I love how the British guy is all calm and he is nicely explaining and criticizing flavors. And then there is the American guy who is just mercilessly criticizing all of the flavors with huge passion.
1:43 actually there is a science behind the seasoning on the "less sodium" Lays. The lightly salted chips taste the same as the regular while having less salt. This is because the crystal of salt used in the lightly salted is different. We have actually studied these crystals and they are different than traditional table salt. And on top of all, Lays has patent the production of these salts. This is an engineered salt crystal which tricks your taste buds into thinking there is more salt than actually there is. Typically engineered salt crystals cost more to produce which will lead to a higher cost of the final product.
So its just KCl right? Everything that is low sodium uses KCl. Even low sodium salt shakers in grocery stores are just a mix of KCl and NaCl. Nothing proprietary.
@@mattsekira5536 Nope. It's sodium chloride. Just the crystal structure differs. The science behind it is pretty cool. It's basically a salt brine that is highly temperature controlled and they use salt crystal seeds that are different from traditional salts.These salt crystals are microscopic but they hit your taste buds in a totally different way than regular salt making you think that there is more salt than actually present.
Lay's was first sold in 1932 by a salesman Herman Lay in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). He was a traveling salesman who sold his chips from the back of the car on the road during the Great Depression. The inventor always believed in providing quality snack to the consumers at affordable prices.
morals change, steve jobs would probably be horrified by modern apple, or praise it since some speculated he was a conman who didn't actually give a shit about the customers or quality
I never understood why walkers stop selling the BBQ rib variant here in the UK. They really were the best version of the “standard” flavours if you know what I mean.
@@kianayemoja463 lol in 2006 I was 14 wtf time goes by and that was 15 years ago same year that this person made their youtube account ... mind you he has 1978 in his name so he most be old
From the UK. The first time I sampled 'Lays' (Cheese) was in a small spanish village back in 2002/3. I have got to say the spanish Cheese Lays taste way better than what I had become accustomed to ( Walkers) back in the UK. Strangest thing....fast forward 17 years later. Immigrated to spain for 3 years and could not find 'Lay Cheese and Onion' flavour anywhere in spanish supermarkets. Cheese and Red Pepper, Cheese and etc...etc...but not Cheese and Onion!.
In south Asia only 6 to 7 flavours lays are available and cheese and onion is one of it. It is personally my 3rd favourite after magic masala and tomato flavour.
In the UK we used to have the Barbecue flavour, they were lovely. Also if you go to European shops you can find some European flavours, like Green Onion and a Formage which is actually Cream Cheese and Chive.
@@alexbostock7826 You do get some paprika things here tbf. Pringles and Walkers Max have them, and I like them, but I don't think it's as big a flavour as it is over there
Memory unlocked!! My grandma used to buy Marmite crisps ALL THE TIME but all her shops stopped selling them! This was years ago, but just LOOKING at them, I can literally taste them in my mouth 😋🥹
We do actually have walkers stax in the UK, along side the Doritos variant that was mentioned. The packaging is very different from the American equivalent though, much closer to Pringles.
Joe (10:17) got a 3rd brand of chips / crisps: SABRITAS. Just as in the case of Walker's Frito Lays bought that existing brand in Mexico and kept the name. And yes, Takis is a Mexican-owned and made competitor (now more available Stateside), but to Cheetos. Next, a similar comparison between the Lay's Stateside line and the Sabritas Mexican line...
I’ve not had Takis, but a pub near me has them. I’m not a fan of spice, so probably not my thing, though that pub does have the best pork scratchings. Cos what you need when you’re having beer is salty pig skin 😂.
For real. I'm a prawn cocktail guy myself but roast chicken was good too. How long were you across the pond? I honestly thought about staying when I was there...it was intoxicating for me the change of pace.
Both Roast chicken and Smokey Bacon are gorgeous. It’s a shame they are not available now but the promotion Chicken Burrito crisps are gorgeous too. I’d love walkers to bring them back as they are the best out of those promotional flavours Harry mentions. Joes passion for the crisps is hilarious Roast chicken and thyme sensations are just the bees knees too
I remember when Walker's seemed to be a regional brand in the UK. Where I lived in South London it was all about the likes of Smith's and Golden Wonder. But then in the mid 70s my uncle bought a village shop in rural Hertfordshire, and I was surprised to find that the crisps he sold were Walker's, a brand I'd never even heard of before!
I remember when our corner shop sold Golden Wonder,Smiths etc.Then suddenly all you could buy was Walkers,like they wiped out the rest😅,same with smarties,all you could buy was M&M’s.I preferred GW and Smiths,but they only had Walkers.
"Marmite is kind of a love-it-or-hate-it food item, and I'm firmly in the love it category" Cut to Joe immediately screaming and cringing and saying "Aw, it tastes exactly like ass!" Absolutely killed me 😂😂
I remember sour cream and chive crisps from walkers. I also remember when they put five pound notes in there and I won one once. Trust me £5 in the 90’s was like winning the lottery 😂
overall there has been a lot more flavours in the UK than in the US. we had the things like the "great british food" range and the "world cup countries" range plus all the competition ranges theyve brought out over the years.
I get that you need air to protect the crisps/chips from being smashed together in transport. However, I can vividly remember how as a kid that the bags were filled with LESS air and that the bags had MORE in them. I'm 100% sure that they started adding more air and less content throughout the years.
@@imnotquitesurepolitical9371 Air is the combination of gasses that make up our atmosphere. Each individual component in air is called a gas. So technically, he is wrong.
No. Here’s why I believe this. The manufacturers may have added less content over the years, but I think they have optimized the volume of cushion gas they pump into the bag before it’s sealed. Product delivery costs usually come down to weight, volume, and distance. Adding more padding air at the expense of product will not protect the product beyond a certain volume. At that point more air increases shipping costs due to shipping volume. Obviously the manufacturers want to send you product as cheaply as possible while making you a satisfied customer who will order again in the future. In other words, you may remember the product as being different in the past because variables have been optimized in the supply chain process. These changes benefit both parties. This reminds me of a homework problem in the Linear Programming course I took in college.
I remember the Cajun squirrel flavour. Wasn’t a fan of it. My favourite temporarily exclusive walkers flavour was crispy duck pancakes/duck and hoisin (however they named it). It really did taste like eating Chinese crispy duck pancakes. I could even taste the cucumber 🥒 and spring onion (green onion) flavour in the which I was sceptical about before I tasted them.
I remember i had bought a packet of crisps and i put them in my pantry a week later when i was gonna eat them i realised the bag popped inside the crisps (they were wotsits) were really hard
I'm hoping when international travel is back to normal or at least more relaxed, whenever that is, they can all do trips to each other's countries. Maybe taste stuff from chains that don't exist in their respective countries.
Not going to lie, the best part of spending the time I did over in Westhoughton with my good friend visiting from the States was just chilling out in her house, eating Lion bars and Walkers Prawn Cocktail crisps and watching stuff like Take Me Out. When her friends would come over, I literally called it the Bird's Nest seeing this British gals chirping away about everything. This just conjured up a really nice memory. I loved going all over the country, but the simplest pleasures are the ones that endure the best.
I tried the roast chicken crisps and they're amazing! Really taste like spices you would put on roast chicken. Sadly the only shop that carried them here in Poland (aka Dealz) don't have them anymore
@@nialldean9791 yeah, it's super popular here if you need any international food that you can't get in normal stores. They are always packed with people, lots of folks love that chain.
Wotsits predated Cheetos in the UK by a long way. They were a Golden Wonder crisp company product. PepsiCo(Walkers) forced and bought out every other crisp company at the time. They tried their damndest to bring Cheetos over here but Brits stuck with Wotsits so they gave up and bought the company.
@@_MJ07_ Oh, that's interesting. I watched a UK crisp documentary recently (no, really 😂) and they told that Wotsit versus Cheeto story. I guess I'm not surprised to hear there are Cheetos here and there in UK, but Wotsits massively outsell them.
An actual 'Prawn Cocktail' in the UK is made with the fancy sounding 'Marie Rose' sauce which is actually 50% mayo & 50% tomato ketchup, hence why the crisp flavour named after this 60s classic hors' d'oeuvre tastes of tomato.
In reference to the "very old days of crisps", whilst crisps were invented in the UK in the late 19th century (at least, a version of what we now call crisps) nobody thought to season/flavour them until the 1950s when the Irish manufacturer Tayto, which is the largest producer of crisps in Ireland (a nation so in love with crisps the company opened a theme park based on their brand, where you can also tour their factory and upon leaving are given a free packet of crisps) began producing their crisps with seasoning.
Really? Not Smiths? From Wikipedia: The company was founded by Frank Smith and Jim Viney in the United Kingdom in 1920, originally packaging a twist of salt with its crisps in greaseproof paper bags which were sold around London. Ps now owned by Pepsi, but still sold here with the little blue bag of salt to season.
Salring isnt flavouring Smiths were first to cover it in salt Laytos exsperimented with Gas chromatography to connect flavours into the chips past just salting them salting isnt really a invention of any kind while using Gas chromatography to add flavour to cuts of patato was a invention
Ever since this video came out Walkers in the UK has been creating more varieties of their products. Like Walkers Stax came out at one point, even Asda made their own Stax. Walkers have know just made a less salted version of Ready Salted.
In Romania, sour cream & *dill* is arguably the most popular Lay's flavor and I am surprised it's nowhere else to be found. I always see sour cream & cheese or sour cream & onion but honestly, the combination with the dill is far superior.
Couple of interesting points - Stax did launch in the UK not too long ago, but was discontinued (they were a bit meh compared to pringles imo). Also, on the point of the name "ready salted", Walkers do make a "salt and shake" multipack where you salt the crisps yourself! I'm a big fan of these but most people I know don't see the point.
Yes! So glad you did this version of food wars. Called for it a while back. On another note. All of those limited restaurant walkers crisps are rank. 🤢 The worst limited line they've ever done.
6:15 Just found this channel and I'm slowly going through the vids. This is the second time I've had the time stamp. Joe. This dude is fu--ing hilarious.
I love the special flavours they sometimes do in the UK. They did a Cajun Squirrel once, then they do special edition flavours like curry or fish and chips! my local shop sells Lays bags of Piquant Paprika (really hard to say) which is amazing!
So many strange ones in the UK, but I find most of the meaty flavoured ones end up tasting like their Roast Chicken or Smoky Bacon flavours, which also leave the flavour in the back of your throat for the rest of the day.
When Joe said that he didn’t like dill pickle chips I cried but when Harry said that he likes them a lot I was overjoyed As a pickle I think I found a new best friend 💚🥒
Curiously, Smiths is an old UK brand that also set up shop in Australia in the 1930's. They're all owned by PepsiCo now, but they withdrew the brand from the UK market in the 90's.
we had walkers stax for a short time in the UK (with biodegradable packaging haha) and a part of me genuinely misses them. I mean they'll never beat Pringles but I remember practically living off the paprika one for a while. never tried them since they moved to doritos
If you wanted to find the volume of the bag, why didn’t you immerse the unopened bags into the measuring jugs and see how much the water level rises ? That would be a more accurate way of comparing the (misleading) bag volume versus the volume of the crisps.
@@adamsayer11 - put in a measuring jug and push the bag down until the water level reaches the tips of their fingers. Or jam the bag into a smaller measuring jug and add water up to the top line, then take the bag out and see how far the water level drops. Or clip a weight to the bag, see how much the water level rises with the bag and weight, then put the weight and clip back in and calculate the difference in the water levels.
@@buyukalim6691 - that won’t work. You won’t be able to get the bag to swell out exactly the same as it does when pumped wit nitrogen at the factory and that’s the dhole point, isn’t it ? To compare the volume of the bag AS PURCHASED, versus the volume of the chips or crisps. Also, you’re more likely to spill water if you try to fill up the bags.
Hey guys! Danish viewer here, just a tip order the Lays Heinz tomato ketchup floavour. We have it here and it is ABSOLUTELY a-mazing. Favourite chips and cant be beat by anything.
I love those meaty flavours from the UK, unfortunately here on the other side of the pond in the Netherlands we don't have those. We do have patatje joppie flavour though which I recently discovered, made to taste like a sauce made of mayonnaise,mustard and onions. Yummmm
Good to see this back :) Joe makes me laugh so much, I crack up whenever I think of him trying to say lecithin haha By the way you can still get Cheetos in the UK, they do the normal cheese ones and also flaming hot spirals. More US v UK please
Recently they've started selling green cheetos football versions in Aldi in the UK. I love these Cheetos. Previously these were only available in Spain. I would always beg my mum to get me some when she travelled there. And I introduced these to my friends who were like 'this is great!'
Anything made by Frito-Lay is owned by PepsiCo, they’re basically have a huge monopoly on the chip market. Bugles are owned by General Mills however, they are probably licensing the brand to Walkers to sell in the UK.
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, I am sure that Walker’s Salt and Vinegar used to be blue and Cheese and Onion were green! Not sure when it changed, but I am sure it did!
I haven't lived in the US but am very familiar with Lays chips as they are the major brand in other countries I've lived in - Germany, Spain, South Africa and the Netherlands. In each country they have a different range of flavours tailored to local tastes, like Spitbraai Lamb in SA, or Joppiesaus in NL. Walkers however are not available outside the British Isles (UK and Ireland).
they're not available outside the UK because they suck and couldn't break into the foreign markets even if you gave then all the capital of Jeff Bezos! 😂 Seriously, as an Eastern European migrant to the UK, I positively hate their bland and shitty "crisps" - here's a half joking half serious review I wrote about them on another video: It's crazy how delusional Brits think they have a "wide variety of crisps". Like, 50% or more are ready salted combined with the disgusting "Cheese and onion" (that makes your mouth stink for hours) and "salt and vinegar" flavours, plus some other bland bacon flavours or whatever. Britain also majorly lacks other savoury snacks - back in Eastern Europe we had over a dozen crisp flavours anywhere (like paprika, sour cream and dill, extra hot wasabi, various cheese flavours and many others) plus dozens of OTHER savoury snacks - literally the only type of British "crisps" that I'd consider passable or comparable to the average flavours in my home country would be the prawn cocktail and ready salted ones. With how rich this country is by comparison, I just find it amazing how little of the much better continental food is allowed on the shelves of British shops and how many delusional locals are even proud of the narrow varietals of crisps here 😵 - it's like they love to self-impose shittier living conditions on themselves in a grand feat of national masochism! (like with Brexit and more recently Liz Truss) And yeah, jokes aside, there are Turkish, Polish and Romanian small shops in big cities like London that import decent savoury snacks (the Turks have some especially great ones - once you taste Peynirly Cubuk cheese sticks or Eti pizza/fish crackers, you'll never go back to petty anglo snacks! 😋😍), but they're simply impossible to find in most big supermarkets! Britain took the stereotype that their food sucks so much to heart that it even makes its "junk food" suck major balls compared to the one on the continent! 😂 (and probably compared to the one in America or Asia too)
I do know that in a Australia we have Smiths instead of Lays and Walkers but in Christmas they actually well lamb and mint sauce chips and there soooo good 🤤
We did have Lay's for a year or two (maybe in the 90's...?) but it never took off so now they are a special buy at Aldi now and then, or in speciality us/uk food stores. I love chips!
@@jaycievictory8461 oh yes the ginger and wasabi ones were gorgeous too! I'm going to be quite weird and say I also quite liked the raccoon ranch they had come out with at the same time as the hotdog and I think the baked beans flavours.
I love how the British guy is all calm and he is nicely explaining and criticizing flavors.
And then there is the American guy who is just mercilessly criticizing all of the flavors with huge passion.
fr!! i always love the contrast between their reactions lol
the american is so annoying
@@bagel9542 how so? i think he is doing it in a playful way
They're Harry (UK) And Joe (USA)
@@khali1322 Too much energy for their taste I guess
Love when Joe talks about Lays ripping off ruffles or lays and doritos having a “mafia alliance” when theyre all just Pepsico
THIS! I looked for this comment
Lays ripping off lays???
Same with Miss Vickies, also PepsiCo
@@the3fellas753 YEAP!
@@yungkidnf why?
1:43 actually there is a science behind the seasoning on the "less sodium" Lays. The lightly salted chips taste the same as the regular while having less salt. This is because the crystal of salt used in the lightly salted is different. We have actually studied these crystals and they are different than traditional table salt. And on top of all, Lays has patent the production of these salts. This is an engineered salt crystal which tricks your taste buds into thinking there is more salt than actually there is. Typically engineered salt crystals cost more to produce which will lead to a higher cost of the final product.
So its just KCl right? Everything that is low sodium uses KCl. Even low sodium salt shakers in grocery stores are just a mix of KCl and NaCl. Nothing proprietary.
@@mattsekira5536 Nope. It's sodium chloride. Just the crystal structure differs. The science behind it is pretty cool. It's basically a salt brine that is highly temperature controlled and they use salt crystal seeds that are different from traditional salts.These salt crystals are microscopic but they hit your taste buds in a totally different way than regular salt making you think that there is more salt than actually present.
You nerds are going to make me puke 🤮
nerd
@@PyxlKat2789 rude
those Fish n Chips Walkers are the absolute worst thing I've ever eaten, on this show and possibly in real life. WOOF
You look proud of how bigger your bags are than the UK 😂😂😂
@Jaber Mazouz he is on the show so maybe he gets acess to watch it before we do.
I dont think so
yeh i had them and they s u c k
@Jaber Mazouz something is wrong on YTs end. I also noticed a 2-hour discrepancy in release time
A classic US vs UK food wars episode yeaaaaaah!!
I was afraid this series would end because US vs Japan began
WHOO IM SO HAPPY
@@harperburgess9769 me too but George is 🥰 tough!
Samesies lol
I just like uk vs ua
Lay's was first sold in 1932 by a salesman Herman Lay in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). He was a traveling salesman who sold his chips from the back of the car on the road during the Great Depression. The inventor always believed in providing quality snack to the consumers at affordable prices.
Actually that was just renamed barret food group chips he sold from the trunk of his car.
Proper Lay's chips were first sold in 1940.
morals change, steve jobs would probably be horrified by modern apple, or praise it since some speculated he was a conman who didn't actually give a shit about the customers or quality
@@yesyes-om1po speculated? the man was a natural conman, but like most successful conmen, they eventually just start selling real products.
I never understood why walkers stop selling the BBQ rib variant here in the UK. They really were the best version of the “standard” flavours if you know what I mean.
The original BBQ flavour was even better than BBQ Rib
The BBQ flavour in the iconic black packet... Those were and are the best flavour Walker's ever did. I still miss it and crave it.
Bbq walkers were a black packet and it was the early 2000s
They did the same to Worcester sauce. That was my favourite flavour after bbq was axed and those bastards in Leicester got rid of it 😁😤😤😤😤
Exactly. Now I have to pay almost triple what they cost back in the day just so I can get them shipped to the UK, it's actually ridiculous
Thank you for bringing the UK food wars back.
I can’t believe you’ve had an TH-cam for 15 years, that’s the same age as me 😭
It was never gone
@@kianayemoja463 and they have 15 subs
@@Mar-dy8ph yesssss
@@kianayemoja463 lol in 2006 I was 14 wtf time goes by and that was 15 years ago same year that this person made their youtube account ... mind you he has 1978 in his name so he most be old
From the UK. The first time I sampled 'Lays' (Cheese) was in a small spanish village back in 2002/3. I have got to say the spanish Cheese Lays taste way better than what I had become accustomed to ( Walkers) back in the UK. Strangest thing....fast forward 17 years later. Immigrated to spain for 3 years and could not find 'Lay Cheese and Onion' flavour anywhere in spanish supermarkets. Cheese and Red Pepper, Cheese and etc...etc...but not Cheese and Onion!.
In south Asia only 6 to 7 flavours lays are available and cheese and onion is one of it. It is personally my 3rd favourite after magic masala and tomato flavour.
Found it hilarious that salt and vinegar flavour in spain is called vinnaigrette flavour. Posh
I derived so much joy from the volumetric part (and the rest) of the episode. Thank you, Joe, and Harry, and everyone who makes these possible.
In the UK we used to have the Barbecue flavour, they were lovely.
Also if you go to European shops you can find some European flavours, like Green Onion and a Formage which is actually Cream Cheese and Chive.
I can’t stand Barbecue. The taste like vomit to me. Glad they discontinued them 😂
That black bbq packet was my absolute favourite growing up! Sorely missed now…
I'm pretty sure that on a trip to Belgium I ate an entire bag of Lay's paprika crisps
@@chlcrk you definitely would have. I’ve been to Belgium many times and they have them there. Never tried them though as I don’t like paprika x
@@alexbostock7826 You do get some paprika things here tbf. Pringles and Walkers Max have them, and I like them, but I don't think it's as big a flavour as it is over there
Memory unlocked!! My grandma used to buy Marmite crisps ALL THE TIME but all her shops stopped selling them! This was years ago, but just LOOKING at them, I can literally taste them in my mouth 😋🥹
There so bad
We do actually have walkers stax in the UK, along side the Doritos variant that was mentioned. The packaging is very different from the American equivalent though, much closer to Pringles.
And we also have Poppables in cheesy flavour and BBQ Flavour.
Where do you get the staxs? I’ve always wanted to try the flaming hot ones
@@tokyox9973 I can get them in my local Sainsburys or Tesco. A few years back I would of said they weren't easy to find, but now it's not hard.
Stax are weird, just bad Pringles. Lidl and Centra do own brand versions which are just like Stax yet only cost like 50p full price
Yeah, I've seen them in Asda too
I really admire and appreciate the time the whole team spends getting all the resources for these videos!
as someone who was born in the UK, this single video has shocked me more times than any youtube drama could ever dream of doing.
Lay's Lightly Salted is a scam. I wish PepsiCo would respond to the allegations of less salt, smaller bag, higher price.
They won’t. Big Salt won’t allow it
So glad the OG’s are back!! Joe is absolutely hilarious and I love his personality on these videos!
Joe (10:17) got a 3rd brand of chips / crisps: SABRITAS. Just as in the case of Walker's Frito Lays bought that existing brand in Mexico and kept the name. And yes, Takis is a Mexican-owned and made competitor (now more available Stateside), but to Cheetos.
Next, a similar comparison between the Lay's Stateside line and the Sabritas Mexican line...
I’ve not had Takis, but a pub near me has them. I’m not a fan of spice, so probably not my thing, though that pub does have the best pork scratchings. Cos what you need when you’re having beer is salty pig skin 😂.
As an American who has lived in England, Walkers really does have the best flavors 😭 I’d give anything for a bag of roast chicken crisps!!
Whenever someone says chips instead of crisps I get so confused O~O
For real. I'm a prawn cocktail guy myself but roast chicken was good too. How long were you across the pond? I honestly thought about staying when I was there...it was intoxicating for me the change of pace.
Both Roast chicken and Smokey Bacon are gorgeous. It’s a shame they are not available now but the promotion Chicken Burrito crisps are gorgeous too. I’d love walkers to bring them back as they are the best out of those promotional flavours Harry mentions. Joes passion for the crisps is hilarious
Roast chicken and thyme sensations are just the bees knees too
That’s your opinion
Monster munch
"The kids are into that these days." This is the best line (with context) I've heard this year.
🍑
People have always been into it! 😇
Yeah it is a kids thing these days as yesterday's kids remained behind the closet door
I remember when Walker's seemed to be a regional brand in the UK. Where I lived in South London it was all about the likes of Smith's and Golden Wonder. But then in the mid 70s my uncle bought a village shop in rural Hertfordshire, and I was surprised to find that the crisps he sold were Walker's, a brand I'd never even heard of before!
I'm from North West London, we get all the brands, always did, even the Irish brand Tayto.
@Julia Naylor We do now, bit in the 70s we didn't!
Irish and northern Irish of just Irish
There’s a serious rivalry on which is better
I remember when our corner shop sold Golden Wonder,Smiths etc.Then suddenly all you could buy was Walkers,like they wiped out the rest😅,same with smarties,all you could buy was M&M’s.I preferred GW and Smiths,but they only had Walkers.
Omg you have smiths chips in UK? We do in Australia I wonder if it's the same company
*When given Dill Pickle Chips*
Joe: Absolutely Disgusting
Harry: Just Phenomenal
As a pickle… I cried when Joe said that but when Harry said that I was overjoyed 😁
I think I would really like those. Could mix them together with pickled onion.
Joe does not like cucumbers, that is why he does not like pickles.
"Marmite is kind of a love-it-or-hate-it food item, and I'm firmly in the love it category" Cut to Joe immediately screaming and cringing and saying "Aw, it tastes exactly like ass!" Absolutely killed me 😂😂
The question is How does he know what ass tastes like❓🤔
@@aditisk99 you would know when you marry
@@bossb9680 Lol no.
@@bossb9680 🤢🤢🤢
@Raspian Kiado shut up, incel.
I remember sour cream and chive crisps from walkers. I also remember when they put five pound notes in there and I won one once. Trust me £5 in the 90’s was like winning the lottery 😂
i remember that campaign. a kid in my school won £20 and the headmaster announced it to everyone in the dinner hall there and then lol
I love when Joe calls out those big corporations for being full of crap
I will kick up forever.
cause they are
The editor of this episode is a real genius
overall there has been a lot more flavours in the UK than in the US. we had the things like the "great british food" range and the "world cup countries" range plus all the competition ranges theyve brought out over the years.
Please never stop doing this show. Btw Joe is maybe the most underrated food personality on the planet. Dude is hilarious and cool as shit 😂
I get that you need air to protect the crisps/chips from being smashed together in transport. However, I can vividly remember how as a kid that the bags were filled with LESS air and that the bags had MORE in them. I'm 100% sure that they started adding more air and less content throughout the years.
Its not air
@@jimmyryan5880 considering it's nitrogen, which makes up most the atmosphere he's not wrong.
@@imnotquitesurepolitical9371 Air is the combination of gasses that make up our atmosphere. Each individual component in air is called a gas. So technically, he is wrong.
Ikr
No. Here’s why I believe this. The manufacturers may have added less content over the years, but I think they have optimized the volume of cushion gas they pump into the bag before it’s sealed. Product delivery costs usually come down to weight, volume, and distance. Adding more padding air at the expense of product will not protect the product beyond a certain volume. At that point more air increases shipping costs due to shipping volume. Obviously the manufacturers want to send you product as cheaply as possible while making you a satisfied customer who will order again in the future.
In other words, you may remember the product as being different in the past because variables have been optimized in the supply chain process. These changes benefit both parties.
This reminds me of a homework problem in the Linear Programming course I took in college.
I remember the Cajun squirrel flavour. Wasn’t a fan of it. My favourite temporarily exclusive walkers flavour was crispy duck pancakes/duck and hoisin (however they named it). It really did taste like eating Chinese crispy duck pancakes. I could even taste the cucumber 🥒 and spring onion (green onion) flavour in the which I was sceptical about before I tasted them.
TIL Walkers had a hoisin duck flavour. Wish I'd tried that
Nothing can beat walkers sensations from the UK
salt and vinegar
@@cartonofmilk2190 no
@@jackbennett9580 it’s my opinion, judgmental nobody
Golden wonder tops
@@cartonofmilk2190 ok
Joe and Harry’s reactions to when they tasted the dill pickle flavours are wildly different.
I remember i had bought a packet of crisps and i put them in my pantry a week later when i was gonna eat them i realised the bag popped inside the crisps (they were wotsits) were really hard
YAAAAAAAY, THE BOYS ARE BACK. I miss the USA vs UK so much. Bring it baaaack! P.S. Harry, you're looking good ;)
George is the most precious being on this earth and we must protect him at all costs!
@@balthazarcorporations5969 nah
But yeah I'm glad that usa vs uk is back
@@ryandergaming if George isnt then who is?
I'm hoping when international travel is back to normal or at least more relaxed, whenever that is, they can all do trips to each other's countries. Maybe taste stuff from chains that don't exist in their respective countries.
Not going to lie, the best part of spending the time I did over in Westhoughton with my good friend visiting from the States was just chilling out in her house, eating Lion bars and Walkers Prawn Cocktail crisps and watching stuff like Take Me Out. When her friends would come over, I literally called it the Bird's Nest seeing this British gals chirping away about everything. This just conjured up a really nice memory. I loved going all over the country, but the simplest pleasures are the ones that endure the best.
Harry: Aw, these crisps are nice, they got nice flavoring to these.
Joe: UGH EW YUCK, THE CHIPS SUCK! BOTTOM OF THE LIST, BOTTOM OF THE LIST!!!
we've missed you harry, Welcome back
I tried the roast chicken crisps and they're amazing! Really taste like spices you would put on roast chicken. Sadly the only shop that carried them here in Poland (aka Dealz) don't have them anymore
You couldn't just buy em off ebay or amazon right?
Ooo Poland has Dealz too?
@@nialldean9791 yeah, it's super popular here if you need any international food that you can't get in normal stores. They are always packed with people, lots of folks love that chain.
As a guy from poland. Idk what dealz is
@@THEbeetrootsoup you must live in some village out in the middle of nowhere then. There are multiple stores in every bigger city.
I need to know where the UK team got all those crisps from 😂 so many flavours I’ve never seen in shops before 😮
England team they based in England
I like how Harry loves pickles while Joe just straight up hate it. 😂 I miss these two together.
Wotsits predated Cheetos in the UK by a long way. They were a Golden Wonder crisp company product. PepsiCo(Walkers) forced and bought out every other crisp company at the time. They tried their damndest to bring Cheetos over here but Brits stuck with Wotsits so they gave up and bought the company.
I live in the UK, farmfoods and Tesco both have Cheetos, and not imports.
@@_MJ07_ Oh, that's interesting. I watched a UK crisp documentary recently (no, really 😂) and they told that Wotsit versus Cheeto story. I guess I'm not surprised to hear there are Cheetos here and there in UK, but Wotsits massively outsell them.
@@jaycievictory8461 What's the name of the documentary?
@@AZK91 "The Secret Life of Crisps" ☺️
@@jaycievictory8461 wotsits > sheetos
Americans are clueless about Walker's Smoky Bacon. If Lay's made that Smoky Bacon flavor an option in America, it would always be sold out.
I love how joe keeps it so real don’t ever let joe go
Sensations Thai Sweet Chilly
They are my all time favourite
as an american who has had ketchup lays they are kinda gross. altho, the taste tastes exactly like fries and a ton of ketchup
@@cagaraoc8104 ow i can understand that. I personally only prefer ketchup with my fries, maybe that is why i like it.
An actual 'Prawn Cocktail' in the UK is made with the fancy sounding 'Marie Rose' sauce which is actually 50% mayo & 50% tomato ketchup, hence why the crisp flavour named after this 60s classic hors' d'oeuvre tastes of tomato.
I would love to see a Most Popular Cookies/Biscuits version.
It got me when the chip turned his eyes red😂😂😂😂😂
Love the UK vs USA Food Wars! Welcome back, Harry!
Cannot explain why this has been such a great episode. Feels like Australia gets a bit of both US and UK.
Sounds like australias history tbh
Alit of britosh with a handful of ameeican economy post ww2
I love how the American guy was just stuffing his face with crisps 😂😂🤣🤣and the British guy was being very gentle
Food Wars is the bread and butter of this channel.
In reference to the "very old days of crisps", whilst crisps were invented in the UK in the late 19th century (at least, a version of what we now call crisps) nobody thought to season/flavour them until the 1950s when the Irish manufacturer Tayto, which is the largest producer of crisps in Ireland (a nation so in love with crisps the company opened a theme park based on their brand, where you can also tour their factory and upon leaving are given a free packet of crisps) began producing their crisps with seasoning.
Really? Not Smiths? From Wikipedia: The company was founded by Frank Smith and Jim Viney in the United Kingdom in 1920, originally packaging a twist of salt with its crisps in greaseproof paper bags which were sold around London.
Ps now owned by Pepsi, but still sold here with the little blue bag of salt to season.
Salring isnt flavouring
Smiths were first to cover it in salt
Laytos exsperimented with Gas chromatography to connect flavours into the chips past just salting them
salting isnt really a invention of any kind while using Gas chromatography to add flavour to cuts of patato was a invention
They're re-naming the park now.
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Ever since this video came out Walkers in the UK has been creating more varieties of their products. Like Walkers Stax came out at one point, even Asda made their own Stax. Walkers have know just made a less salted version of Ready Salted.
I would pay hard-earned money to watch Joe try different dishes from around the world.
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I really hope this series never ends
It's funny that Bugles and Lays are competitors in the US, but the same company in the UK. International licensing is wild.
I love this whole series. Years ago I would just look up fast food/snack websites from different countries for fun lol
In Romania, sour cream & *dill* is arguably the most popular Lay's flavor and I am surprised it's nowhere else to be found. I always see sour cream & cheese or sour cream & onion but honestly, the combination with the dill is far superior.
I need to try that 🤩
maamaa ceapa si smantana cu verdeee
It's everywhere in Canada
Pickle crisps would probably do pretty well in the uk
they sell Lay's/walkers in Romania? What they called, I think there’s brand in Italy that could be from the same company I don't remember
Couple of interesting points - Stax did launch in the UK not too long ago, but was discontinued (they were a bit meh compared to pringles imo). Also, on the point of the name "ready salted", Walkers do make a "salt and shake" multipack where you salt the crisps yourself! I'm a big fan of these but most people I know don't see the point.
@@kyloluma Yeah they just weren't that good lol, reminded me a bit of the pringles knock offs you find at supermarkets
Walkers own the smiths company now, love the plain crisps with the blue sachet of salt. They taste so much better than normal ready salted.
When I was a kid in the sixties, the blue sachet was a little twisted bag, then it bece a sachet in the seventies.
excellent editing and effects on this video! the crisps flying across the world, and the face on the hot crisp, in particular
Not only is joe not paying for these, he is actually getting PAID TO EAT CRISPS
I love George so much but damn man I missed seeing Harry and his sweet voice 😭
Yes! So glad you did this version of food wars. Called for it a while back.
On another note. All of those limited restaurant walkers crisps are rank. 🤢 The worst limited line they've ever done.
They were real bad.
I like the green curry crisps and the chicken burrito ones
6:15
Just found this channel and I'm slowly going through the vids. This is the second time I've had the time stamp. Joe. This dude is fu--ing hilarious.
Bbq lays will always be my fave lol 😀
First
You’re my favorite.
Mine too
BBC lays 💀
@@KenjiSan_k9 love em
I never realised that the smoked bacon and roast chicken crisps are vegan friendly a guess you learn something new every day
Don't you mean chips?
@@xlmr_fisterlx9855 There's something called "Commonwealth English". Ever heard of it?
@@xlmr_fisterlx9855 no I mean crisps I’m British
@@xlmr_fisterlx9855 No, they didn’t mean chips…
@@myalteregoandi who's they?
Thanks to the editors for changing the terminology for the different countries
As a brit, I'd like to say that cajun squirrel walkers are some of the best crisps I've ever had
I love the special flavours they sometimes do in the UK. They did a Cajun Squirrel once, then they do special edition flavours like curry or fish and chips! my local shop sells Lays bags of Piquant Paprika (really hard to say) which is amazing!
If I recall correctly, a good few years ago they also sold ranch raccoon flavour
So many strange ones in the UK, but I find most of the meaty flavoured ones end up tasting like their Roast Chicken or Smoky Bacon flavours, which also leave the flavour in the back of your throat for the rest of the day.
I like how Harry gets all the good flavours that he likes but then Joe hates all of his flavours which are kind of funny lol
When Joe said that he didn’t like dill pickle chips I cried but when Harry said that he likes them a lot I was overjoyed
As a pickle I think I found a new best friend 💚🥒
what
I love US vs UK food wars Missed these guys!
This is the all-time funniest episode of Food Wars. Joe had me rolling with his commentaries
Lays did the same thing in Australia - Smiths. I guess that’s why the Lays, Walkers and Smiths logos are similar.
Curiously, Smiths is an old UK brand that also set up shop in Australia in the 1930's. They're all owned by PepsiCo now, but they withdrew the brand from the UK market in the 90's.
@@blaser80 That’s really interesting!
I’ve missed these two legends!!!!!
we had walkers stax for a short time in the UK (with biodegradable packaging haha) and a part of me genuinely misses them. I mean they'll never beat Pringles but I remember practically living off the paprika one for a while. never tried them since they moved to doritos
I am from America and I love Lays Stax. Sour cream and onion is my favorite. The American guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about, honestly.
@@Southernguy41 Ive never had Walkers Stax , what are they like ?
If you wanted to find the volume of the bag, why didn’t you immerse the unopened bags into the measuring jugs and see how much the water level rises ? That would be a more accurate way of comparing the (misleading) bag volume versus the volume of the crisps.
how would you do that though? the bag would just float
@@adamsayer11 - put in a measuring jug and push the bag down until the water level reaches the tips of their fingers.
Or jam the bag into a smaller measuring jug and add water up to the top line, then take the bag out and see how far the water level drops.
Or clip a weight to the bag, see how much the water level rises with the bag and weight, then put the weight and clip back in and calculate the difference in the water levels.
Just pour the water in from a measured cup and note down the before and after values lmao
@@buyukalim6691 - that won’t work. You won’t be able to get the bag to swell out exactly the same as it does when pumped wit nitrogen at the factory and that’s the dhole point, isn’t it ? To compare the volume of the bag AS PURCHASED, versus the volume of the chips or crisps. Also, you’re more likely to spill water if you try to fill up the bags.
The balsamic vinegar and caramelised onion is so underrated, and also, we now have STAX in the UK
Hey guys! Danish viewer here, just a tip order the Lays Heinz tomato ketchup floavour. We have it here and it is ABSOLUTELY a-mazing. Favourite chips and cant be beat by anything.
these 2 hosts are perfect for the food wars videos on this channel. love the videos !
FINALLY was waiting for this
BUT I was expecting to see Joe trying Cheese and Onion but he didn't try it
I went to a party once and my uncle brought some snacks/candy from the UK. The walkers monster munch roast beef crisps SLAP.
I love those meaty flavours from the UK, unfortunately here on the other side of the pond in the Netherlands we don't have those.
We do have patatje joppie flavour though which I recently discovered, made to taste like a sauce made of mayonnaise,mustard and onions. Yummmm
I remember a while back they had Walkers crisps based on Comedians and there was a Fry Up flavor (for steven fry) and i loved them.
The checkout assistant who sells all the snacks to the Food Wars runner must get so confused.
It's everyone's favourite dynamic food tasting duo reunited 😄
Good to see this back :) Joe makes me laugh so much, I crack up whenever I think of him trying to say lecithin haha
By the way you can still get Cheetos in the UK, they do the normal cheese ones and also flaming hot spirals.
More US v UK please
But I rarely see them in selves
@@LoonyToony they’re everywhere. Very common in corner shops.
UK cheetos are nothing like the US ones
Yea I seen all flavours
Recently they've started selling green cheetos football versions in Aldi in the UK.
I love these Cheetos. Previously these were only available in Spain. I would always beg my mum to get me some when she travelled there. And I introduced these to my friends who were like 'this is great!'
fun fact, you can still get those crisps were you add your own salt you just have to look around
But Doritos is owned by Frito-Lay / Lay’s / Walkers. In the UK, Bugles are sold by Walkers.
Mind. Blown. 🤯
But here in the states General Mills owns bugles (love the nacho cheese bugles)
Anything made by Frito-Lay is owned by PepsiCo, they’re basically have a huge monopoly on the chip market. Bugles are owned by General Mills however, they are probably licensing the brand to Walkers to sell in the UK.
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, I am sure that Walker’s Salt and Vinegar used to be blue and Cheese and Onion were green! Not sure when it changed, but I am sure it did!
No walkers have always had the colours back to front golden wonder used to do the packs the right way.
Thai chilli sweet sensations are just the best thing walkers has ever put out there (in my opinion) they're always out of stock at the shops
I haven't lived in the US but am very familiar with Lays chips as they are the major brand in other countries I've lived in - Germany, Spain, South Africa and the Netherlands. In each country they have a different range of flavours tailored to local tastes, like Spitbraai Lamb in SA, or Joppiesaus in NL.
Walkers however are not available outside the British Isles (UK and Ireland).
they're not available outside the UK because they suck and couldn't break into the foreign markets even if you gave then all the capital of Jeff Bezos! 😂 Seriously, as an Eastern European migrant to the UK, I positively hate their bland and shitty "crisps" - here's a half joking half serious review I wrote about them on another video:
It's crazy how delusional Brits think they have a "wide variety of crisps". Like, 50% or more are ready salted combined with the disgusting "Cheese and onion" (that makes your mouth stink for hours) and "salt and vinegar" flavours, plus some other bland bacon flavours or whatever. Britain also majorly lacks other savoury snacks - back in Eastern Europe we had over a dozen crisp flavours anywhere (like paprika, sour cream and dill, extra hot wasabi, various cheese flavours and many others) plus dozens of OTHER savoury snacks - literally the only type of British "crisps" that I'd consider passable or comparable to the average flavours in my home country would be the prawn cocktail and ready salted ones.
With how rich this country is by comparison, I just find it amazing how little of the much better continental food is allowed on the shelves of British shops and how many delusional locals are even proud of the narrow varietals of crisps here 😵 - it's like they love to self-impose shittier living conditions on themselves in a grand feat of national masochism! (like with Brexit and more recently Liz Truss)
And yeah, jokes aside, there are Turkish, Polish and Romanian small shops in big cities like London that import decent savoury snacks (the Turks have some especially great ones - once you taste Peynirly Cubuk cheese sticks or Eti pizza/fish crackers, you'll never go back to petty anglo snacks! 😋😍), but they're simply impossible to find in most big supermarkets!
Britain took the stereotype that their food sucks so much to heart that it even makes its "junk food" suck major balls compared to the one on the continent! 😂 (and probably compared to the one in America or Asia too)
We missed you Harry 🥺🤍
YESS UK VS US FOOD WARS IS THE BEST!!!!
As a child growing up in Europe I loved the beef flavoured crisps, also roast chicken. Sad they don't sell those in the States.
A little late, but We have chicken in a basket crackers here in the US, no need for chicken flavored potato chips.
8:20 “I mean kids are into that these days” 🤣
I do know that in a Australia we have Smiths instead of Lays and Walkers but in Christmas they actually well lamb and mint sauce chips and there soooo good 🤤
Smiths are owned by Pepsi Co who bought a controlling stake in the 90's.
We did have Lay's for a year or two (maybe in the 90's...?) but it never took off so now they are a special buy at Aldi now and then, or in speciality us/uk food stores. I love chips!
Lamb and mint will never be beat we used to have them in uk too
@@amyt3949 👍👍👍
UK exclusive standard walkers crisps are cheese and onion, prawn cocktail, marmite, roast chicken, smoky bacon, tomato ketchup and pickled onion
I hate when they do limited flavours. Really loved Sensations Caribbean jerk chicken and Mexican Chipotle but can't find them anymore 😭
I loved the Wasabi ones! But they seem to have vanished 😭
@@jaycievictory8461 oh yes the ginger and wasabi ones were gorgeous too! I'm going to be quite weird and say I also quite liked the raccoon ranch they had come out with at the same time as the hotdog and I think the baked beans flavours.
@@khwezik3894 I don't remember raccoon crisps??