Best Bacon Crisps

[fishfinger]

Pyotts bacon flavour Kips. A South African bacon flavoured biscuit, not unlike a Ritz cracker in texture. They have a very pleasant bacon taste, even managing to convey a really convincing porky fat undertaste. very more-ish.


We get them from Hunter's Biltong, a local maker of excellent biltong, and importer of South African foods.

http://www.huntersbiltong.co.uk/

 

[Batboy]

Bacon crisps... So wrong! BBQ flavour as well... Yuk.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[friedaweed]

^^^Crispy Bacon ftw

Why masturbate in slurry when you can nosh the real pig

 

[Frances Lengel]

Frazzles, Bacon Fries and wheat Crunchies are formed snacks of various kinds, so not any kind of crisps!

Just as pear drops are toffees so frazzles are crisps.

These things below are biscuits though

Pyotts bacon flavour Kips. A South African bacon flavoured biscuit, not unlike a Ritz cracker in texture. They have a very pleasant bacon taste, even managing to convey a really convincing porky fat undertaste. very more-ish.

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We get them from Hunter's Biltong, a local maker of excellent biltong, and importer of South African foods.

http://www.huntersbiltong.co.uk/

 

[DotCommunist]

friedaweed

hey why not find a bigger image mate? that ones just not large enough

 

[mr steev]

I am personally gutted that Walkers bacon are no longer vegatarian

More annoying that it has been done more as a marketing ploy rather than anything to do with taste.

They talk about using 'real ingredients' yet the flavour of bacon crisps still comes from artificial flavourings (Flavouring, Hydrolysed Soya Protein, Citric Acid, Smoke Flavouring, Malic Acid, Colours (Paprika Extract, Sulphite Ammonia Caramel) 'Norfolk dried shoulder pork' is listed last. Which means it is the smallest ingredient.
They talk about sourcing local produce yet have established farms in Ukraine and Spain to produce their oil.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Corn snacks aren't proper crisps

 

[Cheesypoof]

Waffles - which are Irish bacon crisps, are also gorgeous.

 

[DotCommunist]

for some reason I suspect tayto are actually walkers, only given a different name for ireland

I have no evidence to support this claim, it just seems logical.

 

[Cheesypoof]

for some reason I suspect tayto are actually walkers, only given a different name for ireland

I have no evidence to support this claim, it just seems logical.

That has occured to me too! Although the packagings slightly different they are suspiciously similar in that and taste....

 

[Callum91]

To be honest, most bacon flavoured crisps just taste generic and overly salted, little in the way of delicious meatyness that one comes to expect with bacon.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Frazzles are the king of bacon crisps ('formed snacks' just to keep pogofish happy). The other types are just shite.

 

[Cheesypoof]

To be honest, most bacon flavoured crisps just taste generic and overly salted, little in the way of delicious meatyness that one comes to expect with bacon.

Rancheros - king of the bacon crisps but you can only get them in Ireland- arent like this, they are perfectly salted, potato-based and even look like strips of bacon!

 

[SarfLondoner]

Rancheros - king of the bacon crisps but you can only get them in Ireland- arent like this, they are perfectly salted, potato-based and even look like strips of bacon!

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Rancheros were about in the 80's in London and are a fine crisp.

 

[catinthehat]

Leys (possibly Lays) crisps. I never see them in the UK but are the first thing I buy outside of the UK. First thing is that the vast majority of the crisps are whole and big with no black bits. The flavoring is always evenly spread over the crisps. I have no time for the usual form of crisp widely available in the UK but I will happily munch Leys.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Rancheros - king of the bacon crisps but you can only get them in Ireland- arent like this, they are perfectly salted, potato-based and even look like strips of bacon!

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The second picture doesn't look like strips of bacon.

 

[Cheesypoof]

The second picture doesn't look like strips of bacon.

It does up close!! sort of a 'puffed up' version (they dont look as good as 'Bacon fries' but are really nicely seasoned, and made of potato too -not a 'corn' snack)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It does up close!! sort of a 'puffed up' version (they dont look as good as 'Bacon fries' but are really nicely seasoned, and made of potato too -not a 'corn' snack)

You have yellow bacon?

 

[Cheesypoof]

You have yellow bacon?

Shirrup you cheeky mare .

 

[friedaweed]

friedaweed

hey why not find a bigger image mate? that ones just not large enough

didnae notice
Mind you you can never have too much bacon

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[equationgirl]

Frazzles. Imitations of Frazzles are universally shite.

Frazzles are also pretty much the only thing between Smiths Crisps and bankruptcy, so I like to do my bit to keep them going.

Smiths Crisps haven't been an independent company since they were part of Nabisco. The actual company Smiths Crisps Limited is a dormant company (no longer trading). The brand however is still is use and owned by PepsiCo through Frito-Lay.

ETA: which is probably why you don't see Lays in the UK catinthehat - one is primarily a UK brand and the other is primarily (but not exclusively) US, but both owned by the same company.

 

[fishfinger]

These things below are biscuits though

I know, but other than actual bacon, they are more bacony than any other crisp, biscuit or wheat crunch thingy that I have tasted. So there

 

[Frances Lengel]

Fair enough.

 

[Cheesypoof]

for some reason I suspect tayto are actually walkers, only given a different name for ireland

I have no evidence to support this claim, it just seems logical.

This does seem to be the case though....see Walkers on the list!

http://www.dailyedge.ie/best-irish-crisps-950791-Jun2013/

 

[eatmorecheese]

Leys (possibly Lays) crisps. I never see them in the UK but are the first thing I buy outside of the UK. First thing is that the vast majority of the crisps are whole and big with no black bits. The flavoring is always evenly spread over the crisps. I have no time for the usual form of crisp widely available in the UK but I will happily munch Leys.

Aren't Lay's just the name for Walker's crisps in many other parts of the world?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay's

 

[pogofish]

Leys (possibly Lays) crisps. I never see them in the UK but are the first thing I buy outside of the UK.

I'm afraid you do see them here:

 

[catinthehat]

If that is the case then they must look after them better and never squish them

 

[pogofish]

Rancheros were about in the 80's in London and are a fine crisp.

Yup, they were marketed here way back.

However, this stuff can never become a crisp!

 

[pogofish]

I have a packet of these beside me right now: