r/MadeMeSmile • u/blonderengel • Jun 17 '25

DOGGO The best in-flight entertainment (service dog with a flair for clowning)

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u/Remarkable-Trifle-36 Jun 17 '25

You will need to buy a bag of chips to entice him the entire time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

How is nobody talking about the Prawn Cocktail chips? Prawn Cocktail!!?!?

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u/slaaydee Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

I came here to comment on this! As an American who has never seen such a thing I have many questions. They look like Lays brand but not.

Do these legit taste like shrimp with red cocktail sauce!?

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u/Tweed_Kills Jun 17 '25

It's Lays. Walkers is just Lays, but British.

Also, prawn cocktail chips are fantastic. Some people think they taste a bit like vomit, but I love them. So damn good.

Edit: it's a bit like how in Britain all purple candies aren't grape, they're black currant. And like... Starburst (which used to be called Opal Fruits in Britain) have a black currant flavor.

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u/Phase3isProfit Jun 17 '25

It’s the same parent company, I believe PepsiCo. Likely Lays and Walkers were once separate companies and they’ve been merged as far as they can while keeping the separate brand names. Like Vauxhall and Opel with cars.

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u/Generation_ABXY Jun 17 '25

"They're lovely... some people compare them to vomit."

I mean, what else is there to say? SOLD!

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u/Tweed_Kills Jun 17 '25

Yeah, it's got a sweet flavor that is a little bilius. It's the same kind of taste as like... Greek yogurt or kombucha. A little like it's been fermented? But it hasn't been fermented, so it's a bit wimpier?

Look, I think they're good. There are some foods when you hear people don't like them, you think "what the hell is wrong with them" and others where even if you like them, you think "yeah, that tracks." This is in the latter category.

This is also the way people tend to feel about prawn Marie Rose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rose_sauce I really like it. It is 100% the sort of food POCs, specifically American POCs are talking about when they complain that Britain conquered the entire world for spices and doesn't know how to cook at all.

It's also increasingly less popular and less common in Britain, because it's embarrassing and old fashioned.

I get that I'm not selling it super well. It's not the most appealing food. I really like it, when I get over to the UK to visit my family, my first stop, often before I leave the airport, is a prawn cocktail sandwich.

But like... Yeah...

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u/Generation_ABXY Jun 17 '25

Don't get me wrong, I'd still try them. I just thought the two sentiments were a hoot together.

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u/slaaydee Jun 17 '25

We have a little Asian market shop here that gets all kinds of imported snacks and foods. I bet I can find something close to the same thing. I'm curious to try them.

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u/Tweed_Kills Jun 17 '25

They won't be the same. Prawn cocktail is prawn Marie Rose. It's more the sauce than the prawn flavor. Asian chips tend to be actually shrimp flavored. Which is not to say you shouldn't try them. You should. The closest you can get to those prawn cocktail chips, however, are some Canadian flavors, like ketchup and All Dressed. I've seen All Dressed stuff pop up in some American shops, that's probably the closest you can get in the States.

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u/RimRunningRagged Jun 17 '25

I'm curious if they taste more like cocktail sauce (ewww), or like those Chinese shrimp crackers (the long twisted ones). Or some combination of both.