I am in Australia for the first time and I can’t comprehend the colours of the crisps over here compared to the UK.

It makes no logical sense.

by Fuzzy-Dance3502

42 comments

  1. In real life cheese can be close to a yellow colour. Maybe onions are too.

  2. Yeah, everyone knows ready salted should be red (the colour of salt), salt and vinegar should be green or blue (the colours of salt and vinegar respectively) etc.

  3. These crisp packet colours are not compatible with western values.

  4. The colour doesn’t actually matter we just associate the colours with the flavours

  7. I’m Australian so these just make sense to me

    Chicken is generally green for most things, plain or “standard” or whatever is usually blue, BBQ is orange or brown, and then the rest get sorted from that

    We don’t use terms like “ready salted”, that’s a very UK thing

  8. Whelp… That’s just all shades of wrong (see what I did there?)!

  9. This is why those people were shipped off to the other side of the world

  12. Cheese and onions are both relatively yellow, chicken will be flavour of chicken stock, so I assume herby like green parsley and green thyme, sea salt is from the sea, which is blue, salt abs vinegar is in a pinky red pack because malt vinegar is usually with pinky red labels and this also applies to bbq sauce

  13. Cheese is yellow, chickens are normally green, original can be anything, it’s Himalayan pink salt and barbecue flames are orange. Sorted.

  14. Me – opens Reddit.

    Sees this first.

    *Backs out slowly making no sudden moves*

  15. Spying on this thread for the people who are going to comment about Walkers Salt and Vinegar and how they “used to be blue” just to see how much that collective false memory still invades this country.

  16. Maybe?…

    Yellow – Cheese & Onion bc cheese

    Green – Chicken bc chickens on (free range) farms have grass

    Orange – BBQ bc things start going golden with BBQ fire

    Magenta – Salt & Vinegar bc it’s acidic and acids on litmus paper turn purple to red

    Blue – Original bc blue is symbolic of authority, calm and therefore an OG match

  17. Makes as much logical sense as any other crisp bag colour

  18. This reminds of a timing I picked up a pink crisp packet thinking I’d be eating prawn cocktail and getting smoky bacon. My expectations turned that into a bad Lunch…

  19. Id purposely get the pink one for my partner haha, prawn cocktail.. think again!

  20. Salt and vinegar being pink is taking the piss, they must know

  22. These colours are all correct. Why wouldn’t chicken be green. And it makes sense that salted is blue.
    I’m Australian.

  24. To be honest I’ve always wondered why cheese n onion wasn’t yellow cause yano, cheese is yellow.

  25. I’ll give you cheese and onion..and you can have original.

  27. This is why I can’t go into aldi or lidl. Everything’s got that uncanny valley thing to it.

  28. Walkers and golden wonder took the appropriate colour choices already.

  30. I actually love this for how much it’ll wind up the kind of people who get into serious and animated debates about whether salt & vinegar should be blue or green, or the pronounciation of “scone”.

    More chaos please.

  31. Blue for the colour of the sea, which is salty.

    Yellow for the colour of cheese.

    Green for the colour of chicken when you cover it in lots of herbs.

    Pink for Himalayan salt.

    Orange….err…

  32. Well, cheese *is* yellow

    Himalayan salt *is* pink

    The flames of a barbeque*are* orange

    The herbs on chicken *are* green

    And sea salt comes from the sea, which *is* blue….

  33. I can’t begin to describe or justify the anger this makes me feel.

  34. This makes more sense to me than the British colours! It’s what you grow up with, though, isn’t it.

  35. If there has ever been a need for crisp regulation this picture would be the catalyst for it.

  36. I’ve made the mistake of grabbing the green pack thinking it was salt and vinegar. Sorely disappointed 😂😂 didn’t make that mistake again!

  37. Cheese being yellow does make sense, but the rest of it makes me vomit a little

  38. Yellow- chicken
    Orange- cheese
    Green- cheese and onion or onion
    Pink- like chutney or something
    Black- BBQ
    Blue-salt and vinegar

  39. As an Australian it makes quite a lot of sense to me.

    Chicken is always green, everyone knows that. When you cook up chicken, what do you do with it? You green it to get it to the colour it is when you eat it (green).

    Original is blue because that’s the colour crisps are before you add flavouring.

    Barbecue is orange because that’s the colour of an Australian barbecue (technically should be tangerine, but probably a more expensive colour to mix).

    Cheese and onion is the only outlier here, obviously onion is yellow, but given cheese is red, you’d think they would make this one orange and make the barbecue properly tangerine.

    What colours are they in the UK?

  40. The great crisp colour war began when Walkers (Lays) decided to swap the colour of ready salted and salt and vinegar flavours in the UK, following a hundred years of peace and understanding in the fried potato snack kingdom, which had been wisely and consistently ruled over by the great Smiths. Suddenly, nothing made sense to the consumer anymore, allowing manufacturers to arbitrarily apply colours as they chose fit. It caused great confusion and woe among the populace, forcing buyers to actually pick up and read every packet they were considering buying. Life was never the same again. Salt n Shake were never seen after those dark years.

  41. Cheese is Yellow.

    Table salt often comes in a blue and white container

    Himalayan rock salt is pink

    Chicken is often cooked with herbs such as sage and thyme, which are green

  42. Australia: go inside get confused by incorrectly colour crisp packets – go outside and get strangled by an ant.

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