M&S Full on Flavour Lightly Sea Salted

So, erm, full on flavour but also lightly sea salted eh? Bit of a contradiction there wouldn't you say? 

Perhaps. But none the less this is a pretty good lightly salted crisp. And the reluctant taste testers ate quite a lot of them without having very much to say about the flavour. Which is salty but not too salty. And not "not salty enough" as some lightly salted crisps are.

So not bad. But not terribly exciting either. 

This crisp benefits (as estate agents cannot stop themselves saying) from the new thicker more plasticky packaging with a gusset. Only some of Marks & Spencer's crisps have this new style of packaging; some of the new crisps have it, some don't. I have no idea why.

M&S Hand Cooked Lightly Sea Salted

A very nice packet of crisps. Nothing fancy. A simple old-fashioned flavour and none the worse for that. With a little salt but not too much, and better yet; not too little. I often find that lightly salted crisps taste of very little - but these are just right.

Like all the Hand Cooked crisps from M&S these have a good crunch.

We had a small work event for which the Dutch taste tester picked up a couple of bags of crisps from M&S. And this was one of them.

I might not buy these for myself (too busy trying out fancy flavours) but for every day, and perhaps for people you don't know too well, these potato crisps are just right.

Well, you know, some people might not fancy octopus crisps infused with rosemary and thyme, or strawberry ice-cream flavour.

2016 packaging.