McCain Foods Reviews 139

Awful smelling, awful tasting, hard to cook and so many black spots

What’s happened to McCains oven crinkle chips, they won’t cook and when they do it’s like they are made of mashed potato in the middle. MUSHY. Absolutely awful!

No customer service. I have a severe food allergy. I emailed McCain to ask for some help about a particular ingredient in one of their products. They didn't even bother to reply to my email. I don't know why they encourage customers to use their contact us email address when they just ignore the emails they receive.

mccains chips were great . they r stail and will not cook. the last 5 bags i still have in the freezer. i will have 2 throw away thanks mccains

The McCain French fry is now cooked 🤦🏾‍♀️. The vegetables no longer taste the same as the uncooked one I used to buy. Please don't cook the vegetables they taste horrible.

Why have the chips become un-cookable. They can be in the oven for an hour and they are still hard and horrible. The inside of the bag is all greasy. What’s happened? They used to be so good?

Like McCain crinkle oven chips but just can't understand why there's a price difference between straight chips and crinkle chips it would be nice to know.

Nice chips but don't taste the same as their original oven chips. They had a different taste

Really awful chips, rancid tasting oil. Inside chips is like some mush formally known as potato. Far better frozen chips available such as Aunt Bessies or own brand ones.

I bought a lamb cutlet meal it was absolute crap . It was horrible it wasn't even a cutlet it was a horrible piece of mince meat coated in bread crumbs . It didn't taste of lamb it was disgusting

What has happened to McCain's chips? I have just thrown nearly 50% of a 1.6kg bag of crinkle cut chips in the bin. Just scraps and off-cuts. Never again. McCain's get your act together.

The oven ChIps do not cook properly inside is always hard and they do not cook in 20 - 25 mins took nearly an hour on full heat
I will never by mccains again or recomend them

McCain frozen oven chips have gone downhill. Loads of bad chips in bag. When I complained they told me potatoes were bruised!!! And now the bags when you pick them up in Tescos are greasy on the outside. Hands are so greasy and smell. I’m going to try own brand from now on

We have bought mcaine crinkle cut chips for a couple of years now and have been very happy with them, , that is untill the last couple of bags. I don't know what they have done to make them so bad, and we will never buy them again. They used to be crispy and fluffy but now they are hard, earthy and disgusting. I suppose all good things comes to an end.
EDIT + WE DID STOP buying the Macains crinkle cut chips, but whether it was a batch that escaped QC or a badly blanched batch but ever since my complaint ( really don't think that that had anything had to do with it) the crinkle cut bags of chips returned to the status of excellence and we, my wife and i have been enjoying them again.
Maybe we jumped the gun on that review will take more time to analyse.
We are buying and we are eating them again and they are excellent.
Thank you Mcains Chips.

Hi,I found a rotted tooth in my bag of patties.

Tried the fries and they were full of black/brown bits pretty disgusting if I'm honest.
We all prefer homemade but hey what do we know?

I bought McCain stir fry at picknpay carnival and honestly felt played cause it was just sweet corn green beans and abit of onion .. No red, green peppers and cabbage.

I'm so not happy with them.

Just bought mccains chunky chips. Nearly best chips ever not as good as mine. Found out that wetherspoons use mccains. Thankyou mccains

We purchased on 3 separate occasions 1.6kg of straight and crinkle oven chips. When cooked (baring in mind we've always used these) when cooked they were earthy, not golden and crunching. Infact disgusting, I combined with images etc but never had a reply. Appalling attitudes consumer

McCain oven chips used to be good quality, non greasy chips. Not any more. The bags are covered in grease and you have to wash your hands after handling them.
The chips contain many black inedible chips that have to be removed before cooking. If you miss one and eat it by mistake tastes disgusting. I stopped buying them a year ago and buy Tesco oven chips instead. Far superior product, bag isn’t covered in grease and almost no black eyed, bad tasting, earthy chips. Pay a bit more, but a much better product. Recently had to buy McCain crinkle cut chips as Tesco own brand were out of stock. I would have rather gone without - they were soft and mushy when cooked, a great disappointment. Avoid buying McCain chips at all costs is my advice…