I'm looking for potato chips that will provide intense heat. The jalapeno flavoured chips found in major supermarkets are pretty tame.
Fiery Habanero Doritos are OK. They just taste cheesy at first but the heat builds slowly the more you eat. Overall they're like Nachos with lots of black pepper. I find the cheese and corn chip taste interferes with the spiciness. Not to mention the ingredient list is a little scary.
10+ years ago I used to buy snack size Jalapeno chips from a sandwich truck at work. They looked deceptively like regular flavoured chips with a dusting of light green powder, but made your tongue burn immediately. The flavour was great, just potato, salt and hot pepper. It wasn't a major brand, and sadly I don't remember the name. The bag had various shades of green.
Are Blair's Death Rain Habanero chips available in the GTA? They are available online at www.extremefoods.com but they're pretty pricy and I'm wary of shipping chips long distance. They would probably arrive as potato crumbs.
Blair Death Rain Chips are available at 7/11 stores across the city.
You can also bulk order from Blair's Rep in Montreal - www.gourmetchip.com
What I would also recommend is to get some of Blair's dry rubs and sprinkle them over regular kettle chips. The Death Rain Nitro is the best. If you like anything hot food related make sure to check out www.hotsauceblog.com - I run it for Canada.
I've seen Blair's chips at the 7-11 near Donlands and Danforth. Whether they were the habanero ones, I cannot say for sure. Taste The 4th Sense might be able to help out, although I don' t think they carry potato chips.
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They don't carry the Blair chips nor will they ever. Your best bet again is at 7/11's as they have a deal with Blair and Gourmet Chip in Montreal to carry the products.
The Instant Caterer carries them but as I like to call them - The Instant Rip-Off. Way to overpriced for absolutely anything. If you want quality hot sauce in the city your best and only bet is Taste The 4th Sense on the Danforth or their store in St. Jacobs. Plus they are opening one soon in Collingwood.
Cajun Corner carries some very hot chips...my mouth hurt and my eyes went all glassy! What fun! But then, I might be a wuss.
Blair's Death Rain chips are available at some Rabba Fine Foods. I know the one near the Skydome (Peter & Front) stocks them. The Fresh & Wild at King & Spadina stocks them too. Rabba is cheaper at $4. Blair's does salsa too.
I originally tried the Cajun chips and thought they were pretty damn hot then I tried the Hababero chips a couple of months later. Wow!
Not sure they meet your request, but the current President's Choice offering of Buffalo Wing (and Blue Cheese - the latter not being particularly noticeable)Flavour chips is the hottest I've found locally.
I can confirm the Blairs chips show at some, if not all, 7-11 locations. Besides the Donlands location, the Bloor/Spadina and College/Yonge (slightly north of College) have them on a regular basis.
In terms of flavour, I think the Cheddaer and Buffalo Wings are the best. The heat seems to vary on them. They're marked as medium heat but sometimes seem like more and occassionaly seem mild.
Also, those new P.C. chips (in the silver bags) aren't hot at all. They do have some interesting flavours, though the actual potato chips are your average crinkle cut.
Have you tried the "kurkure" brand of chips? I think they are available in East Indian grocery stores... I've tried the rajasthani flavor and its spicy... different from a regular chip... but definitely spicy!
Loblaws has a number of new potato chips out apart from the Blue Cheese. There's also Szechuan. My bro says they're tasty.
I think Zapp's out of New Orleans makes a very intense heat potato chip but I don't remember the name. The World Market carries them (at least in the Milwaukee area).
Check out their site:
http://www.zapps.com/
Kettle Brand Spicy Thai - though the heat doesn't hit you right away, instead it creeps up on you.
spiciest and most flavourful chips in Canada or anywhere on the planet are
Rebel Habanero, Rebel Chipotle-Wing, and The amazing
Rebel Jalapeno-Cheddar with aged white cheddar. They are Kosher
gluten free, no additives, no cholesterol, no sat. fat.. one bite makes you feel the burn and fiery heat
equaling a booster space rocket lifting off into space.
Not sure if the OP is still looking for Blair's since this thread is pretty old. I have seen them at Fat Bastard Burrito. They are too intense for me. I could only eat one chip a day!
Apparently Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Tortilla Chips are very spicy/hot. They're made in the States and sold at Walmart in the US. They are all natural and non-GMO. Has anyone seen them sold in the GTA?
I enjoy trying various chip flavours, spicy included. I just discovered Kettle Brand Sriracha spicy potato chips.
I'm in love. A lot of attempts at spicy chips end up with a spicy hit with a fairly bland underlying flavour.
But these Sriracha chips are spicy with great flavour. They may be my new go-to chip.
Uncle Ray's Hot are pretty hot. Not sure they're particularly good but they're definitely hot and they're like a 1.29 or something like that.
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