Are you approaching tonight’s celebrations with a certain weariness?
Have you become jaded over Christmas through an excess of savoury sameness – that familiar tedium of cheese & onion, salt & vinegar, prawn cocktail and BBQ beef?
Then may we recommend to you the delights of the Starlight Asian Supermarket at 368 Leith Walk.
It boasts a quite astonishing variety of Lay’s crisp flavours to which many locals will be unaccustomed, at least in this context and these combinations.
We list some of them in alphabetical order below:
Braised duck tongue
Caribbean grilled wing
Chilli
Classic
Cream and cheese
Crispy seaweed
Cucumber
Fried crab
Hot and spicy braised duck tongue
Italian red meat
Juice steak
Kimchi
Lemon braised chicken feet
Lime
Mexican tomato chicken
Mustard octopus
Numb and spicy hotpot
Roast crab
Roasted fish
Roasted garlic oyster
Sichuan pepper crispy pork
Spiced broiled beef
Spicy crayfish
Tomato.
They sound delicious. Spurtle will gradually work its way through them over the coming months. Tasting notes may follow in the fullness of time.
The company responsible, Lay’s Crisps, is a division of US-based Frito-Lay, which since 1965 has been a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo.
The firm also runs Walkers in the UK and Ireland. The Lay’s brand name, we understand, is more commonly found on the Continent, but the ones mentioned above were manufactured in China and imported by Sunrise S&H Ltd of London.
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