
Tesco: Cheese & Onion
Tesco's take on Britain's favourite. Competent execution of a formula everyone knows.…
Tesco: Ready Salted
Tesco's baseline crisp. The foundation upon which a supermarket empire's snack range is built.…
Sainsbury’s: Ready Salted Crisps
Sainsbury's baseline crisp offering sits in the vast middle ground of supermarket snacking. Perfectly adequate, perfectly forgettable, perfectly Sainsbury's.…
Sainsbury’s: Prawn Cocktail Crisps
The retro pink classic gets the Sainsbury's treatment. Nostalgia with all edges carefully sanded off for your protection.…
Sainsbury’s: Salt & Vinegar Crisps
Sainsbury's attempts Britain's sourest flavour and lands somewhere in the vast territory of "fine, I suppose." Vinegar for the uncommitted.…
Sainsbury’s: Cheese & Onion Crisps
Sainsbury's tackles Britain's favourite crisp flavour with characteristic competence. Not bad, not good, not anything really.…
Golden Wonder: Spring Onion
Golden Wonder ventures into allium territory with spring onion. A gentler, greener alternative to standard onion flavours.…
Golden Wonder: Smoky Bacon
The pub snack essential in Golden Wonder form. Smoke and salt and Saturday afternoon drinking.…
Golden Wonder: Sausage & Tomato
A full English breakfast in crisp form. Golden Wonder's sausage and tomato is defiantly old-fashioned.…
Golden Wonder: Ready Salted
Golden Wonder's foundation flavour. The baseline that reveals a crisp maker's true quality.…
Golden Wonder: Pickled Onion
Golden Wonder embraces the pub snack classic. Pickled onion for people who want their crisps to fight back.…
Golden Wonder: Cheese & Onion
The original British cheese and onion formula from the brand that popularised it. Heritage in a packet.…
Golden Wonder: Salt & Vinegar
Golden Wonder's salt and vinegar competes in the most contested crisp category. Sharp and uncompromising.…
Golden Wonder: Chip Shop Curry
Golden Wonder channels the post-pub takeaway experience. Curry sauce on chips, translated to crisp form.…
Golden Wonder: Beef & Onion
Meaty nostalgia from the brand that once ruled British snacking. Beef & Onion for the traditionalists.…
Golden Wonder: Roast Chicken
Golden Wonder's take on the Sunday dinner flavour. Traditional execution of a traditional concept.…
Asda: Sour Cream & Onion
The American-inspired classic in Asda's standard range. Creamy, tangy, and satisfying?…
Asda: Cheese & Onion
The classic combination in Asda's standard range. Does own-brand cheese and onion satisfy the craving?…
Walkers: Marmite (Limited Reissue)
Despite the name, M and S Extreme Ridge Salt and Double Vinegar plays things surprisingly safe. Sharp vinegar meets crumbly texture and restraint.…
Walkers: Sweet Chilli
Walkers' permanent sweet chilli offering. The flavour everyone defaults to.…
Walkers: BBQ Rib
Walkers does American barbecue meat. Sticky, sweet, and smoky.…
Walkers: Chicken Tikka Masala
Britain's national dish as a crisp flavour. Curry that crossed over.…
Walkers: Cheese Fondue
Walkers goes continental with melted cheese pretensions.…
Walkers: Roast Lamb & Mint
Sunday dinner meets Easter tradition. Lamb flavour with herby freshness.…
Walkers: Coronation Chicken
Walkers Coronation Chicken offers creamy curry sweetness and mild spice, but the ultra thin texture softens the impact.…
Walkers: BBQ Sauce
Walkers does barbecue. Sweet, smoky, and surprisingly committed.…
Walkers: Heinz Cheese Toastie
A personal reflection on snack naming global language and why Chipopedia is not Crispopedia.…
Walkers: Worcestershire Sauce
Walkers embraces a properly British flavour. Fermented complexity in crisp form.…
Walkers: Sweet Chilli Kicker – Football Series
McCoys Hot and Spicy aims for bold heat and rugged crunch, promising a thick ridged crisp with lingering spice and pub snack familiarity.…
Walkers: Chicken Tackle Masala – Football Series
Walkers does football tie-in crisps. Pun-based naming meets curry flavour.…
Walkers: Heinz Sausage Sarnie
More Heinz partnership. Breakfast sandwich flavour on afternoon snacks.…
Walkers: Salt & Vinegar
Walkers attempts Britain's sourest flavour and produces something timid instead.…
Walkers: Cheese & Onion
Britain's bestselling crisp flavour from Britain's biggest crisp brand. Ubiquity isn't the same as quality.…
Walkers: Ready Salted
Walkers Ready Salted are a British icon, but nostalgia can only carry a crisp so far. Thin, softly crunchy and barely seasoned, they deliver salt without excitement. Inoffensive, familiar, and utterly forgettable.…
Walkers: Smoky Bacon
Walkers Squares Salt and Vinegar deliver an aggressive crunch with a sharp nostalgic vinegar hit. Thick, brittle, and boldly seasoned, they are made for people who want loud crisps.…
Walkers: Roast Chicken
Cheese and Onion Squares offer the signature Walkers Squares crunch with intense onion flavour and creamy synthetic cheese notes. Bold, nostalgic, and slightly antisocial.…
Walkers: Prawn Cocktail
A novelty crisp with big ambition, Walkers Steak and Ale Pie-n-alty leans into malty sweetness and savoury gravy notes. Thin and fleeting in texture.…
Walkers: Pickled Onion
McCoys Hot and Spicy aims for bold heat and rugged crunch, promising a thick ridged crisp with lingering spice and pub snack familiarity.…
Seabrooks: Prawn Cocktail
Seabrook takes on the retro classic. Pink dust on dense ridges.…
Seabrooks: Cheese & Onion
Britain's favourite flavour meets Bradford's most mediocre manufacturer.…
Seabrooks: Sea Salt & Vinegar
Seabrook combines their meaningless sea salt with vinegar. The vinegar is the only thing worth discussing.…
Seabrooks: Lea & Perrins
Seabrook partners with an actual brand and produces their best product. Coincidence seems unlikely.…
Seabrooks: Canadian Ham
Seabrook claims Canadian provenance for reasons that remain entirely unclear.…
Seabrooks: Beefy
Seabrook's meat flavour entry. The name tells you everything about their ambition level.…
Seabrooks: Cream Cheese & Chives
Seabrook attempts a delicate flavour on a format designed for bold ones. Predictable mismatch ensues.…
Seabrooks: Sea Salt
Seabrook rebrands salt as "sea salt" and hopes nobody notices it's the same crisp.…
Popchips: Sweet Heat
Popchips balances sweetness and spice on their popped format. Sweet chilli energy on lighter, guilt-reduced crisps.…
Popchips: Nacho
Popchips brings cheese tortilla flavours to their popped format. Orange dust on lighter snacks creates category confusion.…
Popchips: Sea Salt & Vinegar
Popchips attempts the challenging salt and vinegar on their popped format. Vinegar struggles with the lighter texture, as always.…
Popchips: Sour Cream & Onion
Popchips tackles another classic flavour. Tangy creaminess on the popped format works reasonably well.…
Popchips: BBQ
Popchips adds barbecue flavour to their popped format. Sweet smoke on guilt-reduced crisps helps distract from the texture.…
Popchips: Sea Salt
Popchips offers a "healthier" crisp through popping rather than frying. The diet crisp that's actually sort of enjoyable to eat.…
Golden Wonder: Prawn Cocktail
Golden Wonder's prawn cocktail carries decades of British crisp heritage. The original tangy pink classic.…
Burts: Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper
Sophistication-lite in crisp form. Burts' gentle pepper kick elevates simple salted.…
Burts: Smoked Crispy Bacon
Smoke and salt and everything pig-adjacent. Burts' bacon offering commits fully to the concept.…
Burts: Spicy Sweet Chilli
Heat meets sweet in Burts' take on the ubiquitous flavour. Premium execution of a mainstream concept.…
Asda: Just Essentials Ready Salted
Asda's absolute budget basement crisp. When price is literally the only consideration and quality is a luxury you can't afford.…
Asda: Just Essentials Salt & Vinegar
Budget salt and vinegar from Asda's value range. Does cheap mean cheerless?…
Asda: Meaty Variety Beef & Onion
Asda's beef and onion brings meaty nostalgia to the multipack. But does anyone actually choose this flavour?…
Burts: Devon Roast Beef
Local pride in crisp form. Burts' Devon Roast Beef celebrates regional heritage with meaty conviction.…
Burts: Mature Cheddar & Onion
Burts elevates cheese and onion with mature cheddar and Devon craft. A classic made premium.…
Burts: Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar
British vinegar meets Devon craft. Burts' take on the classic is sharp, satisfying, and superior.…
Burts: Lightly Sea Salted
Burts' flagship flavour strips everything back to basics. Devon's finest potato, sea salt, and nothing else.…
Asda Snax: Sour Cream & Onion
Asda's Snax range offers budget sour cream and onion. Value snacking with familiar flavouring at middle-ground pricing.…
Asda: Ready Salted
The baseline. Asda's standard ready salted is the measuring stick for own-brand crisps.…
Asda: Meaty Variety Smoky Bacon
Smoke and salt in crisp form. Asda's Smoky Bacon delivers the pub snack classic.…
Asda: Meaty Variety Roast Chicken
Sunday dinner in crisp form. Asda's Roast Chicken is comfort eating with a savoury twist.…
Asda: Just Essentials Cheese & Onion
Asda's cheapest cheese and onion. Bold flavour at budget prices, but at what cost?…
Aldi: Taylors Snacks Mature Cheddar & Onion Crisps
Aldi stocks Taylors, the Yorkshire crisp brand that competes with bigger names. Proper cheddar flavour from a proper crisp maker.…
Aldi: Snackrite Prawn Cocktail Crisps
Aldi's budget prawn cocktail delivers pink nostalgia at rock-bottom prices. The flavour of primary school discos for pennies.…