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Walkers potential new flavours
I've just done a taste test of the six finalists in that Walkers competition, one of which will get made permanently from May.
Review:
Builders Breakfast - tastes of eggs. Pretty rancid.
Fish & Chips - tastes of fish. Pretty rancid.
Cajun squirrel - ah, the wacky gimmick flavour, which appears to be paprika-based. Pretty rancid.
Onion bhaji - tastes like onion bhajis, only pretty rancid.
Chilli & Chocolate - as bad as that combination sounds. Very rancid.
Crispy Duck & Hoisin - the best of a bad bunch. Still pretty rancid.
Are these on general sale?
If not, how do you get such a job?
so all in all pretty rancid then. Shame, I thought Fish and Chips had potential.
I thought the same.
At first bite, it tastes of nothing but salt and vinegar, then this overwhelming white fish flavour comes through.
Surely that's the idea?
To make six rancid new crisp flavours?
Why can't we all just have ready salted eh?
That's unfair.
I do like cheese & onion as well.
My palate is perfect for these taste tests. I don't spoil it with crazy flavours, so I am a blank canvas on which to let my tastebuds get tickled.
This is true actually
I withdraw my somewhat scathing remark.
I only smoke plain cigarettes.
You're like John Torode.
^ this
so no-one here entered "sambuca flavour"?
fucking replies fucking up FUCK
The conversation was supposed to go like this:
"this overwhelming white fish flavour comes through"
"Surely that's the idea?"
I mean, what did you think it was going to taste like?
Overwhelming is my key word here.
It's like being throttled by a bag of cod.
Hehe, my reply to Joe is actually above the post I pressed reply to.
Good times DiS.
ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE REPLYING TO THE RIGHT THING?
I replied to your main
one. This'll never get fixed.
I think "Throttled By A Bag Of Cod" is on the New Order remixes album
Walkers Tim Armstrong flavour?
You would be the last person I would ever get to taste anything new
I bet you complained they weren't plain enough.
How do I get this job?
This sounds like my dream job.
Was this as part of your job or can anyone get to try these.
Cajun Squirrel? Hmm....
It's when bamos cooks with chillies and doesn't wash his hands
oh good lord
*gasp*
:D
Loving your work.
:D
:O
:D
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They're on sale from 'now' apparently.
Should be in shops within a week or two.
Because I only like salted crisps I don't actually care, I realised.
Maybe. I only like crisps whose flavour is only that of salt.
Why would you put yourself through this, bamos?
Builder's Breakfast? Builder's Bum more like.
Crispy Duck is the only one I imagine liking...
And the only one you might pick out to purchase in a shop. You are hardly going to pick Chilli and Chocolate over Cheese and Onion are you?
my brohter entered chciken and beans alan shearer themed ones
too bad it didnt win huh
great. cant wait to try em out.
the squirrel hasnt got squirrel in it has it?
It's the solution to the Gray Squirrel problem!!!
Nah, it's safe for vegitarians
but may contain nuts or traces of nuts.
how IRONIC
Beef Walkers crisps are suitable for veggies.
ah, my "grit, yeh just grit" flavour didnt get shortlisted
surprised my friends 'mexican flavour' didnt. cheese, jalapenos, tomatoes and onion, whats not to like?
Needs more
sombrero.
Bring Back Branston Pickle Flavour!
they were nice.
I imagine all of these flavours leave you with really bad breath.
Pickle flavour was amazing, as was/is Marmite flavour.
These are just pretty much all wrong.
I'm going to ask them to reconsider Jack's corned beef and beans idea.
I'm definitely going to do this.
Add an egg
and you've stolen my (not so) secret hangover lunch.
why have the made a crisp that tastes of chips?
i'm confused. sounds like a rubbish idea.
Each packet contains 150% potato
They've hired the cream of this year's physics graduates to make the maths work.
:D
Are the Fish and Chip ones like Scampi Fries?
Because if they are I would buy them and use them when i go on Masterchef.
Not much, no.
It's brilliantly flavoured, in that it does taste just like white fish. I just don't think it works as a crisp.
Pork scratching flavour crisps please
Just eat pork scratchings?
Dry roasted peanut flavour
They hurt my teeth
A barman last night got *quite cross* with me for asking if they had any pork scratchings
He was built like a brick shithouse
Which pub was this?
Pretentious bell.
is that in Hoxton?
Why would a barman be cross at that?
What pub were you in? Was it some posh gastro-nonsense place?
I'll have the peau de cochon as a starter
It was in Crotch End
It is a pub that is almost EXACTLY like the Salisbury
Was it the pub with the table skittles thing in the middle?
That place looks like the sort of place that wouldn't sell scratchings.
They should make corn flake flavour crisps with a little sachet of milk like salt'n'shake.
I think my Dad entered that competition
no idea what his flavour was. Probably ready salted with vinegar
chicken and bacon flavour
orange chocolate flavour
carbonara flavour
irn bru flavour
these are the ones they should be making
DEEP FRIED HAGGIS FLAVOUR
oh man that'd be ace
So they all taste like they should?
They don't apply that principle to prawn cocktail flavour, and we're all the better for the experience.
Did you buy these, then, or were Walkers doing taste tests, and if the latter why didn't you ask them to bring back Ruffles?
Chilli and chocolate is a winner
But I suspect not in the world of deep fried potato slices
RANCID!
Wretched!
did you break DiS again>
whaaaaat
i ain't never broken no dis
MUDVAYNE
The boy's a time bomb
:D
Builders breakfast sounds nice
I really want to try egg flavoured crisps.
the Builders Breakfast one also contains sawdust, fag ash and a cup of tea
essence of arse crack
There's nothing subtle about the hint of objectifying women
someone please make the boards not get so fucked up so quickly
3 and a half months and counting.
Onion bhaji is coming up on the standside to challenge crispyduck&hoisin, cajunsquirrel has fallen at the fifth.
I would have liked to have seen a baked beans with butter on top flavour
how about a sage derby flavour
or toasted cheese on toast (so its slightly burnt) flavour
or braised tofu flavour
or soy and seaweed flavour
...
...they got YOU to taste test crisp flavours? YOU who can't eat Paprika Walkers because they burn your mouth?
This is bullshit!
...though that said, all those sound horrible. Onion bahji? Who's retarded idea was that?
Onion Bahji:
"53-year-old Carole Wood, mother-of-two" apparently. The retard.
I hope she googles her own name and sees that.
She's gonna hunt you down and break you.
AMAZING NEWS:
just as i opened your reply, someones phone went off over behind me somewhere - their ringtone was (no word of a lie) "I GET KNOCKED DOWN. BUT I GET UP AGAIN".
amazing scenes
HELLO
I'm ignoring you, as I don't like your tone of post.
I should think before
I type. It was Stealthy who called her a retard . . . .
...
Don't try and shift the blame on to me! If anyone's gonna be eaten by Bahji Lass, it's you!
what a way to go
:(
I'm also going to set this guy on you.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's the guy who gave the world cajun squirrel flavour.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f138/bamos/MartynWrightfromStaffordshireCajunS.jpg
He has Beadle hands.
I was so mesmerised by his teeth that I didn't even notice his hands.
McGowan teeth and Beadle hands
whatta guy
whatta catch
I've blown my chances with you, haven't I?
I knew I shouldn't have revealed him to the world.
never x
on an entirely unrelated note
I just noticed that Crawley thumped Cambridge United 5-0 last night.
Everyone to Villa Marx!
Starshaped –
Put February 21st in your diary. There's a chance we'll be in your hood.
I have no further comment to make Your Honour.
that was to Judge_B
really?
why would you want to do that?
Don't dangle the carrot!
Are you trying to make an ass of me?
I don't understand
are you going to come and hang in creepy Crawley?
oh
ass carrot.
It all depends on future football results.
I can't do probability, but there's currently a 36% chance we might be in Crawley on 21st February.
all these years and the only thing that
brings any of you to Crawley is football. Thanks a bunch. Actually, I can't think of any other reason anyone would ever want to come here. I'm not actually sure why I'm here.
You should be grateful!
If you ever got off your hind and came and saw us, maybe we'd come down and see you more often. HMMMMMM.
That, or you need to put a barbecue on or something.
Well I would have been a zonino
if it wasn't for NKOTB. I've been to London more than you've been to Crawley. I will come and hang with all of you in Feb or March, if you organise something fun.
STOOPID DONNYJOEYJEFFTEDANDDEAN
Dean is my fav
<3
the thread is so far right
I'm reading it on linear
as it's so screwed, sorry x
No wrong bits at all?
You're right, you can't do probability
It's a 50% chance.
I can't do probability either
It's not 50%, it's a 25% chance.
But is it?
It's 50/50 they win the next game. But then they might get drawn away, so we won't be in Crawley. We'll be in...whoever they draw.
Yeah, I messed that up
It's a 50% chance of them winning (for the sake of argument), then a 50% chance of them being drawn at home. So you multiply the percentages. 50% of 50% is 25%.
the only thing I know about Crawley Town FC
is that the fans always besiege The Half Moon pub near my parent's house, making it difficult to get to their close on a match day. Woohoo though.
Thanks
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If she likes onion bahji so much that she has to have it in crisp form, odds on I'll be able to smell her waddling down the street towards me.
haha
I'd forgotten that discussion about spicy crisps. I didn't realise the spicy crisps Bamos was talking about were PAPRIKA WALKERS. Jesus wept.
Better not go near those wasabi ones they have in the Dublin Castle. Which suits me fine, as it means there are more for me.
That discussion was not about paprika walkers.
It was about those horrific McCoys things he buys because they sound a bit like his surname.
They did blow my weak little head off though, I'll give you that.
Granted
I don't like hot things (I never go above a korma when it comes to curry), but paprika! sheesh. Where does the 'too spicy' line start?
From ground pepper by the sounds of it.
I don't want spicy barsnacks!
I want salty ones!
Korma?! You're officially less of a man than me.
That is an outright lie
so wasabi peas arent your best friend?
Wasabi Peas was on trial for Spurs last night I think.
Chilli nuts?
RUINING NUTS.
You don't put sauce on food though do you?
Do you have eight tongues or something?
Do you need eight tongues to eat food sans sauce?
something about the taste of Cajun Squirrel
nope. cant think of what to write here
Korma Korma Korma Kormeleon
Dog dirt and coleslaw
Packed with flavour
Is this a joke or real?
I was a believer until the Cajun Squirrel.
Hi
This seems like a thread where things are happening. We just had a fire alarm! Twelve flights of stairs to get back to work. I need some crisps.
I hope it is.
I would like to say at this point that I'm not the official taste tester. Just a fat lad with access to crisps.
There are art ideas on them, yeah.
They all have a picture of a sexy 'Vote for me!' rosette on the front.
chillie nuts?
no, just me then
Put some pants on.
my word.
i dont think i've been this near to tears through boredom
:D
I'd quite like to try the duck one.
there should be a tikka flavour
chow mein flavour
bring that back the cheese and branston one.
do they only make worcester sauce french fries? they should make them as normal crisps too.
a baked beans flavour perhaps.
something with mushrooms.
tangy tomato flavour.
paprika flavour.
hmmmm...