Talk:Walkers (snack foods)/Archive 1

Emphasis on temporary promotional flavours?
I'm going to say that I disagree with the proportion of this page which is devoted to promotional flavours from the last few years - they are not exceptional by any means in all the decades of Walker's crisps, and should only be noted in the 'past flavours' section - they make this article look like an advert. 137.222.222.102 (talk) 12:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Nobby's
Nobbys are owned by smiths not walkers so i removed them from the list of products —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.192.149.37 (talk) 18:21, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Who are owned by Pepsico, who own Fritolay, who own Walkers.... "Smiths" as a brand doesn't exist anymore Thedarxide (talk) 14:51, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Frito Lay
This is not the parent company of Walker's, Walker's is it's own brad it is not a subsidy otherwise they would not be able to advertise that they use 100 per-cent British potatose. Thanks! 83.104.51.181 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Walkers is a subsidairy of Frito-Lay which is in turn part of Pepsi-Co just because they are American owned does not mean they can not use British potatoes Penrithguy (talk) 12:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Walkers advert
Does anyone know the year the Walkers advert featuring Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne was first shown? Checked Google and Google Groups, but couldn't find anything. Earliest mention I could find on Google Groups was 1998, but I thought it was much earlier. BillyH 21:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe it was '95, but I've not got a reference for that yet. violet/riga (t) 21:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)


 * 1995 would be the year that Lineker started working for them, so that sets the early-limit of any advertising . Ojw 18:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

IPod competition
Walkers are running a competition at the moment, to give away one expensive prize every 5 minutes through september

Is that 11M products/per figure for the UK market? If so, it would seem to imply a 1 in 38000 chance of winning, assuming every "product" had an entry code, everyone entered, and the entries were spread out.

Flavours
Someone's listed Crack cocaine as a flavour. If no-one can confirm this then it remains deleted. Ppk01 10:50, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Walkers market domination
Over the course of 30 years, Walkers has gone from being one of several crisp makers with a regional base (Tudor, Smiths, etc) to being the dominant maker everywhere in the UK. This was mentioned in The Economist a while back as an indicator of market concentration. Surely this ought to be mentioned in the article? ProhibitOnions 10:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - if I recall correctly they were unknown in any part of the country I lived in until the 1980s at least. Presumably the source of the history is partly the official website or something like that, and it's a common fault for such histories to document the company/brand/product's origins then miss out eighty years or something like that. Scatterkeir (talk) 19:11, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Bacon Fries - only remaining Smiths branded product?
I put this in the article but I'm not sure. I see Salt 'n Shake is Walkers now, so I can only assume so. AFAIK the packaging on Bacon Fries/Scampi Fries/the cheese equivalent that no-one sells hasn't changed at all since they started foil-wrapping them. The Smiths logo looks the same as what still appeared on Walkers crisps and other Walkers/Smiths stuff sold in the early 1990s. I hope they never change :) --Zilog Jones 01:10, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Flavours
The list of current Sensations flavours includes both Sea Salt and Sea Salt With Cracked Black Peppers. The Sea Salt one isn't listed on the Walkers' website ( http://walkers.corpex.com/CR15p5/products.asp?snacktypeid=39 ), although Thai Sweet Chilli still is. Does anyone know which list is correct?

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Other Flavours?
Any one remember they had names of english footballers during the end of the 90's?

Cheese & Owen Smokey Beckham Salt & Liniker

i think there were more but i can't remember must have been for the euro 2000 or world cup 98? should this be added?

Madboy2005172.142.66.224 18:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Re-named to Frito-Lays
I have heard somewhere that they where soon going to re-name Walkers as Frito-lays, to help sell more Pepsico products within the UK. Falcon-eagle2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.246.56 (talk) 14:30, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't get it. Walkers is already a Pepsico product, isn't it? Doesn't matter what they call it. --86.135.221.95 (talk) 20:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism in "Flavours" section
I've undone some old vandalism from this edit by on 4 November 2007. The IP has made several edits to this section of the page, and the obvious vandalism has been removed but the list of flavours still needs to be checked for accuracy. — Snigbrook 19:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Reduced crisps per bag
Should this go in the history somewhere? I did add it but it was removed, I just assumed it should be in the information about their crisps. Before 2005, packs were 55g ~40g (can't remember the exact volume here), and 27.5g. They are now 50g, 37.5, and 25g. I'm can't find clearer information regarding this and the exact date it happened, but it definitely happened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.39.32.51 (talk) 10:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Cheese Snaps
Aswell as Tomato Snaps, they used to make Cheese Snaps, but these have since been discontinued. Is it worth mentioning as historical reference? 84.198.206.191 (talk) 09:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Sensations
This article has forgotten a flavour from the sensations range and was my personal favourite until for some reason they stopped producing it. Sea salt and malt vinegar flavour. 92.17.4.169 (talk) 00:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

removing ROAST QUEEF
there was no never will be a roast Queef Flavor crisp from walkers(unless there getting desperate so i removed it sorry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.14.131.132 (talk) 06:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Weather predicting promotion
The article reads like a company brochure. For NPOV. it could stand to include a reference to: http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas.html MMetro (talk) 15:44, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Missing Flavour
I can remember in the late 70's that Walkers did a Mint flavour crisp in a light green pack. It was discontinued after a short while though as they did taste absolutely disgusting! It will haunt me forever! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.91.2 (talk) 12:43, 10 June 2012 (UTC)