Found in a little off license in limehouse. Never seen this grace the shelves of anywhere else in London.

Pasta crisps! Really classy ones at that. Really happy I've come across these, they're light but crunchy. The flavour is subtle but welcome. Kind of like how a classy olive bread gives you hints of olives without being overbearing. The Chianti graces ones palette with a slight sweetness reminiscent of a fine summers day in the Tuscan riviera. Where am I... Oh yes they taste good when I put them in my mouth.

8/10

Another from walkers' remake of pop chips and I'm seriously not impressed. The crunch is not the same, the texture is dry and the flavouring is really cheap and sickly. Not the 'Red Sky cream cheese & bacon' I'd hoped for.




2/10

New mini cheddars!

Always loved mini cheddars, although they should really be in a cracker/biscuit section - i'll let them slip through as they're a classic in the crisp section.

The new flavour is chilli beef and I like it!

I actually thought it would be a lot calmer than it is. Chilli gives a nice hit and the beef flavouring is spot on. 

Always liked cheddar cheese on my chilli con carne jacket potato. 

8/10

McCoy's deliver another taste sensation in their new range ULTIMATE.

Sizzling BBQ chicken really hits the spot of awesomeness. The deep ridges have amazing crunch and density.

The flavour is off the hook. The chicken flavour is as recognisable as the walkers chicken flavouring, but only a hint of it as your mouth is overwhelmed by the sweet BBQ sauce - and so much more. This bbq is rich with chilli and pepper, in quite an extreme way. The pepper is full on, so you need to be a pepper lover. 

Fortunately I am, and I dig. 

9/10

New from McCoy's, found in Luton airport.

I was a little hesitant when I first saw that ULTIMATE meant that the crisps have been flavoured twice.. McCoy's crisps are rammed full of flavour already, surely these are going to be sickly?!

Well, no is the answer. The flavour isn't bad at all. The chargrilled steak flavouring is deep and smoky. The aftertaste is peri peri and is great, more of a medium nandos heat rather than an extra hot. It's got a great tang.

The ridges are super deep and super crunchalicious. These are great crisps, bursting with but not overpowering with flavour.

9/10

Second installment of Kettle's Baked crisps and you know what - nowhere near as bad as Cream Cheese & Chive.

Mainly as they're a little more greasy - a whole 2 calories more. It's still a thin limited crunch crisp with a dry aftertaste, but the chilli is nice and brings an army of saliva to the party. 

Still way too dry for my liking.


5/10

The new range from Kettle chips, for the Calorie conscious amongst us.

Kettle baked is interesting.. definitely not greasy but definitely quite dry. 

This would probably make for a pretty nice flavour, the salt levels are right and the cheese & chive is tangy but with it being so dry - after a few seconds it leaves a kind of dusty stale cheese vibe hanging in your crisp hole. It's the same disgust I get from rice cake crisps (NOT CRISPS). The crisps are very thing and light with minimal crunch.


2/10

Pom-bear go to the zoo!

Special edition Pom-bears, ZOO FRIENDS. How exciting!

These are a must for cheese lovers, and nostalgic crisp eaters. The flavour is full and creamy, exactly the same as the infamous Quavers. The crunch and texture is still a pom-bear, but they are Elephants, Lions, Hippos, Turtles, Bison?, Leopards and from what I can see - a Penguin?

They are selling multibags of these in Sainburys. Do it.

7/10

I was wondering how long it would take before Walkers cottoned on to the amazingness that is pop chips, so here they are finally with their own range of 'pops'.

Pops flavours consist of Original, Sour Cream & Onion, Prawn Cocktail & Melted Cheese & Bacon.

In my first crunch into a pop, and i'm surprised that they haven't created an exact replica of pop chips original..

I'd like to give you all a hearty welcome to guest crisp reviewer Sarah, who is reviewing the new flavour from Hackney crisp makers Leighton Brown.




Not everyone is a fan of the vegetable crisp, after all, it has been a little overdone - its novelty soon wore off when every mediocre self-professed 'gastro-pub' in Britain started serving up a melange of multi-coloured baked vegetable slivers in place of their more conventional, reliable, potato-based cousins, in the hopes of appearing just that little bit more fancy. Truth be told, out of the average vegetable crisp offerings, I would normally by-pass the unappetising-looking beetroot bits, sifting out the delicious curls of parsnip instead. Because parsnips are awesome.




HOWEVER. These deep damson and golden covered morsels (yes, that's right, golden beets are a thing) are downright delicious. There's only a soft crunch to them, but honestly that's fine, as they win you over with their melt in the mouth-ness. The flavour is sweet and almost tangy at first but soon mellows leaving behind the genius addition of the dill. Dill I tell you. Dill! It just works, and the after taste is earthy and herby and wonderful. The only very slight disappointment was that I couldn't really detect any horseradish - there's no heat - and so maybe a smidge more of the hot stuff would have off-set the sweetness rather brilliantly. But really that's only a tiny complaint. These crisps are how vegetable crisps ought to be done. Would any chef worth his mustard serve up vegetables naked and bland and boring? No, he'd season the shit out of them. And so it should be with crisps. Now pass the dill.




8/10