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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm all about Tayto, king of crisps.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

North Taytos, or South Taytos?
A very important question.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Norn Irish ones are more potent and flavoursome in my humble opinion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

freestaytos

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Pringles are so shitty that can't even be categorised as "chips" according to European regulations

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Where are you getting all of these exotic templates from?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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/

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Taytos are amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

@MrsDoyle @Blaze Taytos have Irish and Northern Irish versions, just to get really confusing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Try the Euro Food shops. They'll have the European brands. But yeah, the bug stores only have the typical American brands.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Amazing, will do. Thank you!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

You can find brets although you need to do a big supermarket for them (or a specialist fancy food shop)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

FunnyFrisch make these "Lentil Chips" which sounds weird but they are actually so good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Croky in Belgium is good aswell!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I was under the impression that CHIO was part of PepsiCo?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Bonilla la Vista

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

How could you leave out the best crispy crisps ever; croky?!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Kettle, Pipers, or Tyrrellโ€™s crisps for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't lays produced in the Netherlands?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It is still owned by PepsiCo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Sell those in Canada. We need more options.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Santa Maria also has decent ones and is owned by Paulig which is Finnish-owned.

Balsnack is Estonian, probably not available elsewhere. They make the brands Kartulivahvel, Piraat, Vigur, and some less traditional ones like Ossi which is actually pork based

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