Today I learned that Cheese and Onion Tayto’s were the first flavoured crisps in the world, created by Joe “Spud” Murphy in 1954.
December 16, 2022
Today I learned that Cheese and Onion Tayto’s were the first flavoured crisps in the world, created by Joe “Spud” Murphy in 1954.
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Something else for every Irish person to be proud of.
Had forgotten salt and shake crisps, which I see get the first seasoned crisp packet title. Artisan salted crisps, where you can tailor it to your personal taste. Walkers still make them apparently.
First with built in flavour, but the idea of a crisp and flavouring and seasoning it have been around before.
Did you find this out from reading Ben Mcintyre’s Cold War classic, ‘The Spy & the Traitor’ by any chance?
Crisps were invented before they had multiple flavours. At first they came unseasoned and with only a tiny packet of salt then Tayto(Murphy) invented the method to season them different flavours and the first one was Cheese and onion. But all flavoured crisps across the world today owe it to him.
This has to be among the most posted TILs on this subreddit. Up there with the Choctaw thing.
I learned this fact when I went on a tour of a potato chip factory in Heartland, Nova Scotia. May sound boring, but I was in a work camp nearby on a 3 week rotation and had a day off and couldn’t go drinking.
Makes sense that the best crisps (i.e. Cheese and Onion Taytos) are the OG flavoured crisps. Tayto should definitely lean on this more in their marketing.
8 comments
Something else for every Irish person to be proud of.
Had forgotten salt and shake crisps, which I see get the first seasoned crisp packet title. Artisan salted crisps, where you can tailor it to your personal taste. Walkers still make them apparently.
First with built in flavour, but the idea of a crisp and flavouring and seasoning it have been around before.
Did you find this out from reading Ben Mcintyre’s Cold War classic, ‘The Spy & the Traitor’ by any chance?
Crisps were invented before they had multiple flavours. At first they came unseasoned and with only a tiny packet of salt then Tayto(Murphy) invented the method to season them different flavours and the first one was Cheese and onion. But all flavoured crisps across the world today owe it to him.
This has to be among the most posted TILs on this subreddit. Up there with the Choctaw thing.
I learned this fact when I went on a tour of a potato chip factory in Heartland, Nova Scotia. May sound boring, but I was in a work camp nearby on a 3 week rotation and had a day off and couldn’t go drinking.
Makes sense that the best crisps (i.e. Cheese and Onion Taytos) are the OG flavoured crisps. Tayto should definitely lean on this more in their marketing.
[Shitetalk](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0av2k7dOQsvSJbjxTWk9Fz?si=tqD1B1smTuSc7MhmIcUW3Q&utm_source=copy-link) did a podcast about it
And on that faithful day we became the height of western civilisation