Golden Wonder Rough Cuts Salt & Vinegar Crisp Bag - Box Of 36×47.5g (2024)

FAQs

What has happened to Golden Wonder crisps? ›

Where Are They Now? Golden Wonder Crisps has changed hands several times over the years, and it is currently owned by Tayto Group, a leading UK snack manufacturer. Tayto Group acquired them in 2006, following the brand's acquisition by the private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital in 2002.

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The $56 Box of Potato Chips: A Closer Look 📦🔍

Erik's decided to create what they call the "perfect drinking snack." These aren't your average chips; they're made from Nordic Ammarnäs potatoes, harvested by hand, and seasoned with rare ingredients like truffle seaweed and Matsutake mushrooms.

“A recent IT system upgrade has disrupted the supply of some of our products,” a Walkers spokesperson said at the time. “Our sites are still making crisps and snacks but at a reduced scale.

A well known maincrop variety with russeted skin and pale mauve tipped white flowers. The floury flesh of Potato 'Golden Wonder' makes it one of the best varieties for baking, frying and roasting, with a rich flavour that improves on storage. Potato 'Golden Wonder' is heavy cropper with good slug resistance.

It's not a surprise that crisps are the UK's favourite savoury snack. In an article published in April 2022, The Daily Telegraph wrote that the most popular crisp flavours in the UK were Walkers Cheese and Onion, followed by Beef Monster Munch, Walkers Salt and Vinegar and Pringles Original.

Mikesell's Potato Chip Company claims to be the oldest crisp producer, having commenced industrial production in Dayton, Ohio in 1910. A decade later, in the UK, the Smiths Potato Crisps Company introduced a twist of salt with its crisps, which were sold around London in greaseproof paper bags.

Are Golden Wonder and Walkers the same company? ›

Golden Wonder was the former owner of the Wotsits brand, but when the company changed hands in May 2002 it was sold off separately to rival brand Walkers.

Robert Opie, the food and brand historian, said crisp packets during the 1950s up until the 1990s were usually sold in 25g bags.

A small bag of salt & vinegar crisps has about 400mg. So, even a small bag of crisps would be considered as having a 'large amount' of sodium and could increase one's blood pressure within an hour.

Depending on how much you ate, the consequences could range from thirst, gastric upset, and weight gain, up to death if you exceed more than 0.5–1g of salt per kg of body weight, which is the average lethal dose of salt. It would be difficult to eat enough chips/crisps to suffer salt poisoning.

While acceptable as an occasional treat, overindulging in salt and vinegar potato chips is unwise. Chips are often rich in carbs, fat and sodium ⁠— and they don't contain many other nutrients. Salt and vinegar chips should consequently be consumed in limited amounts.

In November 2023, Walkers revealed it had stopped making Salt and Vinegar Quavers, while in October fans discovered the popular Worcester sauce flavour had been discontinued. Then in December, Walkers confirmed they had also stopped making Max Strong Hotsauce Blaze flavoured crisps and Max Wasabi Peanuts.

The confusion can be attributed to Walker's rise to become the most popular brand in the UK (overtaking Golden Wonder, whose colour scheme people had become used to) after their acquisition by PepsiCo in the 1990s.

In 2007, it was purchased by the Northern Ireland-based crisp manufacturer Tayto. In 2012, a fire caused the destruction of the 65,000 square feet (6,000 m²) Real Crisp factory in Crumlin, Caerphilly.

In the circ*mstances, an explosion of impulse brands brought some cheap cheer. The 1970s was unquestionably the creative climax for crisps, giving birth to Wotsits (1970), Chipsticks (1971), Hula Hoops (1971), Ringos (1973), Skips (1974), Frazzles (1975), Discos (1976), Squares (1976) and Monster Munch (1978).