To be eaten in mouthfuls only (Walkers Squares)

Member Name: iamasadlittleboy

Product:	Walkers Squares
Date:	02/08/09 (30 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste, health(ier) crisps, good gimmick

Disadvantages: Small bag

Squares come in a handful of flavours, but this review is specifically for the salt and vinegar flavour ones, that I've been meaning to review for ages, but always end up just eating them with out thinking of writing about them. So finally I've got a pack, a pen and a pad and I've written a review in pen whilst at work to copy online (here), seems a better idea than writing it on the fly and making a mess of it altogether.

Squares are a potato snack (crisps in the UK or Chips in the USA) that as the name suggests are made from potatoes and are square in shape. As flavours go I'm quite limited to Chicken, Bacon and some Salt and Vinegar types, so when it comes to squares I'll stay solely a creature of habit and stick to the blue packeted ones that I've been eating since I was a much slimmer kid. A bit of a kids crisp in the same vein as Skips, Quavers, Matchsticks, Space Raiders, Frazzles and Hula Hoops, they are targeted at the young and get the customers at an early age that stay with them into adulthood.

Upon opening the bag, you don't get much of whiff coming out of the bag, but it does look like you get a decent bagful of crisps. Cleverly to do some experiments I put a handful onto some tissues, and they showed a lovely golden brown colour that crisps should always show (unless their covered in some sort of a spice and have a reddish tint), just to show the oils (natures best flavours) have been cooked properly.

So onto the flavour, something I find hard to do with crisps is "eat 1 at a time", anyone who does it, I feel misses the whole purpose of having a mouth. As a result of shovelling handfuls (or should that be mouthfuls) down at a time, I couldn't (previous to the experiments) tell you what a single square tasted like. So the flavour test is broken into the two methods:

1 at a time-The crisp is fresh and crunches loudly in your mouth as it's really brittle with an obvious but rather restrained taste overall.
Lots at a time- The taste of 5 crisps at once magnifies everything exponentially, the crunch is louder, the taste is far stronger and the enjoyment is significantly enhanced. This is the way the crisps are meant to be eaten.

After having a mouthful you'll agree with every word of that, there is no going back to single crisp eating. The flavour when it's multiplied is nigh on perfect, by Walkers, who know plenty about crisps.

As I wanted a good view of the crisps for the colour description, I ate the others from the bag and left some on the tissue. Which started to get little wet patches on it from the oil running into the tissue (I think) which seems rather odd. Though on the subject of the oil, these are cooked in sunseed oil, which is higher in mono-unsaturates and lower in saturates (the bad ones). This apparently makes them healthier as the saturates are the ones that lead to cholesterol and the dangers linked to that. And better yet, as far as I'm concerned, they've done it with out compromising on taste, something Coca-cola could learn from.

Nutritional Information per 25g bag:
108 Calories (5%)
0.9g Sugars (1%)
4.5g Fat (6%)
0.4g Saturates (2%)
0.6g Salt (9%)

Overall a snack that is scrumptious in bunches.

Summary: Just the Salt and Vinegar ones