Advantages: Salty and crispy
Disadvantages: Not many

...I'm a great believer in supporting local businesses and they don't come much more local than Highlander for me. I live just a stone's throw from the Highlander crisp factory - almost close enough to gorge on the gorgeous aromas of hot potatoes crisping in a deep fryer. OK, I'm stretching a point. You'd have to be able to throw a stone in Herculean proportions and I'd have to drive around 5 minutes to sample the said aromas (which would no doubt be overwhelmed by diesel fumes anyway). I've probably sampled all the different flavours of crisps that Highlander produce over the years and they do some interesting varieties, such as bacon and brown sauce. However, one flavour they make which can hardly be described as exciting, is Sea Salt. So having whetted your appetite for a less than exciting review, I'll crack on... Read review

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Advantages: you could eat alot
Disadvantages: none

...We normally buy walkers crisp but these crisp were on special offer. We bought the eight packs which contains 2 packets of each flavour of crisp in the flavours you got sea salt, salt and malt vinegar, cheddar and onion and tomato flavor. The crisp are actually crinkle cut and they just melt in your mouth not like the walkers crisp but they are not soft they are crunchy. I even feel safe about my seven month old having them for a snack as I know they will melt and they will not hurt her mouth with sharp corners like you get with most crisp. The sea salt just tasted like walkers ready salted, the salt and malt vinegar are just salt and vinegar, the cheddar and onion are just cheese and onion and the tomato just speak for themselves lol. I have compared them to walkers and im sorry after all these years I have been converted to highlander... Read review

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Advantages: Great taste, crinkle cut!
Disadvantages: Should be sold everywhere. Quite high in calories and fat

...Highlander crisps, for me, are one of those special treats which I love (and being from Scotland, I especially like them since they are Scottish!) These crisps are so tasty. I think they are my favourite brand of crisps, even though they are quite hard to get a hold of! I don't eat crisps that often, but I went to Aldi's (a bit like Lidl) last week and I saw a variety pack of these and I just had to buy them! I used to eat them quite a lot at school when we used to go down into town for lunch. Not only are they called Highlander but they are indeed produced in Scotland in the lovely town of Bathgate. The designs of the packets are nice and simple. Basically the colour of the pack corresponds with the flavour inside. So inside the variety pack I bought the bags were red, green, light blue and a darker blue for tomato flavour... Read review

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Advantages: Wholesome crunchy crisp not greasy and flavoursome
Disadvantages: A wee bit expensive but worth it

...Picture the scene of a rugged highland landscape, a gentle wind blowing across the heather, where the haggis roam free and wild. In the distant is a wee croft where smoke gently blows from the chimney and there’s a distinct peaty smell in the air. You walk towards the croft, carefully stepping past the haggis as they run around in circles because of their three legs. You open the door to the croft and a wholesome flavour hits your nostrils. Well that’s what it was like opening these crisps. A BIG HIGHLAN’ LADDIE I love a crisp that I can fit in all my fingers, not just a wee nibbler. Highlander Crofters crisps are huge beasties. Unlike the insulting paper-thin crisps inferior makers produce, they are very thick cut. Even for someone with a big gob like me you’d be hard pushed to fit several in your mouth at a time. No fancy factory... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent biscuit for sweet and savoury accompainments and soup
Disadvantages: None

...REVISED AND UPDATED FURTHER. GREATEST OATCAKE BISCUITS AROUND MADE BY WALKERS! I have purchased and consumed many packs of those excellent Oatcake biscuits over the years and compared to all other known makes of oatcakes Highland is better tasting, totally organic and great as for sweet and savoury toppings. Have you tried them. Features of this product as follows: *PACKAGING* They are packaged in a distinct bright red rectangle box saying Walkers - Highland Oatcakes and show a picture of a plate of oatcakes with various toppings on the front. There is 24 oatcake biscuits to a box They are also inner wrapped in airtight polythene divided in to 6 oatcake biscuits for extra freshness. *TASTE* They taste deliciously sweet, crisp and oaty. Compared to other oatcake biscuits I have tried like pattersons, carrs etc Highland... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing scenery, good company, great excersize!
Disadvantages: Midges Midges and More Midges

...I have always been a big fan of rain. As long as I know there are clean dry clothes waiting for me at the other end of a rain shower, a hot bath, a nice wee drink, I'm happy. It's great for my garden, makes all the pretty flowers grow, and saves me lugging great hefty buckets and watering cans about. Fantastic. Rain is something that comes with the territory of walking the West Highland Way. When I did it, in the middle of June, expecting maybe to come home with a tan that might make me look less like a milk bottle and more like someone who's been lounging by a pool in Costa Rica, it rained every single day. Yes, that's Every Single Day. But you know what? I loved every minute of it. So , what, I hear you cry, is the West Highland Way? Well put simply, it's a very long walk. Like 95 miles of one-foot-in-front-of-the-other through... Read review

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Advantages: Actually taste like roast beef
Disadvantages: A little greasy

...? Anyway, that's all just so much crisple-crapple. Let's crack on with the review, shall we? Apparently, Highlander crisps aren't all that widely available around the UK so it's hardly surprising that they export a greater percentage of their output than is consumed at home. This may have something to do with the parent company being Italian (San Carlo), but either way, it's a shame because to my mind, they're a far better crisp than Walkers or Golden Wonder. This particular flavour is ROAST BEEF. So how will you know a packet of these when (or if) you see them carefully stacked on a supermarket shelf? Well, the bag's a sort of dark purple colour on the bottom with the top half being sky-blue. But if that doesn't do it for you, the fact that HIGHLANDER ROAST BEEF will be emblazoned prominently across the front of the bag may be a slight... Read review

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Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...I like many thousands of others love crisps! And I am always on the look out for new flavours that I think I might like. Imagine then my delight then-when I spied on the ‘market’ of all places an eight pack of Highlander crisps, and within this packet of eight delicious nibbles was a flavour I hadn’t even seen before – bacon and brown sauce. Firstly let me tell you that I paid a pound (yes a whole pound) for the pack of eight crisps. Now having tried highlander crisps before (bought from Iceland) I knew at least if I didn’t like the named flavoured crisps, I’d like two of the others flavours, which were: · Sea salt and ground pepper · Ayrshire roast beef · Roast chicken · (And of course the bacon and brown sauce) (Other flavours available though not in the pack are: Sea salt, Sea salt... Read review

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Advantages: If ready salted are the daddy of crisps, Seabrook are the daddy of ready salted.
Disadvantages: Nope, none. They are good.

...on this site, are indeed tasty, but a little thin, and you can never seem to get the salt evenly spread (mind you, I do like it when I have a crisp with a whole load of salt, unhealthy but nice!) so these are good, but not the best. Walkers, very similar, just the sachet already shaken for you :-) However, Seabrooks are possible the only crinkle cut crisps in Ready Salted flavour. You like Highlander? You like McCoys? Sure you do! Think of the thickness and crunch some where between those two. Highlander is a little flat, McCoys are just plain bad ass. Seabrooks are honest and pale in colour, with not too uniform crinkle shape, giving a nice big surface area to work with, to soak up the oil and salt (crinkle cut have larger surface area by design, like smaller chips instead of chunky chips - not so good for diets!) - despite this, it has less... Read review

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Advantages: Nice taste, not too strong
Disadvantages: High fat content, and harder to find than they should be

...I've already written a couple of reviews about HIGHLANDER CRISPS, and given that I'm the proud possessor of a multi-pack of assorted flavours, it's a relatively safe bet to assume I'm going to write a couple more...this being one of them. The Highlander factory is just a couple of miles along the road from me in Bathgate, so it's definitely a local firm, and as such, one I feel it's my duty to support by munching their products as and when the mood takes me. I've written before about how Highlander rose like a phoenix from the ashes of Golden Wonder's Broxburn factory (again, just a few miles away), and keeping with the giant, mythical bird theme, GW shat on their employees from a great height when they denied the workers and management the chance to take over the factory and equipment. Still, the nice thing about it is that while... Read review

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