Snacks from the Dead: Highlander Crisps

Loved by Scots and Sassenachs alike

Doubtless you’ve all been wondering what’s happened to this holy grail of crisp features over the last few weeks, right? Well worry no more! It seemed only right that with Burns Night looming, and things looking back to normal(ish) north of the border, we’d make this a January 25th to remember. All hail the Highlander!

While we’re at it, we should just mention a food stall outside King’s Cross Station that sells homemade haggis sausage rolls – a true taste sensation. If you don’t happen to find yourself down London town over the next few days, then have no fear, as a Wetherspoon’s near you will be serving up traditional neeps, tatties and haggis. This is in the traditional way, which is basically code for ‘without gravy’.

When Morrisons acquired Safeway, no one batted an eyelid. However, with the latter being the only supermarket to sell certain products, it spelled the end for the gloriously underrated Highlander Crisps in England. Sadly, this meant that it was an inevitability before they disappeared altogether, but the main question: has anyone ever done crinkle cut quite so well?

Available in multipacks only, Highlanders stuck rigidly to sea salt, salt & malt, cheddar & onion and tomato flavours – after all, there can be only four! Movie puns aside, most of us will never know what these were like paired with Irn-Bru or – whisper it – Buckfast, but seriously, what’s to stop them making a comeback? After all, we’re witnessing something of a Scottish renaissance in football and rugby these days, and they do say these things come in threes. In the meantime, happy Burns Night!