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Mr Tayto Furthers World Domination Plan
Every time we visit Canada to visit my mum's relatives we have to bring over as many packets of Tayto Cheese and Onion as we can fit in our suitcases. Why? Because over there a pack of Tayto Cheese and Onion (often from a multipack) goes for anything from $2.50 (£1) upwards.
Northern Ireland's very own best crisp-maker in the world ever, today announced their purchase of UK crisp manufacturer Golden Wonder. Surely this must be good news for Ulster ex-pats all over the mainland - will they finally be able to get hold of their favourite Tayto Cheese and Onion in GB shops? Hopefully Tayto will also be able to get Golden Wonder's most underrated product "Golden Skins" more widely available in Northern Ireland. Man they're nice crisps - Mexican Chilli and Cheese - YUM!!!
Tayto had already taken over Goldon Wonder's corby plant which manufactures Pringles Minis for Proctor & Gamble, taking the contract with them and saving 195 jobs. This new deal safeguards (according to Reuters) another 356 in the process and Tayto now own:
:: Tayto NI - crisp perfection
:: Golden Wonder - including McCoys, Quavers and more
:: Contract to supply Tesco own brand crisps (UK-wide I think)
:: Contract for supply of Pringles Minis
Now if they could only buy out those pesky Mexican wannabes we'd be sorted.
Follow up:
And what's all this ballocks about a sign at Belfast International Airport stating that 9/10 people in Northern Ireland prefer Walker's Cheese & Owen. *cringe* Prefer it to what? Walker's Salt & Lineker? *cringe again*. Wise the bap. Tayto's number one, and you know it. No Ulsterman worth his salt would ever consider ranking such a blatantly noncey crisp ("Cheese and Owen" - come on! What age was the kid who came up with that?) over good old Tayto?
And finally just let me say
"I have a dream that one day this crisp will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "The taste of home" I have a dream that one day in the green Glends of Antrim the sons of former republican terrorists and the sons of former Loyalist terrorists will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood, sharing their Tayto Cheese and Onion. I have a dream that one day even the state of Northern Ireland, an oft-forgotten state, festering in a swamp of intolerance and bigotry, will be transformed into an oasis of cheese and onion. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their politics but by the content crisp packets. I have a dream today."