Phileas Fogg Sea Salt & Indonesian Black Peppercorn Flavour Crisps

Intro In the beginning some 50 odd years ago there were but a few manufacturers of crisps. During the early 50's it was Smith's Salt and Shake, which I can first remember. This particular brand is now part of the Walker Empire. Later on there were another two main manufacturers whom I can remember who are still in business today they are of Course KP and Golden Wonder. It is only recently I became aware of the origins of the Golden Wonder trade mark..................I had no idea there was a potato with that name. Over the last decade or so there has been a huge resurgence in the crisp market with Walkers now being the leading brand in the UK. Their success ...  Read the complete review

The lovely Rooster reviewed this product a few weeks ago and I usually agree with my favourite Dooyoo duck's opinion, but not on this occasion. I decided to try these crisps because they had appeared in Morrison's and they were on offer. I am always on the lookout for a bargain, I like trying new things and the packet made me think this was a luxury item. According to the website (http://www.phileasfogg.com) Phileas Fogg wanted to "unlock the secret of truly authentic flavours." A big fuss is made out of the fact that they contain "Indonesian Black Peppercorns" instead of usual, bog-standard black peppercorns. I presume ...  Read the complete review

I'm surprised to see only one other review on here for these Phileas Fogg Sea Salt & Indonesian Black Peppercorn flavour crisps and that the writer, GentleGenius didn't reckon that much to them by awarding only a single star rating. Currently the whole range on Phileas Fogg crisps are on a Buy One get Two free offer at Morrisons, and regular readers of my reviews will know that my passion for all thing potato crisp related is huge so of course I had to stock up on them whilst they are on such a great offer. For those unfamiliar with the brand, they are a relatively new addition to the already huge crisp market and I only saw them myself earlier this year ...  Read the complete review

COST: 47p at my local village grocers for a 38g bag NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (per bag): CALORIES: 193 Kj: 805 Protein: 2.5g Carbohydrate: 21.0g - of which sugars: 0.6g Fat: 11g - of which saturates: 1.0g Fibre: 1.5g Sodium: 0.3g INGREDIENTS: Potatoes, sunflower oil, sea salt, Indonesian black pepper and pepper oil, maltodextrin, potato starch, sugar, yeast extract, natural flavouring, citric acid ALLERGY INFORMATION: Produced in an environment where milk, soya, gluten and mustard are ...  Read the complete review