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Took some Walkers Lamb & Mint crisps to my workplace the other day. As you can imagine, mostly horrified reaction all around. I did it mainly to wind people up.

Not entirely sure about them myself. They taste very nice, but perhaps not quite as a crisp flavour. Also contains the slightly worrying ingredient "lamb powder" (!!?)

I was surprised that people were almost equally closed minded to good ol' cheese and onion, which I brought a few days later. Considering Canadian chips have such disgusting flavours as "ketchup".

Have you had similar encounters with peculiarly British things?

As an aside for those in the Toronto area, Bulk Mine, which is mostly a sweet (candy) shop now sells the full array of Walkers crisps at $145 CAN a bag. It's a rip-off of course, but I've seen them for $2+ elsewhere.

http//www.manta.com/comsite5/bin/pddnb_company.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=3810&id=mcwx74&pub_code=0194IBIR&item_id=0194-IBIR

It's on Yonge St. between Wellesly and Bloor

I must admit being a great Walkers fan, I would have to pass on these too. Only way to eat lamb is is with roast tatties imho

I'd forgotten about these. when we were over in blighty in Oct. we bought a load of them in my old local cos they were really cheap- didn't take long to realise why. Urg! i think somebodys dog ate them in the end. Nasty things. They should have called them Kebab flavoured. roll

Boring I know, but I enjoy feeding people marmite on toast (spread thick of course) and watching their faces curl into peculiar shapes.

Actually, Walkers have Marmite crisps too! grin and they really are YUM!

Went on a Walkers Roast Chicken binge whilst we were back home recently - deeelish!

Lamb flavoured crisps?

/baaarf
//hughie and raaalph too

Actually they're really true to flavour and not at all bad!!