If it’s a plain old potato chip, you want to maximize the potato-y goodness with a kettle chip, preferrably “Dirty” potato chips.
If the flavor at all involves sour cream, (SC&onion, chedder&SC, or maybe ranch) the chip should be ridged. You can use a plain ridged if dipping in a sour cream based dip.
Once in a while, cheddar pringles are acceptable if I’m in the mood, but otherwise, “regular” for most other flavors. (oil & vinegar, onion & garlic or BBQ usually. Wise BBQ or Wise Honey BBQ only. All other BBQ brands are too smoky)
My favorite on this list are Pringles, but in my mind they are in thier own, separate chip catagory from potato chips. If I am eating non-Pringle potato chips then I want a ridged chip like Ruffles. They hold up better to dip than thin chips, but are not as crunchy as kettle chips.
Oh, I know - I bought Herr’s Kansas City Prime Chips, and a really intense BBQ chip by them, at the Hess station this summer. Almost too strong to enjoy alone, and they were unusual flavors. I heard in England they have all kinds of strange flavored potato chips, and maybe in Japan, too.
I wish Doritos would bring back Cheeseburgers at Midnight chips in the black bag. I LOVED those things.
Never really come across any other marcelled chip. Sure, there are rippled chips, but the marcel is superior, makes for a very nice dip chip, and the crunch is just right. Excellent chip, and quite unlike any other.
I voted ripple, but only because that’s what I’d pick if I were doomed to only have one choice. But except for triangle (who makes triangular potato chips anyway?), the kind I feel like at any particular moment could be any of those. If I couldn’t rotate styles, I’d quickly get tired of potato chips all together.
I voted Kettle because I do like them. But now I realize I most prefer baked Lays. I actually find the baked ones better than the fried ones. Baked wasn’t on your list so I guess Kettle is fine.
While we’re talking Canadian potato chips, have you tried the Co-op Gold Xtreme chips yet? The Jalapeno and Dill is incredible! All the Xtreme flavours are surprisingly good for house brand chips.
I haven’t been to Co-op in years! They’re just so much more expensive than Sobey’s or Safeway. I’ll pick up a bag at the gas station, for some reason they’re the only place in town that does full serve here.
I can’t vote here (yet) and my choice would be a ‘not quite other’ which isn’t an option anyway.
Most of the flavored chips I’ve ever tried use onion powder as a major part of the flavoring and I really dislike onion powder. BBQ chips were OK but they used to make my lips itch when I was little so I just learned to avoid them. Maybe now it would be different, since I couldn’t fit a whole chip in my mouth back then….:rolleyes:
Anyway, I’ve learned to like the taste of cooked potatoes and/or baked potatoes with butter and salt. The problem is that Ruffles has become more and more salty, so it’s even too much for me to enjoy in one sitting (yeah, I know, don’t say it). Ruffles Hint of Salt is good, but my local stores don’t always carry it.
In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s there was O’Grady’s potato chips. I think they were made by Frito-Lay but had their own brand. They were really thick chips with a robust potato-y flavor. A couple years ago Ruffles Thick Cut was test-marketed locally. I bought them up as fast as I could, but the test seems to have failed. They were basically O’Grady’s reborn (and re-died).
Lays Thick Cut is something I can sink my teeth into, but not as heartily as O’Grady’s or Ruffles Thick Cut. Kettle Chips, Hawaiian Chips, and Dirty chips (guess what! They’re the same thing, just marketed under different names to appeal to different regional consumers) are super crunchy, but I find them to be too greasy.
Every once in a while I get a hankering for a chip from the mid-80’s called Tato Skins which are a ‘manufactured’ chip like Pringles. I love the Original (baked potato with butter and salt) flavor. There’s a convoluted history about them and a lot of people figure they’re obsolete, but I’m eating a bag of them right now. I have to special-order them by the case, though, so I don’t buy them all that often. The manufacturer sells most of its inventory as TGI Fridays Potato Skins but those are loaded with Sour Cream & Onion or Cheddar Cheese and, of course, those two flavors are heavy with powdered onion. TGI Fridays apparently didn’t feel like adopting the Original flavor to its brand.:mad:
–G!
All about Kettle brand chips. Used to be that their salt and vinegar were my go-to I’m-a-pitiful-potato-chip-junkie-who-can’t-stop treat, and I’d eat them until my mouth was raw. Then I discovered their Salt&Pepper chips, which are just as tasty but don’t injure me, so I buy them once in awhile and inhale the bag.
I voted for regular thin-cut, but Lay’s are too salty for me. Lay’s Lightly Salted are much better for my taste, but still a little too greasy. I miss Bells Brand Natural Style, they were the best, but Bells doesn’t seem to exist anymore, more’s the pity.
