Lays Crisps

[Pleng]

I'm going on a Lorenz hunt on Friday. Are they called cheese & onion or something else, and is the packet label in Thai or English?

All in English

[hhinner]

Lorenz are in Makro.

[blue05]

Lorenz are in Makro.

that will be the option, thanks

[Arlo]

According to Wikipedia Lays and Walkers...

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

[Dannie Boy]

Slightly off topic but still about crisps, those Brits amongst us nearly old enough to remember the war, will know that at one time, the only crisps you could get we're Smiths and they came as "plain" with a blue twist bag of salt for you to add yourself. Then we got Oxo flavour crisps, I believe also from Smiths and then along in the early 60's, we got the luxury of Golden Wonder crisps, in Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar, before the competition opened up and all manor of flavours became available - those were the days!!

[Big Boy]

One of us remembers wrong, 'cos I remember Cheese & Onion from Smiths before the Oxo flavour.

[Big Boy]

History of flavours:

Flavored chips

Potato chip flavors include sour cream and onion, barbecue, salt and vinegar, and plain salt.

In an idea originated by the Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd, formed in 1920,[10] Frank Smith originally packaged a twist of salt with his crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were then sold around London.

The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe "Spud" Murphy (1923–2001),[11] the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s. After some trial and error, Murphy and his employee, Seamus Burke,[12] produced the world's first seasoned crisps, Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar.

The innovation became an overnight sensation in the food industry with the heads of some of the biggest potato chip companies in the United States traveling to the small Tayto company in Ireland to examine the product and to negotiate the rights to use the new technology. Companies worldwide sought to buy the rights to Tayto's technique. The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.

The Tayto's innovation changed the entire nature of the potato chip, and led to the end of Smith's twist of salt. (Walkers revived the idea of "salt in a bag", following their takeover of Smith's (UK) in 1979, with their Salt 'n' Shake potato crisps.[13]) Later chip manufacturers added natural and artificial seasonings to potato chips with varying degrees of success. A product that had had a large appeal to a limited market on the basis of one seasoning now had a degree of market penetration through vast numbers of seasonings. Various other seasonings of chips are sold in different locales, including the original Cheese and Onion, produced by Tayto, which remains by far Ireland's biggest manufacturer of crisps.

Source: Wikepedia

[Dannie Boy]

You got me intrigued BB so I tried a google search and of course there was no definitive answer and I think it would have varied according to which part of the country you lived (and no doubt how good/bad your memory was), but I did find this:

Flavoured Crisps?


It is claimed that the first flavoured crisps in Great Britain were (I think)Golden Wonder cheese & onion in 1962, yet I went to London Zoo some time before 1955 with my pal & his mum and we distinctly remember having crisps that were OXO (or just perhaps Bovril) flavour. I can find no record of these anywhere, help with confirmation anyone?

Roly


Re: Flavoured Crisps
We have a great Crisps thread with all above mentioned flavours either talked about and/or pictures of the packets. These links will take you to the page with the OXO ones but the whole thread is worth a read
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/fo...crisps-11.html

And Bovril Crisps
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/re...il-crisps.html
Last edited by Heather74; 16-06-2008 at 23:01.


We have a great Crisps thread with all above mentioned flavours either talked about and/or pictures of the packets. These links will take you to the page with the OXO ones but the whole thread is worth a read
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/fo...crisps-11.html
Hi Hev and Velo ! The link takes us to page 11 and shows Golden Wonder Oxo crisps but page eight shows earlier ones !! and it's YOUR post Hugs
http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/fo...-crisps-8.html

Re: Flavoured Crisps
Kwik Save (UK discount shop) had some nice beefy crisps. But they went out of business after Aldi, Etc, came to the United Kingdom. I miss that shop. Their products were good for your money.

Re: Flavoured Crisps?
We used to have Presto stores in the 80's and they had a basic range - in white packaging - their basic crisps were nice
R
Re: Flavoured Crisps?
HI Roly. Yes OXO CRISPS were for sale in 1955, we had them in The North of England and they were made by a firm called TUDOR, they were closely followed by cheese and onion then saLT AND VINEGAR. REGARDS...LEPPY

[barrys]

A bag of Taytos cheese & onion crisps was always a real treat when we were kids - went quite well with a pint of Murphy's Stout when we were older, too

[blue05]

got a 5 pack of Lorenz Salt and Vinegar 100g bags for 190 from Makro, very happy

[Arcadian]

I think I`m with Dannie Boy on which came first, Oxo or cheese and onion, anyway how frustrating when the Smiths Crisp salt was damp and a big lump and couldn`t be shaken into the bag.

[alleykat]

Right now at Family Mart you can get two 90g bags of Lay's Export from Australia for the price of one, just under 40 baht. I've been grabbing a couple of packs every time I go.

Original & Sour Cream.

[Bristolian]

I think I`m with Dannie Boy on which came first, Oxo or cheese and onion, anyway how frustrating when the Smiths Crisp salt was damp and a big lump and couldn`t be shaken into the bag.

Even bigger catastrophe when the little blue twisted bag was totally missing!

[alleykat]

Things are looking up, just been to Family Mart and they had a new flavour, Italian Spaghetti , to Brits it is pretty much Tomato Sauce flavour.

Now if they could only get Thais to enjoy Salt & Vineger

About 2004 they had Lay's Salt & Vinegar crisps in the 7/11's here in Hua Hin. A big Union Jack was emblazened on the packet, and I'm sure they were Thai price. But unfortunately they weren't around long.

[Vital Spark]

About 2004 they had Lay's Salt & Vinegar crisps in the 7/11's here in Hua Hin. A big Union Jack was emblazened on the packet, and I'm sure they were Thai price. But unfortunately they weren't around long.

I remember those Alleykat, and they were damned good. Bought a few packets, then went back two weeks later and they were nowhere to be seen. Best crisps I've tasted in Thailand, so far... I'm currently eating Lays American Cheesy Paprika - nice little snack with a Chang.

VS