In my day we knew the crisp flavour from the coloured packets Blue - salt and vinegar Green - cheese and onion Red - ready salted Pink - prawn cocktail Yellow - chicken Brown - beef Light green - pickled onion
Tudor Crisps, based in Peterlee - the beef flavour ones were unpopular, so, in order to make them sell, they were repackaged as hedgehog flavour - but, to paraphrase films that depict harm to animals, “no hedgehog was harmed during the making of this product!”.
Yes I thought they would make an appearance on here which is why I clicked but in hindsight looking at the year it’s probably a couple years or more too early for them . They were quite nice crisps actually… I liked the hedgehog ones. Kind of remember theme in a dark brown packet. It was a big promo locally to us as they were made in next village at walkers crisps. They did a few weird flavours that year but I can’t remember the others. I reckon that must be about 1984. 👍
I had 14 yesterday, but then I was camping in a woodland in Storm Bert and was stuck in my tent all day with trees crashing to the ground all around me!
I miss how crazy crisp flavours got in the 90s and early 2000's. Every company was trying to outdo each other. Might be the only time I enjoy Marmite flavoured anything.
@original.dwornboy actually your referring to 'Salt n Shake' with the blue bag, and these are still available to buy. Plain crisps are still named 'Ready Salted' by a lot of brands.
1981: Esther sends Paul out to share her every flavour crisps with the old folks. 2024: Esther sends Keir out to share her lethal cocktails with the old folks. Hands off our grannies Esther!
My friend works as a food taster and he smokes, I’ve smoked for 45 years and I have a great taste buds. So that saying about smokers losing their taste is absolutely rubbish.
USA here. About all I can stand anymore is plain and some BBQ flavours. The rest are only bearable in small quantities. And most of them are overwhelming and over done. Yes I tried many of the others and regret it. Beware and try a small little packet first to avoid waste! Some trendy new are altogether stupid and they cannot get me to risk trying.
@@octaviussludberry9016 there is an element of exaggeration to this but of course things like smoking indoors and the constant barrage of smoke in places like cinemas, buses, trains and even shops also affected the non smokers and their olfactory capabilities. The bearded guy thought the prawn crisps were plain 😂 Even in the mid 2000s after the smoking ban I noticed a huge improvement in my taste buds and sense of smell.
There've been quite a few Lamb & Mint flavours over the years - most of the main brands have had them at one point or another ; Brannigans were the ones I remember, not bad but not a 'go to' flavour!
@@hopebgood IMHO both are overrated. Frog legs taste like chicken legs only smaller. Snails taste like the sauce that goes with them but it feels like eating a piece of rubber. I think frog crisps or snail crisps could be sold in the UK as French crisps. I think that would work. Personally the most vile thing I have ever tasted was oyster ice-cream in Brittany. A salty sorbet whould have worked but it was a sweet milk-based ice cream mixed with the very salty taste of oyster. Absolutely revolting. If your child has misbehaved, you can punish them with this.
back in the good old days when you just needed a nice bag of crisps to have a jolly time, not like nowadays where people have connect their body parts to the internet or push rusty nails into themselves to even have a hope of feeling anything
As a mainland European - I find this brit obsession with fewer crisp flavours to be dumb. You have rubbish like "salt & vinegar", which is as terrible as it sounds, when in the mainland you can get just about any flavour you could dream of! Except salt & vinegar, because everyone can agree there's no place for vinegar on crisps...
Speak for yourself! I'm also "mainland European" and salt & vinegar is pretty popular here. But who in his right mind wants Currywurst or Tsatsiki flavoured Crisps? I'm still waiting for chili lemon flavoured ones, because that's a proper yummy combination!
I found it strange that in 2024 we still call them 'Ready salted'... When was the last time you bought crisps that weren't salted, with that little blue bag. Yes I know Smyths did it for a while but come on people wake up.
@ you obviously have not tasted the original crisps, because if you did then you would probably say the same. It’s not silly to say the truth, I have not brought crisps for many years like most things that have changed. I don’t buy Kit Kats anymore because they’ve reduced the sugar content, like I don’t buy Roses, Quality street and so on.
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In my day we knew the crisp flavour from the coloured packets
Blue - salt and vinegar
Green - cheese and onion
Red - ready salted
Pink - prawn cocktail
Yellow - chicken
Brown - beef
Light green - pickled onion
And then Pepsi bought Walkers.
Golden Wonder?
McCoys still do it right and are better anyway.
Light brown - worcestershire sauce? mmmmmm ♥
Why did they switch blue and green?
I always preferred the "snake and butterfly combo" myself. Just the right amount of butterfly, and the snake really gave it some good zip.
I was unsure if it was a memory or a fever dream, but "hedgehog" flavoured crisps was a thing in the early 80s. Just Googled it, it was !
Yes I had them it was more just beef flavour really
Yep my mum worked in a pub and they had them
I remember them!
Tudor Crisps, based in Peterlee - the beef flavour ones were unpopular, so, in order to make them sell, they were repackaged as hedgehog flavour - but, to paraphrase films that depict harm to animals, “no hedgehog was harmed during the making of this product!”.
Yes I thought they would make an appearance on here which is why I clicked but in hindsight looking at the year it’s probably a couple years or more too early for them .
They were quite nice crisps actually… I liked the hedgehog ones. Kind of remember theme in a dark brown packet. It was a big promo locally to us as they were made in next village at walkers crisps. They did a few weird flavours that year but I can’t remember the others. I reckon that must be about 1984. 👍
'If you tell me what it is, I'll confirm it' ! Proper funny fella ;)
1981 when England was populated by old people. 4:11 "I'm a Geordie man, you English can't kid me!" priceless.
Aye!😋
Seeing how diversity built Britain , there doesn't seem to many of them knocking about back then
@@Frank75288 Are you still talking about crisps?
Least convincing Geordie ever
RIP Branigans Beef and Mustard
😢
Oh blimey they were a good crisp
Absolutely. That was a good quality packet of crisps.
Bless these ladies! All long gone but made me laugh.
The young bloke managed to guess flavours they'd make in the future though!
4 bags a day...Lightweight
That bloke in the cap when told it doesn't have any legs at all...."is it snake?" 😂😂😂
I had 14 yesterday, but then I was camping in a woodland in Storm Bert and was stuck in my tent all day with trees crashing to the ground all around me!
The amount of crisps you ate must have been the least of your worries with branches dropping around you!
Butterfly and snake might be a thing?
I thought the last lady was on the verge of giving him a 'taste' of her boxing skills.
Very unsavoury response.
That first lady had a bit of a Paul Whitehouse character about her.
I miss how crazy crisp flavours got in the 90s and early 2000's. Every company was trying to outdo each other. Might be the only time I enjoy Marmite flavoured anything.
Walkers beef and onion are my favourite but they seem to come back for a bit then disappear again.
3:21 Is she related to Brian Clough?
Out of all the flavours we have here in the UK, the most bought is ready salted.
Think about what you just said. 'Ready salted'. Just call them salted. The blue bag is a thing of the past.
@@original.dwornboy. Smith’s still do them .
@original.dwornboy actually your referring to 'Salt n Shake' with the blue bag, and these are still available to buy. Plain crisps are still named 'Ready Salted' by a lot of brands.
@@original.dwornboyIt's short for already salted. As in they have the salt already put on them. Hence Ready Salted. 😁
I used to like Smith’s ‘Jackets’ and preferred Bovril flavour to Marmite flavour.
I miss those old see through crisp packets
1981: Esther sends Paul out to share her every flavour crisps with the old folks. 2024: Esther sends Keir out to share her lethal cocktails with the old folks. Hands off our grannies Esther!
These are just like the pepper-pot women of Monty Python.
I really liked crisps in the 80s. Now I'm not so keen to many weird flavours 😂
I'm glad i can still get discos salt and vinegar they are the best
Butterfly flavoured crisps 😂😂😂😂😂
Wasn't this already uploaded here at some point? I'm sure I've seen this before.
Don't think so, it was at some point reuploaded by a person named Frosty over a year ago-just without the BBC logo at the top-left corner.
Thank you for the full upload
If I could bring back one flavour it would be sausage and tomato.
2:31 His voice reminds me of Dudley Moore in the Pete and Dud sketches. He's even wearing the right hat!
For a time stamp on a vid you need to use a full colon like this 2:31 Hope that helps.
@hopebgood Thanks! I know to do that, it must have been a long day 😂
This has already been uploaded.
And now he’s saying snake this man is something else
If they were all smokers they probably couldn't taste anything subtle anyway.
Crisps are hardly subtle flavours though.
Myth
My friend works as a food taster and he smokes, I’ve smoked for 45 years and I have a great taste buds. So that saying about smokers losing their taste is absolutely rubbish.
USA here. About all I can stand anymore is plain and some BBQ flavours. The rest are only bearable in small quantities. And most of them are overwhelming and over done. Yes I tried many of the others and regret it. Beware and try a small little packet first to avoid waste! Some trendy new are altogether stupid and they cannot get me to risk trying.
Absolutely the best vid in the Universe.
Everybody really did look older in the past, it's true. You wouldn't believe the people in this video are just 27 years young.
It seems England was full of comedians those days.
This is gold 😂
Have flavours become out of control?
In the UK,out of control with flavours meant salted
Bring back hedgehog flavour
Hedgehog flavour 😋😋😋😋
1:18 Commander Riker.?
03:57 The days when people weren't so fussy about hygiene and double-dipping (watch some old cooking programmes!) and bathing once a week?
How funny is this. 😂😂😂
Jesus!! How can you mistake prawn for plain, for crying out loud?!
Yeah not sure about ester...
What we are seeing here is the effects of smoking cigarettes
No, we're seeing people eat crisps to try and guess the flavours. Not everyone smoked and crisps are hardly subtle or accurate flavour wise.
@ pretty much everyone smoked back then, and I’m not even kidding
@@PotatoPirate123 They really didn't.
@@octaviussludberry9016 there is an element of exaggeration to this but of course things like smoking indoors and the constant barrage of smoke in places like cinemas, buses, trains and even shops also affected the non smokers and their olfactory capabilities. The bearded guy thought the prawn crisps were plain 😂
Even in the mid 2000s after the smoking ban I noticed a huge improvement in my taste buds and sense of smell.
Tbh, I'd rather have SAUSAGES.
Why don't we have lamb flavoured crisps ??
We did, probably not a market success or too expensive to create.
Poor people don't eat lamb, so they don't buy the crisps because they don't have any appeal.
There've been quite a few Lamb & Mint flavours over the years - most of the main brands have had them at one point or another ; Brannigans were the ones I remember, not bad but not a 'go to' flavour!
Mid seventies they had curry flavour also oxo ones both delicious 😋
@@cattysplat Poor people don't eat lamb? What a bizarre statement.
Des chips goût "cuisses de grenouille", en voilà une idée ! Il suffirait de vendre des chips goût poulet et de les vendre dans un sachet vert.
I've never tried frog's leg. I'd give them a go. And snails too. Lots of garlic butter please.
@@hopebgood IMHO both are overrated. Frog legs taste like chicken legs only smaller. Snails taste like the sauce that goes with them but it feels like eating a piece of rubber. I think frog crisps or snail crisps could be sold in the UK as French crisps. I think that would work. Personally the most vile thing I have ever tasted was oyster ice-cream in Brittany. A salty sorbet whould have worked but it was a sweet milk-based ice cream mixed with the very salty taste of oyster. Absolutely revolting. If your child has misbehaved, you can punish them with this.
That last woman was scary as hell, smash your face in over crisps!🤣
Everyone looks so old
The script writer didn’t like that first reporter.
back in the good old days when you just needed a nice bag of crisps to have a jolly time, not like nowadays where people have connect their body parts to the internet or push rusty nails into themselves to even have a hope of feeling anything
Are you Giles & Mary from Gogglebox?
WEF flavour .
Sorry Esther, we need better Palative Care in this Country not Dr's killing people.
what's with the canned laughter
And now all crisps have a nasty twang of hideous rapeseed oil...
As a mainland European - I find this brit obsession with fewer crisp flavours to be dumb. You have rubbish like "salt & vinegar", which is as terrible as it sounds, when in the mainland you can get just about any flavour you could dream of! Except salt & vinegar, because everyone can agree there's no place for vinegar on crisps...
Speak for yourself! I'm also "mainland European" and salt & vinegar is pretty popular here. But who in his right mind wants Currywurst or Tsatsiki flavoured Crisps? I'm still waiting for chili lemon flavoured ones, because that's a proper yummy combination!
I forgot they ever made bacon crisps
This will be next thing that the leftist media and certain politicians want to ban.
Frazzles anyone..yummy
Frazzles being the most famous
PIGLETS !
You can still buy those but I meant the usual crisps
Probably around the time jimmy was out of control but u lot where too busy talking about crisps
I can smell the stale ciggies through my screen 🚬
I found it strange that in 2024 we still call them 'Ready salted'... When was the last time you bought crisps that weren't salted, with that little blue bag. Yes I know Smyths did it for a while but come on people wake up.
That's Life, the programme in which for their voxpops disingenuously asked the same "members of the public" to try out novel products.
These women were 26 years of age.
Mind kontroling the. Population for a centuary...the bbc
With Gary linker being the ambassador . 😊
Also, teaching people how to spell.
Give it a rest.
The dull colours and head scarfs etc.and how terrible the cars look.
How the hell could you not taste them, were they less flavoured?
A few smarter people than me here in the comments said likely because so many people smoked then.
I think it might rather be because they didn't taste like what they're labelled with.
I don’t buy crisps anymore because they taste disgusting now.
What a silly thing to say 🙄
@ you obviously have not tasted the original crisps, because if you did then you would probably say the same. It’s not silly to say the truth, I have not brought crisps for many years like most things that have changed. I don’t buy Kit Kats anymore because they’ve reduced the sugar content, like I don’t buy Roses, Quality street and so on.
This was gross to watch.
BBC you can't play that vid, every person was white British, shame on you😅