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Monster Munch - Sizzling Bacon

28/8/2014

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It's a special day in the Crisp Nation - as we introduce our new reviewer Stevo! He's gone old skool with his first review, dating back to the 80's with a review from nostalgia land...




Back in the 1980s, my school lunchbox was dominated by all the healthy things kids need to grow up; y’know, limp cheese and marmite sandwiches, a different chocolate biscuit everyday (Trio or Club anyone?) and invariably a packet of maize or corn snacks.

I’ve always been a sucker for vinegary flavours be it Salt and said Vinegar or Pickled Onion, with Monster Munch arguably the daddy of that flavour (although never rule out Space Raiders), but being the carnivore I am, meaty flavours do have their appeal and no meat flavour is better in my opinion than that of bacon. One of the finest examples of its time were the Sizzling Bacon Flavour Hunks of Monster Munch by Smith’s. Always offering a dilemma of a choice between them and the Pickled Onion variety, they never let me down and for some reason combined well with the post-swim smell of chlorine – or maybe that’s just nostalgia kicking in! Either way, when Walkers took over the brand and dispensed with Smokey Bacon (which is what I recall the flavour being named) it was a sad day in the history of crisps. Surpassed in the bacon stakes only by another of Smith’s bygone range, the Football Crazy, bacon Monster Munch truly were joy to eat.

  9/10


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11 Comments
Dom
29/1/2015 12:14:30 am

Arguably the best and my favourite crisps of all time. Wish walkers would bring these back!

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Stevo W
24/2/2015 09:43:51 pm

Damn straight Dom! I just don't get how and why some flavours survive and others become extinct. But Bacon Monster Munch surely has the potential to rise like a phoenix from the flames.

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steve
11/8/2015 02:31:48 am

I am in love with this site. I myself am a crisp lover and child of the 80s. Keep it up. Please tell me if you have ever heard of gammon and pineapple crisps?

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Josh Crisp Nation link
11/8/2015 10:00:12 pm

Can't say I've come across them? Do you know the brand Steve?

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Stevo W
23/3/2016 04:52:13 am

Glad you like the site and my review. I'm very late to the thread of your reply but yes, I do just about remember Gammon and Pineapple crisps. They were a flavour of the Tudor brand which alas I believe are no longer with us after their purchase by Nabisco and ultimately Pepsico who concentrated on the Walkers brand. Those Geordie lads and lasses made some canny and weird flavours I tell you!

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Chris cunliffe link
27/11/2023 08:08:02 pm

Bring back the bacon

Joey deacon
16/1/2019 02:42:35 pm

As a kid these bad boys always cheered me up after being told off by teachers all day . When my old lady picked me up from school with a bag of these bacon flavoured hunks them teachers could go fuk themselfs . I was in bacon bliss. Bring um back !!!

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Stevo W
17/1/2019 02:49:58 am

I would be up for a campiagn to bring back Sizzling Bacon Monster Munch. If enough letters are written... Having said that, Itried with Salt & Vinegar Space Raiders and KP just fobbed me off said, not enough people bought them so they stopped producing them.

As an aside, I do hope Joey Deacon is not a psuedonym poking fun at the severe cerebral palsy suffering man of Blue Peter fame in the earky 80s. As a kid it was commonplace to call someone a Joey slapping your wrist but we've grown up and know better now, right?!

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Ev
31/1/2019 12:28:02 am

God I loved these! From memory, the crisps themselves were kind of orangey in colour too? The prawn cocktail ones weren't half bad either.

I might be imagining it, but I don't think Walker's bacon crisps taste have the same bacon flavour - like how space raiders and Monster Munch pickled onion taste a little different. Do you think that's why they've never brought them back or football Crazies: they wouldn't taste the same as they did now Walkers make them?

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Stevo W
1/2/2019 04:08:06 am

Hi Ev! Glad to know there's yet another Monster Munch bacon flavour fan on this spinning planet of ours.

And you're not imagining it, the bacon flavour of Walkers potato crisp variety does not taste the same as the old Monster Munch ones though maybe the fact they were corn snacks would have a part to play in how they tasted. I'd love to see them back just to try though, and even more so Football Crazies which were just the best.

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Jonnyusm
26/10/2024 12:59:26 pm

If you burped you could taste these for days after

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