u/dr-satan85

At £1.25 for 150g (nectar price, usual price I believe is £1.50), these posh crispsare smack between budget friendly lidl crisps, and more premium high end snacks such as space raiders, but how do they taste?

The pack boasts aromatic onion and garlic, a strange thing to bring up with a pack of crisps that are meant to taste of cheese and pickled jalapeño, but what do I know? Anyway, it's about what's in the bag, not on it!

I'll get to the point with these, they don't taste like Monterey jack and pickled jalapeño, however, they are a very tasty, very well balanced crisp. The crisps themselves are pretty much identical to kettle brand chips, and the flavouring is very pleasantly vinegary, there's a slight creamyness, not really very cheesy, but it does have that lactic tang, the vinegar isn't anything like the acetic assault you get from co op brand crisps, but it's nice nonetheless, not a one dimensional vinegar, there's a bit of apple cider kind of funk to it. Can't really taste that aromatic onion and garlic, but there is a slight whisper of cumin there, and just the right amount of salt and sweetness to let the vinegar shine.

When I saw the name on the bag, I was hoping for a posh version of max jalapeño and cheese, and in that, they have failed, but still, they are very nice crisps on their own right, one of the better limited editions that the supermarkets have on offer this summer, fully deserving of an 8 out of 10, could even have been a little higher if the flavour on the bag wasn't so misleading! Fully recommended!

Admittedly, I'm not usually a fan of pringles even at the best of times, but I am a sucker for a crossover, so I had to try them out of curiosity.

Not much of a bacon or cheese flavour in this tube of "savoury snacks", not much in the way of beef or burger either, instead, it tastes like an actual burger King restaurant, specifically about 20 minutes before closing time, when the distinctive burger King aroma still lingers in the air, but it's a little bit dull and muted as they bring the cleaning products out. It's almost impressive how something with so many ingredients and flavour enhancers can taste so bland.

Thankfully I had a feeling these would be awful and planned ahead, buying myself a backup pack of takis blue heat, which is a modern marvel, top tier snack, so the night is not a complete write off!

The heat has quite a nice, but manageable build. Flavour is what I would describe as an earthy, dry heat, that's to say, they aren't overly sweet like many UK spicy snacks, not much in the way of acid, not much salt, either, and to be honest, they could do with a bit of msg. Actually, the more I think about it, for something as heavily spiced as these are, they're quite bland and flat, there's also a very unpleasant eggy sulphur aroma to them.

A solid "dreadful" out of 10. Fully recommend them to anyone with no sense of smell or taste!