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Old 03-03-2016, 17:28
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I'm getting a bit fed up. I don't eat many peanuts but when I do, I like them to be salty - if I'm going to treat myself I want to do it properly.

Recently I've found that they're getting less salty. This is possibly due to the general drive to reduce salt levels in everything, which I generally support, but not in foods where the salt is half the point of the whole enterprise in the first place.

I also like my peanuts to be reasonably substantial, so I tend to go for the jumbo nuts.

Waitrose used to be good, but now they're pretty grim. Sainsbury's aren't salty enough. Tesco salted (as opposed to dry roasted) were so slimy and horrible that I'm not going there again. KP aren't terrible but they're a bit underwhelming, and strangely insubstantial. Planters aren't salty enough.

I am displeased. Can anyone recommend a good, salty peanut (branded or own brand)? Preferably jumbo but the salt is the main thing.

Same question with salt and vinegar chipsticks, which have also suffered enormously in the salt wars!
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Old 03-03-2016, 21:00
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Haven't had decent salt & vinegar chip sticks for years.

M&S used to do them in a big blue bag but that was a long time ago. The ones from supermarkets are too soft and lack flavour.


Seabrooks are the same. The strongness of the flavour, be it salt, vinegar, onion etc. seemed to be decimated in recent years.
Not that it matters now as they've scrapped most of the range.
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Old 03-03-2016, 21:10
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Most of the salted peanuts you get in poundshops are really salty.

If memory serves me correctly Big D are pretty salty.
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Old 04-03-2016, 17:34
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Thanks! I shall look out for Big D and rummage through the local pound shop.
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Old 04-03-2016, 19:43
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Nobby's Nuts are nice.
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Old 09-03-2016, 21:05
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I haven't noticed a change in Smith's Chipsticks. They're far superior to supermarket offerings.
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Old 09-03-2016, 21:25
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These are lovely
http://groceries.asda.com/product/pe...s/910000834369
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Old 09-03-2016, 22:19
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Own label products (supermarkets' own brand) will always be lower in salt than National brands, as the supermarkets have all agreed to adhere to Govt salt levels.
Big brands can get away with higher salt levels than supermarket versions.

Best advice - aside from monitoring your blood pressure of course - is as suggested by dellzincht, buy big Brand name nuts from a Bargain shop / pound shop.
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Old 15-03-2016, 16:33
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The ONLY good roasted, salted peanuts are M&S - everything else is inferior
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Old 08-04-2016, 01:09
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I have found an unlikely source of peanuts: TK Maxx. They're currently selling peanuts coated in some sort of ghost pepper seasoning, which are very nice (but properly hot - avoid if you don't like spicy food).

It would never have occurred to me that TK Maxx might sell peanuts, let alone nice ones, so all credit goes to my wife.
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Old 18-04-2016, 17:31
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KP jumbo salt and vinegar nuts are the perfect combo of the two things the OP mentions.

Big nuts, super intense flavour. My Tesco Express sells them and they are always on offer. Worth a shot.
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Old 08-05-2016, 21:24
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Tesco own S&V peanuts are nice & salty
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Old 08-05-2016, 22:58
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Peanuts have never tasted as good as Woolworth's heated ones.
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Old 10-05-2016, 13:55
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I just had a packet of Smiths S&V chipsticks and I swear it has burnt my tongue with all that vinegar!

They are 2.5 % salt so plenty of flavour.
They taste as I remember but they seem thinner than they were in the 1970's.
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