Salt n Vinegar Crisp Flavour

[Cooperman]

Then again I don’t put salt or vinegar on chips.

What?

 

[Muteswan]

Then again I don’t put salt or vinegar on chips.

What?

I’m a saddo.

 

[Cooperman]

What?

I’m a saddo.

Each to their own, of course. If it’s chips without S&V then I’d rather not have the chips.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Then again I don’t put salt or vinegar on chips.

What?

I don't put salt on anything either.

When they ask me in the chippy for salt and vinegar i always say yes, but not bothered at all about it to be honest. I'll never put it on food in a restaurant or at home. Vinegar goes on pretty much everything though.

 

[Resolvenjack]

Salt n Shake. Surprised they still sell them to be honest.

They (salt n shake) came many years after the Smiths bags that Robbie spoke about. When I was a kid in the 50’s that’s all you got. Plain crisps with a little blue bag of salt. Oh the nostalgia.

Yes, you are correct Mute, they used to be a small twist bag of salt, superseded now by a flat tear open sachet.

My Gran used to work in the Smiths factory in Plymouth & when we were visiting her for the six week school summer hols we were stuffing our faces with them.

As has been said, they were the only flavour available then

 

[Cooperman]

What?

I don't put salt on anything either.

When they ask me in the chippy for salt and vinegar i always say yes, but not bothered at all about it to be honest. I'll never put it on food in a restaurant or at home. Vinegar goes on pretty much everything though.

I’m also ok with skipping salt on the majority of foods. However chips are one of those things that simply don’t work without the salt (and vinegar).

 

[TheLoneRanger]

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[Robbie]

Would be interesting to know what flavours were produced at Smiths Crisps , FForestfach .

That was quite an imposing building to see whilst taking the bus to Swansea .
Sure it went on to be a KP outlet , then Walkers Crisps , big clock face as the centre point of the front .

 

[dickythorpe]

The factory in Fforestfach amazed me as a kid when visiting my grandparents in Penlan.
I was always wondering what went on in there.
Plus the clock never seemed to be working, it used to do my head in!!!

 

[Niigata Jack]

Is it just my decrepit 52 year old taste buds to blame, or has the wondrous, my favourite crisp flavouring of all time been fiddled with negatively in the last few years to the point of complete rejection..?....the only two modern crisps even remotely like SnV of old are :-

Discos

KP McCoy's Ridge Cut

Pipers Cheese and Onion are the bollocks, their SnV is not bad though, Tesco's finest Sea Salt and Vin are nice.

 

[Costello]

Tesco finest beef and horseradish

 

[BrynCartwright]

Would be interesting to know what flavours were produced at Smiths Crisps , FForestfach .

That was quite an imposing building to see whilst taking the bus to Swansea .
Sure it went on to be a KP outlet , then Walkers Crisps , big clock face as the centre point of the front .

My mate worked there as a temp one Summer when he was Uni about 89-90. They made Monster Munch there, and he said conditions inside were very unsanitary...

Love a pickled onion or beef MM now though....

 

[tim_healings]

Now then, being no stranger to a bag of crisps or two I feel particularly qualified for this subject.

Let me inform you that coop irresistible sea salt and Chardonnay vinegar crisps are the nurses suppositories. The dogs cock they are. That is all

 

[K23]

The factory in Fforestfach amazed me as a kid when visiting my grandparents in Penlan.
I was always wondering what went on in there.
Plus the clock never seemed to be working, it used to do my head in!!!

When we lived in Sketty in the late 50s & early 60s, every time we'd been out for the day, every time I saw that clock, I knew we were nearly home - unless we'd been somewhere that didn't involve coming home that way of course. It's one of those images that's imprinted on my brain for eternity or at least for as long as I am still able to access it. :lol: