# What's your favorite potato chip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268 "2008-10-10T02:06:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/21 "2008-10-10T04:03:17Z")
Flavor? Potato. Plain old ordinary potato chips. Flavored potato chips are an abomination and an assault on the soul. Brand? **BiblioCat** is right - **Utz’s** are it. Their wonderfulness is an order of magnitude beyond the others. _Perfect_ texture. _Perfect_ flavor. _Perfect_ degree of greasiness. _Perfect_ amount of salt. And I live where they’re not available, damn it. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/22 "2008-10-10T04:03:49Z")
Best unflavored chip: **Grandma Utz’s Kettle Cooked** - no contest! Best barbecue: **Wise** - not the honey barbecue, but the regular Best sour cream and onion: **Gibbles** (Nibble with Gibbles!) - unfortunately they don’t make that flavor anymore Best other flavor: **Archer Farms Maui Onion and Garlic** - available at Target ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/23 "2008-10-10T04:19:01Z")
The wife and I are in perfect agreement here: Pringles! Sour Cream 'n Onion, with Regular a very close second. Pringles have become the new Coca-Cola or, before them, Standard Oil barrel. A news photographer once told me: “I’ve been to deepest, darkest Africa, and they’ve got Pringles.” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/24 "2008-10-10T04:29:47Z")
Right now, they’re **Shearer’s Salt & Pepper Kettle Cooked Chips.** I think they use some kind of opiate and black voodoo magic on them. Or maybe it’s just the MSG, but day-um… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/25 "2008-10-10T04:44:41Z")
[Snacks from Canada](http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?category_code=79) The Canadians know how to kill chips. They started with vinegar, then ketchup, then they went crazy. They must be stopped. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/26 "2008-10-10T05:40:28Z")
Miss Vickie’s Salt and Vinegar. Lovingly doused with salt, acetic acid, opiates, boiling oil, and more salt. It hurts to eat them, but I do anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/27 "2008-10-10T05:53:30Z")
Tie between Boulder’s Spinach and Artichoke chips and their Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper chips. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/28 "2008-10-10T05:55:58Z")
Favorite flavor: ham. They’re sold in Europe, but I haven’t seen them here. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/29 "2008-10-10T06:42:40Z")
Shrimp flavored potato chips are also kinda good, but I haven’t seen them outside Japan. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/30 "2008-10-10T06:49:19Z")
[Zapp’s Hotter 'n Hot](http://www.zappsstore.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/online-store/scstore/sitepages/new.html?L+scstore+ckvp9984+1225953306). ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/31 "2008-10-10T06:53:49Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Shrimp flavored potato chips are also kinda good, but I haven’t seen them outside Japan. We have prawn cocktail flavour. My fave is just ordinary plain CRISPS with a sprinkle of salt ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/32 "2008-10-10T07:02:30Z")
I had some extremely good black pepper chips a little while back, as well as garlic-flavored Doritos. My favorite, though were O’Grady chips, which Lays made back in the '80s. They were like Ruffles, but about twice as thick. I thought they were wonderful, especially the cheddar cheese flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/33 "2008-10-10T09:36:04Z")
Walkers baked ready salted. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/34 "2008-10-10T12:44:05Z")
Humpty Dumpty BBQ. So good. So… so good. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/35 "2008-10-10T12:57:46Z")
**Terra** , General Tso flavor. If you haven’t tried these, git you sum. They’re relatively new on the market and terrific. **Tim’s Cascade** regular flavor. **Kettle** salt & pepper. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/36 "2008-10-10T13:09:56Z")
Krunchers jalapeno (droooooool). For the corny variety, gimme some Garden of Eatin red hot blues. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/37 "2008-10-10T13:12:29Z")
My favourite has been unavailable for years, and even when it was available may have only been so in Alberta: O’Ryan’s Sour Cream and Onion. They were thick ripple chips with a ton of seasoning, and were incredible. Barring those, Old Dutch Dill Pickle or Ketchup tie for second, the new Lays Spicy Curry for third, and plain Pringles for fourth. ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/38 "2008-10-10T13:17:47Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > …My favorite, though were O’Grady chips, which Lays made back in the '80s. They were like Ruffles, but about twice as thick. I thought they were wonderful, especially the cheddar cheese flavor. I just watched the [commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-wIC1HYsc&feature=related) on YouTube, and those look an awful lot like my beloved O’Ryans, which also had a cheese flavour. I wonder if they were named different things for different parts of Canada and the US, or if that style of chip was just trendy for a bit. Did O’Grady’s have lots and lots of seasoning powder stuff on them? ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/39 "2008-10-10T13:22:06Z")
Anything barbecue, really. I think my all-time favorites though are the Dakota Style Mesquite BBQ Industrial Strength chips. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/40 "2008-10-10T13:41:53Z")
Don’t know if Cheetos count as chips, but I’ve always been a sucker for those. Otherwise, either Pringles Sour Cream & Onion or Barbeque Lays. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268.md?page=3)