Different flavours of chips I don’t have a problem with; now head over to the anti-perspirant aisle and discover that your underarms need to be moisturized and sparkly.
More than they used to be, but still not all that popular - not in the same league as crisps.
Many years ago, I’m sure it’s changed now but in The Netherlands I was amazed to find there were only salted or paprika flavoured crisps.
I’m fascinated by Walkers Roast Chicken crisps, they really taste like roast chicken.
Are you in the US? You mean there are 110 flavours and no roast chicken??:eek:
A couple of years ago I met a graduate student from Croatia while she was studying in the U.S. She told me that the first time she went to an American supermarket, she went in to buy milk, found the milk aisle displaying the approximately eleventry billion varieties of milk available, and “wanted to run out of the store, screaming.”
See also: The memoir “MiG Pilot,” written by a Soviet defector.
Americans don’t seem to go for meat-flavored chips in general. We tend to like condiment-type flavors, I guess.
So there’s potentially a huge untapped market for meat flavoured crisps in the US then? QuarkChild ditto me with the milk thing.
I find the endless variations of the same thing upsetting. The new Wal*Mart doesn’t carry many things they used to. Yet, I counted 24 different drip coffee makers. Not one perculator.
I really hate buying dog food. I go in looking for the basic Pro Plan chicken and rice adult. I have to hunt and hunt through who knows how many variations to find it.
Probably not. I can guarantee you that Frito-Lay (the biggest snack-chip manufacturer in the U.S.) has, at some point, tested every sort of flavored chip you can imagine (especially flavors that are popular in other countries). If meat-flavored potato chips were actually an untapped market in the U.S. (as opposed to a product which Americans simply aren’t likely to accept / adopt), Frito-Lay would have tapped it by now. It’s far more likely that Frito-Lay and the other manufacturers have discovered that most Americans aren’t interested in meat-flavored chips.
Yes, that pilot was Viktor Belenko. The first time he saw a supermarket he thought it was a CIA fake. Here’s a quote from a web interview:
Percolator.
I’m more amazed at the varieties of vehicles (I wonder how many of those there are). While a potato chip factory may be impressive I am sure it has nothing on whats invested in automobile factory. Chips are also much cheaper and easier to move around. I also doubt you have chip dealerships sweating over the investment in their inventory. And chip people don’t have to compete with the used chip market. And each person probably goes through a bag or two of chips a week. If you tried a new one on a regular basis you could easily try over a thousand varieties in your lifetime. OTOH a person gets a new car every 5 to 10 years or so.
Thank Og someone caught the perculator error (I’m being sarcastic).
It’s not that we need that many varieties. It’s that we need to buy things–any things. We need to spend money, period. Spending money is how we keep our economy going and how we validate ourselves as individuals. If you don’t spend money, you don’t exist–either socially, or psychically. The varieties and variations of products simply comfort us with justifications for spending on the things themselves, which we often don’t need, or even want, for that matter.
That said, I prefer the thick potato chips myself.
lavenderviolet:
Maybe it’s a regional thing? Here in NYC, I have no trouble finding Herr’s Ketchup-flavored potato chips.
On the flip side, I went ape over “Sweet Maui Onion” flavored chips that I found while on a trip to California, but have never seen them in NYC.
I personally buy pretzels most of the time since a bag will survive around my house for quite a while. If I buy Funyuns or Tato Skins I know they will be gone the same day.
Hedgehog flavored chips? 
I love dill pickle chips, and those expensive terra chips.
Frito-Lay aside, potato chips have remained a category with strong regional tastes and brands. There are still big regional players, such as Herr’s and Utz on the east coast, Jay’s in Chicago, Old Dutch in the upper Midwest, Zapp’s in New Orleans, etc., which often have unique flavors.
Did the 110 include corn chips?
I don’t think I’ve bought anything but Chili-Cheese Fritos for a couple of years.
Yes, chips are overwhelming. But the one that gets me every time is the cereal aisle. How picky must I be to need that many choices?
A society that offers that many types of cereal must surely have solved all its other more pressing problems, right?
So, you can get Marmite flavoured chips? 
(Marmite & cheese flavoured ones are/were available in NZ).