Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers

For those of you just joining us, World of Snacks is on a mission to locate the best snacks in the world.  So far we have sampled snacks from 27 countries and hope to offer our discovered snacks available for purchase online.  Starting January 1st we will offer the best snacks from England for sale with worldwide shipping.  Each month after we will add a new country to the inventory of our store.  Leading up to the launch of our selection of British Snacks we reviewing a different treat from the UK everyday this month.  Today we are sampling a crisp produced by Walkers.

Walkers is one of the leading manufactures of crisps (chips) in England with a 47% marketing share.  Their plant in Leicester is one of the largest crisps production facilities in the world and they produce 11 million bags of crisps per day!  Although Walkers is owned by parent company PepsiCo who also owns Lays, this brand is distinctly British.   Their ingredients come from the UK and they us British Potatoes, to be precise, 800 tons of potatoes a day.

Walkers of England produces many varieties of crisps flavors.   Today we are reviewing Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers.   Our sample comes in a blue bag and reads “Unmistakably Cheese & Onion with Cheddar from Somerset.”  Above the text a there are a few crisps with a potato shaped to look like the Union Jack (British Flag) with the words “Home Grown” stamped into the potato.   Of course, the bag also has the distinct red and yellow Walkers logo.  Now on to the review!

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Upon opening the bag a familiar aroma is released.  Living in the UK as a child I personally have sampled these crisps before.  However, it was the first experience for the rest of our taste test panel.  The aroma is savory and onion dominated.  The crisps themselves are semi-transparent and seem to be cleanly fired.  Oily, but not too much.  The crunch is just right.  The sent the proceeds the snack is inline with the taste.  It is very onion dominated.  The cheese is subtle, so much so that you have to search for it.  Our taste test panel for our review of Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers consisted of only adults. Everyone involved in the test truly enjoy this British Snack.  So much so that it is among the top crisps we have yet to encounter in England.

World of Snacks will offer Cheese & Onion Crisps by Walkers for sale in the US and shipped globally starting January 1st.  If you’d like to be notified of the launch of our store and be included on special offers be sure to leave your details to the right.  Also if their are snacks you are searching for other than British Snacks, vote for them here and we will do our best to stock them.  Check back tomorrow as we continue our culinary journey through England.

01/01/2014 UPDATE:  Walkers Cheese & Onion are now available to purchase online in our international store.

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