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Everyone's got their favourites, here's my personal write ups on the crisps I try.

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McCoy’s - Salt & Malt Vinegar

23/3/2016

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Ridge Cut crisps, of which (The Real) McCoy’s are, will always be the bastions of snack flavour because their grooves help hold the salt that make up a large constituent of the taste of most crispy treats.
That’s not to say all such cuts of crisp are created equally though (just like any other type of crisp for that matter - hence the need for this entire blog site), but McCoys do it as well as anyone, if not better, aided by their great thickness and general large size of individual crisp.
 
Really we could include the above statement alongside any McCoy’s crisp review, but let’s talk about their take on that old classic, Salt & Vinegar, or Salt &Malt Vinegar as is their flavour (and they do list barley malt vinegar extract in their ingredients). Although when I’m feeling the need for a meaty hit I gravitate towards Flame Grilled Steak, S&V is probably my favourite flavour of McCoy’s and with good reason. Eat more than a few in quick succession and the sharp tang initially experienced becomes more of a burn. Plough on and suddenly you’re napalming your own mouth. Now, I’m no Marquis de Sade but I tell you what… I like it! I want to feel like my tongue is being stripped by acid; I want to be inhaling pickle-esque fumes seconds after each mouthful. Does that make me a crisp pervert?! Possibly. But given this particular product’s popularity it probably makes me one of a majority of snack devourers with a not-so dark secret.

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I have come across a problem though. Sometimes, and I’m not sure if it’s confined to the smaller multi-packs or not, you DON’T get that smack around the chops from the flavour. You just get regular salt & vinegar taste, which is fine in itself and still rather pleasant in fact but not what a hardcore S&V junkie necessary wants. If you don’t want that burn, then hope you get one of the standard ‘napalm’ packs or just don’t eat so many or don’t eat them so quickly but I do!
 
Crisp Nation only allows up to 7/10 for the standard flavours so that’s what these will get. But for me they get 9/10 if you get a proper salty and sour vinegar carpet bombing your gob pack, otherwise it’s a humble 6/10.

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SLABS - Mature Cheddar & Onion

11/3/2016

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Another from the SLABS range, and I'd like to point out something else that they've done really well and it's something that may be small but makes a big difference.

The pack opens from the sides! How many times have we seen people struggling to open a bag of crisps from the top and they end up spilling all over the floor wasting good crisps? Well it just doesn't happen with SLABS, it's a nice smooth transaction.

Onto the crisp... we still have the massive thick crunch of this beastly crisp which I'm happy to say still hits the spot. The flavouring is a perfect mature cheddar - not overly intense so that its sickly but a good well rounded flavour. Cheese & Onion can often be the last ones left in the pack, sure they're the smelliest of the crisps but sometime it's totally worth it and there's many a crisp-a-holic out there that would swear by this flavour. Those people will be very happy with this crisp.

8/10

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SLABS - Sea Salt

7/3/2016

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Now here's an interesting new range from Cheshire, SLABS. 

They've been pretty brave and gone for a style that's totally different, which you have to admire.

The potatoes they use are HUMUNGOUS and the 'slabs' are named so because they're so darn thick. The crunch is off the charts!

They're cooked in a nice olive oil but aren't overly greasy. To me the only crisp I can compare them to is potatoe sticks, the super crunchy little crisp sticks you get alot in Germany, and in the own brand ranges of supermarkets.

SLABS really hit the spot.

8/10

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