Once tasted loved forever (Seabrook Crinkle - Salt & Vinegar Crisps)

Member Name: Drewster_Rooster

Product:	Seabrook Crinkle - Salt & Vinegar Crisps
Date:	26/10/09 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: price, flavour, choice of flavours

Disadvantages: may be too intense for some people

I admit I have a crisp addiction, im much more of a savoury person than sweet and would prefer to have a packet of crisps over a cream bun anyday. Seabrooks Salt and Viengar crisps certainly give me my savoury "fix" whenever I fancy one and the taste of these particular crisps is certainly not for the faint hearted.

Seabrooks Salt and Vinegar crisps come in a 31.8g blue and white foil fresh bag. The front of the bag has the Seabrook name across it with "Since 1945" printed underneath. We are informed that the crisps are "Made with Sunflower Oil & Sea Salt" and are "MSG free". The GDA information is printed on the side of the pack and for a standard 31.8g pack you can expect to intake:

165 kcals
0.5g Sugar
8.9g fat
1.0g Sat Fats
Salt 0.6g

The back of the pack informs us "Once tasted loved forever" and I have to say I completely agree. The taste is what sets them apart from other Salt and Vinegar crisps. Upon opening the pack the smell of vinegar is somewhat overpowering and is very strong, this is an indicator as to what you are about to experience. By taking a crisp onto your tongue the first thing that hits you is the saltiness, you can feel your tastebuds tingling, I put this down to the sea salt that is used in the manufacture of the crisps and the combination with the vinegar makes a potent mixture. As the crisps are crinkle cut they are very crunchy and as you would expect crispy, the crisps tend to be on the large side aswell so you sometimes have to break them with your fingers before popping them into your mouth. I would warn you that if you have any cuts or nicks in your mouth or tongue then you can expect a reaction to the salty flavour!

Allergen sufferers be aware that the product does include gluten and the other ingrediants listed are:

potatoes
Sunflower Oil
Wheat Flour
Acidity regulator
sea salt
citric acid
antioxidant

As well as the Salt and Vinegar flavour Seabrooks do offer a large choice of alternative flavours including:

Beefy
Canadian Ham
Cheese & Onion
Cream Cheese & Chive
Prawn Cocktail
Tomato Ketchup

plus many others. Full details on available flavours are on their website which is www.seabrookcrisps.com where they are also available to buy online if your local shops dont stock them.

Another good point about Seabrooks is that they do sell them in multipacks, but unlike other brands the packs you get in the multipack are the actual full size 31.8g bag, they normally retail for around 25-40p per packet but multipacks are generally priced at £1.25 (Tesco have them on offer at £1.00 at the moment), so you actually benefit by buying the multipacks as they work out at around 21p per bag.

Definately worth trying if you havent already done so, they are probably not as popular as the main crisp brand - W*****s, but for me they are in the same league.

Summary: a cruchy crispy flavourful crisp