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In Spain we have Bonilla a la vista, really good crisps, even Koreans are crazy about them. We also have snacks from Grefusa or Frit Ravish. And more crisps from eapinaler, El Gallo, Sarriegui and literally dozens of brands. Nearly all the regions have 6-7 good brans for crisps and there are hundreds of small brands in every area. Apart from the brands you can find at every supermarket.
FunnyFrisch make these "Lentil Chips" which sounds weird but they are actually so good.
Bonilla la Vista
It's "Noot noot!", you philistine.
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In the UK we have... all of the ones at the top and... none of the ones at the bottom
I think
Please let me know I'm wrong and where I can find those thx
You can find brets although you need to do a big supermarket for them (or a specialist fancy food shop)
Try the Euro Food shops. They'll have the European brands. But yeah, the bug stores only have the typical American brands.
Amazing, will do. Thank you!
Pringles are so shitty that can't even be categorised as "chips" according to European regulations
Croky in Belgium is good aswell!
I'm all about Tayto, king of crisps.
North Taytos, or South Taytos?
A very important question.
The Norn Irish ones are more potent and flavoursome in my humble opinion.
freestaytos
Where are you getting all of these exotic templates from?
It's distressing how many British sweet brands now have a chain of ownership leading to the US. Mondelez famously bought Cadbury's, and Bain Capital (y'know, Mitt Romney's company) own most of the "classics" like Barratts, Fox's Glacier Mints, Poppets, Tavener's, Mojo chews, Barker & Dobson etc. The only big non-American company left is Nestle, and they can also fuck wayyyyy off.
It's only Terry's and Tunnocks left now, and even then Terry's are owned by the Fr*nch.
Commiserates in Canadian
Isn't lays produced in the Netherlands?
It is still owned by PepsiCo.
I have Irish friends (republic and northern) who stock up on Taytos when they're home, and rave about them. They export from Ulster to the US, but I've never seen there here in Scotland - weird. https://www.tayto.com/about/
They're occasionally the crisp of choice in pubs; an excellent accompaniment to an 80/-. Suppose there's worse criteria for your pub crawls. But aye, a weird omission - you'd be thinking there's plenty of wagons on the Stranraer ferry that could bring a few palletloads over.
Taytos are amazing.
I'm in the US and a store a few minutes away sells Keogh's chips which are Irish. My girlfriend is crazy about them so I buy a bag every time I go there.
I was under the impression that CHIO was part of PepsiCo?
Brets are S-tier crisps, I don't know why you'd pick anything over them anyway
Yeah. Looking at this diagram as a British person it's like the US stuff is our entire selection and none of the alternative brands exist here :(
Tyrell's are good.
They're owned by KP Snacks, a UK based company, who also make:
(Images from https://www.kpsnacks.com/our-brands, arranged in gimp)
These all all S tier snacks too.
You beat me to it!
KP make amazing snacks.
I've never hear of any of these except pom-bear, which would make me buy any of the other brands lol
How could you leave out the best crispy crisps ever; croky?!
One of Swedens biggest chip brands has their main factory in my city, and they're available in every store. I almost exclusively buy from them, nice to have such a local thing.
Kettle Chips are British, made in Norfolk. I double-checked their website and they haven't been taken over by anyone as far as I can tell.
Unfortunately the veil has dropped. I thought the same as you but this is what the website says:
https://kettlechips.co.uk/pages/about
Cameron Healy Founded Kettle Foods In Salem, Oregan, USA. Cameron and his son discovered the British love of crisps, prompting Cameron to establish Kettle Foods in the UK.
He chose Norfolk as our home, where you can still find us to this day, in order to be as close as possible to many of our potato growers. Our first home was actually the corner of an old converted shoe factory in Norwich. And so, from humble beginnings, the first KETTLEยฎ Chips were produced in the UK.
Cameron Healy and UK Co-owner, Tim Meyer, got talking to owner and chef Chris Barnard, in whom he recognised a true passion for authentic foods and > ingredients.
Sharing Cameronโs vision, Chris soon packed up his utensils and recipe books to join us in setting up the UK branch of Kettle Foods
So it's US founded, and (at least some point in the past) UK co-owned and mainly produced in the UK. A little grey area. Nice crisps, however.
Walkers was a surprise to me. But turns out that is a UK brand sold to the yanks like everything else ๐ฌ. Also nice crisps.
Sell those in Canada. We need more options.
Taffel (FIN), Estrella (SWE) & Oikia (FIN) as well!
Don't forget Gรฅrdschips!
Taffel vs Estrella is a way to start a fight tbh
I like Estrella's sour cream and onion more, but Taffel has some other great flavors.
Kettle, Pipers, or Tyrrellโs crisps for me.