Americans Taste Test Walkers Crisps for the First Time! 

I'm starting to think you guys don't have much flavour in your food!! 😂 Prawn cocktail crisps are the best 👌

Walkers are actually a British brand and American brand Lays bought Walkers, then Lays decided to change there logo to the same as the Walkers logo!!

You guys might like chip shop vinegar its not actually traditional malt vinegar its key ingredient is acetic acid, its very mild and more sweet.

need some monster munch, space invaders pickled onion and some nik naks they will blow your mind

The prawn cocktail is a very popular flavour in the U.K.

In the U.K. back in the 1950s when I was a kid the only crisps I ever saw were Smiths. They came in a grease proof bag with a twist of blue paper that contained the salt. The first job was to get the salt out as it was always at the bottom then you sprinkled it on and shook the bag to disperse it. Great fun. Smiths got pushed out in the 60s by Golden Wonder who got pushed out in the 90s by Walkers. As I said in an earlier comment Walkers are to crisps what McDonalds are to burgers. OK but not the best. The best crisps are Pipers!!

I love your videos so much. I loved your reaction to prawn cocktail as it's my favourite flavour.

For your information regarding the colour of uk crisp packs: traditionally the first bagged crisps were made by smiths and came unsalted in a white bag with a little sachet of salt. As the flavour choice grew the usual colours of pack were red - ready salted, blue - salt and vinegar, green - cheeses and onion, brown - beef (or beef/bbq variations), yellow. - cheese (occasionally marmite), purple - Worcester (pronounced ‘wooster’, like Bertie Wooster). Other flavours that have appeared include pickled onion, beef and mustard, minted lamb, tomato ketchup and many more. Walkers really appeared here in the 90s. They swapped the colours for salt and vinegar and cheese and onion. At the time i was a general manager for the UK’s biggest retailer and i cant remember why they did it. Walkers used a much better potato variety giving a much improved taste over standard brands like KP. Using foil packs their crisps tasted a lot better than other dominant brands. Nor by one these brands were bought up by walkers. So we lost Smiths and a lot of KP products. Other notable brands were Tudor and Seabrooks (mostly iirc ridge cut and good flavours). The packs in your taste test is really a very small selection of the flavours and brands available. Keep up the good work!

If you or anyone dose ever come yo the UK 🇬🇧 and try fish and chips from a proper fish n chip shop make sure you ask for onion vinegar for your fish n chips to try eespecial for a proper UK fish n chip taste experience

Yes they are, the parent company has been PepsiCo since 1989. Big shame really as the boss planned to drive other 'crisp' manufacturers out of business in the UK.

Hi guys, have you had a chip butty yet? 😂

I'm from Worcester and it's pronounced wusster source

Salt and Shake are historic. The very first potato crisp was invented by Mr Smith. It was just a plain crisp and it did not sell too well (it was British). So he hit on the idea of selling salt in a little twist of blue paper in every bag. Voila! It took off and crisps were born. I think Walkers bought out Smiths Crisps. The blue paper sachet is a nod to this history. Have been watching your chanel from the start, so pleased to see how well you are growing. That's due a lot to Lindsay and Sophia I think. 😊

Walkers Sensations Sweet Thai Chilli are SUMPTUOUS

You need smokey bacon and roast chicken

Hi Steve Lindsey .A good way to enjoy crisps is to put the entire bag full between two slices of bread and butter and munch. Lovely..

Other Walkers flavours not included here are smoky bacon, roast chicken, Marmite, and beef. Did you not get any Walkers sensations crisps? some of the flavours are Thai sweet chilli which is my favourite, sea salt, chicken & thyme. There is also Walkers max strong crisps, flavours include hot chicken wings, paprika, jalapeno & cheese, & texan bbq, i love all these! Other UK crisp brands inc Seabrook, Smiths, Mackies, Tyrrells and McCoys. McCoys are ridged, as well as the usual flavours they also come in flavours like flamed grill steak, banging bbq, chip shop curry, etc. Other crisp snacks include Hula hoops, Nik Naks, Wheat Crunchies, Wotsits, Monster Munch & Frazzles. I agree with you about the Doritos whopper flavour, it is horrible! my favourite flavour of Doritos is the chilli heatwave.

English cheese is completely different to Americans cheese. It's real for starters.

Malt vinegar was a very uniquely British thing years ago, made from barley which we had lots of it was cheap to produce. Also during WW2 when lots of food was rationed in UK it was important to preserve any excess from your garden to last you all year. Chutneys would not be made because sugar was rationed so straight pickling was popular. Hence us brits like vinegar taste more so than sweet sugary, maybe not so much now as so much sugar has crept in to our lives. Vinegar on fish and chips is ideal to cut through the greesiness of fried foods while adding a flavour we all love.

I have no wish offend here whatsoever, but when Steve says about perhaps not liking say fish n chips with vinegar on in the UK, it's almost like him pre-empting or saying I wont like it before I have even tried it. Where as Lindsay seems more open to giving it a go. Same with cheese, there are so many cheeses to try over here from mild to blow your socks off in strength. What I would say is ask for a small portion of fish n chips between you both and if you don't like them, you haven't wasted your money or wasted a lot of food either. I do hope when you come over you are able to enjoy the vast amount of dishes we have available here. All the best.

So, as an ex-Walkers employee, I can explain the greasiness difference. The UK use whats known as Sunseed Oil (its from a specific type of sunflower seed, i believe) to cook the crisps, which is *waaaaaaaay* healthier than the cheaper oil used in the US, which for a long time was (and might still be) palm oil.

Great video.. I’m definitely a crisps addict! coming from the UK was horrified with the colouring of US crisps/ chips when I’ve visited, some of yours I’m sure would glow in the dark 😂 most of ours look the same regardless of flavour

Watching you both react to a salt and vinegar crisp like you were eating a Carolina Reaper pepper was hilarious 😂

Prawn Cocktail makes me laugh cos every American thinks it's fish, look it up in Wikipedia, it's ketchup and mayo basically

Someone should send them some salt and vinegar disco's 😂

One thing you have to understand is when brits say vinegar for fish and chips they mean malt vinegar not white vinegar.

Never seen such a fuss over a bit of vinegar!😂😂😂 bless em

How many people wipe their phone screens due to the black dot on the wall between them. 😂 👇

I think there is a tendency in the UK to prefer a sharper flavour in most foods and so we like pickled onions, pickled gherkins, salt and vinegar etc. same applies to drinks, lemonade and ginger ale are great but over here they tend to be sharper and not as cloyingly sweet as i have found most American soft drinks. Having some bite to it makes the soft drink more refreshing. But whilst its not a law yet (ought to be) its pretty much universal to have plenty of vinegar on your fish and chips (or rather, proper fish and chip shop fish and chips - probably not what you want with a pan fried Sea Bass.....)

Not sure what Steve would do if he encountered blue cheese like Dorset blue, Stilton. Then there is always extra mature cheddar😋 you can strip paint with it👍👍

Now you just need to pop all the left over crisps in the same big bowl, mix them up and play crisp roulette, sit, watch a film and munch the night away! xD

You guys don't like flavour in the US!

This is Grade A wimpery.

Who else's mouth was watering as they were eating these? It's imagining the salt and/or vinegar that does it.

Can you get rid of that mark on your wall? I keep going to wipe my screen!

still a fair few flavours missing in the walkers! smoky bacon, beef, roast chicken, marmite, bbq pulled pork, pickled onion, tomato ketchup...

Steve just likes peanut butter 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

If you don't like salt n vinegar, you're going to be buggered in a fish and chip shop 🤣🤣

Salt and vinegar Squares is one of the greatest food items ever created by man (also Discos). Fight me.

watching aliens from another planet break a crisp in half to taste is quite hard work i've found

No Walkers Max Paprika??? Those are very tasty 😊

Does Steve like any? 😂😂

Man up for gods sake,,,all that drama over a salt & vinegar crisp 😬

Pickled onion monster munch a game changer! Any of you guys from the uk remember the blue envelopes walkers put in packs of crisps containing £5 £10 notes?

Unspecified cheese in uk,ussually means a variety of Cheddar🎩

LOL! Lindsay chews very quietly while Steve sounds like he’s walking on gravel! 😂😂🇦🇺

Salt & Vinegar Squares for the wiiiiiinnnnnn!!!!!! Great vid guys, keep up the amazing content from Gav, Somerset UK

Never seen anyone react to salt and vinegar crisps like that , not even a todller 😂😂😂

You are missing so many flavours 😂

Think your idea of what BBQ tastes like and just the concept of it is different to ours

If this video shows anything, it's how bland American food is. You've just become so used to that blandness that a hint of flavour makes you screw up your face. The only cure is to eat more prawn cocktail crisps!

Steve, you would be a nightmare dinner guest!

Hi Guys , I've just had a packet of Seabrook crisps sea salted ( they do different flavourings too ) 6 bags in multipack for £1.35 . Good quality and cheap . 😊

The reaction from the salt nd vinegar crisps is so funny it’s a beloved crisp here the stronger the vinegar taste the better 😅

Quite niche but does anyone else remember Tudor crisps? Imho they were even better than Walkers when they were around. JFYI: Walkers bought out Tudor in the late 70's early 80's and for crisp lovers it was a sad event.

I have just watched you doing your crisps with the blue bag with salt inside! In the early sixties all you could get was smiths Crisps and Golden Wonder! The smiths crisp had a blue bag in them and you had to shake them up vigorously to distribute the salt! Well done to you for shaking them vigorously 😵‍💫 that took my right back to my childhood days when there weren't many different flavours! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😉You immediately went straight back to the early sixties whith your comment"Where is the salt?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So much fuss over a drop of vinegar. 😂

In my house we don't buy multipacks of crisps with different flavours in anymore because the ready salted and cheese and onion would get eaten but then the salt and vinegar ones would just sit in the cupboard until they expired and then get binned. So for a long time now we've just bought multipacks with a single flavour in. That way we can make sure we buy the flavours that will mean all will get eaten.

No, in the UK here and I squeeze lemon juice on fish, but salt and vinegar on the chips

Walkers may be the biggest-selling brand in the UK, partly because the parent company took over many smaller manufacturers. However, most people I know - at least adults - eat them out of convenience (especially at the pub), but choose better brands when they have the choice.

Steve have a drink with you when you are trying to food .😊

I think everyone in the UK calls it Worcester sauce even though it technically is Worcestershire sauce.

Must try walkers sensations especially Thai sweet chilli

I've just tried to wipe that black spot away again. It's just above Lindsey's shoulder. I keep forgetting it's on the wall.

Fun fact regarding the colours of the packets. The Squares used to be owned by Smiths and they always used Blue for their packaging. Walkers always used Blue for Cheese and Onion (contoray to popular belief as they were the first compamy to produce the flavour and others used Green when theirs came out), but when Walkers brought Smiths, they decidedto keep the popular Blue colour for Salt & Vinegar and changed Cheese & Onion from Yellow to Green to match everyone else.

You don't like vinegar you don't like cheese whats the point in it ?

Fish and chips used to be cooked in beef dripping (fat). You had to eat them hot, obviously, and afterwards you would have enough fat on your lips, you could swim the channel. The vinegar was to cut through the fat on the chips as you eat and digest them. They are now cooked in vegetable oil and don't need the vinegar. Lemon juice is better than vinegar on cod, Steve.

You have never tastes english cheese which is pure and no additives 100%better than us,We love salt and vinegar in uk it's one of the fav flavours you make them out to be nasty,Yes we have Barbecue crisps in uk and marmite and bovril and fajita everything you can think of we got it 😅😅❤our crisps are cooked completely different to us we don't have all preservatives added

Cheese and onion. Perfect in a cheese sarnie. Couple of pickled onions on the side 😋

Despite being a Brit, I'm not a fan of those offerings on your table apart from prawn cocktail and french fries. You should try; Chipsticks (salt & vinegar) Monster munch Walkers Barbeque flavour Skips Niknaks Twiglets (personally 🤢)

Steve, what's the point in having a taste test when you don't seem to like any food. Leave it to Lindsay.

Just finished a pkt of Walkers roast chicken flavour. The best.❤

i remember when a crisp packet had more crisps than air

I love you determined to prove how much you don’t like salt & vinegar!

For Lindsey, you actually can get Worcestershire sauce flavour in regular Walkers (Look for purple as the pack colour)

you need to try mccoys crisps, the flavours themelves are much better tasting than walkers, at least for me

You need to try the childhood classic "Fish and Chips", the packaging is like a newspaper. They're nice, and then you hit the powdery bit at the bottom which blows your cheeks out

Yes we have various barbecue flavoured crisps, also Beef and onion flavour, Roast Chicken flavour, Smokey bacon flavour, Tomato Ketchup flavour, Marmite flavour, Ham and Mustard flavour, Pickled onion flavour, Baked Bean flavour, Cheese and chive flavour, Cheddar and sour cream flavour, Lamb and mint flavour, Chicken Tikka flavour, Chip shop Curry flavour, Lime and Black Pepper flavour, Jerk Chicken flavour, plus many more. Walkers alone have had over 140 different flavours of crisp. At Christmas time they even have Turkey and Bacon flavour also Turkey and Stuffing flavour crisp.

Does Sophia get to try these too? What do you do with the leftover stuff if you don't like it (or if you do, but don't want to eat it all lol)

You really should try: Monster Munch, Pickled onion is the best McCoy's cheese and onion Hula Hoops - Any flavor Although its not a potato chip, we do eat these at the pub like potato chips. Mr Porkys Scratching - pork rings/scratchings Lays and Walkers are the same thing but just marketed under different names, Walmart - Asda being another

Crisps are best in a sandwich. Try with buttered bread, black pepper, cheese and mayo. Yummy!! Time now to try Chicken, Beef. Ham, Tomato Ketchup, Pickled onion......

Best Doritos Chilli Heatwave, nuff said

Salt and vinegar on chips us proppa british, lemon is continental and we cant have that.

Crips need bread and butter um um 😊😊

lays ARE walkers, walkers started in the uk and were bought by an American company many years after they were started

You don't like Quavers? I have to stop watching you now! Also - thank God you didn't get any Discos - their Salt & Vinegar is famously strong, it'd nigh rip your tongue to shreds.

Yes we do have bbq flavour crisps! Pretty much every brand does them. I'm surprised you haven't been sent any of the meaty flavours!

bonus point for saying Worcester sauce at the start of the video!! Yaaay

ah to be honest i dont like salt and vinegar but for some reason on fish and chips salt and vinegar is needed

Wow, salt n vinegar is amazing. They make fish n chips soo much better. But... if you really really don't like it try tartar sauce. A but vinegary still but not full on and still acceptable to have with fish n chips.

Hedgehog flavour crisps were a thing back in the day 😁

Yawl have *No taste* over there. Ok yes, that was a little insulting.... you do have taste. It's just all bad taste. tee hee!

Now I want to have crisps and it’s only 10am

Prawn cocktail are the best 😅

As a very young kid I remember shaking vinegar from the vinegar jar into a packet of plain crisps ( ready salted ) in an attempt to turn the packet of plain crisps into salt and vinegar, what I got was a packet of very soggy vinegar soaked crisps 😂

There's nothing like the Salt & Vinegar flavours for getting rid of pesky mouth ulcers. I love Roast Chicken flavour with a pickled egg.😉

Cheese and onion crisp in a butter sandwich 😋🥪 aha !!!

Cheese and Onion 😋

You still need to try try, Walker’s Bacon, Pickled Onion, Tomato Sauce, Wostershire Sauce, Chicken then you can add in the Walker Ridged Crisps like Salted, Cheese and Onion, Steak - Walkers Sensations. There are many other flavours that you might try.

I seem to remember the salt being in a little blue bag twisted shut , the plain were the original flavour , cheese & onion and salt & vinegar were next . Now there are so many flavours , a couple of points - the stronger flavours are standard pub snacks and best enjoyed with beer , also fish & chips with salt and vinegar are great and the pretty standard way to eat them .