If there’s an older bag of Tayto in Ireland, we haven’t seen it.
Established in Ireland well over half a century ago in 1954, Tayto crisps have long been one of Ireland’s most beloved snacks and we doubt there’s a person in the country that haven’t sampled a bag at some stage.
It would take somebody who’s been around a few years to take an educated guess at what year the bag of Tayto in the picture below is from, the bag having surfaced during a beach clean JOE reader Matt Taylor took part in recently in Galway.
.@JOEdotie @AlanLoughnane1 found during #beachclean in #Galway last week! 12p! pic.twitter.com/JEE2vkZmiQ
— Matt Taylor (@MattyTaylor73) September 3, 2015
The bag in the picture cost 12p and we’re guessing that it’s from sometime around the late 80s or early 90s.
It’s an estimate based on the fact that Tayto sold for 4p when it first came on the market and for 25p before Ireland changed to the Euro in 2002.
We’ve contacted Tayto in the hope that they can provide some official clarification, but we’re pretty sure if there were any crisps in the bag then they’re gone well past the best before date.
If you’d like to have a stab at the year yourself, feel free to contact us on Facebook, Twitter or [email protected]; who knows, there might even be a bag of smokey bacon in it for you.
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