Crisps - Your favourite flavour?

Yesterday was another up and down drive to Helsinki - left at 4 am from Oulu and returned at 5 am today.

One of the things I do to keep awake while driving is I eat Crisps - one at a time. I finish a couple of packets on my way up and down. The roughness of the crisp cuts into the palette and I can stay awake!!

There are so many flavour varieties of crisps available these days. In Finland they sell them in 200 or 300 gm packets. The most common flavours are Cheese and Onion, Cheese and Sour Cream, Paprika, Barbecue, Garlic and Onion, Salt and Vinegar.

Recently they launched one with a Tomato flavour. I thought it would reduce the need to dip the crisps in tomato sauce, but I did not like it. Not that I use tomato sauce°

Which flavour do you like? Which is your favourite and why?

I like some of the flavours better than others, but I discovered that the plain unflavoured crisps is what I like best.

This raise many childhood memories at the back of my head of visiting a small hole in the wall shop in Colaba, called Victory Wafers, where they were churning out the stuff reeking with oil. We used to but large packets of them in brown paper bags and even before we reached home the paper was soaking with oil. (Wonder what oil they used then and what they use these days - sine I like them, they must be dangerous for my health!!)

Or my mom would brng them home on her way back from shopping and there would be a mad scramble of all the kids and my dad to get to them.

They were hot and crispy and I always wondered how they cut them so fine. Anyone know if Victory Wafers is still in existence?

These days, I stick to the plain variety. If I really have to buy another, I buy them in turns!