Picture the scene, it is a wintry night in Paris and, after hours of walking, all you want to do is go back to the hotel and rest, but you need a snack. So, disorientated, you stumble into a Spar on the Rive Gauche, only to be greeted by a wall of Brets crisps. Bleary-eyed, you select your crisps and stumble home, exhausted, to open said bag of crisps. You open them with glee and consume the contents within seconds, so quickly, in fact, that you run out of the hotel to buy a further three bags. This was me after Paris Fashion Week, and I make no apologies for it.
Brets are one of those brands that make you wonder why all crisps can’t be this good. They started life in Brittany in the 1990s when a group of French potato farmers decided that instead of sending their potatoes off somewhere else, they’d make the crisps themselves. A sensible idea if you ask me.
Small onions sounds terribly sophisticated, but essentially these are crisps that taste gloriously, unapologetically oniony. Sweet, savoury and with that lovely slightly caramelised flavour, they’re like the posh French cousin of the onion crisps you remember from childhood.
They’re crisp, ridiculously moreish and absolutely not the bag to open if you’re planning on having three and putting them back in the cupboard. Ideal with a sandwich, a cold beer or eaten standing in the kitchen while deciding what you’re actually going to have for tea.
125g