They are good, but Lidl only has a limited choices, so I am missing the more spicy/exotic variants from home... I once brought a (Turkish-Swiss) friend a pack of "Döner taste" back from Germany (which they produced with comedian Kaya Yanar)... but according to the package was that a "Lümütüd Edition".
The best about Walkers (etc) is that they scrapped the defacto monopoly of Zweifel (quite nice chaps, the Messrs Zweifel, in fact, but monopolies are not good). When they came up with the Pommes Chips in the mid 60ies (before that, you only had the Pommes Frites in Switzerland and Southern Germany) it of course was a nice add-on and a novelty, and in order to capture the market, it was relatively cheap. And it even was available in Migros, as the Zweifels refused to participate in the general assault of big business against the discount-house of Mr Gottlieb Duttweiler. So, no, the Zweifels are great chaps, but they need some real competition !
The packaging looks similar but Zweifel is definitely a separate, Swiss company. Walkers/Lay's is under the control of Pepsico. It seems Walkers was a separate UK company up to 1991. I'm not sure if the crisps taste differently between the US and UK, but I know Walkers have a bigger variety of flavours than Lay's. Love Walkers Prawn Cocktail, Marmite, Sensations-Thai Sweet Chili, etc.. For that reason I was a big fan of Walkers; I remember when Zweifel only had two flavours, nature and paprika. Decent crisps, but boring... I'm not going to say "oh how Swiss" Now that they have expanded their lineup, including the nice Secrets series (thicker-cut crisps), I don't miss Walkers as much. They should come out with an onion and cheese (gruyère) flavour!
My fav was always Golden Wander cheese and onion but alas you can't get them anymore but I can still get my second choice of pickled onion monster munch
Can't somehow believe that. Does that mean then that the Pringles factories have farms of millions of goats somewhere (because Pringles are available world-wide - saw them in Australia 2 years ago), all chewing and spitting out potatoes all day long?
Seems hardly credible. Machines would do it much more efficiently.
They used mechanised goats, so in effect you're both right.
Mind, if you'd ever seen one of the cybernetic abominations you'd never eat a Pringle chip again. I grew up with cyborg hamsters (my Uncle Bertrand was always tinkering with rodents and computers), so I'm used to such creatures, but I should imagine they'd be pretty off-putting to the average consumer of potato crisps.
That's why they have to keep their goats in secret bunkers located deep in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, and destroy all photographic evidence that comes to light.
I love Pringles, though, goats or no goats. Their Pale Ale and Pickled Onion flavour chips are the best thing since sliced bread reformed potato pieces.