Some crisps are round. Some crisps are wrong. Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar are neither: they are square, and they are sharp enough to make your eyes water slightly on the first bite.
You remember these from the lunchbox, the corner shop, the pub table where someone tore the bag open flat so everyone could reach. The vinegar hits first, the crunch follows, and the bag is empty before you have decided whether to share.
This is a 6 pack, which sounds like plenty. It is plenty for about four days.
The shape is the thing. Nobody can explain why a square crisp tastes better. Nobody has to.
Frequently asked questions about Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar
Q: Is this the UK version of Walkers Squares?
A: It is. These are the British Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar, brought over by us and shipped from within Canada, so no waiting on a parcel from the other side of the Atlantic.
Q: How many bags are in the pack?
A: Six multipack bags. How long six lasts is between you and your conscience.
Q: Do they make a good gift?
A: For anyone who grew up in Britain, a bag of Squares lands better than most things you could wrap. Pop a pack in with a box of proper tea and watch their face.
More about Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar
In Britain, salt and vinegar is not a flavour, it is a position. People have opinions about it the way they have opinions about tea. Squares sit in the slightly different corner of the crisp aisle: the ones you pick when you want the vinegar but fancy a crunch with a bit more architecture to it.
People in Canada look for these because the taste is tied to a time and a place. A packet at break time, a packet on the bus home, a packet split three ways on a wet afternoon. One bite and you are back there, slightly damp, entirely content.
The 6 pack is multipack bags, the same format that went into British lunchboxes for years. They keep happily in the cupboard, stack neatly, and are the right size for a packed lunch, a long drive or a sandwich that needs a companion on the plate.
Walkers make a whole aisle's worth of British crisps, so these tend to travel in company. A Squares fan usually has a favourite ready salted or cheese and onion habit too, and a cup of tea is never far away.
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Somebody always had the Squares, and everybody else wanted to swap. You remember the rustle at break time, the bag opened before the bell had finished ringing, the last corner tipped straight into your mouth so nobody could ask for it. Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar belong to that world of packed lunches, playgrounds and the bus home. They come from Walkers in Leicester, the largest crisp manufacturer in Britain, and you know the bag before you have read a word on it.
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A butcher, a fish fryer, a plan
Henry Walker was a butcher, originally from Mansfield, who moved to Leicester in the 1880s. Wartime meat rationing hit his butchery trade, so the business went looking for something else to sell. In 1948, under managing director R.E. Gerrard, the firm began frying potato slices in a fish fryer. That was the start of Walkers crisps. Not a grand vision, not a boardroom. A butcher's shop, a fryer meant for fish, and a city that has been eating the results ever since.
From Leicester to everywhere
Cheese and onion arrived in the mid-1950s, inspired by the popularity of the ploughman's lunch, and became the brand's best-selling flavour. Salt & Vinegar followed in 1967. The Walker family sold the business in 1970 to Standard Brands, and since 1989 Walkers has been owned by PepsiCo, which also owns Frito-Lay. Home is still Leicester, where the factory is the largest crisp production plant in the world, turning out over 11 million bags of crisps a day. That is a lot of break times.
A face you already know
Since 1995 the face on the adverts has been Gary Lineker, Leicester-born former footballer, so for a fair few of us crisps and Gary arrive in the same thought. Walkers has sponsored the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup, which feels about right: crisps and football have shared a sofa for as long as anyone can remember. Salt & Vinegar was always the bag people had opinions about. You either went straight for it or left it for someone braver.
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