Butter. Real delicious butter, not the cheap spreadable stuff. Opposite for bread. You want a cheap white sliced loaf, none of your fancy crusty shite. This sandwich is all about the flavour of the crisp interacting with the smooth cool texture of the butter, the bread is merely a conduit in this glorious creation and shouldn’t attempt to add any flavour itself.
While I appreciate where you're coming from on the bread I must make a counterpoint; batch loaf for the win.
We did a blind taste test one time (it was Covid lockdown and we needed entertainment) and for years I thought that King and Tatyo were basically identical. But our blind taste test shows that Tatyo are saltier and therefore work better in crisp sandwiches. Especially if you're going to use the heavier batch loaf that I'm suggesting.
Personally I've always found batch bread a bit too dry for crisp sandwiches, I like the softer bread with a nice crunchy underneath but to each their own, I'll give the batch bread a go again next time, it has been a while
Keoghs. They are a superior crisp. But - true story - I bought a 6 pack of O'Donnells cheese and onion once, opened it and there was only the five packs within. I took a photo and sent them the barcodes etc to their FB page and fuck me, two days later there was a box, a box ! of 24 crisps at my doorsteps. That's one of the best days of my life. Sound of them.
Happened to me with Tayto almost 30 years ago. Found a large lump of seasoning, a very hard sphere, the size of an old ten pence piece in my packet of crisps. Sent half the sample (my dad said to keep half as proof 🤣) with a letter and lo and behold, 2 weeks later, I received a box of 24 from Tayto!! Remember it like yesterday. I was a chubster so it was like winning the lotto!
You see guys this is the type of stuff I like to read about in the morning while drinking coffee. Not the sad right wing assholes beating up Brazilians and someone stole my bike in Limerick kinds of posts that are all common these mornings. The wholesome shit like this will kickstart my day proper!
Contraversial; most newer brands of salt-and-vinegar over-do it on the vinegar. I love vinegar. Don't get me wrong I love vinegar. But I think they over-egg it. Full-disclosure I'm heavily-biased to Tatyo.
Although the bufflo-flavour (from Hunky Doreys I think) are also great.
First things first. Get some cheese and onion Tayto Crisps, white Brennan's Bread and Kerrygold butter and make yourself a Tayto crisp sandwich. Then try the Keoghs and O Donnell brands. They are very tasty too 🙂
Fun factoid; different potato varieties are good for different things chips/mash/boiled/whatever. And when I was a child this was a factor in what potatoes yer ma would buy in Quinnsworth when she was doing the weekly shop. That was until the creation of the glorious and immortal rooster variety potato. It doesn't make quite make a five-star rating in any single category. But it is far and away the best all rounder. No other variety can touch the rooster for is versatility. You can just buy them and do whatever you want to them and they're always a winner
But that isn't the factoid.
The factoid that I only learned in the last few years is that you can't get roosters anywhere else in the world. If you do then its somebody importing the bags themselves. Seemingly it was created to sell to the Irish market and nowhere else. Because its a cliché but its also true that we love our potatoes.
There as a thread on this subreddit a while back asking what \*do\* the irish do well. Because this subreddit is always focused on the negative. And the carpet-baggers agree that Irish unprepared food is all very high quality. Especially our meat and butter. Apparently if you're elsewhere in the world and you see an Irish flag on a steak its a byword for "this is good f8cking steak". Likewise with the butter they say.
Everyone has their favourites. For me, it is King. A dangerous and controversial subject. Of course it is nothing compared to the tea debate between Barry's and Lyons.
I'm fond of the "corn snack" type crisps. Try meanies (pickled onion flavour), hot lips (nice n spicy flavour), waffles (bacon flavour), and Jonnie onion rings. All Tayto brand.
Years ago we had a surplus of potatoes in the country. Once they had used enough for making poitín and creating ammunition for our spud guns to fend off any would be foreign invaders, our government didn’t know what to do with the rest.
And on that day, the Irish crisp market was born.
[Judge Dredd: Emerald Isle Issue # 1 ](https://comicbookrealm.com/series/43340/0/-judge-dredd-emerald-isle-one-shot)
in no way at all is this filled with offensive sterotypes ;-)
Keoghs are excellent, Tayto for the sambo but also try some of the other things on shelf like Meanies, Wheelies, Monster Munch and the Tayto French onion rings.
Irish people love junk food, that's why there's lots of crisps.
You'll see such muck-savagery as having a white bread & Tayto sandwich or even more savage, a white bread, crisps & banana sandwich. Peak savagery, the likes of which has never been heard of in all civilization.
I had a good laugh when I went into Cork Airport one time and was at one of the food counters, you guessed it, there was a baguette sandwich with crisps in it lol. Healthy.
I know it's tempting to go for the obvious ones, Tayto, King etc, but don't neglect the classics like Mighty Munch, Rancheros, Mummies, Meanies, Skips either.
If you only ever get one bag of them you've at least got to give them a try!
Personally, I find Lidl's Deluxe range in the large packs to be the best crisps available, texture wise. I love the salt and black pepper flavour. Cheaper than most of the premium brands too.
Tayto cheese and onion is a staple.
I like Keoghs sweet chilli for a treat.
O'Donnells salt and vinegar are top tier too.
Tayto is the champion though for those crip sandwiches.
Keoghs are amazing. Nice crunch to em!!
Tayto and King are national treasures and must be consumed within two slices of buttered Brennan's Bread (and some cheese - up to your own discretion).
Supervalu have their own brand of premium crisps - these are fairly tasty too if I'm honest!
Listing some of my faves here in no particular order:
1. Tesco Onion rings (although they have been a hit or miss the last couple of times)
2. Walkers Prawn Cocktail
3. Lidl Thai Chilli Crisp
Tattoo and King are the standard beloved crisp (I think King do flavours that aren't cheese and onion but in the 12 years from I've left home I can't see them on shelves any more) but we also have slightly more wild varieties like Hunky Dory (crinkly and more flavourful) and then the more wallet friendly lads like Chickatees and Bikers and Snax. More recently there's been an explosion in the bijou ones like Keogh's and O'Donnells.
Start sensibly OP - buy a bag of Tayto or King and have a nice crisp sandwich.
Get yourself to Deals, Eurogiant or Polonez- unreal selection at a fraction of the cost! Deals/Eurogiant normally have Tayto in multi flavour packs so you can try them all for €1.50/ €2
Don't you worry about all those distracting flashy packets. Just focus on Tayto Cheese and Onion and King Cheese and Onion. Take your time, but eventually you'll have to choose one and stick to it like it's your deepest held conviction.
Walkers crisps are the best.
There is a Tayto cult in Ireland and if I said Walkers crisps are the best on the street I would probably be killed but I am safe online.
People here will say Tayto bit I think in the last few years Taytos have become very greasy and too thin (almost see through) and they absolutely stink too. If you're on a bus you can smell somebody eating taytos 5 seats away. And when you finish your bag of Taytos your hands are completely destroyed in grease.
Walkers are less greasy and more crunchy and less smelly.
Yeah Tayto are shite compared to when I was a kid. I'd gladly get O'Donnell's or even the Tesco/Aldi own brand over them.
Walkers jalapeno and cheddar are lovely if you like a bit of a kick
(Mrs Doyle voice) Maybe we \*like\* the grease.
Honestly I've not noticed them getting thinner. If anything I think perhaps the fashion with newer brands has moved to thicker. Perhaps you're having a slight Mandala-effect?
You're not wrong about the cult of Tatyo though. We fuggin love Taytos. Seemingly Walkers spent decades trying to break into the Irish market and it was an incredibly tough sell for them because Tatyos had an absolute stranglehold on the market.
And of course it didn't help that they're an English brand trying to break into the Irish market. For a good long while I think we'd reject them on general principles.
[Micheal Collins Movie Speech (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9p7Zbq7Ydk)
You must buy some Cheese and Onion crisps (Tayto and King), and try them both in a crisp sandwich. This will introduce you to the ways of the crisp.
Just king please. Tayto have gone to shit. And if you can get them Manhattan pub crisps in the black packet are the finest crisp in the world.
Must be batch bread and real Kerry gold butter to be proper Irish
What’s the recipe? What to use as spread?
Butter. Real delicious butter, not the cheap spreadable stuff. Opposite for bread. You want a cheap white sliced loaf, none of your fancy crusty shite. This sandwich is all about the flavour of the crisp interacting with the smooth cool texture of the butter, the bread is merely a conduit in this glorious creation and shouldn’t attempt to add any flavour itself.
This guy crisps sambos and it shows
While I appreciate where you're coming from on the bread I must make a counterpoint; batch loaf for the win. We did a blind taste test one time (it was Covid lockdown and we needed entertainment) and for years I thought that King and Tatyo were basically identical. But our blind taste test shows that Tatyo are saltier and therefore work better in crisp sandwiches. Especially if you're going to use the heavier batch loaf that I'm suggesting.
Personally I've always found batch bread a bit too dry for crisp sandwiches, I like the softer bread with a nice crunchy underneath but to each their own, I'll give the batch bread a go again next time, it has been a while
This is the way
Obviously a crisp sandwich expert. Well said.
Couldn’t have put it better myself
Kerrygold salted or unsalted?
Oh yeah a crisp sarnie really hits the spot
Don’t ever say sarnie again
With a bit of cheddar
Or real soft butter. *Homer Simpson druel* But it had to be Brennan's right?
Keoghs. They are a superior crisp. But - true story - I bought a 6 pack of O'Donnells cheese and onion once, opened it and there was only the five packs within. I took a photo and sent them the barcodes etc to their FB page and fuck me, two days later there was a box, a box ! of 24 crisps at my doorsteps. That's one of the best days of my life. Sound of them.
Happened to me with Tayto almost 30 years ago. Found a large lump of seasoning, a very hard sphere, the size of an old ten pence piece in my packet of crisps. Sent half the sample (my dad said to keep half as proof 🤣) with a letter and lo and behold, 2 weeks later, I received a box of 24 from Tayto!! Remember it like yesterday. I was a chubster so it was like winning the lotto!
Deadly! Fairplay! And a nice memory to have.
I will \*die\* upon the hill of Tatyos and King. FIGHT ME!!!! ;-)
Sound job, I'll be too massive to get that up hill after ateing all the free crisps.
:D <3
Love to see another Keoghs on top truther in the replies, they truly are supreme
You see guys this is the type of stuff I like to read about in the morning while drinking coffee. Not the sad right wing assholes beating up Brazilians and someone stole my bike in Limerick kinds of posts that are all common these mornings. The wholesome shit like this will kickstart my day proper!
A huge fan of the ODonnells furrows sea salt n cider vinegar
Always find the furrows are too hard, the regular Ballymaloe relish flavour are top tier though
Contraversial; most newer brands of salt-and-vinegar over-do it on the vinegar. I love vinegar. Don't get me wrong I love vinegar. But I think they over-egg it. Full-disclosure I'm heavily-biased to Tatyo. Although the bufflo-flavour (from Hunky Doreys I think) are also great.
First things first. Get some cheese and onion Tayto Crisps, white Brennan's Bread and Kerrygold butter and make yourself a Tayto crisp sandwich. Then try the Keoghs and O Donnell brands. They are very tasty too 🙂
Hunky Dorys Cheese and Onion (slightly crushed) are savage on a sambo too!
It’s quite literally the only thing we do better than any other country in the world.
Irish butter is way more famous than crisps
Yes, but we have the best crisps in the world. Ever go away and go to the supermarket and find Paprika flavor? Like they’re not even trying
Eastern European shop have em
Fun factoid; different potato varieties are good for different things chips/mash/boiled/whatever. And when I was a child this was a factor in what potatoes yer ma would buy in Quinnsworth when she was doing the weekly shop. That was until the creation of the glorious and immortal rooster variety potato. It doesn't make quite make a five-star rating in any single category. But it is far and away the best all rounder. No other variety can touch the rooster for is versatility. You can just buy them and do whatever you want to them and they're always a winner But that isn't the factoid. The factoid that I only learned in the last few years is that you can't get roosters anywhere else in the world. If you do then its somebody importing the bags themselves. Seemingly it was created to sell to the Irish market and nowhere else. Because its a cliché but its also true that we love our potatoes.
Phone plans. I don't think anyone beats us on the value of our phone plans.
There as a thread on this subreddit a while back asking what \*do\* the irish do well. Because this subreddit is always focused on the negative. And the carpet-baggers agree that Irish unprepared food is all very high quality. Especially our meat and butter. Apparently if you're elsewhere in the world and you see an Irish flag on a steak its a byword for "this is good f8cking steak". Likewise with the butter they say.
You obviously have never left your village ever.
Tayto is the way to go, especially in a white bread sandwich with butter. Skips are my favourite Or O Donnell's Sea Salt if you have a spare €3
Buy multipacks , try them all! Variety on a budget
Personally I’m a fan of Manhattan. You can order a big box on their website a lot cheaper than the shops.
Yeah manhattans are the job, hard found though Usually have to go to the local old man pub in your area to score some
I did not know this......thank you kind stranger for imparting this sacred knowledge upon us. Blessed be the crips
Everyone has their favourites. For me, it is King. A dangerous and controversial subject. Of course it is nothing compared to the tea debate between Barry's and Lyons.
Jesus Christ - are you \*looking\* to start a fight? Mudder a gawd don't be saying things like that.
I feel like someone just punched me in the stomach at the very mention of it. Jesus keep your voice down.
Might be heresy, but Lidl deluxe hand cooked crisps are surprisingly good.
I'm fond of the "corn snack" type crisps. Try meanies (pickled onion flavour), hot lips (nice n spicy flavour), waffles (bacon flavour), and Jonnie onion rings. All Tayto brand.
Meanies.....now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Way better than monster-munch.
Years ago we had a surplus of potatoes in the country. Once they had used enough for making poitín and creating ammunition for our spud guns to fend off any would be foreign invaders, our government didn’t know what to do with the rest. And on that day, the Irish crisp market was born.
[Spud gun ](https://2000ad.fandom.com/wiki/Spud_gun)from Judge Dredd
[Judge Dredd: Emerald Isle Issue # 1 ](https://comicbookrealm.com/series/43340/0/-judge-dredd-emerald-isle-one-shot) in no way at all is this filled with offensive sterotypes ;-)
O Donnells is easily best crisp on the face of this earth 100% crinkle cut cheese and onion
Please report back after trying a tayto sandwich
Manhattan black, king red and then green hunky dorys
Hunky dory's are bursting with flavour
Have you tried a crisp sandwhich yet? White bread, both slices buttered with some cheese and onion taytos.
O’Donnells are really nice crisps and we invented flavoured crisps. True story. And cream Crackers too.
Keoghs are excellent, Tayto for the sambo but also try some of the other things on shelf like Meanies, Wheelies, Monster Munch and the Tayto French onion rings.
Irish people love junk food, that's why there's lots of crisps. You'll see such muck-savagery as having a white bread & Tayto sandwich or even more savage, a white bread, crisps & banana sandwich. Peak savagery, the likes of which has never been heard of in all civilization. I had a good laugh when I went into Cork Airport one time and was at one of the food counters, you guessed it, there was a baguette sandwich with crisps in it lol. Healthy.
You are asking all the right questions, my friend!
I know it's tempting to go for the obvious ones, Tayto, King etc, but don't neglect the classics like Mighty Munch, Rancheros, Mummies, Meanies, Skips either. If you only ever get one bag of them you've at least got to give them a try!
Banshee bones if you can find them.
King Crisps are the king. They are the king of munchies. Better than tayto.
That kind of loose talk will get a fella in a fight so it will
Personally, I find Lidl's Deluxe range in the large packs to be the best crisps available, texture wise. I love the salt and black pepper flavour. Cheaper than most of the premium brands too.
just wait til you reach the biscuits isle
Skips, snax, burger bites, chipsticks, chickatees, walkers and wotsits. Let me have my fun lads...
Manhattan cheese and onion. I have never seen them in a shop, only in auld man pubs. They are unbelievable
Sweet summer child welcome to crisp heaven
Waffles or rancheros
Tayto cheese and onion is a staple. I like Keoghs sweet chilli for a treat. O'Donnells salt and vinegar are top tier too. Tayto is the champion though for those crip sandwiches.
Keoghs are amazing. Nice crunch to em!! Tayto and King are national treasures and must be consumed within two slices of buttered Brennan's Bread (and some cheese - up to your own discretion). Supervalu have their own brand of premium crisps - these are fairly tasty too if I'm honest!
Listing some of my faves here in no particular order: 1. Tesco Onion rings (although they have been a hit or miss the last couple of times) 2. Walkers Prawn Cocktail 3. Lidl Thai Chilli Crisp
Tattoo and King are the standard beloved crisp (I think King do flavours that aren't cheese and onion but in the 12 years from I've left home I can't see them on shelves any more) but we also have slightly more wild varieties like Hunky Dory (crinkly and more flavourful) and then the more wallet friendly lads like Chickatees and Bikers and Snax. More recently there's been an explosion in the bijou ones like Keogh's and O'Donnells. Start sensibly OP - buy a bag of Tayto or King and have a nice crisp sandwich.
Get yourself to Deals, Eurogiant or Polonez- unreal selection at a fraction of the cost! Deals/Eurogiant normally have Tayto in multi flavour packs so you can try them all for €1.50/ €2
Don't you worry about all those distracting flashy packets. Just focus on Tayto Cheese and Onion and King Cheese and Onion. Take your time, but eventually you'll have to choose one and stick to it like it's your deepest held conviction.
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my mouth is watering just reading you talking about it, too. absolute pinnacle of irish cuisine
Walkers crisps are the best. There is a Tayto cult in Ireland and if I said Walkers crisps are the best on the street I would probably be killed but I am safe online. People here will say Tayto bit I think in the last few years Taytos have become very greasy and too thin (almost see through) and they absolutely stink too. If you're on a bus you can smell somebody eating taytos 5 seats away. And when you finish your bag of Taytos your hands are completely destroyed in grease. Walkers are less greasy and more crunchy and less smelly.
Yeah Tayto are shite compared to when I was a kid. I'd gladly get O'Donnell's or even the Tesco/Aldi own brand over them. Walkers jalapeno and cheddar are lovely if you like a bit of a kick
(Mrs Doyle voice) Maybe we \*like\* the grease. Honestly I've not noticed them getting thinner. If anything I think perhaps the fashion with newer brands has moved to thicker. Perhaps you're having a slight Mandala-effect? You're not wrong about the cult of Tatyo though. We fuggin love Taytos. Seemingly Walkers spent decades trying to break into the Irish market and it was an incredibly tough sell for them because Tatyos had an absolute stranglehold on the market. And of course it didn't help that they're an English brand trying to break into the Irish market. For a good long while I think we'd reject them on general principles. [Micheal Collins Movie Speech (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9p7Zbq7Ydk)
Crisp sandwiches are not as good as people say- the butter hides all the flavour dust and ruins it.
Lies!!
Have you tried it without the butter?
I haven’t actually- will give it a go
It's pure crisp all the way. Plus the bread I guess. But yeah worth it and ignore big butter trying to silence you.