Sunday 18 March 2018

Walkers 70th Birthday

Walkers is set to celebrate its 70th anniversary with a range of flavours inspired by every decade it has been making crisps. The crisp company are recreating the classic flavours from the UK’s favourite dishes of decades gone by. The flavours from the last six decades are: coronation chicken (1950s), roast lamb and mint (1960s), cheese fondue (1970s), chicken tikka masala (1980s), BBQ ribs (1990s) and sweet chilli (2000s).Walkers was founded in Leicester in 1948 by Englishman Henry Walker. The company started making crisps after World War II to keep customers satisfied while meat rationing took meat off the table. Rachel Holms from Walkers said: “To have been a household name in homes up and down the country for the last 70 years is a remarkable achievement.”