Walkers

Walkers Crisps

Walkers crisps is an iconic snack manufacturer based in Leicester, England know for its crisps and snacks. Walkers was originally founded in Leicester by its founder Henry Walker. It’s now owned by the snack manufacturer Lay’s, which is a division of Pepsi. The site in Leicester produces over 11 million bags of crisps a day using nearly 800,000 Kg of potatoes. Gary Lineker has been the face of Walkers crisps since 1995.

Walkers Crisps Flavours

Walkers often make special flavours of their crisps to celebrate special events in the company’s history, but most years they produce a range of Walkers Christmas crisps. With flavours such as Turkey, pigs in blankets and the “not so special tasting” Bussell Sprout flavour. The most common flavours of are:

• Ready salted (Red packet)
• Cheese and Onion (Blue packet)
• Salt & Vinegar (Green packet)
• Roast Chicken (Orange packet)
• Smoky bacon (Maroon packet)
• Prawn cocktail (Pink packet)
• Beef & onion (Brown packet)
• Marmite (Black packet)
• Worcester sauce (Purple packet)

Back in 2008 Walkers launched one of its favourite campaigns, called “Do Us A Flavour”, in which they asked the British public to first make up a flavour of crisps and then vote for their favourite from six different flavours. Walkers also released six different flavours to celebrate their 70th anniversary. These flavours included Coronation Chicken (from the 1950’s), Roast Lamb and Mint (from the 1960’s), Cheese Fondue (from the 1970’s), Chicken Tikka Masala (from the 1980s), BBQ rib (from the 1990s), Sweet Chilli (from the 2000s).

Walkers have also produced the following special flavoured crisps:

• Barbecue
• Cheese and chive
• Lamb and mint
• Toasted cheese
• Sour cream & spring onion
• Lincolnshire sausage & brown sauce
• Birmingham chicken balti