"When it comes to crisps, British appetites have traditionally been sated by a packet of Frazzles or a bag of Skips", said Chloe Mac Donnell in The Guardian . But no more, we are fast approaching the "summer of the posh crisp".

From black truffle to smoked pheasant and sparkling wine, fancy crisp flavours are appearing on supermarket shelves up and down the country. Gourmet snack company Torres makes what is expected to be the next "viral hit": a fried egg flavour potato crisp that mimics the classic Spanish tortilla.

At home, "traditional blinis are out"; instead hosts are crafting inventive "crisp canapés" spooning caviar onto Bonilla's sea salt crisps that cost up to £27 a tin. Elsewhere, "hipster-filled bars" are serving organic wines alongside bowls of the elevated potato snac

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