They made us do the manual labour for these as though they were doing us a favour letting US mix the salt in FOR THEM. And we fell for it. Hook line and sinker.

by jtgreatrix

46 comments

  1. When you end up with all the salt on a single crisp and the rest had none.

  2. When I was at school we would have PAID to add the little blue salt packet ourselves.

    Kids used to fight over who got to pour it in, even if it wasn’t their crisps.

    Smiths salt ‘n’ shake, 20p pick and mix and a minimilk was my go-to order at the cornershop (which was 5 miles from my house) every Sunday. Serious business. Then I’d lay on the floor and read the Funday Times once the cartoons finished.

  3. Let’s be real- we all tried a crisp before putting the salt on just to see what a truly plain crisp was like.

  4. They replaced the blue packet of salt to a clear packet impossible to locate!

  5. So does McDonald’s now! The “shaker fries” come with a separate flavour sachet!!

  6. I like unsalted crisps. These are the best I can get locally. Tyrrell’s do ‘Naked’ crisps but they’re hard to find.

  8. Rubbish it’s a good idea,gives choice as how much seasoning for individual taste

  9. I used to bin the salt packet and eat the crisps plain, I liked them better that way.

  10. You seen Spudos

    Someone took the salt and shake concept and decided to stick a even bigger profit margin on top

  11. Like a deconstructed trifle. Put it together yourself chef! Lazy bastard!

  12. It’s the only salted crisp that I can buy unsalted (that I know of) and I love unsalted crisps.

  13. Very handy for people with nephrotic syndrome or other people that need to maintain a low salt diet.

  14. That’s all there used to be when I was a kid. Little blue square of paper, twisted together to hold the salt.
    That’s why the ones they did for you are still called ready salted.

  15. These date back to before they had figured out how to apply the salt in the factory. Crisps used to be just plain, and you had to find your own salt. Then came salt in a sachet, and then some genius invented ready salted crisps. The gimmick persisted, though.

  17. Do these still have the little story of Frank Smith and the pubs of Cricklewood on the back of the pack? Henry Walker seems to get most of the credit for making crisps popular in the UK, but Mr Smith deserves a mention.

    I remember when the front of the pack had that text at the bottom, reading “look for the little blue salt bag”.

  18. For some reason as a kid those little blue packets used to gross me out. No idea why but I’d prefer to eat the crisps plain than touch the greasy packet

  19. Op getting all salty about crisp labour. It’s the season-ing to be jolly

  20. As a kid I’d add in a ton of vinegar, really soggy small bits at the end perfect! Noticed in the last pack I got, the salt sachet was white!! Why!?! How are you supposed to find that?

  21. * Self-service tills

    * salt them yourself crisps

    * Where the FUCK is my “drive the train to work yourself” commute?! 😛

  22. Like korean bbq, where you pay extra to cook it yourself.

  23. Used to crush up an oxo instead of using the little pack of salt when I had them 😂

  24. They aren’t what they used to be – back in the 70s, some of the time you got no pack of salt, other times you got half a dozen in the packet. Nowadays, the miracle of modern technology means they always have one – disappointingly white – pack of salt.

  26. Mmm, does anyone else remember the flavour and shake packs they sold in Tesco? I loved the tomato ketchup flavour, so good…

  27. What a load of rubbish. The salt ended up on a handful of crisps at most and it’s not like they were any cheaper than just getting normal salted crisps.

  28. I loved this because I usually threw away the salt packets. You quickly start enjoying crisps without all that salt.

  29. I remember emptying a sachet onto my tongue at the start of a class. Then fighting the urge to vomit the whole lesson.

  30. My friend used to add vinegar too, made them soggy but delicious

  31. Why did they change from blue packets to clear ones? Remember in first school dropping in a salt packet into someone’s walkers as they had the prizes when won free packets or cash and they looked similar

  32. Contain more salt than a pack of ready salted, and yet I can hardly taste it most of the time.

  33. My dad only buys these because the salt is separate, he doesn’t even use the salt packet just loves the plain crisps

  34. This is how crisps were in the 40s and 50s before flavours – they were selling a weird nostalgia when they reintroduced the bag back in the 80s

  35. The NHS gets mad if I eat too much salt, so these are a good buy.

  36. Any oldies remember the flavoured sachets that were about in the late 80s? 

    I can’t recall what they were called.

    Tesco certainly sold them. I remember the first time I tried to do the fish and chip flavour sachet in one go in the car park. Eight year old me breathed it in and had a bad few minutes.

  37. I used to add less the half the packet so I loved these because they werent as salty as other crisps 

  38. I used to eat these without adding the salt and everyone thought that was weird. Quite affirming to see others here saying they did it too.

  39. Idk, the sodium fix on these always hit different than ready salted, like you were rawdogging it.

  43. Later, IKEA took the idea of making the consumer do the labour and absolutely ran with it

  44. Wait until you hear about pick your own pumpkins/strawberries/etc.

  46. They were brilliant when walkers were giving tenners away using the same blue packet though. Sneak up behind your mate at school and drop your packet of salt in his walkers.

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