★
See that? That's my after work on Friday beer. And nothing goes better with a fine bottle of ale than a nice packet of crisps, eh? Well, in this case nothing would have probably been better than Mackie's haggis and cracked black pepper crisps.
It's not that they're bad crisps; They're actually perfectly good crisps. The cracked black pepper, I like. I've got nothing against the cracked black pepper but to paraphrase Peter Cook, the problem is neither do these crisps.
There's some indefinable savoury taste to them but it's virtually impossible to tell what it is. A touch of Marmite? A whiff of beef? Who knows but it's certainly nowhere near a haggis. Maybe there was a haggis in the room when these crisps were made and they were hoping that the taste would magically transfer by some kind of haggisy osmosis. Maybe they're homeopathic haggis crisps whereby a single molecule of oatmeal can impart the memory of its taste on everything around it. Either way, it disnae work.
Ach well, it just goes to show that there's no point in messing with the holy trinity of Salt & Vinegar, Cheese & Onion and Ready Salted.
Verdict:
Avoid
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