The British have a thing about crisps/ chips and fancy flavours. I was born just up the road from the Walkers butcher shop where the fabulous smokey bacon crisps Le Sang Paresseux mentions originally came from. [Leicester, home of the pork pie, stilton cheese, smokey bacon crisps, and the biggest cluster of mad cow disease. Hmm, I wonder if there’s a connection.] When I was a kid I went to a pub which sold hedgehog flavoured crisps. Not real hedgehogs, but cooked with the same spices as hedgehogs are traditionally cooked with, and put out by the hedgehog protection society. I brought this novelty item back home to Australia and as I was going through customs began to worry about them. So I declared them to the official who listened patiently for a while before giving me a baleful look and writing “minor” in large letters on my form.
Checking in as a Marylander and chip connoisseur, the Crab chips are not half bad-the name notwithstanding.
I am more partial to the Utz Salt and Vinegar chip myself which go particularly well with Andy Capp “Hot Fries” if you are in a total salty-crunchy-snack mood.
Anyway, if you want to try to make your own “crab chip” take regular potato chips and sprinkle lightly with vinegar (brown vinegar if you have it) and then apply Old Bay seasoning.
This is a far superior alternative to the crab chip and actually I shouldn’t be taking credit for this creation.
It is my girlfriend’s mother who came up with this one and therefore deserves all of the credit. I am merely passing along the idea.
Bon appetit.
Geez, if I didn’t know better, I’d think you were my husband! He puts Old Bay on everything, too. And I mean EVERYTHING! Even eggs!
Old Bay is wonderful in tuna. Try a sprinkle on mashed potatoes.
The crab chips are so good. As Sara said, they get me through the crab-free winters. Much better than those disgusting (sorry, Minlokwat) salt and vinegar chips. I hate those chips.
Once again I fall victim to a garbled OP.
I have no problem with Old Bay Seasoning. I LOVE Old Bay Seasoning!* There is a can of Old Bay Seasoning in my cupboard, even as I type. Old Bay Seasoning on potato chips? Great idea, I say!
But…Crab Chips. One’s nose wrinkles up at the very words. Who decided to call them Crab Chips?
Can you imagine being the North/South Dakota Sales Manager for Utz, sitting at the meeting where this product was introduced? “Great news, boys! You’re going to sell our new CRAB CHIPS to midwesterners! Your quota is six thousand crates a month!”
- I love it so much I’m going to start ANOTHER MPSIMS thread on commercial seasonings. Post early and often.
Well, first of all, Ike, they don’t sell Utz chips in the midwest. 
And I never even caught the crap chip-cow chip reference till you pointed it out.
I guess “Old Bay Chips” would have been better.
Oh well.
{blinks}
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…my posts are so deep, so textured with nuance and layered with meaning, that even I never noticed when I pointed out that reference.
(No, I didn’t mean to say “crab sounds like crap,” I was thinking that crabs are something you don’t want to have…either the sexually transmitted kind, or the kind with the nippy bity little claws. Especially in your snack foods.)
I loved “Old Bay Chips” when I was growing up, as did all the rest of us at good ol’ Montgomery High School (PA). I think it was a generational thing–my dad used to say that they “tasted like the old bay too” (meaning that they’d probably been dipped in the Chesapeake).
Here in England, my favorite “crisps” are Brannigan’s brand–especially Roast Beef and Mustard, and Ham and Pickle. Mmmm mmmm good!
Are you making fun of Iron Chef? You better not be making fun of Iron Chef. Everything stops at midnight on Friday in my dorm as we gather 'round the TV to watch these guys. They’re not quite as big here as The Simpsons, but they’re getting there. 
Oops. That’s what I get for not previewing.
I meant CRAB chip/cow chip reference.
I thought UkuleleIke was making fun of the name as in “crab chips/crab poop”, like cow chips or cow pies. I never thought of the sexually-transmitted variety, either.
Well, I will now!
I’ll never look at a bag of Crab Chips the same way again!
OK, I am actually sitting here, even as I type, munching away on Crab Chips, which I bought at Delmonico’s on Lexington.
They taste . . . Pretty much exactly like those Bar-B-Q flavored potato chips. Not bad, but not very “crabby” at all, I’m afraid (unlike me).
The bag has 260 calories, so I might add that’s ALL I am having for lunch . . .
I tried the Crab Chips yesterday (I figured no one cared any more, as this thread had dropped to page three or thereabouts), and I agree with you. Taste like barbecue-style chips.
Maybe it’s a desperate cry for attention? Give 'em the same old thing, but change the name to something bizarre?
“Try Utz’s HEDGEHOG CHIPS! Flavored with SALT!”