I’ll drink and enjoy coffee with any traditional breakfast foods- including any salty preparation of breakfast potatos.
Yet, a chomp on a couple of potato chips while drinking coffee and . . . yuck! The two just do not go together and each makes the other taste bad.
How does this happen with salty potato chips but not with salty hash browns/ home fries/ potatoey breakfast whatever?
If you can find them (it may not be easy in the USA), try salt and vinegar flavor chips with coffee. Way back when I worked in a civil service office, I did this once when there was no other snack available from the coffee trolley. I fully expected the combination to be appalling, but it was surprisingly good.
I came to it much the way you did, njtt: drinking coffee at work, wanting a snack, and the variety of snacks being limited.
So, I’m never going to actually go out of my way to couple coffee and potato chips. Should the occasion arise however that snacks are limited to chips but salt and vinegar happen to be available, I may give it a try. Thanks for the info!
Salt and vinegar chips are ubiquitous in the U.S. Nearly every chip maker makes salt and vinegar chips.
I’m going to guess it’s because of the oil in which the chips were fried. I suspect the culprit is cottonseed oil. Great for frying, but perhaps the taste clashes with the essential oils in the coffee.
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I’m just the opposite - I love that combination. I always look for the chip that has a bubble with a broken surface in it, so when I dip the chip I get a little pocket of coffee. Yum!