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A silver salver of crisps and a folded tartan rug on a lichened stone balustrade in the lower third of the frame, with a gravel drive curving through winter parkland to a stone manor house at the right and a wide pale sky filling the whole upper half.

Eight flavours. Eight counties.

Posh Crisps

Crisps with a county of origin. Salt from an Essex estuary. Vinegar from Yorkshire malt. Cheese matured in a Somerset cave. The English larder, sliced thin and salted properly.

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I

On the matter of provenance

Why a crisp deserves a county

Wine has its appellations. Cheese has its caves. Crisps have a barcode and a lorry.

This seems to us an oversight.

Salt is a place. It is a particular estuary, a particular set of pans, a particular crystal that grows as a hollow pyramid and nowhere else quite the same. Vinegar is a place. Mustard is a place — a yellow field outside Norwich in May. These things were made somewhere, by someone, for a reason, and more often than not the reason is written down in a parish record or a Pipe Roll.

So we did the obvious thing. We gave every flavour a county.

Not a marketing county. A real one, with a history that can be looked up: salt panned on the Blackwater since the Iron Age, cheese bought for Henry II by the ton in 1170 at a farthing a pound, Stilton sold to coach passengers on the Great North Road, a sauce put on sale in Worcester in 1837.

The crisp is thin. The provenance need not be.

Eight counties. Eight histories. Set down plainly.

II

The Eight

Each flavour is anchored to one English place and to the food history that actually happened there — the salt pans, the maltings, the caves, the mustard fields, the droving roads, the coaching inns, the barrels, the orchards. The history is real and can be checked. It is set out in full on each flavour's page, with the dates left in.

III

England, arranged by flavour

Eight places, from the Blackwater estuary in the east to the Wealden orchards in the south. The map is the argument: none of these flavours could have come from anywhere else, and most of them have not moved in several hundred years. Select a county to read what happened there.

Essex Sea Salt & Cider Vinegar

Salt has been drawn from the Blackwater estuary since the Iron Age.

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Yorkshire Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt

Barley malted for the brewers, then soured on purpose into vinegar.

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Somerset Mature Cheddar & Spring Onion

Cheddar was bought for Henry II in 1170, at a farthing a pound.

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Norfolk English Mustard & Honey

Mustard has been milled near Norwich since 1814.

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Wiltshire Smoked Bacon & Sage

Droves of pigs walked the London road through Calne.

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Leicestershire Blue Stilton & Pear

Named for a village that is now forbidden to make it.

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Worcestershire Worcestershire Sauce & Cracked Pepper

Put on sale by two Worcester chemists in 1837.

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Kent Bramley Apple & Sage

The Weald is where England learned to grow apples at scale.

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  1. Maldon, Essex Sea Salt & Cider Vinegar
  2. Yorkshire Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt
  3. Cheddar Gorge, Somerset Mature Cheddar & Spring Onion
  4. Norwich, Norfolk English Mustard & Honey
  5. Calne, Wiltshire Smoked Bacon & Sage
  6. Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Blue Stilton & Pear
  7. Worcester, Worcestershire Worcestershire Sauce & Cracked Pepper
  8. The Weald, Kent Bramley Apple & Sage

Outline derived from Natural Earth 1:50m admin subunits, public domain. Coastline only; no county borders are drawn.

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