It's distressing how many British sweet brands now have a chain of ownership leading to the US. Mondelez famously bought Cadbury's, and Bain Capital (y'know, Mitt Romney's company) own most of the "classics" like Barratts, Fox's Glacier Mints, Poppets, Tavener's, Mojo chews, Barker & Dobson etc. The only big non-American company left is Nestle, and they can also fuck wayyyyy off.
It's only Terry's and Tunnocks left now, and even then Terry's are owned by the Fr*nch.
Pringles are so shitty that can't even be categorised as "chips" according to European regulations
FunnyFrisch make these "Lentil Chips" which sounds weird but they are actually so good.
In Spain we have Bonilla a la vista, really good crisps, even Koreans are crazy about them. We also have snacks from Grefusa or Frit Ravish. And more crisps from eapinaler, El Gallo, Sarriegui and literally dozens of brands. Nearly all the regions have 6-7 good brans for crisps and there are hundreds of small brands in every area. Apart from the brands you can find at every supermarket.
In the UK we have... all of the ones at the top and... none of the ones at the bottom
I think
Please let me know I'm wrong and where I can find those thx
Try the Euro Food shops. They'll have the European brands. But yeah, the bug stores only have the typical American brands.
Amazing, will do. Thank you!
You can find brets although you need to do a big supermarket for them (or a specialist fancy food shop)
Where are you getting all of these exotic templates from?
Bonilla la Vista
Kettle Chips are British, made in Norfolk. I double-checked their website and they haven't been taken over by anyone as far as I can tell.
Unfortunately the veil has dropped. I thought the same as you but this is what the website says:
https://kettlechips.co.uk/pages/about
Cameron Healy Founded Kettle Foods In Salem, Oregan, USA. Cameron and his son discovered the British love of crisps, prompting Cameron to establish Kettle Foods in the UK.
He chose Norfolk as our home, where you can still find us to this day, in order to be as close as possible to many of our potato growers. Our first home was actually the corner of an old converted shoe factory in Norwich. And so, from humble beginnings, the first KETTLE® Chips were produced in the UK.
Cameron Healy and UK Co-owner, Tim Meyer, got talking to owner and chef Chris Barnard, in whom he recognised a true passion for authentic foods and > ingredients.
Sharing Cameron’s vision, Chris soon packed up his utensils and recipe books to join us in setting up the UK branch of Kettle Foods
So it's US founded, and (at least some point in the past) UK co-owned and mainly produced in the UK. A little grey area. Nice crisps, however.
Walkers was a surprise to me. But turns out that is a UK brand sold to the yanks like everything else 😬. Also nice crisps.
might be a good idea to take a look at kettle foods on Wikipedia
Brets are S-tier crisps, I don't know why you'd pick anything over them anyway
I have Irish friends (republic and northern) who stock up on Taytos when they're home, and rave about them. They export from Ulster to the US, but I've never seen there here in Scotland - weird. https://www.tayto.com/about/
They're occasionally the crisp of choice in pubs; an excellent accompaniment to an 80/-. Suppose there's worse criteria for your pub crawls. But aye, a weird omission - you'd be thinking there's plenty of wagons on the Stranraer ferry that could bring a few palletloads over.
Taytos are amazing.
I'm in the US and a store a few minutes away sells Keogh's chips which are Irish. My girlfriend is crazy about them so I buy a bag every time I go there.
Yeah. Looking at this diagram as a British person it's like the US stuff is our entire selection and none of the alternative brands exist here :(
Tyrell's are good.
They're owned by KP Snacks, a UK based company, who also make:
(Images from https://www.kpsnacks.com/our-brands, arranged in gimp)
These all all S tier snacks too.
You beat me to it!
KP make amazing snacks.
@GreatAlbatross @tiramichu plenty of UK crisps (including Kettle, established in here somewhere - based in Norfolk, owned in Europe). Corkers, Pipers, Tyrrells, Two Farmers come to mind. Don't think any of them are owned internationally? I come from potato country - so many crisp factories round here!
Seabrook are still going, though Japanese owned since 2017.
Seabrook crisps immediately take me back to playing on the swings and slides in a pub beer garden on a warm summer afternoon
I can highly recommend Co-op's own brand Irresistible crisps. The salt & vinegar ones especially
Stumbled on these the other week, they have no right to taste that good!!!
Croky in Belgium is good aswell!
Taffel (FIN), Estrella (SWE) & Oikia (FIN) as well!
Taffel vs Estrella is a way to start a fight tbh
I like Estrella's sour cream and onion more, but Taffel has some other great flavors.
I agree on the sourcream & onion, taffel's furious is delicious, but Oikia Musta Melody Black Garlic is absolutely without competition for top spot.
Don't forget Gårdschips!
How do I find an alternative to [[American product]?
Look next to it on the shelf.
As an American, the only one of them that's worth eating is Kettle Chips anyway. But even then, as a Massachusettsian, I would prefer Cape Cod chips.
Cape Cod ftw
Well, I'm European and I think at least 80% of the brands in the chips/crisps section are those 5 us brands. Loads of people buy them.
Isn't lays produced in the Netherlands?
It is still owned by PepsiCo.
Kettle, Pipers, or Tyrrell’s crisps for me.
How could you leave out the best crispy crisps ever; croky?!
I recommend that you don't eat any of these brands food. it is better for your health
I haven't found a Brets flavour that I like. So I'll stick to the house brand chips in my supermarket, or Croky.
Sell those in Canada. We need more options.
Santa Maria also has decent ones and is owned by Paulig which is Finnish-owned.
Balsnack is Estonian, probably not available elsewhere. They make the brands Kartulivahvel, Piraat, Vigur, and some less traditional ones like Ossi which is actually pork based
