A British man visiting Australia has been left furious after discovering the 'criminal' colour scheme for crisp packets sold Down Under. The man, took to X, formerly Twitter, to lament that a packet of salt and vinegar crisps were being sold in a bright pink packet - similar to the colour used for prawn cocktail crisps in the UK.
Writing on the site, Pavel Kennedy shared a picture of the crisps which are made by the brand Smiths, an British-Australian snack food brand which is owned by an American company. Baffled by different colour, Pavel, who is currently travelling in Sydney, captioned the picture: 'Leaving Australia, fuming.'.
As Pavel revealed the colours under which other crisp flavours are packaged, he sparked an online debate other crisp flavours and the colours in which they were packaged. Compared to Smiths, British snack food company Walkers has an entirely different colour scheme for crisp flavours.
While Walkers salt and vinegar flavoured crisps come in green packaging, Australia's Smiths puts chicken-flavoured crisps in green packaging. Elsewhere, the British associate blue packets with cheese and onion, while Aussies use the same colour to denote original, or ready salted flavour.
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A British traveller took to X, formerly known as Twitter , to lament their horror after discovering that a packet of salt and vinegar crisps were being sold in a bright pink packet similar to that used to package prawn cocktail crisps in the UK. Yellow in Australian crisp terms is cheese and onion flavoured whereas Brits would be more likely to think of them as the cheese flavoured Quavers - or orange-flavoured bags as chicken.
The post has since amassed 3.5 million views, with dozens of affronted Brits rushing to the comments to lambast the choice of colours. One enraged Brit wrote: 'This is perverted' while a second called the packaging 'criminal'. One Australian traveller noted: 'I made this mistake first day I moved here. It’s worse when you realise that they don’t sell prawn and cocktail unless you’re in a British area and strike lucky!'.
Another penned: 'How can this be anything other than a prawn cocktail colour? It’s pink because prawns are pink.'. One particularly perturbed crisp lover wrote: 'What curse has God put upon us with this foolishness? First they actually liked mullets unironically, then this?'.
And Pavel wasn't the first to pick up on the drastically different method for branding crisp flavours. Previous British travellers have taken to Reddit to complain about the varying colours with one popular post captioned: 'Australian crisp colours are incompatible with Western European values.'.
The post has since amassed 3.5 million views, with dozens of affronted Brits rushing to the comments to lambast the choice of colours. Once again, hundreds flocked to the comments to slam the vastly different packets. One wrote: 'Live here and can confirm; it is incredibly confusing. Chickens are not upside down, even upside down.'.
One Aussie recalled meeting a confused Brit while down under. They wrote on Reddit: 'I know a Brit who complained we didn't have cheese and onion crisps, when I told her they're the yellow packet she told me she'd never thought to read the flavours in two years, but it's the most logical colour?!'.
Another simply wrote: 'The world has turned upside down!'. However some noted that the packaging was similar to other countries, including Denmark where, similarly to Australia, ready salted flavour comes in blue packaging. It comes after the beloved British crisp brand, Walkers, revealed they were returning a fan favourite flavour to snack shelves.
In August last year, the snack giant introduced Smokin' BBQ Sauce to its classic Walkers range, joining popular classics such as Cheese & Onion, Ready Salted and Salt & Vinegar. This follows years of popular demand for a new BBQ flavour to be reinstated, following the discontinuation of BBQ Rib some years ago.
For reasons unknown, Walkers quietly phased out the flavour. Despite its revival as part of the Walkers Flavours of the Decades collection, it somehow failed to recapture its original appeal. Walkers Smokin' BBQ Sauce is made using 100% Great British potatoes, featuring a smoky BBQ sauce flavour, to give Walkers fanatics a brand-new taste sensation.
