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.
These Salted Butter crisps are perhaps the most Breton thing ever created. Brittany takes its butter very seriously (quite rightly) and these somehow manage to taste rich, buttery and gloriously salty without being over the top. They are crisp, ridiculously moreish and dangerously easy to demolish in one sitting.
They’re also the sort of thing that makes an ordinary sandwich feel like lunch in a little café somewhere on the French coast. If you’ve never had butter-flavoured crisps before, trust me, they sound odd for about three seconds. Then you’ll be wondering why we’ve all been wasting our time with plain ready salted.
125g