| Product: |
Tesco Select Prawn Cocktail Crisps |
| Date: |
05/02/07 (94 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: cheap, full of flavour
Disadvantages: only available at Tesco
I have an absolute addiction to crisps, I like all brands and nearly all flavours. Everyone is familiar with the famous brands such as Walkers, Monster Munch etc so I thought I would do a review on a brand that aren't so well known - the Tesco Select range and the flavour I am reviewing is prawn cocktail.
Packaging
The prawn cocktail flavour packet is a dark metallic pink colour. Tesco Select crisps is written across the front of the packet in fairly large writing, and prawn cocktail is written in smaller white writing in the bottom right hand corner of the packet.
On the back of the packet is all the usual information such as ingredients, nutritional information and a questions and comments helpline. The best before date is also written on the back of the packet on the right hand side.
The bag itself is lined with foil on the inside, like most crisp packets which helps in keeping the crisps fresh and crunchy.
Price
The prawn cocktail flavour of these crisps can be bought either in a multi pack (which also contains other flavours) or in a pack of 6 which are just prawn cocktail. For a 6 pack of prawn cocktail crisps, from Tesco, it costs 79p which I think it a very reasonable price considering you pay nearly 30p for a single pack of Walkers.
The multi packs also contain prawn cocktail flavour and these can be bought for the following prices:
30 pack - ££2.24
18 pack - ££1.88
12 pack - £1.29
So as you can see, these crisps are relatively cheap compared to some other leading brand crisps.
The Smell
These crisps have quite a strong smell of prawn cocktail which personally I quite like. You can definitely tell they are prawn cocktail from the smell although I would say that the smell is not too overpowering.
The Taste
I quite like the Tesco select range of crisps because they are full of flavour, you can actually see the flavour on the crisps as it makes the crisps a darker colour in places. The crisps themselves are always crunchy and taste fresh. The crisps do vary in size (as with most crisp packets) and I find that the flavour is spread evenly among all the various sized crisps (with other packets, I find that the smaller crisps tend to have loads of flavour which is sometimes too overpowering and the larger crisps have no flavouring at all!)
Information About The Crisps
Each bag of crisps weights 25 grams and to be honest, when you open the packet it only looks half full, as with most crisp packets (why do they do that??) A 25 gram bag contains 134 calories and 8.7 gram of fat so not the healthiest thing to snack on really!
Summary
I would definitely recommend this brand of crisps. I'm sure many people overlook these because they are not Walkers or another well known brand but I have to say that this brand certainly provides you with everything other crisp manufacturers do. The crisps are full of flavour, come in eye catching packets and most of all, are a lot cheaper than other named brand crisps.
Summary: Definately a brand to consider
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