King Crisps - Cheese and Onion Flavour Crisps from Ireland 25 x 25g

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King Crisps - Cheese and Onion Flavour Crisps from Ireland 25 x 25g

King Crisps - Cheese and Onion Flavour Crisps from Ireland 25 x 25g

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The Clintons have put their life savings into the crisp business, and say they haven’t had a day off in 3½ years, when this idea first started to take shape. The hand-cooked crisp market is growing in double digits each year, and if they can take just a small part of it they will have done what they set out to do – create a viable business that their children can one day take over, that will keep the family doing what they’ve done for generations – growing potatoes in Skerries. Selling out to a bigger company is not part of the grand plan. Convincing Martin was the next hurdle. “Farmer’s don’t like change,” laughs Sean. “I had to convince him it was worth the risk to stop growing potatoes for the plate, and start growing ones that make great crisps.” The Coyle family continues to run Tayto Park as a family business, with Ray and wife Rosamund’s son Charles working as the general manager. Their daughter Natalya is a professional athlete who represented Ireland in the modern pentathlon at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Clintons Crisps are gluten and cholesterol free, and the salt-and-vinegar and steak flavours are vegan. Photograph: Alan Betson

What makes Tayto, King, Keogh's and Kettle crisps so tasty and moreish - and are they good for you? Renowned for his self-belief and persistence in pursuing projects to the end, Coyle also had a keen eye for marketing. He was behind some of Ireland’s most innovative promotions such as running Mr Tayto as a spoof candidate in the 2007 general election and publishing a best-selling biography of the crisp mascot. The use of women in suggestive poses to promote his Hunky Dory crisps fell foul of advertising standards, however, as did a claim to be the main sponsor of Irish rugby when the brand was a sponsor of Navan RFC at the time. After that, Coyle used the crisp brand to promote four Irish sportswomen — boxer Katie Taylor, athlete Derval O’Rourke, sailor Annalise Murphy and his daughter, Natalya Coyle, a pentathlete — in the London Olympics in 2012. We’re not trying to make a health food, but crisps are usually shared. It’s nice for them to be inclusive,” says Sean, referring to the fact that all of their products are naturally gluten-free have no cholesterol, and the salt and vinegar and steak flavours are vegan. Steak-flavoured crisps that have never seen meat? Sean says they don’t need to, that the same flavour compounds can be found through barbecuing vegetables. Created world's first cheese and onion crisps". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022 . Retrieved 7 May 2022. In the early 2000s, the company targeted the healthy eating market, with its low salt, low fat crisps, originally branded as Honest. [14] Tayto referred to this range as the Happy & Healthy range. [15] The healthy range has since evolved and Tayto have launched Tayto Lentils which is 40% less fat to target the healthy eating market. [16]Firstly, don’t always expect to find any cheese. Hunky Dorys, another Largo brand, makes cheese and onion flavour crinkle cut crisps using potatoes and sunflower oil, but no cheese. Obituary: Joe 'Spud' Murphy". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 5 November 2001. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 January 2011. The iconic red King bag is recognisable everywhere and has witnessed merely subtle changes since its inception in the 1960's." All of them tended to have up around one gram of salt per 100 grams of crisps. It did vary, with King crisps having 1.4 grams and then Kettle crisps slightly less at 0.9 grams per 100 grams. These were salted crisps. King crisps, to be fair to them, were cheese and onion crisps. And the Taytos, by comparison, were 1.5 grams of salt per 100 grams. Chococo has created a new collection of ethical, handcrafted chocolate treats created exclusively for the King's Coronation.

Pringles are very different and are as natural as they taste. The main ingredient is “dehydrated potatoes”, which is formed into the concave shapes using corn flour. These also have rice flour and wheat starch. In addition to MSG and dextrose, these have more flavour enhancers in the form of disodium guanylate and disodium inosinate, which aid the perception of a savoury flavour. Where is Mr. Tayto?". Where's Mr. Tayto?. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022 . Retrieved 22 May 2022. The process begins with potatoes getting loaded into a drum and spun around on something similar to a giant emery board to take off excess skin or imperfections. Once smooth, they travel up a conveyor belt and into a huge weighing scale that stops when it reaches the required weight. At the same time the rapeseed oil is heating in what looks like an ogre’s bath. Once it reaches the right temperature, the giant weighing scale starts spitting out potatoes, which go flying into a circular machine, cutting them into slices between 50-70 thousands of an inch, and spinning them out and into the oil below like tiny frisbees. The crisps make their way down, jumping into the flavour tunnel and dancing along it, looking like they’re having the time of their life – and for the record, there is no crisp as delicious as one still warm from the fryer that’s been given a salt and vinegar coat just seconds beforehand.Irish brothers Sean and Martin Clinton have set out to make the best crisps when they dreamt up Clintons Crisps 3½ years ago, and they’re so convinced they’ve done it that they’ve put “world’s best crisps” on the front of the bag. Video: Alan Betson From RTÉ Archives, Brenda Kneafsey reports for children's show Motley in 1970 about the process to turn a humble spud intp a bag of Tayto Cheese and Onion crisps Our crisps are as natural as crisps can get. The majority of the ingredients are coming from Dublin, there are no E-numbers or additives, and we make them by hand in very small batches. They also have less than 30 per cent fat, whereas commercial crisps tend to have 33-38 per cent. Most people don’t eat crisps every day, they’re a treat, so when you do treat yourself, why wouldn’t you have the best?” The Clintons have been farming potatoes in Skerries, Co Dublin, since the 1700s. Photograph: Alan Betson Crisps: does anyone make them better than the British and Irish, and what are your favourite varieties from home or abroad? And would you bother to make your own?

Potatoes suitable for making crisps are different to potatoes for mash or chips. They need to be low in sugar to remain stable over long periods of time. The Clintons use varieties like Lady Rosetta, Amarilla and Kibitz, grown in Skerries fields which look as if they drop off into the Irish Sea below. Potatoes can only be grown in a field one out of five years, so each year they swap fields with their neighbours for crop rotation. Everyone knows each other around here. Carey, a former chairman of An Bord Bia — the Irish Food Board — and a long-standing friend of Ray Coyle, remembers the time well. “He phoned me two weeks later and said ‘you cost me €5 million’. I apologised and he invited myself and my wife, Alison Cowzer, to dinner in his home,” says Carey who describes Coyle as “a legend in the food industry, an inspirational entrepreneur and a most entertaining person to spend time with”. In 1980, Largo Food’s CEO, Raymond Coyle, was supplying Tayto with potatoes which he grew on his family farm just outside Ashbourne, Co Meath. Today, he owns the company!The company is entirely separate from Tayto Group Limited in Northern Ireland, which has different product ranges. Tayto in the Republic of Ireland owns the name and mascot, and Tayto in Northern Ireland uses both under a licensing agreement. The Northern Irish Tayto is widely sold in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain, while the Republic of Ireland brand is sold in the Republic.



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