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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sinéad Campbell

Loaded crisps: four recipes for the ‘perfect finger food’ – ranked from best to worst

Ready salted crisps topped with feta, fig jam and thyme in an opened packet
Thyme on your side … loaded ready salted crisps with brie, fig jam and thyme. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Ready salted, prawn cocktail, pickled onion and smoky bacon – crisps are undoubtedly the nation’s favourite snack food, subject to a variety of staple and sometimes suspicious flavour varieties. According to one recent report, they were the UK’s snack of choice on 94% of “all consumption occasions”, often enjoyed with a complementary dip, or served in a packet ripped open on a pub table. But now, the humble bag of crisps is having a revamp.

Enter: the loaded crisp bag. It’s a lot like loaded fries or nachos, in that it can be a vehicle for a whole gamut of flavours – as served, for example, at Pablos, a fast food outlet in Nottingham where anything from ground beef to molten cheese is dolloped into an opened bag of crisps.

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