Nut nut

It's distressing how many British sweet brands now have a chain of ownership leading to the US. Mondelez famously bought Cadbury's, and Bain Capital (y'know, Mitt Romney's company) own most of the "classics" like Barratts, Fox's Glacier Mints, Poppets, Tavener's, Mojo chews, Barker & Dobson etc. The only big non-American company left is Nestle, and they can also fuck wayyyyy off.
It's only Terry's and Tunnocks left now, and even then Terry's are owned by the Fr*nch.
- Fr*nch.
  Barry we're not on 2we4u
  
  What's wrong with frogs?
- Commiserates in Canadian

- Nut Nut 💦🥴

I'm all about Tayto, king of crisps.
- North Taytos, or South Taytos?
  A very important question.
  
  The Norn Irish ones are more potent and flavoursome in my humble opinion.

Pringles are so shitty that can't even be categorised as "chips" according to European regulations

Brets are S-tier crisps, I don't know why you'd pick anything over them anyway

Kettle Chips are British, made in Norfolk. I double-checked their website and they haven't been taken over by anyone as far as I can tell.
- Unfortunately the veil has dropped. I thought the same as you but this is what the website says:
  https://kettlechips.co.uk/pages/about
  Cameron Healy Founded Kettle Foods In Salem, Oregan, USA. Cameron and his son discovered the British love of crisps, prompting Cameron to establish Kettle Foods in the UK.
  He chose Norfolk as our home, where you can still find us to this day, in order to be as close as possible to many of our potato growers. Our first home was actually the corner of an old converted shoe factory in Norwich. And so, from humble beginnings, the first KETTLE® Chips were produced in the UK.
  Cameron Healy and UK Co-owner, Tim Meyer, got talking to owner and chef Chris Barnard, in whom he recognised a true passion for authentic foods and > ingredients.
  Sharing Cameron’s vision, Chris soon packed up his utensils and recipe books to join us in setting up the UK branch of Kettle Foods
  So it's US founded, and (at least some point in the past) UK co-owned and mainly produced in the UK. A little grey area. Nice crisps, however.
  Walkers was a surprise to me. But turns out that is a UK brand sold to the yanks like everything else 😬. Also nice crisps.
  
  You missed the last bit:
  All the KETTLE Chips you get now are made here in the UK, with British potatoes, but our American name is a nod to the adventurer that brought us here!
  So they are at least made in Europe, the last bit suggests the US connection no longer exists.
  Somewhat confused.
- might be a good idea to take a look at kettle foods on Wikipedia
- They don't taste American
  
  You mean like deep fried butter with cola based batter and topped with a quardruple layer of frosting?

Yeah. Looking at this diagram as a British person it's like the US stuff is our entire selection and none of the alternative brands exist here :(
- Tyrell's are good.
  They're owned by KP Snacks, a UK based company, who also make:
  (Images from https://www.kpsnacks.com/our-brands, arranged in gimp)
  
  I confess I have a secret love for pom bears, despite my age being long out of the single digits XD
  
  You beat me to it!
  KP make amazing snacks.
  
  These all all S tier snacks too.
  
  I've never hear of any of these except pom-bear, which would make me buy any of the other brands lol
  
  Space Raiders til I die, best crisp out there 🫡
  
  @GreatAlbatross @tiramichu plenty of UK crisps (including Kettle, established in here somewhere - based in Norfolk, owned in Europe). Corkers, Pipers, Tyrrells, Two Farmers come to mind. Don't think any of them are owned internationally? I come from potato country - so many crisp factories round here!
  
  McCoys are good (thick, rippled), except that I only really like plain salted crisps and they're impossible to find - apart from in multi packs with other flavours.
- I can highly recommend Co-op's own brand Irresistible crisps. The salt & vinegar ones especially
  
  Stumbled on these the other week, they have no right to taste that good!!!
- Seabrook are still going, though Japanese owned since 2017.
  
  Seabrook crisps immediately take me back to playing on the swings and slides in a pub beer garden on a warm summer afternoon

Where are you getting all of these exotic templates from?

I have Irish friends (republic and northern) who stock up on Taytos when they're home, and rave about them. They export from Ulster to the US, but I've never seen there here in Scotland - weird. https://www.tayto.com/about/
- They're occasionally the crisp of choice in pubs; an excellent accompaniment to an 80/-. Suppose there's worse criteria for your pub crawls. But aye, a weird omission - you'd be thinking there's plenty of wagons on the Stranraer ferry that could bring a few palletloads over.
- Taytos are amazing.
- @MrsDoyle @Blaze Taytos have Irish and Northern Irish versions, just to get really confusing.
- I'm in the US and a store a few minutes away sells Keogh's chips which are Irish. My girlfriend is crazy about them so I buy a bag every time I go there.

How do I find an alternative to [[American product]?
Look next to it on the shelf.

Taffel (FIN), Estrella (SWE) & Oikia (FIN) as well!
- Taffel vs Estrella is a way to start a fight tbh
  I like Estrella's sour cream and onion more, but Taffel has some other great flavors.
  
  I agree on the sourcream & onion, taffel's furious is delicious, but Oikia Musta Melody Black Garlic is absolutely without competition for top spot.
- Don't forget Gårdschips!

In the UK we have... all of the ones at the top and... none of the ones at the bottom
I think
Please let me know I'm wrong and where I can find those thx
- Try the Euro Food shops. They'll have the European brands. But yeah, the bug stores only have the typical American brands.
  
  Amazing, will do. Thank you!
- You can find brets although you need to do a big supermarket for them (or a specialist fancy food shop)

I haven't found a Brets flavour that I like. So I'll stick to the house brand chips in my supermarket, or Croky.

Croky in Belgium is good aswell!

Croky! Made in Belgium!
- Je craque

FunnyFrisch make these "Lentil Chips" which sounds weird but they are actually so good.

As an American, the only one of them that's worth eating is Kettle Chips anyway. But even then, as a Massachusettsian, I would prefer Cape Cod chips.
- Well, I'm European and I think at least 80% of the brands in the chips/crisps section are those 5 us brands. Loads of people buy them.
- Cape Cod ftw

I was under the impression that CHIO was part of PepsiCo?

Kettle, Pipers, or Tyrrell’s crisps for me.

One of Swedens biggest chip brands has their main factory in my city, and they're available in every store. I almost exclusively buy from them, nice to have such a local thing.

Bonilla la Vista

How could you leave out the best crispy crisps ever; croky?!

Walkers is about to go out of business, lol, because no one in America has ever heard of that brand.
- It's Lays, they're the same thing with a different name
  
  You wouldn't say I'f you look at their logo's /s
  
  Bought 35 years ago :sadface:
  
  Lol, oh, oops.

Santa Maria also has decent ones and is owned by Paulig which is Finnish-owned.
Balsnack is Estonian, probably not available elsewhere. They make the brands Kartulivahvel, Piraat, Vigur, and some less traditional ones like Ossi which is actually pork based

Awesome EU brands and I have been enjoying my non-US snack life in the last few weeks lol - however: Nothing beats a warm focaccia bread and a good self-made bruschetta - way healthier than any bag of chips.

In Spain we have Bonilla a la vista, really good crisps, even Koreans are crazy about them. We also have snacks from Grefusa or Frit Ravish. And more crisps from eapinaler, El Gallo, Sarriegui and literally dozens of brands. Nearly all the regions have 6-7 good brans for crisps and there are hundreds of small brands in every area. Apart from the brands you can find at every supermarket.