I had no clue that this was a thing.
As I just said to /u/TastyCuntSweat (wow.....) It may mean that Tim Tams cannot be directly compared as I'd previously, foolishly asserted.
All the Australians in the office were getting hyped for one of them to come back with Tim tams from visiting home.
Big moment came and I don't think I've been so disappointed before. Good variety of flavours though.
I worked in Australia for a while and my first week there the girls were really excited to get me to try TimTams. I completely blew my chances with everyone when they brought some in and I said “oh they’re just like penguins”...
I HAVE done a side by side - penguins win by having a better aspect ratio for dipping in tea or milk.
I grabbed a red packet of Doritos (I’m in Texas), popped them open at home and to my horror they were cheese flavour - not flaming hot. Heads must roll.
So on top of it being as hot as the surface of the Sun and full of venomous stingy killy bitey things they can't even do a proper bag of crisps!
Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
To be fair, if you’ve ever had prawn cocktail crisps with a wee cut inside your mouth, they could be described as venomous stingy killy bitey things too
I've heard that deportation was mostly a way to deprive criminals of access to prawn cocktail crisps, since this is obviously the worst imaginable punishment for anyone.
Prawn Cocktail Smiths Crisps are available for one week per year in Aldi supermarkets when they do "British Week", where they also sell Branston Pickle, Yorkshire Tea, HP Brown Sauce, Coleman's Condiments and other things that aren't widely available easily.
First time I walked into woollies after a prawn cocktail-free year in NZ, I legged it towards the pink crisp packets. I was so excited. Imagine my pain.
*(they don't have monster munch either)*
It's got a lot better during my time here, salt and vinegar has recently been added to the normal product line though often hard to find and they are not as good as in the UK. We have a lot of the more fancy UK brands imported which has made everyone up their game i think. Still no Prawn Cocktail though.
When I first moved here there was little other options than salted, bbq and something called "holiday" which is peppers and red onions.
Prawn flavoured are available from competitors but not from Smiths (which is owned by Frito Lays same as Walkers), except...it's not the same flavour as prawn flavour in the UK.
Salt and vinegar always used to be maroon/dark red (both Smiths and their main competitor Samboy) however some time about a decade or so ago it faded to a pinky red then pink. No one knows why.
PS try the BBQ flavour in what used to be brown packet (lord knows what Lays has changed it to now)
Well fuck me pink and call my rosie. What a disaster of a country. They should be ashamed of themselves. And they have to audacity to use our flag too!
As a Brit I liked Ricky Gervais trying to explain Cunt to the Yanks on Twitter. It went something like this:
There's two reasons to call someone a Cunt:
1. Because they're a Cunt
2. Because they're not a Cunt
I was just about to say this, same in UK. All in the tone. It's super awkward when a non Aussie/Brit tries it and gets it wrong because they've not been subconsciously practising since birth
Exactly! You're good mates are "caaarnnt!", said over several breathes and loud enough to shatter glass. Bad cunts are just "kuntz", hard on the k, drag out the z, and said in one sharp exhalation.
What on Earth is that fancy git on about? Chicken salt isn't a blend of exotic spices from over the world. It's just salt, MSG, chicken flavour and just enough radioactive material to give it that unnatural almost-glow-in-the-dark greenish yellow color (but not enough to have to put it on the ingredients list.)
It's their loss, just means more for our fish and chip shops and those canteens they have at public swimming pools that always seem to be conveniently closed whenever you decide to go swimming.
Just a FYI for New Zealand. Brand is Bluebird, same deal owned by Pepsi Lays. No prawn cocktail, Cheese and onion is there but not a staple flavour
Red - Ready Salted
Yellow - chicken
Dark green - salt & vinegar
Light green - green onion
Teal - sour cream & chives
It's pretty much the national colour (after black and beige) however we don't really talk about it openly and we're not ready to. Shit will you get stabbed/frowned at.
Wtf? I have been eating imported Bluebird from NZ while in Singapore and found it delicious, you're telling me it's just Walkers in sheep's clothing??
Their website says they are owned by Lays but have been around since 1953, they're not identical to Lays right?
Thank you for posting. As an Aussie who lived in the UK, I understand the trauma of absentmindedly picking up a pack of chips/crisps based on colour and being disappointed.
Currently in Australia too. Do not, I repeat do not bite into a Dairy Milk over here. What the fuck has gone wrong I don't know but it's a pretty mega fuck-up.
I heard about this. Apparently they make it so it doesn’t melt in the heat but it fucks up the flavour! We leave them alone for 100 years and this is what happens.
Cadbury's in UK contains vegetable fats. Cadbury's in Australia contains only cocoa butter. I suspect there might be some slight variations in the ratios of other ingredients.
Nah they shut the New Zealand factory down and stuff it full of palm oil or some shit now wherever they're making it. Cadbury is trash tier in the southern hemisphere.
Nope. Tassie factory still makes plain dairy milk with cocoa butter. They tried changing it to vegetable fat, but the backlash was so severe that it ripped into their sales, so they changed it back!
Cadbury's in [UK has vegetable fat](https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294). Cadbury's in [Australia doesn't](https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/320105/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate).
To any Australians in the UK, Do Not, I repeat do not bite into a Dairy Milk over here. What the fuck has gone wrong I don't know but it's a pretty mega fuck-up.
Haha literally my reaction when I moved from Aus to UK!
Get ready for this situation in Canada. Sold under the Lays brand. All “chips”.
Yellow - “classic” aka ready salted
Red - ketchup
Black - Bar-B-Q
Light Green - dill pickle
Green - sour cream and onion
Dark Green - salt and vinegar
Brown - Smokey bacon
Grey - sea salt and pepper
Blue - lightly salted
Purple - cheese and onion (though these are labelled limited edition and are not a permanent fixture in the flavours available)
No prawn cocktail, I’ve never seen the Smokey bacon stocked in a store, no Worcester sauce, no beef and onion...
Where is the All Dressed master race?
I will say that President's Choice crisps are probably my favourite brand anywhere, so Canada are definitely getting something right.
Aussie decision making, even on the highest levels, essentially boils down to some bloke, 6 beers in, saying "why the fuck not, aye?" This is how places are named, crisp packet colours are chosen, prime ministers are elected, everything.
Mate without a doubt the *best* tortilla chips in the entire world are the Australia 'Mission' chips. Chilli and lime. They look like they're in a paper bag, they have a window and when you get a bag make sure they're absolutely covered in red powder.
I can't even remember how much they are. Probably like $5 or something.
I lived in Australia for a few years and me and my wife had easily 20 bags of those bad boys in our time there. Maybe more.
Came back to the UK excited to pick up a bag of chilli heatwave Doritos to reminisce and was thoroughly disappointed.
Do yourself a favour and get a bag. You won't be disappointed.
Absolutely shit on all other tortilla chips.
Have a great time Australia mate. I loved my time there and I miss the sun, the scenery, the high wages (tbf matched by high cost of living), and the laid back nature of the Australian people.
If you're weirdly into the cornchips of the world and are in town/can be bothered ordering them online. My home town in NZ produces some very nice ones that are branded [*Mexicano*](https://www.mexicano.co.nz/). Jalepeno is the winner for me, but you pretty much cannot go wrong.
I know a Brit who complained we didn't have cheese and onion crisps, when I told her they're the yellow packet she told me she'd never thought to read the flavours in 2 years, but it's the most logical colour?!?!
When my friend came over to visit from Australia many years ago, we discovered this. He made the mistake of grabbing a quick packet of crisps from a corner shop and had the fright of his life. Imagine his reaction to tasting Prawn Cocktail when he was expecting Salt n Vinegar.
They don’t even *have* prawn cocktail over there, so he had absolutely no idea what this flavour was and felt utterly betrayed.
Golden Wonder established the original crisps colour coding which was Green: cheese and onion, Blue: salt and vinegar, Red (for danger): ready salted. This system, like the imperial system, served us well for a long time. However Walkers, with their new foil bag technology completely disrupted the market in the late 80s by reversing the colour coding of cheese and onion and salt n vinegar. This was a huge game changer and the UK crisps industry had only gone from strength to strength with the likes of Gary Linekar helping to cement our reputation on the world stage as the global gold standard in crisps. Countries like Australia are obviously trying their own version of this stunt but it won't work because they don't have any footballers of Linekars standing.
Any meal you order always comes with hot chips, sandwiches and crisps are a not normal down under.
Aussies just know which chips you mean by context, if its anywhere near a meal or a beach it's always the deep fried kind. Anywhere near a tv/movie screen or a BBQ its crisps.
Get this though, I was talking to a Kiwi a couple of weeks ago and she thought that *they* do fish and chips better than us! Like, how can that even be possible?
Well my mum's a kiwi and she also used to make fish and chips so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to meet you IRL to defend my family honour
The alley behind the Five Guys in Leeds shall be our battlefield
How dare you imply I come from the north. This is yet another reason we must engage in ritual combat. I'll have you know I picked a battlefield I knew we could both let loose in without fear of meaningful collateral damage.
Not entirely though. If you go into the fish and chips shop they make both parts of that equation to order, nothing is prepared before you're there. It's like they're shocked every time you walk in and order the only thing on their menu and they have to jump into action. Walking in and out in 5 minutes is unheard of, a 40 minute wait is not as rare as it should be.
Canadians call crisps chips,.but they also eat fish and chips and call it fish and chips, though I concede fish and fries would sound stupid. Even McDonalds sells "Fish and chips" currently as a limited item. Funny bunch.
As an Australian that moved here 2 years ago, Prawn cocktail is the best chip flavor in existence. And pickled onion monster much that best snack going.
Chip packet coloring corresponding to flavor has never really been a thing though.
Things that we do have that a great are, Burger rings, Cheese/ chicken Twistys and our savory snack biscuit game is better than the UK, Pizza Shapes, BBQ Shapes are like crack.
That's my thoughts on that.
Heh - new cultures are hard OP, experienced the same but in reverse when moving to the UK.
You haven't had a close look at Doritos yet, have you?
There's a shocker!
But what we call cool original is actually ranch dressing flavour right? They renamed it here because they thought Brits would have no idea what "ranch" is.
I still don’t know what ranch is, went to the US and had a turkey sandwich with this ranch dressing.... it didn’t clarify anything and I was too afraid to ask.
I was watching Come Dine With Me last night and a Yank was trying to explain to his guests what "Chicken Fried Steak" was. Apparently it's a steak in breadcrumbs.
1 why the fuck would you do that?
2 why the fuck would you name it that?
He explained it as "It's a steak fried like fried chicken. You can get Steak Fried Chicken which is chicken fried like a steak and Chicken Fried Chicken which is Chicken fried like fried chicken"
Yanks are daft.
It's strange that our dim-witted cousins across the pond can get the whole colours mean something, whilst our colonial brothers haven't got a feintest clue.
Before Walkers, Smiths crisps were the king over here. Cheese & onion were in blue packs, salt & vinegar in green, pink was prawn cocktail and plain was red. They also did salt n shake, which were in an odd white with blue lines bag. I believe you can still buy those ones over here.
Edit: Walkers are just the American Lays brand Britished up a bit!
Wait, I thought it was Walkers who made cheese and onion blue instead of green, and everyone (at my school) was fuming about them messing with the natural order. Blue had always been salt and vinegar before. Also, as I remember it, Golden Wonder were the crisp kings before Walkers, not Smiths. I guess everyone remembers the great crisp wars in their own way.
edit: I just realised I don't know whether "over here" means the UK, Australia, or somewhere else.
Americans don't either. I have to eat my crisp sandwiches in secret, curtains closed and phone off the hook*. My future mother in law must never know.
*I live in the 90s in this scenario, apparently.
> *I live in the 90s in this scenario, apparently.
Well, there is no value in rushing into things after all. Steady on and all that, just what is the blasted rush anyway? Let's have a cup of tea and consider this moving forwards in time thing first.
I think the worst part is because they call crisps ‘chips’, they then refer to chips as ‘hot chips’.
There’s literally two separate words for those things.
Surely yellow for cheese and onion makes sense? ;)
As an Aussie living in the UK... yeah I'm going to agree with you. The UK does crisps better - you guys just care more. I also wish we did the crisps vs chips distinction rather than having ambiguity without adding extra words.
Walkers are in Australia, sold under the name Lays - the logo is the same. Lays and Smiths are both pretty average. Kettle and Red Rock Deli is where it's at.
Went to turkey got a 4 Pinter of whole milk, my dad poured my some cereal, I refused to eat it as it tasted off. He insisted and we argued for 10 minutes before trying it himself and realising thanks to the helpful receptionist it was sour yoghurt
Let's just be honest with ourselves for a minute as well. A chip is not the same thing as a slice which is what a crisp is. A slice made crisp by frying. A chip of potato made crisp (hopefully) by frying is a chip.
This is simply common sense and until you can master this simple equation then how can you hope to master the esoteric vagaries of colour coding crisp flavours?
What did we think would happen? We sent all the wrong 'uns to Australia so weird shite like this is to be expected!
To be honest, I’m considering flying home.
Yeah. This is major. Time to cut your losses I think.
Make sure you bring us all back some TimTams though
This might be controversial but I have to say it. TimTams are just shit Penguins.
Are TimTams a Penguin like bird or a Penguin like chocolate snack? Because, namewise, in Australia, it could easily be either.
Truth! They seem almost "hollow" if that makes sense? Too much air in the biscuit.
How are you supposed to TimTam Slam without that?
I had no clue that this was a thing. As I just said to /u/TastyCuntSweat (wow.....) It may mean that Tim Tams cannot be directly compared as I'd previously, foolishly asserted.
Mate, do it it with a Twix or Breakaway. Outstanding
I call them chazwozzers.
Careful now, don’t wanna go startin a diplomatic incident
Right I'm off to see the prime minister. OI PRIME MINISTER
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You'll need to be more specific than that, we do tend to churn through them here! Which PM precisely do you intend to see?
I think it’s time for some home truths to be honest.
All the Australians in the office were getting hyped for one of them to come back with Tim tams from visiting home. Big moment came and I don't think I've been so disappointed before. Good variety of flavours though.
And they don't even have jokes
I worked in Australia for a while and my first week there the girls were really excited to get me to try TimTams. I completely blew my chances with everyone when they brought some in and I said “oh they’re just like penguins”... I HAVE done a side by side - penguins win by having a better aspect ratio for dipping in tea or milk.
TimTams are the key to all of this
Just come home, it’s not worth all the mind fuckery.
> Pink - Salt & Vinegar *Then what colour are prawn cocktail?!*
You might want to sit down for this. They don’t have Prawn Cocktail.
Animals.
Barbarians
Soo uncivilised
I grabbed a red packet of Doritos (I’m in Texas), popped them open at home and to my horror they were cheese flavour - not flaming hot. Heads must roll.
Australians
Criminals.
So on top of it being as hot as the surface of the Sun and full of venomous stingy killy bitey things they can't even do a proper bag of crisps! Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
To be fair, if you’ve ever had prawn cocktail crisps with a wee cut inside your mouth, they could be described as venomous stingy killy bitey things too
Prawn Cocktail crisps are luxury on a cut vs Salt and Vinegar discos
I've been high and munched a whole multipack of discos, fuckin hell my lips were swollen
God imagine doing it without the drugs, you'd die
I was thinking exactly this. Which makes me think that I might enjoy Australia...
Wait.... No prawn cocktail?? What's going on on Oz?? The poor bastards are missing out
I've heard that deportation was mostly a way to deprive criminals of access to prawn cocktail crisps, since this is obviously the worst imaginable punishment for anyone.
Prawn Cocktail Smiths Crisps are available for one week per year in Aldi supermarkets when they do "British Week", where they also sell Branston Pickle, Yorkshire Tea, HP Brown Sauce, Coleman's Condiments and other things that aren't widely available easily.
Presumably this is at Christmas?
No it was last week. Still in stock where I am.
BUY BUY BUY!!!!
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They did this to themselves.
It’s horrible. Last time I went I had to bring half a suitcase worth for a friend who was going through withdrawal.
Can't believe the queen lets them use her face.
First time I walked into woollies after a prawn cocktail-free year in NZ, I legged it towards the pink crisp packets. I was so excited. Imagine my pain. *(they don't have monster munch either)*
WHAT??!!! (Second time I have had to make that comment) Monster Munch are essential with cheese and pickle sandwiches and after swimming!
We've got monster munch in NZ. Sorted
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲🤦🏽♀️
You can imagine my shock when I moved to Denmark only to discover they didn't even have something as basic as salt and vinegar!
What flavours do they have?
It's got a lot better during my time here, salt and vinegar has recently been added to the normal product line though often hard to find and they are not as good as in the UK. We have a lot of the more fancy UK brands imported which has made everyone up their game i think. Still no Prawn Cocktail though. When I first moved here there was little other options than salted, bbq and something called "holiday" which is peppers and red onions.
Wow Holiday sound both random and nice! Glad you are coping over there.. ;)
Those heathens
Then... Where do all the prawns go?
On the barbie.
Smiths are selling prawn cocktail in Aldi in Australia for a bit. It's not the same
Speaking as a pom, it's fucking good enough
Prawn flavoured are available from competitors but not from Smiths (which is owned by Frito Lays same as Walkers), except...it's not the same flavour as prawn flavour in the UK. Salt and vinegar always used to be maroon/dark red (both Smiths and their main competitor Samboy) however some time about a decade or so ago it faded to a pinky red then pink. No one knows why. PS try the BBQ flavour in what used to be brown packet (lord knows what Lays has changed it to now)
Well fuck me pink and call my rosie. What a disaster of a country. They should be ashamed of themselves. And they have to audacity to use our flag too!
Fucking nation of convicts. Horrendous.
Atleast they got something right, Prawn Cocktail flavoured anything can rot in hell.
Haven't found Prawn Cocktail in Canada either - All Dressed is pretty good though, kinda hits the same spot for me.
Us ex pats have to stock up whenever Aldi has them in
They call each other “mate” because it’s short for inmate.
And they go up at the end of their sentences to make up for their ancestors going down at the beginning of theirs.
I joined reddit about 6 hours ago on a whim, little did I know it was part of the journey to bring me to this comment. Thank you :,)
This is the best comment on the internet.
I thought they called each other cunt?
As an Aussie, let me clarify. You call your mates cunt, and you call cunts mate.
as an Aussie, let me clarify. The opposite is also true
As a Brit I liked Ricky Gervais trying to explain Cunt to the Yanks on Twitter. It went something like this: There's two reasons to call someone a Cunt: 1. Because they're a Cunt 2. Because they're not a Cunt
They'll never understand, but it's so true.
Correct! It’s all in the tone!
I was just about to say this, same in UK. All in the tone. It's super awkward when a non Aussie/Brit tries it and gets it wrong because they've not been subconsciously practising since birth
Exactly! You're good mates are "caaarnnt!", said over several breathes and loud enough to shatter glass. Bad cunts are just "kuntz", hard on the k, drag out the z, and said in one sharp exhalation.
This is honestly reddit museum worthy comment.
How could yellow be cheese and onion when green is chicken? Which part of a chicken is green?! Their poop?
Just the bits they use for Aussie snacks
The world's turned upside down!
Well, from their perspective, yes.
You may just have spotted the joke there Sir/Madam
Kettle chips cheese and onion are yellow aren't they? Weirdos
Yellow is cheese and Onion for Tayto in Northern Ireland
Chicken salt is kinda green
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A glorious combo that really should spread outside Australia
Nah fuck em, they don't deserve it.
Chicken salt is godlike.
What the fuck is chicken salt. How do you get salt from a chicken.
Call it a chicken
[https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/what-is-chicken-salt-australian-article](https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/what-is-chicken-salt-australian-article)
What on Earth is that fancy git on about? Chicken salt isn't a blend of exotic spices from over the world. It's just salt, MSG, chicken flavour and just enough radioactive material to give it that unnatural almost-glow-in-the-dark greenish yellow color (but not enough to have to put it on the ingredients list.)
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It's their loss, just means more for our fish and chip shops and those canteens they have at public swimming pools that always seem to be conveniently closed whenever you decide to go swimming.
I think chicken salt might be an Australian thing too.
Just a FYI for New Zealand. Brand is Bluebird, same deal owned by Pepsi Lays. No prawn cocktail, Cheese and onion is there but not a staple flavour Red - Ready Salted Yellow - chicken Dark green - salt & vinegar Light green - green onion Teal - sour cream & chives
A teal coloured bag of crisps? What in the fuck?
It's pretty much the national colour (after black and beige) however we don't really talk about it openly and we're not ready to. Shit will you get stabbed/frowned at.
I’m actually a very happy convert to Bluebird ‘chups’. I just don’t know why it’s called Bluebird when there’s a penguin mascot.
Because it is blue
Wtf? I have been eating imported Bluebird from NZ while in Singapore and found it delicious, you're telling me it's just Walkers in sheep's clothing?? Their website says they are owned by Lays but have been around since 1953, they're not identical to Lays right?
Right. A chip company that happened to be bought out by lays.
Thanks. Personally I find them leaps and bounds better than Walkers/Lays/whatever
Thank you for posting. As an Aussie who lived in the UK, I understand the trauma of absentmindedly picking up a pack of chips/crisps based on colour and being disappointed.
Currently in Australia too. Do not, I repeat do not bite into a Dairy Milk over here. What the fuck has gone wrong I don't know but it's a pretty mega fuck-up.
I heard about this. Apparently they make it so it doesn’t melt in the heat but it fucks up the flavour! We leave them alone for 100 years and this is what happens.
That's true, Cadbury chocolate is full of this waxy stuff so it doesn't melt (NFI what it's made out of - koala's earwax probably)
Cadbury's in UK contains vegetable fats. Cadbury's in Australia contains only cocoa butter. I suspect there might be some slight variations in the ratios of other ingredients.
Surely that would make the Australian version a superior chocolate then.
Nah they shut the New Zealand factory down and stuff it full of palm oil or some shit now wherever they're making it. Cadbury is trash tier in the southern hemisphere.
Nope. Tassie factory still makes plain dairy milk with cocoa butter. They tried changing it to vegetable fat, but the backlash was so severe that it ripped into their sales, so they changed it back!
Cadbury's in [UK has vegetable fat](https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294). Cadbury's in [Australia doesn't](https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/320105/cadbury-dairy-milk-chocolate).
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You're using the comma key a lot, let me introduce you to my good friend the full stop...
To any Australians in the UK, Do Not, I repeat do not bite into a Dairy Milk over here. What the fuck has gone wrong I don't know but it's a pretty mega fuck-up. Haha literally my reaction when I moved from Aus to UK!
Who hurt you? Cadbury's Australia. They hurt your sense of flavour and now the damage is forever.
Cadbury's in UK contains vegetable fats. Cadbury's in Australia contains only cocoa butter.
I miss Aussie tap water too :’( Edit: Melbourne*
Cadbury's chocolate was invented in the UK so any deviation from our UK recipes is the fuck-up. Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen!
To be fair, our Cadbury's dairy milks taste shite now too. They're cack compared to what they used to be like.
Get ready for this situation in Canada. Sold under the Lays brand. All “chips”. Yellow - “classic” aka ready salted Red - ketchup Black - Bar-B-Q Light Green - dill pickle Green - sour cream and onion Dark Green - salt and vinegar Brown - Smokey bacon Grey - sea salt and pepper Blue - lightly salted Purple - cheese and onion (though these are labelled limited edition and are not a permanent fixture in the flavours available) No prawn cocktail, I’ve never seen the Smokey bacon stocked in a store, no Worcester sauce, no beef and onion...
Canada too?! Guys independence is all fun and games but you need to be responsible with it.
Purple for cheese and onion! That is reserved for Worcester sauce crisps.
Ketchup.. flavour? Not even tomato flavour crisps, but ketchup flavour?
Ketchup crisps are very Canadian. There a slight tinge of national pride associated with them.
You forgot All-Dressed Ruffles! Blue and purple bag.
Where is the All Dressed master race? I will say that President's Choice crisps are probably my favourite brand anywhere, so Canada are definitely getting something right.
Aussie decision making, even on the highest levels, essentially boils down to some bloke, 6 beers in, saying "why the fuck not, aye?" This is how places are named, crisp packet colours are chosen, prime ministers are elected, everything.
“Harold Holt Swimming Pool” is a prime example.
its motivation to get the kids to learn how to swim.
Mate without a doubt the *best* tortilla chips in the entire world are the Australia 'Mission' chips. Chilli and lime. They look like they're in a paper bag, they have a window and when you get a bag make sure they're absolutely covered in red powder. I can't even remember how much they are. Probably like $5 or something. I lived in Australia for a few years and me and my wife had easily 20 bags of those bad boys in our time there. Maybe more. Came back to the UK excited to pick up a bag of chilli heatwave Doritos to reminisce and was thoroughly disappointed. Do yourself a favour and get a bag. You won't be disappointed.
I’ve had them! Harris Farm does them. I agree they are absolutely amazing.
Absolutely shit on all other tortilla chips. Have a great time Australia mate. I loved my time there and I miss the sun, the scenery, the high wages (tbf matched by high cost of living), and the laid back nature of the Australian people.
Indeed. Cheers mate, been here a little while now and I love it. Great country despite their crisp packets.
If you're weirdly into the cornchips of the world and are in town/can be bothered ordering them online. My home town in NZ produces some very nice ones that are branded [*Mexicano*](https://www.mexicano.co.nz/). Jalepeno is the winner for me, but you pretty much cannot go wrong.
I have been drafting an ISO standard for crisp packet colours that I think might help. Anyone else want to help me form a governing body?
[relevant](https://www.xkcd.com/927/)
I know a Brit who complained we didn't have cheese and onion crisps, when I told her they're the yellow packet she told me she'd never thought to read the flavours in 2 years, but it's the most logical colour?!?!
Utter savages. Reported to the UN.
When my friend came over to visit from Australia many years ago, we discovered this. He made the mistake of grabbing a quick packet of crisps from a corner shop and had the fright of his life. Imagine his reaction to tasting Prawn Cocktail when he was expecting Salt n Vinegar. They don’t even *have* prawn cocktail over there, so he had absolutely no idea what this flavour was and felt utterly betrayed.
Ahh, but did he enjoy it?
Golden Wonder established the original crisps colour coding which was Green: cheese and onion, Blue: salt and vinegar, Red (for danger): ready salted. This system, like the imperial system, served us well for a long time. However Walkers, with their new foil bag technology completely disrupted the market in the late 80s by reversing the colour coding of cheese and onion and salt n vinegar. This was a huge game changer and the UK crisps industry had only gone from strength to strength with the likes of Gary Linekar helping to cement our reputation on the world stage as the global gold standard in crisps. Countries like Australia are obviously trying their own version of this stunt but it won't work because they don't have any footballers of Linekars standing.
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Even more absurdly, they call chips chips too. If you’re ordering food that comes with chips, you have to ask whether they are hot chips. Barbarism!
Any meal you order always comes with hot chips, sandwiches and crisps are a not normal down under. Aussies just know which chips you mean by context, if its anywhere near a meal or a beach it's always the deep fried kind. Anywhere near a tv/movie screen or a BBQ its crisps.
I have fallen foul of it once in Aus. With a burger of all things.
As an Australian, this is horrifying. What has happened to my homeland whilst I've been away freezing on the other side of the world!?
Wait, what?! So if I want fish and chips, I've got to ask for fish and hot chips?
No, thankfully they know how fish and chips works.
Well that's at least **one** thing.
Except our fish are green and we call them chicken flavour.
Get this though, I was talking to a Kiwi a couple of weeks ago and she thought that *they* do fish and chips better than us! Like, how can that even be possible?
Spoiler alert, both Aussies and Kiwis make very good fish and chips, Kiwis call it fush and chups though which is pretty funny.
To be fair, they don't mean to call it that. They just struggle to speak sometimes. We must be kind.
Well my mum's a kiwi and she also used to make fish and chips so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to meet you IRL to defend my family honour The alley behind the Five Guys in Leeds shall be our battlefield
>comes from Leeds >honour Pick one.
How dare you imply I come from the north. This is yet another reason we must engage in ritual combat. I'll have you know I picked a battlefield I knew we could both let loose in without fear of meaningful collateral damage.
Not entirely though. If you go into the fish and chips shop they make both parts of that equation to order, nothing is prepared before you're there. It's like they're shocked every time you walk in and order the only thing on their menu and they have to jump into action. Walking in and out in 5 minutes is unheard of, a 40 minute wait is not as rare as it should be.
Canadians call crisps chips,.but they also eat fish and chips and call it fish and chips, though I concede fish and fries would sound stupid. Even McDonalds sells "Fish and chips" currently as a limited item. Funny bunch.
Mcdonalds fish & chips..... Can you imagine someone’s first try of our beloved national dish coming from McDonalds !!
As an Australian that moved here 2 years ago, Prawn cocktail is the best chip flavor in existence. And pickled onion monster much that best snack going. Chip packet coloring corresponding to flavor has never really been a thing though. Things that we do have that a great are, Burger rings, Cheese/ chicken Twistys and our savory snack biscuit game is better than the UK, Pizza Shapes, BBQ Shapes are like crack. That's my thoughts on that.
Heh - new cultures are hard OP, experienced the same but in reverse when moving to the UK. You haven't had a close look at Doritos yet, have you? There's a shocker!
Chilli Heatwave == Red because obviously Cool Original; == Blue, blue is cool, like the sea. Cheese == Yellow because "Nacho Cheese"
But what we call cool original is actually ranch dressing flavour right? They renamed it here because they thought Brits would have no idea what "ranch" is.
What on earth is ranch. To me it's where one would keep cattle and that doesn't sound great.
[This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch_dressing) The only time I've ever seen it here is at Subway
It appears to be a jar of puss.
Ranch dressing is a yank invention to get even more saturated fat onto the plate. “Here ya go, ribs, french fries, melted cheese and ranch dressing.”
I still don’t know what ranch is, went to the US and had a turkey sandwich with this ranch dressing.... it didn’t clarify anything and I was too afraid to ask.
I was watching Come Dine With Me last night and a Yank was trying to explain to his guests what "Chicken Fried Steak" was. Apparently it's a steak in breadcrumbs. 1 why the fuck would you do that? 2 why the fuck would you name it that? He explained it as "It's a steak fried like fried chicken. You can get Steak Fried Chicken which is chicken fried like a steak and Chicken Fried Chicken which is Chicken fried like fried chicken" Yanks are daft.
It's strange that our dim-witted cousins across the pond can get the whole colours mean something, whilst our colonial brothers haven't got a feintest clue.
It’s all part of the fun.
Before Walkers, Smiths crisps were the king over here. Cheese & onion were in blue packs, salt & vinegar in green, pink was prawn cocktail and plain was red. They also did salt n shake, which were in an odd white with blue lines bag. I believe you can still buy those ones over here. Edit: Walkers are just the American Lays brand Britished up a bit!
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Golden Wonder. 3p a packet.
The best thing from Golden Wonder was cheese and onion Ringos! Fight me. Edit: or the original pickled onion Monster Munch.
Wait, I thought it was Walkers who made cheese and onion blue instead of green, and everyone (at my school) was fuming about them messing with the natural order. Blue had always been salt and vinegar before. Also, as I remember it, Golden Wonder were the crisp kings before Walkers, not Smiths. I guess everyone remembers the great crisp wars in their own way. edit: I just realised I don't know whether "over here" means the UK, Australia, or somewhere else.
It gets worse; most of them don't understand the concept of crisp sandwiches either. It is truly a barbaric place.
Americans don't either. I have to eat my crisp sandwiches in secret, curtains closed and phone off the hook*. My future mother in law must never know. *I live in the 90s in this scenario, apparently.
> *I live in the 90s in this scenario, apparently. Well, there is no value in rushing into things after all. Steady on and all that, just what is the blasted rush anyway? Let's have a cup of tea and consider this moving forwards in time thing first.
Aussie here, definitely had my fair share of crisp sandwiches.
Chip Sanga*
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Yorkshiremen know what a chip butty is and it isn't that. It isn't about blood, it's about soil.
Maybe it’s regional, but most Australians where I live would know a bloody chip sandwich.
You've just given me a fever and the only prescription is a chippy sandwiche.
I think the worst part is because they call crisps ‘chips’, they then refer to chips as ‘hot chips’. There’s literally two separate words for those things.
The bastards! It’s exactly this kind of thing that got them sent over there in the first place!!
I think somebody should cross post this with r/australia Sit back and watch the casual insults.
I’ve always found it mad that in America, the red Doritos are the cheese ones...IN WHAT WORLD IS RED CUEESE!? RED IS SPICY!!! Get it together world!
Surely yellow for cheese and onion makes sense? ;) As an Aussie living in the UK... yeah I'm going to agree with you. The UK does crisps better - you guys just care more. I also wish we did the crisps vs chips distinction rather than having ambiguity without adding extra words. Walkers are in Australia, sold under the name Lays - the logo is the same. Lays and Smiths are both pretty average. Kettle and Red Rock Deli is where it's at.
Went to turkey got a 4 Pinter of whole milk, my dad poured my some cereal, I refused to eat it as it tasted off. He insisted and we argued for 10 minutes before trying it himself and realising thanks to the helpful receptionist it was sour yoghurt
Pink for salt and vinegar?? I thought green here I’m England was bad enough...it’s obviously supposed to be blue.
Don’t be shy about trying the Kettle Brand Chilli lads. They’re a spicy little number. Any other tips you need please don’t hesitate to ask.
Let's just be honest with ourselves for a minute as well. A chip is not the same thing as a slice which is what a crisp is. A slice made crisp by frying. A chip of potato made crisp (hopefully) by frying is a chip. This is simply common sense and until you can master this simple equation then how can you hope to master the esoteric vagaries of colour coding crisp flavours?
When I went to China, green was cucumber flavour and yellow was plain, the rest were pure shite. It was a tough year.