I love how the British guy is all calm and he is nicely explaining and criticizing flavors. And then there is the American guy who is just mercilessly criticizing all of the flavors with huge passion.
1:43 actually there is a science behind the seasoning on the "less sodium" Lays. The lightly salted chips taste the same as the regular while having less salt. This is because the crystal of salt used in the lightly salted is different. We have actually studied these crystals and they are different than traditional table salt. And on top of all, Lays has patent the production of these salts. This is an engineered salt crystal which tricks your taste buds into thinking there is more salt than actually there is. Typically engineered salt crystals cost more to produce which will lead to a higher cost of the final product.
So its just KCl right? Everything that is low sodium uses KCl. Even low sodium salt shakers in grocery stores are just a mix of KCl and NaCl. Nothing proprietary.
@@mattsekira5536 Nope. It's sodium chloride. Just the crystal structure differs. The science behind it is pretty cool. It's basically a salt brine that is highly temperature controlled and they use salt crystal seeds that are different from traditional salts.These salt crystals are microscopic but they hit your taste buds in a totally different way than regular salt making you think that there is more salt than actually present.
I never understood why walkers stop selling the BBQ rib variant here in the UK. They really were the best version of the “standard” flavours if you know what I mean.
Lay's was first sold in 1932 by a salesman Herman Lay in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). He was a traveling salesman who sold his chips from the back of the car on the road during the Great Depression. The inventor always believed in providing quality snack to the consumers at affordable prices.
morals change, steve jobs would probably be horrified by modern apple, or praise it since some speculated he was a conman who didn't actually give a shit about the customers or quality
@@kianayemoja463 lol in 2006 I was 14 wtf time goes by and that was 15 years ago same year that this person made their youtube account ... mind you he has 1978 in his name so he most be old
Memory unlocked!! My grandma used to buy Marmite crisps ALL THE TIME but all her shops stopped selling them! This was years ago, but just LOOKING at them, I can literally taste them in my mouth 😋🥹
We do actually have walkers stax in the UK, along side the Doritos variant that was mentioned. The packaging is very different from the American equivalent though, much closer to Pringles.
I remember when Walker's seemed to be a regional brand in the UK. Where I lived in South London it was all about the likes of Smith's and Golden Wonder. But then in the mid 70s my uncle bought a village shop in rural Hertfordshire, and I was surprised to find that the crisps he sold were Walker's, a brand I'd never even heard of before!
I remember when our corner shop sold Golden Wonder,Smiths etc.Then suddenly all you could buy was Walkers,like they wiped out the rest😅,same with smarties,all you could buy was M&M’s.I preferred GW and Smiths,but they only had Walkers.
From the UK. The first time I sampled 'Lays' (Cheese) was in a small spanish village back in 2002/3. I have got to say the spanish Cheese Lays taste way better than what I had become accustomed to ( Walkers) back in the UK. Strangest thing....fast forward 17 years later. Immigrated to spain for 3 years and could not find 'Lay Cheese and Onion' flavour anywhere in spanish supermarkets. Cheese and Red Pepper, Cheese and etc...etc...but not Cheese and Onion!.
For real. I'm a prawn cocktail guy myself but roast chicken was good too. How long were you across the pond? I honestly thought about staying when I was there...it was intoxicating for me the change of pace.
Both Roast chicken and Smokey Bacon are gorgeous. It’s a shame they are not available now but the promotion Chicken Burrito crisps are gorgeous too. I’d love walkers to bring them back as they are the best out of those promotional flavours Harry mentions. Joes passion for the crisps is hilarious Roast chicken and thyme sensations are just the bees knees too
In the UK we used to have the Barbecue flavour, they were lovely. Also if you go to European shops you can find some European flavours, like Green Onion and a Formage which is actually Cream Cheese and Chive.
@@alexbostock7826 You do get some paprika things here tbf. Pringles and Walkers Max have them, and I like them, but I don't think it's as big a flavour as it is over there
overall there has been a lot more flavours in the UK than in the US. we had the things like the "great british food" range and the "world cup countries" range plus all the competition ranges theyve brought out over the years.
Not going to lie, the best part of spending the time I did over in Westhoughton with my good friend visiting from the States was just chilling out in her house, eating Lion bars and Walkers Prawn Cocktail crisps and watching stuff like Take Me Out. When her friends would come over, I literally called it the Bird's Nest seeing this British gals chirping away about everything. This just conjured up a really nice memory. I loved going all over the country, but the simplest pleasures are the ones that endure the best.
I'm hoping when international travel is back to normal or at least more relaxed, whenever that is, they can all do trips to each other's countries. Maybe taste stuff from chains that don't exist in their respective countries.
Wotsits predated Cheetos in the UK by a long way. They were a Golden Wonder crisp company product. PepsiCo(Walkers) forced and bought out every other crisp company at the time. They tried their damndest to bring Cheetos over here but Brits stuck with Wotsits so they gave up and bought the company.
@@_MJ07_ Oh, that's interesting. I watched a UK crisp documentary recently (no, really 😂) and they told that Wotsit versus Cheeto story. I guess I'm not surprised to hear there are Cheetos here and there in UK, but Wotsits massively outsell them.
I tried the roast chicken crisps and they're amazing! Really taste like spices you would put on roast chicken. Sadly the only shop that carried them here in Poland (aka Dealz) don't have them anymore
@@nialldean9791 yeah, it's super popular here if you need any international food that you can't get in normal stores. They are always packed with people, lots of folks love that chain.
I remember i had bought a packet of crisps and i put them in my pantry a week later when i was gonna eat them i realised the bag popped inside the crisps (they were wotsits) were really hard
I remember the Cajun squirrel flavour. Wasn’t a fan of it. My favourite temporarily exclusive walkers flavour was crispy duck pancakes/duck and hoisin (however they named it). It really did taste like eating Chinese crispy duck pancakes. I could even taste the cucumber 🥒 and spring onion (green onion) flavour in the which I was sceptical about before I tasted them.
In reference to the "very old days of crisps", whilst crisps were invented in the UK in the late 19th century (at least, a version of what we now call crisps) nobody thought to season/flavour them until the 1950s when the Irish manufacturer Tayto, which is the largest producer of crisps in Ireland (a nation so in love with crisps the company opened a theme park based on their brand, where you can also tour their factory and upon leaving are given a free packet of crisps) began producing their crisps with seasoning.
Really? Not Smiths? From Wikipedia: The company was founded by Frank Smith and Jim Viney in the United Kingdom in 1920, originally packaging a twist of salt with its crisps in greaseproof paper bags which were sold around London. Ps now owned by Pepsi, but still sold here with the little blue bag of salt to season.
Salring isnt flavouring Smiths were first to cover it in salt Laytos exsperimented with Gas chromatography to connect flavours into the chips past just salting them salting isnt really a invention of any kind while using Gas chromatography to add flavour to cuts of patato was a invention
In Romania, sour cream & *dill* is arguably the most popular Lay's flavor and I am surprised it's nowhere else to be found. I always see sour cream & cheese or sour cream & onion but honestly, the combination with the dill is far superior.
Curiously, Smiths is an old UK brand that also set up shop in Australia in the 1930's. They're all owned by PepsiCo now, but they withdrew the brand from the UK market in the 90's.
Couple of interesting points - Stax did launch in the UK not too long ago, but was discontinued (they were a bit meh compared to pringles imo). Also, on the point of the name "ready salted", Walkers do make a "salt and shake" multipack where you salt the crisps yourself! I'm a big fan of these but most people I know don't see the point.
Ever since this video came out Walkers in the UK has been creating more varieties of their products. Like Walkers Stax came out at one point, even Asda made their own Stax. Walkers have know just made a less salted version of Ready Salted.
I love the special flavours they sometimes do in the UK. They did a Cajun Squirrel once, then they do special edition flavours like curry or fish and chips! my local shop sells Lays bags of Piquant Paprika (really hard to say) which is amazing!
So many strange ones in the UK, but I find most of the meaty flavoured ones end up tasting like their Roast Chicken or Smoky Bacon flavours, which also leave the flavour in the back of your throat for the rest of the day.
Yes! So glad you did this version of food wars. Called for it a while back. On another note. All of those limited restaurant walkers crisps are rank. 🤢 The worst limited line they've ever done.
When Joe said that he didn’t like dill pickle chips I cried but when Harry said that he likes them a lot I was overjoyed As a pickle I think I found a new best friend 💚🥒
Growing up in the 80’s and 90’s, I am sure that Walker’s Salt and Vinegar used to be blue and Cheese and Onion were green! Not sure when it changed, but I am sure it did!
I love those meaty flavours from the UK, unfortunately here on the other side of the pond in the Netherlands we don't have those. We do have patatje joppie flavour though which I recently discovered, made to taste like a sauce made of mayonnaise,mustard and onions. Yummmm
you have to eat stax with the flavor tounge, cause otherwise they taste like nothing! They are really good when you eat them that way because flavors only on one side
Aside from Pringles, I think every brand mentioned in here is actually owned by the Frito-Lay company. So the question becomes: are they competing with themselves or giving the illusion of competition?
we had walkers stax for a short time in the UK (with biodegradable packaging haha) and a part of me genuinely misses them. I mean they'll never beat Pringles but I remember practically living off the paprika one for a while. never tried them since they moved to doritos
I do know that in a Australia we have Smiths instead of Lays and Walkers but in Christmas they actually well lamb and mint sauce chips and there soooo good 🤤
We did have Lay's for a year or two (maybe in the 90's...?) but it never took off so now they are a special buy at Aldi now and then, or in speciality us/uk food stores. I love chips!
If you wanted to find the volume of the bag, why didn’t you immerse the unopened bags into the measuring jugs and see how much the water level rises ? That would be a more accurate way of comparing the (misleading) bag volume versus the volume of the crisps.
@@adamsayer11 - put in a measuring jug and push the bag down until the water level reaches the tips of their fingers. Or jam the bag into a smaller measuring jug and add water up to the top line, then take the bag out and see how far the water level drops. Or clip a weight to the bag, see how much the water level rises with the bag and weight, then put the weight and clip back in and calculate the difference in the water levels.
@@buyukalim6691 - that won’t work. You won’t be able to get the bag to swell out exactly the same as it does when pumped wit nitrogen at the factory and that’s the dhole point, isn’t it ? To compare the volume of the bag AS PURCHASED, versus the volume of the chips or crisps. Also, you’re more likely to spill water if you try to fill up the bags.
Joe, If they put anymore air in those bags they would pop when they reach higher altitudes such as here in Colorado, the bags literally puff up like a balloon here.
Anything made by Frito-Lay is owned by PepsiCo, they’re basically have a huge monopoly on the chip market. Bugles are owned by General Mills however, they are probably licensing the brand to Walkers to sell in the UK.
No one gonna mention that Monster Munch are actually moster shaped not claw shaped. You need to rotate it 180 degrees: The hole is it's mouth and the 4 "claws" are actually its arms and legs.
@@happy_clouds Yeah, I know, I'm pretty old was even in the Monster Munch club as a kid. Size doesn't change my point they were still monster shaped not claw shaped.
Good to see this back :) Joe makes me laugh so much, I crack up whenever I think of him trying to say lecithin haha By the way you can still get Cheetos in the UK, they do the normal cheese ones and also flaming hot spirals. More US v UK please
Recently they've started selling green cheetos football versions in Aldi in the UK. I love these Cheetos. Previously these were only available in Spain. I would always beg my mum to get me some when she travelled there. And I introduced these to my friends who were like 'this is great!'
