# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/81 "2008-10-11T14:52:35Z")
Can we include honorable-mention chips? I came across Eta’s _ **Roast Lamb & Mint** _ chips in New Zealand. Pretty tasty. I see that they have Salmon and Caper chips, too–I’m not to sure about those. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/82 "2008-10-11T16:22:05Z")
From my childhood in Massachusetts, State Line Potato Chips. Especially the barbecue. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/83 "2008-10-11T20:36:55Z")
Kettle-cooked anything; Dirty Chips; Trader Joe’s reduced guilt chips (they are very crunchy). ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/84 "2008-10-11T20:59:32Z")
Crab chips. mmmmmm Pizza pringles ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/85 "2008-10-11T21:56:10Z")
Sea Salt Kettle Chips. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/86 "2008-10-12T01:37:39Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > CLAM!?! I guess we thought we were doing you a favor, sorry. > > Favorite is Miss Vickies Sweet Chili & Sour Cream. Yum. > > ps. clam?!? Haven’t you had a really good clam dip? I recommend Heluva Good Clam Dip alhough again, they don’t carry that in the backwards south. Imagine that tasty dip on a chip and you will know what I’m talking about (sorry, ‘aboot’ for you). I’ll even say they are so good that you don’t need a serviette (seriously, who the fuck calls a napkin a serviette?!?!?!) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/87 "2008-10-12T01:51:41Z")
Cheddar Pringle’s. I lick the cheddar off first. Yumm. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/88 "2008-10-12T01:53:02Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#): > > I’ll even say they are so good that you don’t need a serviette (seriously, who the fuck calls a napkin a serviette?!?!?!) Several million people. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/89 "2008-10-12T01:53:15Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#): > > a **really good clam dip** I recognize these words, but strung together they have no meaning for me. Please don’t mock my accent, I’m very sensitive aboot it. ---
**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 12, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/90 "2008-10-12T02:26:56Z")
I just remembered blue-corn chips in New Mexico. Not strictly potato chips, though, but maybe an honorable mention. And speaking of corn chips, Frito’s I miss. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/91 "2008-10-12T05:48:27Z")
They don’t make em the way they used to. Shearers is too greasy (not to mention the bag is half full), Lays is too dry, Dan Dee is way sucky Snyders not tasty enough. I enjoy Dirtys chips when I can find them. Why all these flavors? Are plain chips not good enough anymore? Bar be que can be good, but they are overreaching now with stuff like mustard and spicy wings. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/92 "2008-10-12T05:57:33Z")
> [@spoike](#): > > 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? They came in sour cream & onion and cheese flavor, as well as plain. I don’t remember them being any more covered in flavoring or powder than regular Lay’s chips. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/93 "2008-10-12T05:58:57Z")
It’s a toss-up between the original Miss Vickie’s, Smartfood, French Onion Sunchips, and regular Ruffles, and now I hate you all so much because it’s two in the morning and I’m hungry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/94 "2008-10-13T08:11:27Z")
What, 93 posts and no Hoppin’ Jalapeno? ::drool:: ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/95 "2008-10-13T13:51:47Z")
I’m changing my answer to Pringles Spicy Guacamole. Hot diggity. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/96 "2008-10-13T14:07:57Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Several million people. And a toilet is a crappiette? Sorry, I’m just befuddled that of anyone to not dig sour cream and clam, it would be fellow northerners. I mean, are there are more flavors meant to go together than potato, salt, and clam? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/97 "2008-10-13T23:12:54Z")
> [@TommyTutone](#): > > And a toilet is a crappiette? > > Sorry, I’m just befuddled that of anyone to not dig sour cream and clam, it would be fellow northerners. I mean, are there are more flavors meant to go together than potato, salt, and clam? Serviette is a French word that had entered the vernacular in Canada. We also prefer our clams to be juiced and combined with tomato juice and vodka. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/98 "2008-10-13T23:17:26Z")
Anything unsalted. I just like the taste of fried potato better than fried, salted potato. Usually, this means buying Salt-N-Shake and throwing away the little blue bag, but they’re not really very good crisps. Occasionally, it’s possible to find decent quality kettle-chip types in a ‘naked’ (unsalted) variety. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/99 "2008-10-13T23:36:03Z")
I really, really like the Lay’s Honey BBQ Twists (my sons call them “slides”) and I absolutely adore the Snyder’s Honey Mustard and Onion Pretzel Pieces. Damn those are good. OK, neither of those are really “chips”, per se…I guess I could vote for Jalapeno Pringles (especially at a buck a can), most varieties of kettle-cooked chips, salt and vinegar chips, and the venerable classic, plain Lay’s chips. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268/100 "2008-10-13T23:39:39Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I’m changing my answer to Pringles Spicy Guacamole. Hot diggity. Those are really good, too, again, especially at a buck a can. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-potato-chip/467268.md?page=6)