Crisps accomplished

[nou]

Happy new year! One of my resolutions last year was to eat at least 52 different flavours of crisps (potato crisps only, not ridged, not reconstituted), and I’m pleased to announce that I succeeded.

The full list ([*] indicates that I liked them and would buy them again):

1. Lay’s Korean cream cheese garlic (bought online from Tuk Tuk Mart) [*]
2. Koikeya teriyaki (bought from Ocado) [*]
3. Mr Singh’s chilli, cheese, and onion (bought from Mr Singh’s website)
4. Koikeya sweet & sour pickled plum (bought online from the Japan Centre)
5. Koikeya sea salt and seaweed (bought online from the Japan Centre)
6. Savorsmiths Italian cheese and port (bought from Ocado)
7. Fairfields Farm bacon & tomato (bought from Ocado) [*]
8. Walkers prawn cocktail (bought from Ocado) [*]
9. Estrella Fine Slices sourcream & onion (bought from West Point Coffee, Croydon; note that the regular ones are crinkle-cut, but the Fine Slices are not) [*]
10. Oishi salted egg yolk (bought from Wing Yip) [*]
11. Calbee chilli crab (I think these were bought online from Tuk Tuk Mart) [*]
12. Lay’s spicy Korean ramen (bought online from The Asian Cookshop)
13. Walkers Marmite (bought from Ocado)
14. Torres black truffle (bought from Ocado)
15. Walkers roast chicken (bought from Ocado) [*]
16. M&S beef wellington (bought from Ocado)
17. Walkers smoky bacon (bought from Ocado) [*]
18. Koikeya Kara Mucho hot chilli (bought online somewhere, I forget where)
19. Mr Singh’s chilli and lemon (bought from Mr Singh’s website)
20. Torres caviar (bought online from Souschef) [*]
21. Walkers Sensations roast pork & apple (bought from Ocado)
22. Koikeya wasabai nori (bought from Ocado)
23. Walkers Sensations baked cheese & honey (bought from Ocado)
24. Calbee hot & spicy (bought online somewhere I think)
25. Walkers tomato ketchup (bought from Ocado)
26. Mackies lorne sausage & brown sauce (bought online from The British Corner Shop) [*]
27. Tyrrells mediterranean herb (bought from Ocado) [*]
28. Lay’s Mexican chicken tomato (bought online from Starry Mart)
29. Calbee shumai (bought online from Starry Mart) [*]
30. Mackies haggis, neeps & tatties (bought online from The British Corner Shop) [*]
31. Lay’s 酸菜鱼（translated on a sticker as “sour & spicy”, but “fish soup with pickled vegetables” is a more usual translation) (bought online from Starry Mart)
32. Lay’s lime (bought online from Starry Mart) [*]
33. Lay’s matsutake (bought from Starry Mart) [*]
34. Ten Acre “when hickory got BBQ’ed” (bought from Ocado)
35. Lay’s Italian red meat (I think these came from Starry Mart)
36. Torres fried egg (bought online from Souschef)
37. Lay’s mieng kam krob ros (bought online from Starry Mart)
38. Lay’s American classic (a gift from a friend)
39. Lay’s Texas grilled BBQ (I think these came from Starry Mart)
40. Burts Guinness (bought online from The British Corner Shop) [*]
41. Calbee curry (I think these came from Starry Mart)
42. Lay’s cucumber (a gift from a friend) [*]
43. Pipers chorizo (bought from Ocado) [*]
44. M&S pigs in blankets (bought from Ocado)
45. Yorkshire Crisps tomato, basil & mozzarella (bought from Amazon)
46. Yorkshire Crisps roast lamb & mint (bought from Amazon) [*]
47. M&S Worcestershire sauce (bought from Ocado)
48. M&S turkey feast (bought from Ocado)
49. Pipers jalapeño and dill (bought from Ocado)
50. Yorkshire Crisps sweet cured ham & pickle (bought from Amazon)
51. Yorkshire Crisps sweet chilli & lime (bought from Amazon)
52. Lay’s onion (bought from Polski Supermarket in Croydon) [*]
53. Lay’s spicy paprika (bought from Polski Supermarket in Croydon)

The reason there are 53 instead of 52 is that I couldn’t decide whether “when hickory got BBQ’ed” and “Texas grilled BBQ” were separate flavours or not.

The highlights and lowlights:

• Most delicious: Oishi salted egg yolk (runner-up: Calbee chilli crab)
• Most disappointing: Koikeya sweet & sour pickled plum
• Most reminiscent of Batchelors tomato cup-a-soup: Lay’s Mexican chicken tomato
• Most detrimental use of aspartame: Lay’s mieng kam krob ros
• Most divisive: Lay’s cucumber (bob thinks they taste very much of cucumber, I think they very much do not)

I’m not doing a resolution for 2023, but I thought maybe next year I’d do this one again but with cheese.

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Hello Kake!
31 (86.1%)

Well done!
29 (80.6%)

Next year with cheese sounds like an excellent idea.
29 (80.6%)

ticky
17 (47.2%)

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14 (38.9%)

Comments

[juli]

The cucumber crisps! They are so divisive. I was taking things from my stash of crisps to a queer youth group for a while, and the kids loved and looked forward to my offerings each month. Then I brought the cucumber crisps, and as each kid arrived the last person to have eaten one dared them to eat one, and almost all of them hated them, while a few couldn't imagine why that could possibly be, but they also argued a lot about what they actually tasted like. There was no consensus about anything about them, and kids stopped eagerly rushing to whichever packets of crisps I brought quite so eagerly. I got less-strong and more consistent reactions to, like, numerous durian snacks.

[nou]

Ha, yes! They’re definitely a bit weird, and I’m also not sure what they actually tasted like, but I did like them.