Kev's Snack Reviews

There's a lot of unusual products out this Christmas, from Tesco's Cocoa & Rum Crisps to Marks and Spencers Bucks Fizz crisps ...The Co Op are even doing Christmas Dinner Crisps complete with sprout flavouring! But surely this "Candied bacon and Brussels sprout soup" from Sainsbury's takes the mince pie?! This limited edition will set you back £1.45, is gluten free and described as "A soup with Brussels sprouts, potato, smoked bacon and smoked ham". Sounds delightful doesn't it? I heated it up on the hob as instructed, but you can pop it in the microwave too. It looked kinda horrible to be honest, and didn't smell much better either. I don't know what possessed me to buy this in all honesty as I loathe sprouts - there's no vegetable I despise as much as them. I think I was intoxicated by the novelty value. Of course, it tasted pretty horrible, sprouts in soup form was never going to be very pleasant. The candied ...

My last review of Walkers new sandwich-inspired is finally here...and I've saved the "best" til last, it's Bacon & Tomato Ketchup! Now some people prefer Brown Sauce with a bacon butty...but Walkers don't care about that and went with tomato ketchup aka Red Sauce. These are vegetarian, strangely enough, but not vegan as they contain dairy. They're in most supermarkets for around 50p or so right now and you can win £10,000 in their online competition. On eating them I first could taste the traditional bacon flavour, they were pretty much like regular Bacon flavour Walkers crisps...but then there's the sweeter tomato flavour in the aftertaste, and it's quite strong. It's a bit too sweet actually and kind of detracts from the bacon. I enjoyed these but they're not one of the best of the new flavours. Overall, these are okay but they're not as good as regular bacon flavour walkers crisps. They're a nice novelty for the time ...