Jan 28 2010
Haggis crisps? Yes it’s true – Scottish company have them now
 Pic: Mackies |
Mackie’s of Scotland’s Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper crisps are proving to be the most popular flavour in their range. Who would have thought it? This Scottish company are becoming well-known and extremely sought after for their exotic flavours (such as Cherry Tomato & Herb and Flamegrilled Aberdeen Angus) but their Haggis crisps are raising smiles and sales all over! |
Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper
Mackie’s limited edition flavours mean you can look forward to variety – as we will keep introducing new flavours All Mackie’s potato crisps are naturally seasoned – with no artificial flavour enhancers. We hoped to be distinctively Scottish and were delighted to find that this mix of Haggis and Cracked Black pepper is a great and more-ish crisp flavour. You may be surprised. [Source]
Competition to win Haggis Crisps
Mackie’s are even running a competition until the 31st of this month, in which you can win the famed Crisps. They say:
Mackie’s Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper crisps are proving to be the most popular flavour in the range. Here’s your chance to see what all the fuss is about! We will send a box of big bags of Haggis flavour crisps to ten winners selected on St Andrew’s day – 30th November 2009 and ten further winners for Burns Night – 30th January 2009. We will show some of the entries received on the website and reward those used with a free voucher for a bag of any flavour of Mackie’s crisps.
To enter Just add your details and write your own Ode to a bag of Mackie’s Haggis crisps. Do keep it short – maximum 50 words. You can adopt any style and say anything you like. We’d enjoy it in Robert Burns’s style but that’s not compulsory! All entries will be encluded in the draw.
Pop along to the Mackie’s Website and enter the competiition.
During my life in Scotland through much of my first 40 years, the Haggis flavour did come and go with some frequency but cannot remember the other brands who did this right now. I think Smiths had a go, but not Golden Wonder. There was an Orkney based crisps company who did this – and all their crisps were the best.
Interestingly there were never any herring or kipper flavour crisps, as I recall, but there was the ever popular “prawn cocktail”, and even blasts of “fish n’chips and vinegar” from Smiths, I think, and someone did “fish n’ chips with tomato sauce” as they called it.
Though “smokey bacon” has been around along time, I’ve never come across “bacon and black pudding”, but there was “bacon and baked beans” for a very short time.
Someone in Ireland is doing “dulse and pepper” flavour so I must track that down again,
….. but in Ireland I doubt if we will see “corned beef and cabbage” flavour, as that is barely served here. We’ll leave that for the USA “chip” makers to come up with that one.