M&S: Extreme Ridge Ready Salted Potato Crisps
Some kind of extreme in anything would have been nice. Healthily thick, but the crunch just doesn't match up to anything you would expect from a ridged crisp.…
Aldi: Snackrite Ridged Cheese & Onion
The Aldi Snackrite range has always straddled the line between familiar and faintly uncanny — crisps that look like the ones you grew up with, but with branding that feels like it’s had the serial numbers filed off.…
M&S: Extreme Ridge Salt and Double Vinegar Potato Crisps
Extreme. The least extreme hard rock band of the 90s. My sister was a huge fan, although I think that was more down to having a crush on the guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. Extreme Ridge. The least extreme crisp, from a supermarket that would think having not having your shirt tucked…
Aldi: Snackrite Grilled Steak Ridged Crisps
I’ll be honest—when I see “grilled steak” on a crisp packet, my expectations are set somewhere between cautious optimism and outright scepticism. Steak flavour is hard to nail without the balance of char to sweet tender meatiness, and attempts to mimic usually rely on a dusty stock cube. Aldi’s take…
Walkers: MAX KFC Zinger
Walkers teamed up with KFC for a snack meta-mashup: a crisp that tastes like a spicy Zinger burger… if that burger had been pulverised into croutons. It’s loud. It’s unapologetic. It’s the kind of chip that arrives with industrial ambition. Texture and crunch True to the MAX name, these are…
