The Trading Post have stocked Fiddler’s hand-cooked Lancashire crisps for many years and, since we first stocked them, they have become a firm favourite with many of our customers. Incredibly crisp with a “traditional” (and satisfyingly loud) crunch, Fiddler’s are an almost kettle-cooked style of potato chip available in some classic, typically British flavours. Always available in standard 40g packets (and full boxes of these packs), we are very pleased to have recently taken our first delivery of new 150g sharing bags. Whether you are settling down in front of a film, binge-watching a new TV series, enjoying a convivial aperitif with friends or laying out a buffet spread, these big bags of classic British crisps provide all the flavour and crunch that you need; to quote the wonderful Leonard Nimoy “the miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.”
Fiddler’s sharing bags are currently available in our five most popular UK flavours: sea salt, Lancashire cheese & onion, sea salt & Ellsey’s malt vinegar, sea salt & cracked black pepper and sweet chilli. Sea salt follows in the footsteps of “ready salted” crisps, which were themselves a development from plain potato chips being sold with a small pouch of salt, so you could season them yourself. Cheese & onion were the first non-salt flavour introduced to the market by Irish company Tayto in 1954. Walker’s followed suit the same year, with cheese and onion crisps becoming the nation’s favourite flavour ever since. Salt & vinegar crisps were not released commercially until 1967, some 13 years later, by a subsidiary of Golden Wonder. This started a so-called “flavour war” between crisps two main flavours and any potential derby match between the two would certainly be a hotly-contested event with extremely partisan fans on both sides. Somewhat confusingly, whilst many companies use blue packets for salt & vinegar flavour crisps and green packets for cheese & onion, Walkers have always done the opposite (except for their squares salt & vinegar which are definitely blue!) To confuse things further, Fiddler’s Lancashire cheese and onion crisps come in yellow packets (the colour of cheese), which kind of makes sense, but conflicts with much of our previously learned information...
The Trading Post recently had a quick crisp giveaway on both our Facebook and Instagram pages which suggested (from a pretty small sample size) that cheese and onion were the most popular flavour, followed by sea salt & cracked black pepper, sea salt & malt vinegar, then both sweet chilli and sea salt in the final place. Whilst relatively new to supermarket shelves, salt and pepper is a very traditional flavour of crisps, perhaps harking back to pre-bagged days; seasoning a potato is hardly a new idea, so may explain their popularity. Sweet chilli is another new-ish idea to the British palate and, whilst immigration has long-established spicier tastes to the British palate, sweet chilli crisps are a concept comparatively in its infancy (brief research suggests they have only been around since the turn of the millennium). There is no denying, however, that heat, sweet and spice perfectly compliments a crispy potato snack.
Whatever your favourite flavour may be, these large sharing bags of Fiddler’s crisps are practically guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a crunch in your mouth. Now available for free delivery to all of our collection points throughout France, why not grab a couple of bags with your next Trading Post order?
