# best flavored potato chips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943 "2016-06-09T18:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/21 "2016-06-09T21:51:31Z")
[Hedgehog](http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/hedgehog-flavoured-crisps)- Nope, not kidding. [Roast Chicken](http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/?pid=49132) [Miss Vickies sour cream and carmelized onion](http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/miss-vickies-sour-cream-caramelized-onion-potato-chips/6000196088300) Also, [Old Dutch crispy bacon](http://www.olddutchfoods.ca/products#/old-dutch/potato-chips/crispy-bacon). These never last long… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/22 "2016-06-09T23:41:58Z")
Ham. In Europe, of course, not in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/23 "2016-06-10T01:12:04Z")
[Kettle Sriracha chips are really good if you want something a little different.](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/2014/01/02/914/n/1922195/23e5975c5626afd9_kettle-chips-sriracha.jpg.xxxlarge_2x.jpg) Warning: they are not “hot” as labeled. In fact, they are not even super spicy. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/24 "2016-06-10T01:27:13Z")
Potato chips are a local product, unless something big has changed recently (I don’t eat a lot of snack foods). Because you can’t ship them far without crunching them into little tiny bits. Lay’s is one of the few brands you can find all over the country. Just mentioning because Utz (which I love) is a NYC area brand. So you won’t be able to find Utz’s Yak Bladder Flavored Chips if you live in Paso Robles. Me, I like plain salt, or salt & pepper. But Zapp’s (Louisiana) makes a dill-flavored chip I wouldn’t kick out of bed. ---
**Author:** ![andrewrandhawa7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@andrewrandhawa7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewrandhawa7)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/25 "2016-06-10T05:21:48Z")
I enjoy barbecue very much, and chili fries. :). ---
**Author:** ![andrewrandhawa7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@andrewrandhawa7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewrandhawa7)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/26 "2016-06-10T05:26:34Z")
They are also voting now for a new M&M’s peanut flavor…coffee nut, chili nut, and honey nut!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/27 "2016-06-10T05:46:53Z")
I pretty much like any salt & vinegar chip (my favorites being Jay’s and Utz’s), dill (once again, Jay’s, although they call it sour & dill), and Herr’s Old Bay potato chips, which I unfortunately cannot find around here, nor any of its similar cousins like Utz’s crab chips. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/28 "2016-06-10T06:52:40Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Plain. Everybody in my family thinks I’m strange because I like my chips with salt only. Lightly salted, if possible. I also prefer my chips without any added flavorings, although lightly salted is not necessary. > [@bibliophage](#): > > For eating with dip, I prefer plain. Without dip, my new favorite is Wegmans’ Buffalo Blue Cheese Potato Chips. Not only do they taste great, I can have the whole bag myself because nobody else wants to eat buffalo chips. Unfortunately there’s no Wegmans near me, so I only get them when visiting relatives in New York and Maryland. You may get your wish eventually. Wegmans has opened a few stores in the Boston area, so they do seem to be headed your way. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/29 "2016-06-10T12:57:49Z")
I tend to like my chips plain, but am not strictly speaking a purist when it comes to additional flavors. For instance, I like Kettle brand crinkle cut salt & pepper chips and Better Made hot chips [http://www.kettlebrand.com/our\_products/krinkle\_cut\_chips/#/our\_products/krinkle\_cut\_chips/?pid=14](http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/krinkle_cut_chips/#/our_products/krinkle_cut_chips/?pid=14) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/30 "2016-06-10T15:07:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Plain. Everybody in my family thinks I’m strange because I like my chips with salt only. Lightly salted, if possible. > > I will also eat cracked pepper and salt chips and once had Old Bay gourmet chips that were divine. I’m with you **Biggirl.** Lays’ Lightly Salted are my go-to chip. I just wish they sold them in single-serving bags. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/31 "2016-06-10T15:27:00Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Crap, I love reuben sammiches; I’m pissed that I missed these chips. ☹ They might come back, I missed them by one day first go-round: I was in the store and simply didn’t have enough money on me to get them till next day. When I went bac, they had been taken off the shelf. But they did come back briefly a month or so later, and yes, they were really good! Sometimes odd flavors show up in gas stations and 7-11’s, like Herr’s Prime Rib (?) and BBQ Rib… and sometimes those odd Lay flavors. I thought Korean Barbeque was pretty darned good - barbeque on the sweet side, like bulgogi should be. My favorite though is Lays lightly salted. Thin and delicate, and a lot are folded over chips, I love those. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/32 "2016-06-10T15:30:43Z")
Kettle brand Salt & Black Pepper, Trader Joe’s Olive Oil, Grandma Utz, Cape Cod (various). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/33 "2016-06-10T16:21:35Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > There’s nothing like the Red Hots. Just clean, hot pepper flavor, no goopy honey or shcreeratchha or chipotle or whatever. And HOT. Those sounded tempting, but my closest grocery doesn’t carry 'em. Curse you people in Real America, with your enormous supermarkets! ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/34 "2016-06-10T18:51:46Z")
If you’re a fan of Salt&Vinegar or Dill Pickle, you might also enjoy Limon - which I’ve only seen by Lays and in locations either in or near Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/35 "2016-06-10T19:10:25Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > If you’re a fan of Salt&Vinegar or Dill Pickle, you might also enjoy Limon - which I’ve only seen by Lays and in locations either in or near Mexico. They got 'em here in Chicago. But I live in a majority Mexican neighborhood, so that would be why. I’ve had them, and they’re okay, but that dry lime flavor just reminds me of Froot Loops so much. Pretty much all the chile & limon snacks I see around here have that flavor, and it’s hard for me to recontextualize that particular lime flavor from a children’s cereal to savory snack. I’m working on it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/36 "2016-06-10T20:57:13Z")
Sriracha chips are good. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/37 "2016-06-10T21:06:01Z")
Herr’s Cheddar and Horseradish. They used to do it in a regular chip. Now it’s just in kettle. Not as good, but still amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/38 "2016-06-10T21:16:53Z")
[Spicy Cajun Crawtators](http://www.zapps.com/zapps-cajun-crawtator-potato-chips-1-2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/39 "2016-06-10T21:46:37Z")
[Kettle Spicy Thai](https://www.amazon.com/Kettle-Brand-Potato-Chips-5-Ounce/dp/B000G6MBXW?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0) chips for me, please. ---
**Author:** ![Nadnerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@Nadnerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadnerb)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-flavored-potato-chips/756943/40 "2016-06-10T22:21:02Z")
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