The Tayto crisps you showed are the Northern Ireland ones. The original Tayto is in the Republic of Ireland. That one is the originator of ‘cheese and onion’ flavouring on crisps. Both taste quite different but both are good! 👍
Thanks for the correction! I should have done a bit more research on Tayto beforehand. I had no idea there were two different brands/companies using the same name! I've had lots of other comments about this so I hope you don't mind me pinning this one as a means of acknowledging my mistake!
I once bought a packet of crisps for my friend Ralph, notorious for his meanness. We sat in the beer garden of the rather splendid Bailliff's Sergeant pub in St Mary's Bay, near Dymchurch. I made the decision not to ask for a crisp and he ate the damn lot. That is my crisp story which still resonates twenty years on. Sometimes you can see an entire universe in a bag of crisps. Should he predecease me I shall eat crisps at his funeral. It is unlikely that he will provide food for a wake.
I don't have crisps very often, but when i do i almost always find myself lamenting the departure of Brannigans beef and mustard crisps. To me they were the quintessential pub crisp.
Plenty memories of beer and crisps consumed in the 1970’s. Smiths and Golden Wonder were the dominant brands in West London, with ready salted, salt and vinegar, and cheese and onion the only three flavours to choose. Before a night out, we would eat early, and by mid evening we were hungry. The salty snacks then fed our thirst and the landlord was happy as more pints of bitter were consumed. Win, win for the pub. Thank you Tweedy for another cracking video. 👏👏👍🍺😎
My dad always said that Tayto were first with flavoured crisps but I thought it was just one of his yarns and he would say that as he was Irish. Turns out it was true! Thanks for the fun trip through crisp history.
I suppose someone might have tried doing the same earlier than Tayto but failed because they were unable to get pubs to buy their chips in place of their usual supplier.
@@TweedyPubs They got there first, however what you have in your hand is not Joe Spud Murphys Tayto. The Red & Blue Tayto pack os The Original Irish crisp. The Yellow packet was the North of Irelands offering of Tayto crisp & yellow is the colour they choose. Huge difference between the 2 In my opinion. Original uses a slightly different oil or & Spud to anything else I've ever eaten as a crisp( and I've eaten plenty)
@@pjtufty66from what I've heard the irish tayto brand has actually changed since they were bought up by a big multinational and the northy tayto is actually closer to the original
The packet of Tayto crisps that you have are from the Tayto castle in Tandragee in Northern Ireland owned by the Hutchinson family. The original Tayto crisps are made in the republic Ireland. Two completely different brands with their beginnings in Ireland and if I am not wrong in the same year.
The problem with beer and crisps, in my experience, is that when you get salt on your lips it gets on the glass and into the beer. This results in the glass becoming greasy and the beer loosing its 'head' and becoming flat. Enjoyed the vid. Keep 'em comin'.
That's an interesting part of the dynamic of beer and crisps I feel I haven't given a proper level of consideration to! The action of drinking beer frequently makes me want to eat some kind of salty snack, but it had never occurred to me before that doing so might actually impair my enjoyment of the beer! I'm sure there must be a solution here to restore balance to what is surely an otherwise perfect match...?
4:25 does anyone else remember when they were younger that there was like this huge deal that walkers were swapping the colours for cheese and union to blue and salt and vinager to green it was like a huge advertisement campaign. Apparently this never happened but I have such a vivid memory of it and I know other people who remember it and some who had the memory but decades earlier than me, quite bizarre like a Mandela effect for crips.
A nice surprise to see the Ship. I did a couple of relief shifts there in the mid 90s when it was a Scottish & Newcastle pub. As for crisps the Brannigans range were my favourites especially the Roast Beef & Mustard,
Tweedy, what a great video. I used to work just round the corner from The Ship in Seething Lane and I found myself in there on many occasions at lunchtime and after work. There used to be a dining room upstairs and I hope it still exists. It sold such exotica as shepherd's pie and other soul food to sustain the city workforce. I still go there 2 or 3 times a year, even though I am now retired.
Thanks Deborah! I notice the same thing when I watch some of my old videos. I've been on UA-cam one way or the other for over two years and it surprises me how long it has taken to even get to this stage of presentation!
👋 Greetings from New Zealand . Im in my sixties in age, and i have always liked potato chips which we call them here. I still occasionally buy a packet from time to time. Our oldest brand is Bluebird . They are crinkle cut. We dont have the variety of flavours as you do. Salt & Vinegar , Cheese & Onion , Sour Cream & Chives , Chicken and thats all. I live in the city of Palmerston North situated in the North Island and near where i live is a shop selling British food products. They sell the British Walkers brand. I like the Pickled Onion flavour the most. The Crown pub is a lovely old building there. Thanks for your interesting video. From Carl.
@annetteconroy6921 Hi Annette. I grew up in the 1960s. In my childhood I liked the ETA brand of potato chips. Their Chicken flavour was the best then. But somewhere along the line something changed. 🤔 The Smiths brand were yummy too.
@@Carl-x8y3c ETA did great treats , chips and nuts n raisons etc. party treats. I did most of my growing up in the 70s . Chicken flavour was better back then . We had Nut House chips back then too. The chicken ones were yum. I remember when salt n vinegar was new. I had gin, lemon & thyme flavour recently , fabulous . 🦩. ( The bourbon ones weren't as good )
Almost always ready salted for me. Loved the salt and shake as a child. Did love Marmite crisps and, watching this recall the joys of Bovril crisps. Can't recall who made those ones. I meet pal every other Friday for a couple of post work pints. Usually accompanied by a bag of scratchings torn wide open and, gradually consumed. Cracking video. Thank you.
Good to see the Tipperary back in business and shall have to pay The Ship a visit (walked past many times but never ventured inside) - another enjoyable video 👍🏻
I always love your content Tweedy - a true boozer enthusiast after my own heart. Ive drunk in the Ship many times - an excellent pub. Hadnt spotted the Tipperary had re opened - i have fond memories of that small pub in the last 1990s.
My grandparents ran a pub in Norwich. One of my earliest memories is sitting at the bar eating salt and vinegar crisps while old men sat around me supping beer. Sadly when we moved to America in '73, salt and vinegar was no longer available. I think it wasn't until the late 90's before I saw it offered as a flavor in the U.S.
Wow! Interesting crisps flavors you have across the pond. Over here in the states our main favors are, salted, sour cream and chives, BBQ, salt & pepper, Old Bay (which is a seafood seasoning), and my favorite, sea salt and malt vinegar. In fact a good substitute for fried potatoes when having fried fish or shrimp is old bay chips (crisps) or sea salt and malt vinegar potato chips, throw in hush puppies, Cole slaw, and tartar sauce and you’re good to go.
Instantly loved this channel after about a minute of watching! I have so many fond memories of being in pubs in both childhood and adulthood, and always looking to make new ones. The Salt n Shake was ahead of it's time, wasn't it, the flavouring being optional. Love it.
This has been on my mind all day Mr Tweedy. I now medically crave Scampi Fries!. As an ex-pat living in Aus, I can source said comestible here from specialist online shops...but they charge more for postage than the items therein. I can foresee Aus post subscribing to your channel very soon given I need my Scampi Fries fix now. Absolutely wonderful vid.
I remember Smiths greaseproof bag and the little twist of blue paper filled with salt. Golden Wonder made a huge impact in the very early 60s. The Smiths bags were very mundane in comparison to the cellophane modern Golden Wonder Ready Salted . Cheese and Onion was a winner followed I think by Salt and Vinegar and then a host of others, including Chicken and even exotic Prawn. The Cricklewood Crown by the way, once had a very notorious regular, serial killed Dennis Nilsen. I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Chichele Road and I would often visit them around 1979/80. We would go to The Crown. Walking down Chichele Road I was of course totally unaware that Nilsen was chopping up and burning bodies around the corner in Melrose Avenue.
Wonderful to see the salt n shake, my grandma was very fond of these as she didn’t like salt and so were the only crisps really available without salt. Scampi fries are also amazing so brilliant to see them included! Cheers!
In London at least, Salt n Shake still seem to be available in supermarkets. As mentioned in the video I bought these in Iceland, which happened to be right next door to the Crown in Cricklewood - I wonder if anyone else ever ponders that association....? I rarely ever see single packets of them though, it seems you have to buy a 6 pack! Although at £2 for 6 packets, by modern standards, that didn't seem too bad to me. I recall at some point in my childhood crisps typically cost 17 pence a packet (I memorised the 17 times table based on this!) - I guess we're talking late 1980s here. So if, when buying in bulk at least, roughly 35 years on they're "only" double the price that doesn't seem too bad.
Good afternoon, Tweedy It's an excellent little video. When growing up in the 1960s - 1970s, my favourites were Golden Wonder Ready Salted and Cheese and Onion crisps. My choice today would be Walkers Marmite flavour crisps 😁 (and yes, they really are the Marmite of crisps !! 🤣😉) I have never visited The Ship on Hart Street, but I noticed they had bags of Twiglets behind the bar 👍 When I am next in that area near Tower Bridge, I will definitely visit ..... mmmm ...... a pint of LANDLORD and a bag of Twiglets !!!
Two surprises for me here: I wouldn’t have guessed the first crisps were as early as that, nor that the first flavoured crisps as late as that! I’m way off the mark when it comes to guessing crisp dates! Bizarrely, I’ve never noticed Tayto crisps as a brand before, and yet they seem to be famous. I’m feeling like a crisp ignoramus! I’ve never tried Scampi crisps, to my knowledge, but recognise them. Their arrival in the early 80s must surely be linked to the popularity of “Scampi in a basket” as an exotic pub meal! I’d wager you won’t find a pub serving that today?! Wonderful that the first crisp factory pub is still there! Very well researched as usual and wonderfully nostalgic overlays of old crisp ads. I’m going to eat crisps now!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Thanks Mr WC21! I think what surprised me was the speed with which they rose to dominance - from that first factory opening in 1920 to 100 million packets in 1928, and I get the sense not long afterwards being available in the majority of pubs in the UK - and almost all supplied by one company! Much is talked about that inter-war period but for me now it will forever be the era when the nation fell in love with crisps! It was my first time to have Tayto crisps as well so don't feel bad! I've suddenly started seeing them a lot more around London in the last year or two, and not just in Irish pubs.
My late father once related a story to me regarding some fellow who used to visit local West London pubs hawking a tray strung round his neck, containing bagged, sliced fried potatoes, accompanied by optional little waxy, blue paper twists containing salt. The fellow’s name? A certain Mr Smith of Cricklewood …
This might be my favourite video up to yet, fabulous content, short but sweet (or should that be savoury?)... I always have an appropriate bar snack with my beverage of choice and it is usually a dry roasted nut, but the demise of one of the holy trinity of Smith's bar snacks "Scampi fries, Bacon fries and Cheese moments" has left me deprived of my favourite "Cheese moments" for at least 6 years. Thanking you.
I remember many years ago, Palmers pubs in Dorset sold "Jake's Pub Crisps". These were sold in big bags and rather tasty. Seem to remember the only flavour were beef and ready salted.
I love info like this, seeing the similarities and differences between the UK and US, both have potato chips, but the idea of shaking them with their own bag of salt, unique to England. I think I’ve seen it in old movies.
I'm from the Netherlands and we had and still have a smiths chips factory here..my sister and me worked there ..day and night shifts..it is still there a d you can still smell the chips frying from the chimney..like decenia ago...
I was a dedicated salt and vinegar man for years. More recently I've found myself more inclined to ready salted. A metaphor for life perhaps. Ageing brings these subtle compromises.
This made me laugh - I also used to be an S&V man but now only do ready salted, the thing about ageing was brought home to me when I went into a nice but more upmarket bar than I normally go in (which does have some good cask on which is why I go ) and asked for a packet of ready salted and was told we don't sell them when I asked why was told 'too boring'! So I ended up with roast ham and paprika or something ghastly like that.
@@swanfibre I think you raise an important point which I omitted from the video - there seems to be a recent trend in pubs towards increasingly fancy crisps! Surely the availability of ready salted should always be a given...?
Great video! Tayto cheese and onion crisps are in different packaging here in Ireland but are the most popular crisp brand I would say. I remember a family holiday to Kiln Park in Wales back in 1984 and having Sausage and Tomato flavoured crisps, they were delicious! Couldn’t get them at home sadly. KP peanuts a very good accompaniment to a cheese and onion crisp in the pub also.
Thanks Séan! I think that might have been my first time to have Tayto crisps, but they seem to be becoming a lot more popular in pubs here in the UK, and not just Irish pubs. One of my favourite crisp flavour memories from my youth was Seabrook's sweetcorn flavour - sadly discontinued. I'm not even sure I really like sweetcorn that much but I've never before (or since) had a crisp flavour that was so uncannily similar to the thing it was trying to emulate.
The Tayto you show are from Northern Ireland. The original flavoured Tayto are made in a different Tayto company in the Republic. There is some debate as to which is superior but it’s the NI ones.
Nice to see you in my parish at The Crown. Not a pub I frequent so much since they stopped selling Landlord. One of the bars is the bar of the adjoining hotel. I think you can do a lot more on pub snacks, not least the Pork Scratching taking over the country.
Ah…. The little blue bag. Takes me back to my childhood, circa 1967, Saturday morning trip to Surbiton Lagoon, now sadly demolished and built over, all smelling of chlorine, then Dad takes us to The Hogsmill pub Worcester Park for cider and a packet of crisps. A lovely video. Enjoy these delights before the finger-wagging health Stasi attempt to ban them .
The crisps I remember had little blue bags of salt with a twist top to seal them. I once found seven little bags of salt in one packet. That was my record. Also, who didn't go in for a pint and order a packet of cheese and onion and a pickled egg. This was always a lunchtime favourite for me and quite a few others in my local.
Hedgehog (I can not attest to flavor accuracy); Lemon sole; Hot dog and mustard; Prawn Cocktail; Roast Lamb and Mint Sauce, are some of the more unusual flavors I remember from my childood. Not sure which brand as our corner shop regularly changed brands. They may have been Golden Wonder, KP, Walkers. Crisps were sold in stacked cardboard boxes with a hole ripped in the front of each box through which you would reach in and grab a bag.
Great topic Tweedy 👌 Thanks for your unique take on another pub nuance. Loved seeing The Ship in Hart Street and it reminded me of another pub of that name, not far away in Talbot Court EC3 near Monument. Used to be a lunchtime regular there when I worked around the corner in Gracechurch Street a few years back. Thanks for the snacks and the memories 👌
Thanks Christine! I loved the Ship, and it was uplifting to see it doing a brisk trade on a weekday lunchtime, especially as it's a wet led pub - I don't think they do any food other than that glorious array of "English tapas"!
Great video. I love Tweedy Pubs! I lived in London from the mid-80s through to the mid-90s and too many meals were just a packet of crips (or Hula Hoops) and a pint or two, or three.... One flavour of crisps that always baffled me was Hedgehog. What was that all about? Does it still exist? I think it was supposed to taste like marmite or bouillon or just a lot of salt, I dunno.
Love The Ship! Near to Tower tube station I think. They have a lovely quiet upstairs area too. Thanks Tweedy for that cripsy look at crisps! I've got to try those Salt shakes next time we're in London.
Glad to see that The Tipperary is back open. An Ideal place to talk about Tayto's contribution to the world of crisps! Must admit I am a fan of Scampi and Lemon Nik Naks - not often you see them in pubs, so its usually the Smiths option.
Another enjoyable video, thank you. Incidentally, Mr T, I completely understand the perspiration sheen you had about you. At the beginning of August 2024, the UK was going through a 30°c plus mini-heatwave, with high humidity. Not ideal crisp munching weather!
Growing up in the 50's, before supermarkets, I used to stand in the doorway of the Old Loyal Briton in Thames Street, Greenwich, opposite our flats, to get some crisps and wait for someone to come over and ask what I wanted. The first time I had flavoured crisps was at Millwall FC. A friend of my dad had a son about the same age as me, and he gave me a bag of Golden Wonder cheese and onion crisps. Always been my favourite since then. 🙂
It was a great find - I'm very grateful for that tip off! Part of what I liked about The Ship was the atmosphere. I know a crowd of city geezers having a liquid lunch on a weekday might not be everyone's cup of tea but it all seemed refreshingly old school to me. Having recently spent time in young and trendy parts of London where there's people sat at pub tables with a laptop open writing their novel or having HR meetings for their startup I know which type of pub crowd I'd prefer!
Great stuff Mr Tweedy. I still remember the crisps (KP) and snacks from the pub I was brought up in. Boxes of crisps with a punch out hole for display/serving and cards of peanuts.
@@TweedyPubs Much has changed for the better since I lived in a pub. The loss of the stack of crisp boxes is not one of them. As an aside, do you plan to do a pub trip to Richmond Upon Thames?
Gone are the days of finding ceramic ashtrays in a pub. I came across a particularly decorative ashtray in the Ostrich Inn in the Forest Of Dean. It was made for the Hook Norton Brewery Company with a fine image of its brewery.
Thanks for the crispy video, I am currently working my way through a Pringles type tube of PopTastic tortilla corn chips (sour cream & onion flavour) 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! My grandmother, in her final years, used to eat quite a lot of Pringles, so I have a bit of an affection for them... but I suppose they would seem a bit out of place in a pub...?
What a wonderful documentary. I most enjoyed the surprise of there being a great, but un-tweedy-visited, London Pub. Do you have to wear the same uniform to go in there? Thanks again.
Thanks Tweedy! We love the pub crisps, so great to learn some history What is your thought on Brannigans? Back in the early 2000s our go-to crisps were the Brannigans Smoked Ham & Pickle and Roast Beef & Mustard. It seems like they have been discontinued unfortunately 😐, not sure if anyone makes an equivalent.
That pack of Tayto is from the Northern Irish company founded in 1956. The original (and in my opinion) and best is from the Republic which was founded in 1954. Same name, different companies. The cheese and onion packet is red and blue and it's iconic in Ireland where until recently they were also the sponsor of a theme park in county Meath. If you are a crisp fan you have to try the original red and blue packet of cheese and onion crisps
Another superb video; thank you. Taytos in Ireland and Northern Ireland are two completely separate companies. The latter is based in Tayto Castle! I do miss the proper old blue twists of salt in the old Smith's paper bags. Most of all I miss Chipmunk Crisps (OXO flavour especially) and Tudor Crisps, which used to feature a picture of Henry VIII on the packets back in the 1960s and later developed an extraordinary range of flavours, including Chocolate and Hot Dog & Ketchup.
Thanks Simon - I wish I had done a bit more research on Tayto now, it hadn't occurred to me there might actually be two different companies using the same brand. Other commenters have mentioned the ones I showed in the video are actually the Northern Ireland version, so perhaps the link to the original 1954 world's first flavoured crisp is a bit more indirect there.
You forgot Rolley’s crisps they were sold with a packet they would compost itself. I presume it was something like cornstarch but they were quite popular in the 60s
Hi there Tweedy, my friends and I are huge history nerds and big fans of pubs. If you were to recommend the best historic pub crawl where shall we go? Cheers.
Jake's pub crisps were the finest crisps known to man. My dad used to bring me a couple of packets back from the pub in the 70s. No idea who made them and can't find anything about them online.
Such a shame that a lot of these brands now belong to large multinational companies, like Smiths belong to Pepsi co. i did not realise seabrooks have been around for so long, never ever seen them until I went to Lincolnshire about 20 years ago, but they are owned by Calbee, which is a Japanese company. I like it when pubs sell local crisps, but even spo, some of them have got too large, like Tyrrells, which are mainly owned by Langholm Capita, which is a London-based private equity firm. I suppose we should be thankfull it is London based i suppose. A local crisps called Two farmers are great, sadly not sold in many pubs. i do like Scampi fries.
Weird. I’m in Australia and we can get Tayto here in the imported section at Coles supermarket and the cheese and onion I buy are in a red blue and yellow pack. Not all yellow.
It was a bit of a shame as I made a special journey to Cricklewood just for that pub! It's on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors as well, so there might have actually been some quite nice parts to - although that said it's part of a hotel now, and has recently had a refurb, so I'm not sure what state it's in currently.
@@TweedyPubs Dont be to hard on your self pos make it part of a pub tour of the area later in the year. Did look interesting from the out side. Always a pleasure to see your posts and look forward to you next.
Thanks Tweedy, interesting history! I'm watching from a country where for some reason there used to exist basically only one flavour in crisps - paprika. Now there's more diversity and we even have salt & vinegar crisps. One question remains unanswered: Why are crisps so addictive? 😄
Thanks Kathi! I'm sure somebody could write a whole PhD thesis on international crisp flavours and what they tell us about those countries! I notice paprika seems to be a popular flavour in quite a few European countries. I assume part of the appeal is that it adds a bit of colour? Plus I would imagine from a technical point of view it's relatively easy for a manufacturer to get that flavour to stick to the crisps, given that powdered paprika is already widely available. Probably a bit more effort required to make crisps taste of vinegar without creating a soggy mess!
The Tayto crisps you showed are the Northern Ireland ones. The original Tayto is in the Republic of Ireland. That one is the originator of ‘cheese and onion’ flavouring on crisps. Both taste quite different but both are good! 👍
The Northern Ireland ones are tastier though
@@julesroy In your opinion.
Thanks for the correction! I should have done a bit more research on Tayto beforehand. I had no idea there were two different brands/companies using the same name!
I've had lots of other comments about this so I hope you don't mind me pinning this one as a means of acknowledging my mistake!
@@julesroyBollocks
I once bought a packet of crisps for my friend Ralph, notorious for his meanness. We sat in the beer garden of the rather splendid Bailliff's Sergeant pub in St Mary's Bay, near Dymchurch. I made the decision not to ask for a crisp and he ate the damn lot. That is my crisp story which still resonates twenty years on. Sometimes you can see an entire universe in a bag of crisps. Should he predecease me I shall eat crisps at his funeral. It is unlikely that he will provide food for a wake.
Thanks Ian - I know that anecdote might be a genuine source of rancour but it is also oddly hilarious!
Been in the bailiffs sergeant, as my father lives 5 minutes away.
Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder!
@@robertlonergan9401 Textbook!
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It's always a treat to find Taytos here in NYC!
This is my latest comfort channel. Next best thing to actually being in a pub!
Me too. I am 5000 miles from Irish or British pubs.
I don't have crisps very often, but when i do i almost always find myself lamenting the departure of Brannigans beef and mustard crisps. To me they were the quintessential pub crisp.
Plenty memories of beer and crisps consumed in the 1970’s. Smiths and Golden Wonder were the dominant brands in West London, with ready salted, salt and vinegar, and cheese and onion the only three flavours to choose.
Before a night out, we would eat early, and by mid evening we were hungry. The salty snacks then fed our thirst and the landlord was happy as more pints of bitter were consumed. Win, win for the pub.
Thank you Tweedy for another cracking video. 👏👏👍🍺😎
My dad always said that Tayto were first with flavoured crisps but I thought it was just one of his yarns and he would say that as he was Irish. Turns out it was true! Thanks for the fun trip through crisp history.
Thanks John! I got the sense it was a close run thing, but yes, in my understanding, Tayto got there first.
I suppose someone might have tried doing the same earlier than Tayto but failed because they were unable to get pubs to buy their chips in place of their usual supplier.
@@TweedyPubs They got there first, however what you have in your hand is not Joe Spud Murphys Tayto.
The Red & Blue Tayto pack os The Original Irish crisp. The Yellow packet was the North of Irelands offering of Tayto crisp & yellow is the colour they choose.
Huge difference between the 2 In my opinion. Original uses a slightly different oil or & Spud to anything else I've ever eaten as a crisp( and I've eaten plenty)
@@pjtufty66from what I've heard the irish tayto brand has actually changed since they were bought up by a big multinational and the northy tayto is actually closer to the original
@@stephenallen4635 I get some once a month from Relatives sent over. No change in taste or quality.
The packet of Tayto crisps that you have are from the Tayto castle in Tandragee in Northern Ireland owned by the Hutchinson family. The original Tayto crisps are made in the republic Ireland.
Two completely different brands with their beginnings in Ireland and if I am not wrong in the same year.
The problem with beer and crisps, in my experience, is that when you get salt on your lips it gets on the glass and into the beer. This results in the glass becoming greasy and the beer loosing its 'head' and becoming flat. Enjoyed the vid. Keep 'em comin'.
That's an interesting part of the dynamic of beer and crisps I feel I haven't given a proper level of consideration to! The action of drinking beer frequently makes me want to eat some kind of salty snack, but it had never occurred to me before that doing so might actually impair my enjoyment of the beer! I'm sure there must be a solution here to restore balance to what is surely an otherwise perfect match...?
4:25 does anyone else remember when they were younger that there was like this huge deal that walkers were swapping the colours for cheese and union to blue and salt and vinager to green it was like a huge advertisement campaign.
Apparently this never happened but I have such a vivid memory of it and I know other people who remember it and some who had the memory but decades earlier than me, quite bizarre like a Mandela effect for crips.
Great film that. Ta. 👍🏻
A nice surprise to see the Ship. I did a couple of relief shifts there in the mid 90s when it was a Scottish & Newcastle pub. As for crisps the Brannigans range were my favourites especially the Roast Beef & Mustard,
Tweedy, what a great video. I used to work just round the corner from The Ship in Seething Lane and I found myself in there on many occasions at lunchtime and after work. There used to be a dining room upstairs and I hope it still exists. It sold such exotica as shepherd's pie and other soul food to sustain the city workforce. I still go there 2 or 3 times a year, even though I am now retired.
Living in the UK 1972-1979, always impressed by the huge variety of crisp flavors. Beat anything we had in the US at the time.
Your channels are my favourites, you seem to be getting more relaxed in them
Thanks Deborah! I notice the same thing when I watch some of my old videos. I've been on UA-cam one way or the other for over two years and it surprises me how long it has taken to even get to this stage of presentation!
👋 Greetings from New Zealand . Im in my sixties in age, and i have always liked potato chips which we call them here. I still occasionally buy a packet from time to time. Our oldest brand is Bluebird . They are crinkle cut. We dont have the variety of flavours as you do. Salt & Vinegar , Cheese & Onion , Sour Cream & Chives , Chicken and thats all. I live in the city of Palmerston North situated in the North Island and near where i live is a shop selling British food products. They sell the British Walkers brand. I like the Pickled Onion flavour the most. The Crown pub is a lovely old building there. Thanks for your interesting video. From Carl.
Greetings from the Taranaki .Occasionally they bring out fancy flavours . They never quite get it right though .
@annetteconroy6921 Hi Annette. I grew up in the 1960s. In my childhood I liked the ETA brand of potato chips. Their Chicken flavour was the best then. But somewhere along the line something changed. 🤔 The Smiths brand were yummy too.
@@Carl-x8y3c ETA did great treats , chips and nuts n raisons etc. party treats. I did most of my growing up in the 70s . Chicken flavour was better back then . We had Nut House chips back then too. The chicken ones were yum. I remember when salt n vinegar was new. I had gin, lemon & thyme flavour recently , fabulous . 🦩. ( The bourbon ones weren't
as good )
Almost always ready salted for me. Loved the salt and shake as a child.
Did love Marmite crisps and, watching this recall the joys of Bovril crisps. Can't recall who made those ones.
I meet pal every other Friday for a couple of post work pints. Usually accompanied by a bag of scratchings torn wide open and, gradually consumed.
Cracking video. Thank you.
4:54 by doing that you’re also laying the crisps out onto a beautiful silver platter. makes it fancy. 😁
I quite agree!
My gripe with modern crisps is how few you get in the packet!
Good to see the Tipperary back in business and shall have to pay The Ship a visit (walked past many times but never ventured inside) - another enjoyable video 👍🏻
I always love your content Tweedy - a true boozer enthusiast after my own heart. Ive drunk in the Ship many times - an excellent pub. Hadnt spotted the Tipperary had re opened - i have fond memories of that small pub in the last 1990s.
My grandparents ran a pub in Norwich. One of my earliest memories is sitting at the bar eating salt and vinegar crisps while old men sat around me supping beer. Sadly when we moved to America in '73, salt and vinegar was no longer available. I think it wasn't until the late 90's before I saw it offered as a flavor in the U.S.
Wow! Interesting crisps flavors you have across the pond. Over here in the states our main favors are, salted, sour cream and chives, BBQ, salt & pepper, Old Bay (which is a seafood seasoning), and my favorite, sea salt and malt vinegar. In fact a good substitute for fried potatoes when having fried fish or shrimp is old bay chips (crisps) or sea salt and malt vinegar potato chips, throw in hush puppies, Cole slaw, and tartar sauce and you’re good to go.
Instantly loved this channel after about a minute of watching! I have so many fond memories of being in pubs in both childhood and adulthood, and always looking to make new ones. The Salt n Shake was ahead of it's time, wasn't it, the flavouring being optional. Love it.
This has been on my mind all day Mr Tweedy. I now medically crave Scampi Fries!. As an ex-pat living in Aus, I can source said comestible here from specialist online shops...but they charge more for postage than the items therein. I can foresee Aus post subscribing to your channel very soon given I need my Scampi Fries fix now. Absolutely wonderful vid.
Thanks Phil! I apologise in advance for the financial loss this video may have triggered!
I remember Smiths greaseproof bag and the little twist of blue paper filled with salt. Golden Wonder made a huge impact in the very early 60s. The Smiths bags were very mundane in comparison to the cellophane modern Golden Wonder Ready Salted . Cheese and Onion was a winner followed I think by Salt and Vinegar and then a host of others, including Chicken and even exotic Prawn. The Cricklewood Crown by the way, once had a very notorious regular, serial killed Dennis Nilsen. I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Chichele Road and I would often visit them around 1979/80. We would go to The Crown. Walking down Chichele Road I was of course totally unaware that Nilsen was chopping up and burning bodies around the corner in Melrose Avenue.
Wonderful to see the salt n shake, my grandma was very fond of these as she didn’t like salt and so were the only crisps really available without salt. Scampi fries are also amazing so brilliant to see them included! Cheers!
In London at least, Salt n Shake still seem to be available in supermarkets. As mentioned in the video I bought these in Iceland, which happened to be right next door to the Crown in Cricklewood - I wonder if anyone else ever ponders that association....?
I rarely ever see single packets of them though, it seems you have to buy a 6 pack! Although at £2 for 6 packets, by modern standards, that didn't seem too bad to me. I recall at some point in my childhood crisps typically cost 17 pence a packet (I memorised the 17 times table based on this!) - I guess we're talking late 1980s here. So if, when buying in bulk at least, roughly 35 years on they're "only" double the price that doesn't seem too bad.
@@TweedyPubs A ‘bargain’ for sure! I shall have to seek some out.
Your channel is very lovely. Sometimes i watch it sober.
I wouldn't recommend that course of action but I understand it's not always easy to get all those ducks in a row!
Thanks once again, Tweedy. A great history of a classic pub snack! Next, maybe pork pies?
Good afternoon, Tweedy
It's an excellent little video.
When growing up in the 1960s - 1970s, my favourites were Golden Wonder Ready Salted and Cheese and Onion crisps.
My choice today would be Walkers Marmite flavour crisps 😁 (and yes, they really are the Marmite of crisps !! 🤣😉)
I have never visited The Ship on Hart Street, but I noticed they had bags of Twiglets behind the bar 👍
When I am next in that area near Tower Bridge, I will definitely visit ..... mmmm ...... a pint of LANDLORD and a bag of Twiglets !!!
Thanks Lee! In my part of the country Walker's had a bit of a monopoly when I was a kid, so Golden Wonder always seemed exciting exotic!
Excellent. A savoury history lesson. Carry on.
very interesting video and I have to say that its the perfect snack for drinking beer, the moore salty snacks you consume the more thirsty you get 🙂
Some might call it a vicious circle but I'd rather think of it as a symbiotic relationship!
Brannigans crisps, were the best! RIP Brannigans!
Two surprises for me here: I wouldn’t have guessed the first crisps were as early as that, nor that the first flavoured crisps as late as that! I’m way off the mark when it comes to guessing crisp dates!
Bizarrely, I’ve never noticed Tayto crisps as a brand before, and yet they seem to be famous. I’m feeling like a crisp ignoramus!
I’ve never tried Scampi crisps, to my knowledge, but recognise them. Their arrival in the early 80s must surely be linked to the popularity of “Scampi in a basket” as an exotic pub meal! I’d wager you won’t find a pub serving that today?!
Wonderful that the first crisp factory pub is still there!
Very well researched as usual and wonderfully nostalgic overlays of old crisp ads. I’m going to eat crisps now!
@@WC21UKProductionsLtd Thanks Mr WC21! I think what surprised me was the speed with which they rose to dominance - from that first factory opening in 1920 to 100 million packets in 1928, and I get the sense not long afterwards being available in the majority of pubs in the UK - and almost all supplied by one company! Much is talked about that inter-war period but for me now it will forever be the era when the nation fell in love with crisps!
It was my first time to have Tayto crisps as well so don't feel bad! I've suddenly started seeing them a lot more around London in the last year or two, and not just in Irish pubs.
My late father once related a story to me regarding some fellow who used to visit local West London pubs hawking a tray strung round his neck, containing bagged, sliced fried potatoes, accompanied by optional little waxy, blue paper twists containing salt. The fellow’s name? A certain Mr Smith of Cricklewood …
Always look forward to your fantastic videos ! Thanks again!
This might be my favourite video up to yet, fabulous content, short but sweet (or should that be savoury?)... I always have an appropriate bar snack with my beverage of choice and it is usually a dry roasted nut, but the demise of one of the holy trinity of Smith's bar snacks "Scampi fries, Bacon fries and Cheese moments" has left me deprived of my favourite "Cheese moments" for at least 6 years. Thanking you.
Love this. Interesting as always. Love this channel. Thanks tweedy!! 😊
Thank you!
I remember many years ago, Palmers pubs in Dorset sold "Jake's Pub Crisps". These were sold in big bags and rather tasty. Seem to remember the only flavour were beef and ready salted.
I love info like this, seeing the similarities and differences between the UK and US, both have potato chips, but the idea of shaking them with their own bag of salt, unique to England. I think I’ve seen it in old movies.
Wonderful episode. Wish I could visit the Ship in person.
I'm from the Netherlands and we had and still have a smiths chips factory here..my sister and me worked there ..day and night shifts..it is still there a d you can still smell the chips frying from the chimney..like decenia ago...
I was a dedicated salt and vinegar man for years. More recently I've found myself more inclined to ready salted. A metaphor for life perhaps. Ageing brings these subtle compromises.
I hear you! I'm still pretending salt and vinegar are my favourite but I hardly ever eat them.
This made me laugh - I also used to be an S&V man but now only do ready salted, the thing about ageing was brought home to me when I went into a nice but more upmarket bar than I normally go in (which does have some good cask on which is why I go ) and asked for a packet of ready salted and was told we don't sell them when I asked why was told 'too boring'! So I ended up with roast ham and paprika or something ghastly like that.
@@swanfibre I think you raise an important point which I omitted from the video - there seems to be a recent trend in pubs towards increasingly fancy crisps! Surely the availability of ready salted should always be a given...?
+1 for the Ready Salted club!
Hi there can you throw any light on the story behind the little man on the golden wonder crisps . Thanks.👍🏻😎👍🏻
Great video! Tayto cheese and onion crisps are in different packaging here in Ireland but are the most popular crisp brand I would say. I remember a family holiday to Kiln Park in Wales back in 1984 and having Sausage and Tomato flavoured crisps, they were delicious! Couldn’t get them at home sadly. KP peanuts a very good accompaniment to a cheese and onion crisp in the pub also.
Thanks Séan! I think that might have been my first time to have Tayto crisps, but they seem to be becoming a lot more popular in pubs here in the UK, and not just Irish pubs.
One of my favourite crisp flavour memories from my youth was Seabrook's sweetcorn flavour - sadly discontinued. I'm not even sure I really like sweetcorn that much but I've never before (or since) had a crisp flavour that was so uncannily similar to the thing it was trying to emulate.
The Tayto you show are from Northern Ireland. The original flavoured Tayto are made in a different Tayto company in the Republic. There is some debate as to which is superior but it’s the NI ones.
Thumbs up mate. Got my sub. Remember the cheese moments smiths done I loved them
P.s. pork scratching side the best pub crisp ever. Or should I say snack.
I remember potato puffs and enjoyed 'em too.
Great work! You've now influenced me into ordering scampi (flavoured!?) fries next time I'm in a pub!
Nice to see you in my parish at The Crown. Not a pub I frequent so much since they stopped selling Landlord. One of the bars is the bar of the adjoining hotel. I think you can do a lot more on pub snacks, not least the Pork Scratching taking over the country.
Ah…. The little blue bag. Takes me back to my childhood, circa 1967, Saturday morning trip to Surbiton Lagoon, now sadly demolished and built over, all smelling of chlorine, then Dad takes us to The Hogsmill pub Worcester Park for cider and a packet of crisps. A lovely video. Enjoy these delights before the finger-wagging health Stasi attempt to ban them .
The crisps I remember had little blue bags of salt with a twist top to seal them. I once found seven little bags of salt in one packet. That was my record. Also, who didn't go in for a pint and order a packet of cheese and onion and a pickled egg. This was always a lunchtime favourite for me and quite a few others in my local.
Looks to have been a fine day out. Loved Monster Munch and Outer Spacers❤
It was a fun day out - and yes those are some great classic snacks!
Hedgehog (I can not attest to flavor accuracy); Lemon sole; Hot dog and mustard; Prawn Cocktail; Roast Lamb and Mint Sauce, are some of the more unusual flavors I remember from my childood. Not sure which brand as our corner shop regularly changed brands. They may have been Golden Wonder, KP, Walkers. Crisps were sold in stacked cardboard boxes with a hole ripped in the front of each box through which you would reach in and grab a bag.
Great topic Tweedy 👌
Thanks for your unique take on another pub nuance.
Loved seeing The Ship in Hart Street and it reminded me of another pub of that name, not far away in Talbot Court EC3 near Monument.
Used to be a lunchtime regular there when I worked around the corner in Gracechurch Street a few years back.
Thanks for the snacks and the memories 👌
Thanks Christine! I loved the Ship, and it was uplifting to see it doing a brisk trade on a weekday lunchtime, especially as it's a wet led pub - I don't think they do any food other than that glorious array of "English tapas"!
Great video. I love Tweedy Pubs! I lived in London from the mid-80s through to the mid-90s and too many meals were just a packet of crips (or Hula Hoops) and a pint or two, or three.... One flavour of crisps that always baffled me was Hedgehog. What was that all about? Does it still exist? I think it was supposed to taste like marmite or bouillon or just a lot of salt, I dunno.
Love The Ship! Near to Tower tube station I think. They have a lovely quiet upstairs area too. Thanks Tweedy for that cripsy look at crisps! I've got to try those Salt shakes next time we're in London.
Thanks Kevin! It was new to me, but definitely a pub I would go back to.
Glad to see that The Tipperary is back open. An Ideal place to talk about Tayto's contribution to the world of crisps! Must admit I am a fan of Scampi and Lemon Nik Naks - not often you see them in pubs, so its usually the Smiths option.
Another enjoyable video, thank you. Incidentally, Mr T, I completely understand the perspiration sheen you had about you. At the beginning of August 2024, the UK was going through a 30°c plus mini-heatwave, with high humidity. Not ideal crisp munching weather!
Yes I was struggling a bit with the heat, and it was definitely #TooHotForTweed!
Excellent video, thanks!
Growing up in the 50's, before supermarkets, I used to stand in the doorway of the Old Loyal Briton in Thames Street, Greenwich, opposite our flats, to get some crisps and wait for someone to come over and ask what I wanted. The first time I had flavoured crisps was at Millwall FC. A friend of my dad had a son about the same age as me, and he gave me a bag of Golden Wonder cheese and onion crisps. Always been my favourite since then. 🙂
I love the way something as simple as a bag of crisps can evoke memories like that.
The Ship looks like a wonderful place to loaf around for an evening.
It was a great find - I'm very grateful for that tip off! Part of what I liked about The Ship was the atmosphere. I know a crowd of city geezers having a liquid lunch on a weekday might not be everyone's cup of tea but it all seemed refreshingly old school to me. Having recently spent time in young and trendy parts of London where there's people sat at pub tables with a laptop open writing their novel or having HR meetings for their startup I know which type of pub crowd I'd prefer!
@@TweedyPubs I get that. Something that's "genuine" isn't always pretty, especially in the late hours, but it's genuine. A fundamental value.
@@UnclePutte Well said!
Scampi ("flavoured") Fries are possibly my favourite.
cracking video!
What were the packets made of 100 years ago? Waxed paper? Keep up the good work. I find your channel easy listening. Cheers from New England
Excellent Smith shake Crisps are the best in my opinion 😊along with pork Scratchings😁😁👌 very interesting thanks 👍👏🍺
I never thought I'd be interested in the history of crisps!! 😂 thanks
Was just at the Tipperary two days ago - pint and some prawn taytos! cheers
Really enjoyed this! Thank you
Great stuff Mr Tweedy. I still remember the crisps (KP) and snacks from the pub I was brought up in.
Boxes of crisps with a punch out hole for display/serving and cards of peanuts.
I grew up in a pub too and similarly crisp boxes were part of the furniture!
@@TweedyPubs Much has changed for the better since I lived in a pub. The loss of the stack of crisp boxes is not one of them.
As an aside, do you plan to do a pub trip to Richmond Upon Thames?
Gone are the days of finding ceramic ashtrays in a pub. I came across a particularly decorative ashtray in the Ostrich Inn in the Forest Of Dean. It was made for the Hook Norton Brewery Company with a fine image of its brewery.
Thanks for the crispy video, I am currently working my way through a Pringles type tube of PopTastic tortilla corn chips (sour cream & onion flavour) 👍
Thanks Ysgolgerlan! My grandmother, in her final years, used to eat quite a lot of Pringles, so I have a bit of an affection for them... but I suppose they would seem a bit out of place in a pub...?
@@TweedyPubs Pringles feel more "American' to me. Not sure if that is truly the case. Feels more like a recent import.
Salt & vinegar chips with a cold Aussie beer,that's living.....🇦🇺
yep, love em with a pint
What a wonderful documentary. I most enjoyed the surprise of there being a great, but un-tweedy-visited, London Pub. Do you have to wear the same uniform to go in there? Thanks again.
Thanks Tweedy! We love the pub crisps, so great to learn some history What is your thought on Brannigans? Back in the early 2000s our go-to crisps were the Brannigans Smoked Ham & Pickle and Roast Beef & Mustard. It seems like they have been discontinued unfortunately 😐, not sure if anyone makes an equivalent.
That pack of Tayto is from the Northern Irish company founded in 1956. The original (and in my opinion) and best is from the Republic which was founded in 1954. Same name, different companies. The cheese and onion packet is red and blue and it's iconic in Ireland where until recently they were also the sponsor of a theme park in county Meath. If you are a crisp fan you have to try the original red and blue packet of cheese and onion crisps
I was plunged into a deep depression, from which I've never recovered, when they stopped making hedgehog flavour crisps.
Surprised to hear you hadn’t been to The Ship before this, it’s popular with the insurance crowd.
Was the Guinness at the Tipperary on good form?
Another belter from u Tweedy. but re this Crisp history subject , you forgot Tynesides contribution , i.e
` TUDOR `
Another superb video; thank you. Taytos in Ireland and Northern Ireland are two completely separate companies. The latter is based in Tayto Castle! I do miss the proper old blue twists of salt in the old Smith's paper bags. Most of all I miss Chipmunk Crisps (OXO flavour especially) and Tudor Crisps, which used to feature a picture of Henry VIII on the packets back in the 1960s and later developed an extraordinary range of flavours, including Chocolate and Hot Dog & Ketchup.
Thanks Simon - I wish I had done a bit more research on Tayto now, it hadn't occurred to me there might actually be two different companies using the same brand. Other commenters have mentioned the ones I showed in the video are actually the Northern Ireland version, so perhaps the link to the original 1954 world's first flavoured crisp is a bit more indirect there.
Thanks, Tweedy. Don't be too hard on yourself though; I learnt a lot from your video - and I'm a crisp aficionado!
Incidentally, that British Tapas sign looked as though it had been printed on a tweed background!
The first i tased Tayto's cheese & onion crisps was in July 1956 in Nolans Bar, Westport Co Mayo, Ireland.
I even recall the original advert for Scampi Fries, "Baskets?"
Maybe apocryphal but I heard a rumour that whilst in development, the scampi fry was code named Fishy Pillow 😂
You forgot Rolley’s crisps they were sold with a packet they would compost itself. I presume it was something like cornstarch but they were quite popular in the 60s
The Tayto crisp you showed in the yellow pack is the Northern Ireland version and not the original from 1954 developed in the Republic of Ireland
Hi there Tweedy, my friends and I are huge history nerds and big fans of pubs. If you were to recommend the best historic pub crawl where shall we go?
Cheers.
Another well presented and informative video Tweedy.You will be to young to remember Tudor mint crisps..cripes😅
The most important video on youtube
Jake's pub crisps were the finest crisps known to man. My dad used to bring me a couple of packets back from the pub in the 70s. No idea who made them and can't find anything about them online.
Walkers didn't always buck the idear of colours, it changed mid 90s ish, if i remember right.
Such a shame that a lot of these brands now belong to large multinational companies, like Smiths belong to Pepsi co. i did not realise seabrooks have been around for so long, never ever seen them until I went to Lincolnshire about 20 years ago, but they are owned by Calbee, which is a Japanese company. I like it when pubs sell local crisps, but even spo, some of them have got too large, like Tyrrells, which are mainly owned by Langholm Capita, which is a London-based private equity firm. I suppose we should be thankfull it is London based i suppose.
A local crisps called Two farmers are great, sadly not sold in many pubs.
i do like Scampi fries.
Weird. I’m in Australia and we can get Tayto here in the imported section at Coles supermarket and the cheese and onion I buy are in a red blue and yellow pack. Not all yellow.
The Red & Blue pack are original Irish Tayto crisp.
The yellow pack is a different company based in the North of Ireland
Putting my life on hold for 8:38 minutes so I can watch this riveting piece of vital information.
Disaster Mr Tweed locked out of a pub still interesting. but puled it back by getting in the Ship. Top man.
It was a bit of a shame as I made a special journey to Cricklewood just for that pub! It's on CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors as well, so there might have actually been some quite nice parts to - although that said it's part of a hotel now, and has recently had a refurb, so I'm not sure what state it's in currently.
@@TweedyPubs Dont be to hard on your self pos make it part of a pub tour of the area later in the year. Did look interesting from the out side. Always a pleasure to see your posts and look forward to you next.
We need a comprehensive review of Nuts, Pork Scratchings and Pickled eggs next please..and whatever happened to Mr Supercockle..😜👏👏🍺🍺
Only seen Walkers in Canada. We have ketchup chips.
Golden Wonder were a Scottish brand. Their crisps are magic but for some reason I can’t buy the best one which is Roast Chicken. The dogs.
Thanks Tweedy, interesting history! I'm watching from a country where for some reason there used to exist basically only one flavour in crisps - paprika. Now there's more diversity and we even have salt & vinegar crisps. One question remains unanswered: Why are crisps so addictive? 😄
Thanks Kathi! I'm sure somebody could write a whole PhD thesis on international crisp flavours and what they tell us about those countries!
I notice paprika seems to be a popular flavour in quite a few European countries. I assume part of the appeal is that it adds a bit of colour? Plus I would imagine from a technical point of view it's relatively easy for a manufacturer to get that flavour to stick to the crisps, given that powdered paprika is already widely available. Probably a bit more effort required to make crisps taste of vinegar without creating a soggy mess!
I never understand why I'm expected to share my crisps with everyone when I buy them in the pub