Jiminy cricket! These are so bloody goooooood!!!!

These godsends were found in Belgium. A few handfuls in and i'm hooked.

The crisps are basically the same as our british classic - Chipsticks.

I've always loved chipsticks for their salt & vinegar flavour that we all know and love, but I've always thought - why don't they branch out? For example - worcesteshire sauce flavour, how amazeballs would that be?

Zoobidoobidoo where are you?
Belgium.

These brightly colour sea animals came from over the water where they love their chips (fries) and dips. Mayo and ketchup is their life force. So it would only be natural to have come ketchup flavoured crisps.

Only these are most certainly not natural! They are one of the sweetest crisps I've tasted, ketchup crisps are supposed to be sweet, but Mr zoobidoo took it too far! No salt at all, just sweetener after sweetener. 

It's probably a good thing I can't read the ingredients.

Now that's not to say it's the end of the line, the crisps are very similar in texture to pom-bears which is in no way a bad thing, and the characters are pretty darn cute. My taste buds find the sweetness a little too sickening, maybe that means I'm old.

4/10

Found in Israel.

Bisli are just soooo dry! The effect gives the feeling of eating cat food (not that i've done it......)

Apart from that the smokey steaky flavour is pretty nice and the crunch certainly is extreme.

It's just that I need a gallon of water in my mouth after eating them.


5/10

Knabbels - found in Holland.

I was pretty concerned by the intentions of the creepy rabbit on the front.. there's something evil lurking in the eyes of this cuddly critter...

Pretty strange crisps.. Pink squares and yellow triangles. I like the yellow triangles a lot more than I like the pink squares.. the pink squares have a bit of a sickly beefy flavour to them whereas the yellow triangles have a more natural, salty, hula-hoop-like goodness to them. These crisps could be conceivably be compared in texture to monster munch - although a little crunchier.

I'm now left with a bag of pink squares.

Yellow triangles: 6/10, Pink triangles: 2/10

Knabbels: 4/10

Can anyone guess where I got these Barcelona football club themed crisps?  I'll give you a clue, it's in Spain.

The novelty of having a football club's crisps.. doesn't make up for shoddy crisp making.

These crisps are as thin as the pack that holds them. Salt and oil levels are fine... but they really have a cheap nothingness in the crunch.

Barcelona 0 - Crisp Nation 1

4/10

Found in Kenya.

Standard chipsticks as you'd find in most places - great crunch if a little greasy.

Now the flavouring, at first taste I couldn't get a hold of any chilli... all I could feel was quite citrus like for some reason! Then the chilli started to set in... not overbearing at all and a very welcome addition my palette party after the early arriving sours.

As I'm writing this, I've given some to my workmate to try and he's just run off to the toilet after a chilli overload. Strange that.. some people's palettes have such a different tuning to chilli. I'm really digging these, and the chilli level feels pretty low to me... but then again I've had Blair's Death Rain.

Found in Israel.

Bisli make really thick and crunchy hula hoops.

The grease levels are low, as are salt. Onion is very strong and there's a good amount of herbs in it.

Little dull as a flavour, but not offensive.

5/10

Found in Helsinki, Finland.

Ridged sour cream & onion crisps. Slightly greasy, lightly salted, very creamy but extremely oniony.

The onion has a nice tang, the crisp is a little thin but has a reasonable crunch.

They'll do..


6/10

Found in Slovenia.

Nice crunchy, deep ridged potato crisps. The flavour is 'young cheese' which I've tried in restaurants here, it's very similar to feta- but a little softer.

The flavour that comes across though is pretty smokey. Which I would say is wrong by my samples of young cheese.

Oil levels are good, they're not overly salty and would be welcome dippers.

Very cheesy though, you'd feel a little sick after eating the whole pack.

5/10

Found in Italy. 4 pepper flavour, you'd think would be pretty peppery - these crisps have a lot to live up to since we have so many great pepper flavours in the uk, but they just don't cut the mustard.

The crisp is really thin, greasy, and a bit soft. Flavour, strangely enough, could be more peppery. It's too subtle. There's a reason you buy a peppery crisp, you really want that fiery hit. But the fire in these crisps is more dying tea light than roaring fire.

3.5/10