A potato can have no finer fate than ending up as an Irish crisp

A Tayto cheese-and-onion crisp, to be precise

Taytos are the consummate crisps . The company was established in Ireland in 1954 by Joe “Spud” Murphy. He was not the inventor of crisps, but he has been credited with transforming them. Until then there was no way to flavour the individual crisps themselves; instead each bag came with a small blue packet of salt to be sprinkled and shaken over the contents.process. It allowed food scientists to understand the chemical compounds behind flavours such as cheese.

, one of Ireland’s greatest poets, promise the “taste of ground and root”. The less poetic might describe them as a bit bland. Sprinkled with the salty, savoury umami of Murphy’s seasoning, however, they became a cut-price sensation.

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