Why ready salted

If you watch a lot of British TV, it's not uncommon to hear someone refer to ready salted crisps — especially in a pub. You can read about other British snacks — cakes, biscuits, and crisps — here. Thank you for the info. I have been watching British tv and reading Brir novels. Crisps originally had the salt in a twist of blue paper. This was because if they were ready salted the crisps would go soggy in the bag. As you found out if the twist came undone.

Once the manufacturers overcame this you had both types on the market. Eventually the bag of salt version disappeared. Only making a brief reappearance as a marketing gimmick. Thanks for the article. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees.

What is the product? What in the world are you talking about? Please give us some more context. Sparky Malarky said:. Click to expand For crisps, peanuts, and the like, 'ready salted' is very common in the UK, and it just means 'salted'. In my childhood, the salt used to come wrapped in little squares of blue paper, and we salted the crisps to our taste.

They stopped doing this at some point and kindly salted them for us to save us all the effort involved in salting them ourselves.

I think this is when they started to call them 'ready salted'. English - South-East England. They're 'ready' in the sense that cooked food is ready to eat : you don't have to do anything more to them. Ready salted is the name given to them when they have no other flavour: salt and vinegar, ham and pickle, cheese and onion, barbecue, prawn, Lincolnshire Poacher cheese and East Anglian cracked sea salt, etc.

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