Here are the best kind of bags of salt & vinegar chips in the whole wide world. No big deal. They're made by the Inventure Group, the dudes who bring us vacuum-packed bits of magic like Burger King French fries with condiment chips and those TGIF-branded tater skins and quesadillas that are less food and more like drawings of food.
Oh, and I KNOW them's fighting words. And how people are gonna get all, "Suuuure but my crisps are better, they're tiny batch-fried in a 60:40 ratio of peanut and safflower oil in a 60-year-old kettle by an 80-year-old man of ambiguous (but unmistakably dusky) ethnic heritage who uses his blistered, calloused hands to fish out the pygmy micro-grown Yukon fingerling golds just 17 seconds before smoke point, after which he'll sprinkle just the most perfect amount of pink Hawaiian volcano magic salt and douse a jigger of aged vinegar over the top and, and..." And to those people I'll say, "Nah."
It's basically that scene in Indiana Jones where the Indian dude gets fancy with the knifeplay and Indie just shoots him dead. These chips, and by that I specifically refer to the Salt & Vinegar flavor, are the best Salt & Vinegar potato chips around. Boom!
I cannot argue with you. Also, anyone who does not enjoy a salt and vinegar potato chip is a racist. Former President Carter agrees with me.
These are the best. They have the mouth feel of a substantive kettle chip (I'd say, kissing cousins to North Fork) but they're flatter (like Terra without being so thick as to seemingly be handled with a broken mandolin) and they're brightly piquant unlike Dirty and the "Balsamic" Boulder River somethingsomething joints that tastes like sock. Also, prior to about 3 months ago, they were rare in NY like Zapps were two years ago but they're now carried at Walgreens for 1.99. Try em. F'reals. They're revelatory. And the leftover powder you can mix with toothpaste to make C4.
I've had 'em! That's why I can't argue. What about the salt and pepper Crunchers? Mmmm.
Ahhhh, I reread your first response and you TOTALLY said you'd had em. My bad. Crunchers are exciting and I clearly have to try their s&p especially since their sweet onion flavor is outstanding. Have you had em? They're the closest to the OG Hawaiian Maui onion ones in the pink bag with the native lady paintings that are hard to come by in New York. Truthfully though for salt and pepper my favorite brand is Herr's. They're also my first runner up in the Salt and Vinegar category.
I don't really care for salt and vinegar chips. Is that okay?
It's the Malic Acid that does it.
Malic Acid makes Jolly Ranchers extra delicious, which in turn keeps my Dentist's children in private schools.
OK, need to ask to make sure I'm not the only one: if you're eating S&V chips or salty microwaved popcorn, do your lips actually 'blow up', like you feel like Angelina Jolie after half an hour later?
Visually it doesn't make that much of a difference (Shame! Cheaper than Restylane...), but subjectively it feels like you've been alternately licking a salt block and kissing sandpaper the whole time you were eating it?
You are not alone in this experience.
Ditto those "hint of lime" things....
I don't get the lips part, just the sore tongue from licking the salt block. Shame...Angelina lips would be sexier.
I was under the working impression that salt and vinegar flavored chips were for women having their periods. No? ....No?
Incorrect. That's what Popeyes biscuits with BonChon chicken and hazelnut macarons is what's up for crimson tidage. AHAHAH. "For women having their periods" so like, what to cauterize the wound?
I know at least 3 women who, not knowing each other, have commented that salt and vinegar chips are what they crave at that time of the month. I'm just reporting personal experience here so....
Any combination of salt and chocolate, but with crunch.
It was actually an Egyptian dude that Indy shot, or at least it happened in Egypt. When he was in India, they did the gag where he reached for his gun and it wasn't there.
OH GOD I AM NITPICKING "INDIANA JONES" FACTS WHAT HAVE BECOME
What, Indian guys can't vacation in Egypt now?
Ha ha. That actor wasn't even really Egyptian.
A nitpicker. Mary comparing chips to that scene was genius. Genius!
The entire purpose of the existence and creation of "Chips" of this sort (any kind) is to have a way of getting salt onto your tongue and taste-buds. So good to know there's a reliable review and vote for the best ones.
You can lick and flip em. Sturdy with excellent salt coverage. About the coarseness of kosher.
I love those burger king fries/chips. Also someone, I think it's Snyder's, does pretzel bites that taste just like a buffalo wing. Hooray for snacks that taste like different snacks.
SHUT UP. Pretzel bits, the gnarled pieces where all the white meat is exposed to the flavor powder? Not the "nuggets" right where the goodness just sorta slides off? THEY HAVE BITS WITH BUFFALO? I've only seen the Pretzel flats in Buff and I only like them cause they taste like chicken ramen msg packets... Must investigate. Also, the kettle Buffalo Bleus are meh to me even though going with the ridged chip was a stroke of genius. Fin. But for food that tastes like other food. DUDE. The Alexia onion crispy joints are MY JAM.
These puppies:
http://www.amazon.com/Snyders-Hanover-Buffalo-10-Ounce-Packages/dp/B000G7V3BM
I'm not sure if they're just found here in BFLO or what, but they have that unmistakable taste that most Buffalo snax screw up. It's weird and I LOVE it especially because all the broken ones fall to the bottom and get coated in the leftover residue and it's really gross and delicious. Um, and I'm going to look for them crunchy onion things too.
What she said.
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I tried these a few weeks ago and don't remember them being all that amazing. And I love salt and vinegar crisps! But I will duly give them another try.
Yuck. Barbecue or you're basically a Hessian.
What is the proper pairing for Salt and V chips!? I always fuck it up with Lemonade and then my tongue feels like it went through a wood chipper. But if I do cola then I'm a big fatty. Iced tea??? How does this bib look on me??
UGH I KNOW. I think it might be Old Coke that is the right choice in fact. To kill the pain, and kill us.
Beer. Jesus people, what's wrong with you?
Salsa is the best. Must be paired with mexican beer. Extra lime and salt on the rim. Mmmm. Sadly, that is dinner on many lazy nights.
YES. YES. Not only do they taste exactly like buffalo wings, they are actually spicy. I eat them by the grossful. Finding the bags at all the Duane Reades (Duanes Reade?) near work felt better than a promotion.
am i mistaken or not please tell me, i remeber salt and vinger chips form years ago that were not Olde english. when i was super excited when ii found poore brothers salt and vinger chips after years of looking for them i bit in to it and tasted sweet and threw the whole bag away i was so inferated bc i wanted the mouth numbing salt and vinger that i grew up with that were the best i ever had, and now i cant find them did they stop making this particual varity?