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What colour packets should salt and vinegar / cheese and onion crisps be in?

hip_young_gunslinger [Edit] [Delete] 27 replies 15:04, 3 May '12

Just having some salt and vinegar out of a green packet (Tesco own brand) and it feels all wrong, though in a way, it makes more sense.

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  • green/blue

    JustJay | 3 May '12, 15:07 | X
    Antpocalypsenow, aboynamedgoo, thewarn, and incandenza_ this'd this
  • Salt and vinegar blue, cheese and onion green

    Unless it's Walkers, of course, I think most people have finally got used to theirs being different, about 20 years after they changed.

    DaisyFlower | 3 May '12, 15:08 | X
    brusma, Icarus-Smicarus, Smyth2, still_here, and dorftrottel this'd this
    • Why do Walkers get to be different?

      We need some industry standards.

      hip_young_gunslinger @DaisyFlower | 3 May '12, 15:17 | X
    • Walkers didn't change, did they?

      Golden Wonder just disappeared. I still don't know how that happened.

      TheoGB @DaisyFlower | 3 May '12, 15:31 | X
      • Yeah, they changed

        Sometime around 1989. Up until then they had s and v in light blue and c and o in green. Apparently the change greatly increased sales of salt and vinegar as people bought them by mistake.

        DaisyFlower @TheoGB | 3 May '12, 15:34 | X
        • Walkers claim they never changed their colours going by this:

          http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Walkers-change-their-salt-vinegar-crisp-packets-from-blue-to-green-and-cheese-onion-from-green-to-blue

          In 1989 you would still have been buying Golden Wonder in the correct colours as far as I recall. Walkers only became big after Linekar's retirement and those adverts. (Again, this is my recollection.)

          TheoGB @DaisyFlower | 3 May '12, 15:41 | X
          • Oh, maybe I am thinking of Golden Wonder then

            Though if that's the case, it's a pretty widely held misconception that Walkers changed.

            DaisyFlower @TheoGB | 3 May '12, 15:42 | X
            • File alongside Wagon Wheels being smaller

              and other such beliefs, maybe. :)

              TheoGB @DaisyFlower | 3 May '12, 15:45 | X
  • walkers is the only one that has green salt and vinegar instead of blue right?

    because most of the salt and vinegar crisps ive eaten in my life are walkers, i associate it with their colour scheme

    jazz-ballet | 3 May '12, 15:09 | X
  • Oh yeah, forgot about lunch, wondered why I was starting to feel ill.

    I am only in charge of my body 67% of the time, the other times God watches over me, Praise Him

    DinoMAN | 3 May '12, 15:10 | X
  • you know how people get funny about different flavours of crisps being mixed together in a bowl?

    i'd probably be ok with that

    mac_daddy | 3 May '12, 15:10 | X
  • Good question. Walkers are green and they are kind of the standard.

    But onions are more green that salt or vinegar so it's a tough choice. At the end of the day though, to save confusion, I just read the packet. Have you tried that?

    rich78 | 3 May '12, 15:10 | X
  • this thread is making me crave seabrook crisps

    salt & vinegar, pickled onion and tomato ketchup if anyone's going to the shop? ta

    brusma | 3 May '12, 15:11 | X
    • and a packet of salt & vinegar discos, plz

      ta

      japes_ @brusma | 3 May '12, 15:15 | X
  • Whatever colour my digestive tract is.

    Reddish brown?

    eltham | 3 May '12, 15:18 | X
  • salt n vinegar = blue as in seasalt= sea= blue.

    Cheese and onion = green as onions are greeny.

    sharp_yet_blunt | 3 May '12, 15:28 | X
    japes_, TheoGB, DaisyFlower, badmanreturns, and still_here this'd this
    • That's the logic, but Walkers have such a stranglehold I can't quite accept it.

      hip_young_gunslinger @sharp_yet_blunt | 3 May '12, 15:33 | X
  • I always assume green is cheese and onion, blue is salt and vinegar

    but I thought that was because I grew up in the 80s when people only bought Golden Wonder.

    Strange no one cares about the colour of ready salted (which was dark blue for Golden Wonder, IIRC).

    TheoGB | 3 May '12, 15:32 | X
  • Not bothered as long as I get my crisps

    (i buy popcorn anyway)

    meowington | 3 May '12, 15:40 | X
  • Why is ready salted red?

    Salt isn't red. Cheese and onion should be green, onion tops are green. Kinda. Salt and vinegar makes me think of the sea, which is blue.

    cleotis | 3 May '12, 15:42 | X
    • clues in the name.

      el_beardo @cleotis | 3 May '12, 15:49 | X
      • http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxqjqCCfU1qdbdo6.gif

        japes_ @el_beardo | 3 May '12, 16:04 | X
  • balsamic vinegar and sea salt bluey green

    mature cheddar and onion a vibrant yellow

    pieces_of_reece | 3 May '12, 15:46 | X
  • Onions are green

    sea salt is blue
    my digestive tract is red
    I'm dying please help

    thewarn | 3 May '12, 15:47 | X
  • salt 'n' vinegar should be in bin-liner coloured packets

    so you don't mistake the contents for anything you might want to eat.

    robluvsnic | 3 May '12, 16:11 | X
  • Walkers are very efficient in their packaging of a multipack

    compared to the baggy mess of say Skips, Nik Naks or Wotsits. I suppose it is down to the type of crisp but well worth mentioning.

    Balonz | 3 May '12, 16:14 | X
    • A German loving efficiency? THIS IS UNHEARD OF!

      TheoGB @Balonz | 3 May '12, 16:21 | X
  • I don't really mind what colour they are

    but they should at least be consistent.

    Found myself mistakenly eating cheese & onion french fries the other week. Should read the packet of course, but was a quick grab on the way out the door. So frustrating....and bloody horrible too!

    twigboyjoe | 3 May '12, 16:28 | X
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