[1] I just had a delicious packet of crisps: perhaps the most convincing roast chicken flavour I can ever remember... only to then look at the packet where, somewhat astonishingly, it said "Roast Beef" flavour.
[2] In this country where I live, with its 1,300 ethnicities and 700 indigenous languages, varied cuisines, its rapidly expanding middle class, and all the commercial and cultural trappings that come with that, they STILL have not yet embraced the Lord God King BuFu of flavours: "Salt & Vinegar" crisps.
What is the matter?
17 Sep 22
I leave Britain, and the next thing I know...
"We're really sorry to break the news, but we're no longer making our Worcester Sauce flavour Walkers Crisps."
— Walkers Crisps (@walkers_crisps) June 22, 2022
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@fmf saidWhat is the matter?
[1] I just had a delicious packet of crisps: perhaps the most convincing roast chicken flavour I can ever remember... only to then look at the packet where, somewhat astonishingly, it said "Roast Beef" flavour.
[2] In this country where I live, with its 1,300 ethnicities and 700 indigenous languages, varied cuisines, its rapidly expanding middle class, and all the commercial ...[text shortened]... not yet embraced the Lord God King BuFu of flavours: "Salt & Vinegar" crisps.
What is the matter?
Clearly not everyone possesses your impeccable taste for the finer things in life.
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@fmf saidOnly the English could confuse "salt and vinegar" for a flavour. Even the USA has advanced, if barely, to "ranch". You can't blame the Indonesians for preferring real flavours.
[2] In this country where I live, with its 1,300 ethnicities and 700 indigenous languages, varied cuisines, its rapidly expanding middle class, and all the commercial and cultural trappings that come with that, they STILL have not yet embraced the Lord God King BuFu of flavours: "Salt & Vinegar" crisps.
17 Sep 22
@shallow-blue saidThere is no confusion. Salt and vinegar is a real flavour. When I was a kid, Smiths sold plain crisps with a little sachet of vinegar and a little packet of salt which you shook and squirted in order to flavour the crisps in what was a lot of young Brits first exposure to DIY.
Only the English could confuse "salt and vinegar" for a flavour. Even the USA has advanced, if barely, to "ranch". You can't blame the Indonesians for preferring real flavours.
17 Sep 22
@shallow-blue saidThey're probably not inclined to like salt and vinegar flavour for more or less the same reason as they don't much like dill pickles.
You can't blame the Indonesians for preferring real flavours.
18 Sep 22
@shallow-blue saidSure. But it's a garnish that probably a minority of people eat and, when they do, it is more often than not mixed in with and overwhelmed by fried rice or noodles. I have tried weening my neighbours and friends onto things like dill pickles and salt and vinegar crisps [and Marmite!] [that I have had friends bring into Indonesia from the Netherlands and Singapore, Australia even] and, well... my suggestion... do not invest good money in large scale imports of this kind!
Erm... darling... acar ketimun?
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@fmf saidI could've told you that before.
Sure. But it's a garnish that probably a minority of people eat and, when they do, it is more often than not mixed in with and overwhelmed by fried rice or noodles. I have tried weening my neighbours and friends onto things like dill pickles and salt and vinegar crisps [and Marmite!] [that I have had friends bring into Indonesia from the Netherlands and Singapore, Australia even] and, well... my suggestion... do not invest good money in large scale imports of this kind!
Imports of Indonesian spices into the Netherlands, OTOH...