# What’s your favorite potato chip, both brand and flavor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139 "2020-03-24T02:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/81 "2020-03-31T17:04:58Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > Kettle and various other brands that are made with Canola oil taste okay and have a great crunch due to the high temperatures one can achieve with canola oil. I’d thought Krunchers kettle chips used peanut oil but it looks like they switched to corn. Either way, no canola and they’re available unflavored. An onion allergy sounds dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/82 "2020-03-31T17:42:51Z")
Lays BBQ or Sour Cream and Cheddar. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/83 "2020-03-31T18:21:40Z")
> [@Periwinkle](#): > > If you make it to central Ohio, try Mike Sells potato chips. I live in the Seattle area now and miss those. I remember and liked the plain, Honey BBQ, Good and Hot, and Green Onion. I just looked on Amazon and see that they also have Spicy Dill Pickle, Cheddar, and Smoked Bacon. Working now on resisting the temptation to order them all. 🙂 I’ve lived in the greater Dayton area my whole life, so am very familiar with **Mikesell’s**. 🙂 For decades the chips were made using peanut oil, and those were _awesome_. But due to its cost and the potential for causing allergic reactions, they replaced it with other oils around 20 years ago. But [they recently came out with a groovy chip that is made with 100% peanut oil](https://mikesells.com/collections/potato-chips/products/100-peanut-oil-potato-chips). I haven’t yet tried them, but will do so soon. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/84 "2020-03-31T18:47:47Z")
Blair’s Death Rain Jolokia Pepper potato chips. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/85 "2020-03-31T22:56:19Z")
When I worked in the middle of nowhere in East Africa, one of my major cravings was Walker’s Smoky Bacon crisps. In fact, a Walker’s Smoky Bacon crisp and Marmite sandwich, dunked in a Bachelor’s Cream of Mushroom Cup-A-Soup was the craving, but laying my hands on the crisps was like finding an ark stuffed with grails. That said though, nowadays I’m probably slightly more about Salt & Black Pepper Kettlechips…though it varies with mood. T-Bone Steak flavour Roysters and a pint of milk is one of my classic hangover cures due to their capacity for forcibly reintroducing electrolytes into the body (seriously, if you don’t know them be warned, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart from a salt lick). ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/86 "2020-04-01T01:52:21Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Blair’s Death Rain Jolokia Pepper potato chips. Have you seen these recently? I mentioned them upthread and would love to return the favor to a friend that helped hook me up with the habanero ones a couple years ago. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/87 "2020-04-01T02:37:22Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Have you seen these recently? I mentioned them upthread and would love to return the favor to a friend that helped hook me up with the habanero ones a couple years ago. Hmm, everyone has them marked as “out of stock”, I see what you mean. I do see [this link](https://extremefood.com/products/blairs-habanero-chips?_pos=1&_sid=8d53bce30&_ss=r) for the habanero type. Haven’t clicked through to see if I could actually order them. But no jolokia chips ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mirtha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@Mirtha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirtha)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/88 "2020-04-01T14:16:49Z")
Maybe “made in small batches” makes a difference - Clancy Kettle are the best. Other chips with powder (a flavor) on them, I’m too narrow-minded to try. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/89 "2020-04-01T14:45:11Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Really? The ones I see in Toronto are in bags. I miss the box. Here in Minnesota, you can get small snack bags and the bags that are a little larger than the snack bags. Otherwise, they come in a box with 2 silver bags. At Sam’s Club, the boxes contain 3 silver bags. The silver bags aren’t foil but some other plasticy material. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/90 "2020-04-03T01:33:38Z")
The plain/regular homemade chips at my local brewpub. Fortunately they are still open for takeout food during the lockdown. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/91 "2020-04-03T02:47:50Z")
Lay’s lightly salted chip, the one in the light blue bag. Thin as a promise, a lot of fold-overs, delicate and not all that salty and …nom nom nom…not much junk food for me now, but I can’t resist these heavenly crunchies… / ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/92 "2020-04-03T22:11:34Z")
Kettle chips. I avoid Frito-Lay these days, so usually the store brand. Plain (salted) and BBQ when we indulge in chips (very rarely now). Utz Crab Chips can be found here, but again, chips are very rare in this household. Once upon a time, we lived in a test market, and someone, probably Frito-Lay, had a smoky cheddar flavor. Awesome, but whenever you find something you like in a test market, it will never catch on and you are left with memories. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/93 "2020-04-03T22:45:19Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > whenever you find something you like in a test market, it will never catch on and you are left with memories. Although… I was walking through Munich in 1997, got stopped by a market researcher who shepherded me up a flight of stairs to a tasting room where I was fed various chips (fries, but I’m English, so chips…or pommes, as it was Munich). I was quizzed about the quality of the different varieties, and my opinion of the prospective names. My favourite, in both name and flavour, were what became King Fries. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/94 "2020-04-04T00:44:12Z")
The best chips I’ve ever had were Jay’s Potato Chips, available in the Chicagoland area including South Bend IN. Second best are Lay’s Wavy . ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/95 "2020-04-04T01:31:32Z")
A tie between Mrs. Fishers dark chips, which are local to the Rockford,IL area, and Zapp’s Voodoo. Depends on my mood and if I’m somewhere where I can get the former. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139/96 "2020-04-04T01:49:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Wavy Lays is what I regularly eat. I don’t claim they’re the “best”, but they’re nice, readily available and on sale often enough. I much prefer wide-waves to the teeny gum scraping style like Ruffles. This exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-your-favorite-potato-chip-both-brand-and-flavor/850139.md?page=4)