Crisps in Spain

awacko

hi - hoping someone can help. Last year on holiday in Ibiza spain, we bought crisps out of Lidl but didn't really have a clue what the flavours were supposed to be. In case we buy crisps this year, I was wondering could someone please give a list of Spanish flavours and what they translate to in English. Thanks.

Kernow666

salt & vinegar - vinagre sal
cheese & onion - cebolla queso
smoky bacon - tocino ahumado
prawn cocktail - c!ctel de gambas
roast chicken - pollo asado
sour cream & onion - cebolla crema agria
BBQ Beef - carne de vacuno de barbacoa
ready salted - listo salado

benjus

Kernow666 wrote: »

salt & vinegar - vinagre sal
cheese & onion - cebolla queso
smoky bacon - tocino ahumado
prawn cocktail - c!ctel de gambas
roast chicken - pollo asado
sour cream & onion - cebolla crema agria
BBQ Beef - carne de vacuno de barbacoa
ready salted - listo salado

Are those actual flavours sold in Spain or just translations of English crisp flavours?

I don't think I've bought crisps in Europe for years, but they used to usually be either plain salted or paprika.

System

Spain tends to have different flavours. I like one that appears to be tomato based flavour wise. I get them in Dia but I think they are available elsewhere.

Spoke to dd who lives out there and they are Sabor Campesina made by Lays. Tomato & Garlic flavour (you can get them on Amazon UK but expensive)

Cornucopia

Another vote for paprika mainly, also ready salted.

Definitely no "tocino ahumado" or "sel con Linekar". :eek:

jon81uk

Jamon is very very common, that is ham flavour.
Also Queso Jamon - cheese & ham.
Paprika is common and we found some barbecue flavour which is Barbacoa in Spanish.

Pringles are all in English anyway :-)

We bought in Gran Canaria from a mixture of Lidl & HiperDino stores.

awacko

Many thanks for all your replies

martinnathalie9

You can usually tell by the colours can't you? haha

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Rolandtheroadie

Do they not have pictures of the flavour on the packets? A ham end, a bit of cheese, a tomato or a pepper etc?

robin58

martinnathalie9 wrote: »

You can usually tell by the colours can't you? haha

No, you can't. It's a bit of an unwritten rule in the UK that supermarkets own brand follow the same 'colours' as the main brand leaders.

But that does not always follow. Main one being Walkers Cheese and Onion and Walkers Salt & Vinegar crisps.

Walkers colours for these products is 'blue' for Cheese and Onion and 'green' for Salt & Vinegar. All other product suppliers of these two products do the colours in the opposite way.

To be honest with foreign crisps, I tend to go by visualization of the packet and the ingredient listing.