What flavor are British “cheese and onion crisps”?
Ordering Drinks At A British Pub
A2 English listening practice · British English · Picked for people who know a little
In Britain, crisps are what Americans call “potato chips,” and the most-bought flavor is cheese and onion. The yellow-and-green packet sits next to ready salted (plain) and salt and vinegar at every British pub, corner shop, and supermarket. Walkers, the biggest British crisp brand, sells more cheese and onion than any other flavor. American chip aisles default to plain, BBQ, or sour cream and onion; cheese and onion barely shows up. The difference is one of the easiest food markers between British and American snack culture.
In this clip, a customer at a British pub orders two pints of lager and “a packet of crisps. Cheese and onion.” The pub-and-crisps combo is a British classic.
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- ▸In British pubs, corner shops, and supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Boots)
- ▸In British food TV and snack-review YouTube
- ▸In British comedies set in pubs (The Inbetweeners, This Country)
- ▸In British sports and football-match snack culture
- ▸In British sitcoms about ordinary British life (Gavin & Stacey, Phoenix Nights)