favorite potato chips
flavored or not based on crispiness, greasiness, flavor etc...
laur76
Oct 26, 2006 06:17PM
flavored or not based on crispiness, greasiness, flavor etc...
laur76
Oct 26, 2006 06:17PM
I'm addicted to kettle chips for some reason I cant explain so.....Cape Cod.
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Cape Cod's "light" chips are really good and you can almost convince yourself you're being good as you devour a Costco-sized bag.
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When I was a child (early 70s) my Mother had not just our milk delivered, but our Charlie Chips too.
Today I like OLIVE OIL BRAND potato chips - particularly along with Ina Garten's pan-fried onion dip (with shallots in place of onions though).
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Those Cape Cod chips must have a secret dose of crack included in every bag, because they're so addictive. I also love Walker's cheddar cheese and Marmite potato crisps (chips) from England, but I haven't been able to get them in the US.
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Zapp's Cajun Crawtaters
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Have you tried the Zapp's Steak flavor or Creole Tomato & Tabasco flavors? Z's produces a variety of seasonal/short run flavors that are pretty damn good. I like the Dill chips with chicken or tuna salad, and the Salsa flavor rocks, too. Can you tell that I have a Zapp's problem? Z's also makes the "Dirty Chips" brand as well.
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I live in Lafayette so I've been through pretty much all of them. Isn't there supposed to be a Bloody Mary flavor out now? Or is that the same as the Creole Tomato & Tabasco?
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Those Creole Tomato chips are killer good. I get so happy when they come out with a special edition flavor. I think they should make this one permanant though. They are the perfect ratio of vinegar and sugar. Yummy!
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Grandma Shearers kettle-cooked variety.
Cape Cod salt and vinegar chips are also very good.
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YES: Cape Cod Salt & Vinegar - Tastes just like a real bag of chips....
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Cape Cod Salt & Vinegar. First they got me hooked then they stopped selling them in Vancouver, Canada. I emailed them and they said they just don't distribute them out west anymore! Now I rely on Lay's salt and vinegar but still not the same.
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Try UTZ Sea salt and Malt vinegar kettle chips, they are even better than Cape Cod's...
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Humpty Dumpty Barbecue
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I love to indulge in the humpty dumpty bbque. But they don't sell it in MA(that I've seen). I usually eat them when I'm in Maine.
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I 3rd that. YUM.
Though I also like Sun Chips..
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Miss Vickie's Lime & Black Pepper
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Second that. The flavor is addicting! Too bad it's another Frito-Lay product.
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those are very good. Our local "Tropical Smoothie" joint offers Miss Vickie's chips as one of the choices with their wraps.
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i love miss vickie's jalapeno, sweet chili and sour cream, and salt & vinegar...YUM YUM!!! perfect crispyness and thickness.
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all of those are my all time favorite chips! i love miss vickies!
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spict thai kettle chips.
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Oh yeah! They are SO good! My newest addiction!
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Wise potato chips; cuz they are darker than most. Since they aren't available on the west coast, my dad once sent me a care package of them; lol the cardboard box was grease-stained.
eschew flavored chips
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We used to like that Wise came in a bag with a window in it, so you could search for the darkest ones. Once we got an entire potato that was sliced but still attached at the bottom, and fanned out. I guess we ate it, if it was nowadays I'd sell it on Ebay!
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Kettle chips salt and vinegar flavor.
I am not a huge fan of regular unflavored chips... I'll eat them but in general, I prefer the really crispy, thick chips, but the unflavored ones tend (in my mind...) to have this turkey-ish taste. (Don't ask, they just taste like turkey coldcuts to me...)
So yeah, salt and vinegar flavor.
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a result of too many school picnics i suspect :)
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Kettle Krunchers
Annies Naturals
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For those who like the Cape Cod chips, try cassava/yuca chips.
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mmmmm, yuca chips with garlic salt....I can eat a whole bag "by accident".
I also love the Cape Cod Jalapeno cheddar. And Walkers prawn cocktail or ketchup crisps.
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Zapp's Salt and Vinegar or Cajun Dill
they make some good chips in gramercy
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Brannigans Roast Beef & Mustard
Walkers "Posh chips" - Lamb & Mint, Roast Chicken & Thyme
Sadly these are from back in the day, when I was living in the UK. Can't seem to find these in the States anywhere.
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Walkers (owned by Pepsi) is starting to be available in the states .. at least I'm pretty sure I saw it and not just a package of the Thai Sweet Chili or the lime pappadum I brought back from the UK!
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Walker's = Lay's. When the unusual flavors have turned up in the US, I've always seen them under the Lay's name.
Scott
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salt and black pepper Kettle chips! Speaking of chips, does anyone remember Charles Chips? I remeber a van delivering barrels of their chips when I was a kid...they had a ketchup flavored potato chip that was the bees knees.
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Salt and Black Pepper Kettle Chips for me too. Spicy Thai KC are also good.
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Yup, Salt and Cracked Black Pepper. Makes my mouth water thinking about it.
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I remember Charles Chips very well. They came in one of those big metal cans, like you buy popcorn in at Christmas. Charles Chips were really good. Nowadays, I'm sort of partial to dill flavored chips, or to bbq flavored.
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Oh if you like that, do this. Take two nicely sized bbq chips,and place a dill pickle in the middle. I have gotten so many friends hooked on this!
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Charles Chips (big tin) are still around along with Grippo's (big boxed), a competitor.
I cannot get a decent homepage link on Charles Chips but http://www.vermontcountrystore.com is a start.
Grippo's are still vendor delivered so online isn't all that pressing as far as a link being needed.
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Best chips I ever had was fresh made from a local diner topped with some fine grade of salt. (Probably just plain popcorn salt) Now these were not potato peeler thin, but sliced from her well maintained food slicer in a dash or two above a shaved meat setting. I kind of suspect her secret was frying them in lard.
She went out of buisness 10 years ago and that flavor hasn't been matched anywhere else.
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I Love Charles Chips! We used to have a Charles Chips rep come to the office with a big cart of bad/good-for-you-goodies to buy from once a month. I miss that.
And ditto on the black pepper Kettle Chips, those are mighty fine. They're also a nice addition inside a tuna salad sandwich - get it right in between the lettuce and the tuna salad.
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Yes, I remember the metal barrels of Charles Chips? They used to deliver to our house (just like the milkman of years gone by!)
-R
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Oh, my gosh. I haven't thought about Charles Chips in so long. We used to live with an aunt back when I was 3 or 4 years old. And I remember those cans being delivered! They were so good.
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Chiploving hounds, please block out a few hours and proceed to http://www.taquitos.net/
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Cape Cod are okay, but Trader Joe's are terrific
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IMO TJ's are overcooked and too greasy.
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Grandma Utz Handcooked
Jays Kettle Cooked
Tim's Wasabi
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I love an unsalted thick potato chip. They are perfect for dipping! Can't find them for the life of me. Bordens at one time had cottage fries. I could find them in New Hampshire but no place else. Then Wise took them over and started marketing them as cottage cuts. Loved them, and found them exactly once at a Shaws Market in Quincy, Mass. With all the varieties of salted chips I can't understand why we don't have more unsalted versions. Unfortunately, I just don't like the Cape Cod Chips!
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Pegmeister, Utz makes unsalted potato chips. I've never seen the thick kind (unfortunately) though. I live in the northeast (CT), and you can find them at Price Chopper, Big Y, or usually Stop&Shop.
-R
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The entire Blair's Death Rain line:
Cajun
BBQ
Cracked Crab
Buffalo Wing
Parmesan-Habanero
Jalapeno-Cheddar
Habanero
The crunchiest kettle cooked chips out there.
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Downey's - only available in Michigan
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there used to be a potato chip maker in hawaii by the name of Maui Potato Chips - we used to FedEx them into New York. They were the absolute best, very greasy but FABULOUS! other than that, i like plain old wise.
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Used to get Maui Wowie potato chips in San Francisco. Expensive there, but worth every penny!
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"Dirty" makes a pretty good kettle chip too.MMmmmmmm.
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Dirty is another brand cooked and packaged by the same people who produce Zapp's Chips: The Little Chippery in Gramercy, LA.
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I'm no chip expert, but I'll chip in here ...
I prefer plain dry chips. I do not like oily greasy chips that leave a film on my skin or an aftertaste of oil in my mouth.
Therefore, I declare my love for plain reduced fat Pringles.
I like the dryness, plain potato taste with full presence of saltyness and some satisfying sweetness. Eaten in excess the saltiness becomes overbearing and turns good tasting chips into overly salty distasteful food. (If left uneaten for more than a few days, the crisp chips turn soft and soggy and lose their bite! I have only run into this problem only once or twice in my life, since most 5oz cans of Pringles are a one serving portion for my taste.)
Regular Pringles are too heavy and salty to my liking. Fat-free Pringles are a disgrace to the product name, inedible, tasteless, with bizarre texture. I once tried some flavored Pringles chip and was reminded of my preference for just a plain potato taste. If I want some added flavoring, I'll dip the chip into salsa or something else.
I like the clean taste of baked Lay's potato chips, also. (I especially like to eat baked Lay's or reduced fat Pringles with a Subway tuna hoagie!! Something about that combination that compliments each other.)
And for what it's worth... I haven't had corn chips in years and was given a bag of Frito Lays' Tostitos. I'm sure there are better chips than these, but for someone who hasn't had such a chip like this in years, it was like finding a lost love. I was hoping the 9oz bag packaging said "one serving", but I didn't dare to look after I devoured the bag in one sitting.
Whole Foods sells some sort of vegetable chips by some company whose name escapes me. The chips are all sorts of colors and are made from exotic vegetables. Sorry to say, but they really didn't do anything for me. Didn't even want seconds. Think they are called Terra Chips or something like that.
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Do they still give Terra Chips on Jet Blue?
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Terra Chips are good if you dip them in Hummus or Tabouleh!
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Grandma Utz's: sliced thick and handcooked in LARD, as any potato chip worthy of the name should be!
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Those chips are great. Too bad there's no normal-sized mail-order option, only two-ounce packets and three- and six-pound "refills" (for what, I'm not sure).
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I use the refill bags to re