What is Chalet Sauce?
Turkey Stuffing must be pretty sage-heavy.
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TJ’s had a turkey stuffing potato chip. It didn’t taste like much of anything.
I didn’t like these Vodka Sauce Pizza chips inspired by Badiali’s Vodka Sauce Pizza too much. They tasted like a spicier version of pizza potato chips I had in Germany 30 years ago.
The vodka sauce pizza at Badiiali’s that inspired these chips is really delicious.
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I was just about to say ‘you’re not in Vietnam anymore!’
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On the way – NKD:
One of my favorite chip flavors at the time (this was over 20 years ago) was the Cool Cucumber Lay’s potato chips a friend brought back to thank me for catsitting while she was teaching in China. There was a Cool Lemon flavor as well. The “cool” part referred to, well, something that made them taste cooling, but not like menthol. (Maybe like in that recent Sprite flavor?) But part of what I liked about it was that it’s so rare to find something in cucumber flavor, as opposed to pickle flavor. Cucumbers are great! (I grew up snacking on cucumbers from the garden and didn’t like pickles until I was an adult, so I suppose there is some bias here.)
There’s still a Lay’s cucumber chip (no “cool”), but it doesn’t taste the same to me. But it has been a long time, and I quit smoking. Who knows. It’s still good, just not the same as what I remember.
Current favorite Asian chip: scallion pancake flavored Lay’s, but the Pringle-style of Lay’s in the canister:
Sour cream and onion is easily my favorite of the mainline potato chip flavors, and this is like a slight variation on that. There are a million US chips that are evocatively named after some other dish, but then you taste them and realize there’s little to no difference between the queso chip, the macaroni and cheese chip, and the grilled cheese chip*. That’s not the case here: it doesn’t just taste like allium, it tastes like a scallion pancake.
What’s funny about this to me is that I’ve never liked Lay’s chips. I like ridged chips like Ruffles, or kettle-cooked chips like Cape Cod (Cape Cod’s long-gone sour cream and dill is an all-time favorite; the flavor of Herr’s creamy dill is basically the same). But Asian Lay’s are just better, I guess.
*This is why Herr’s grilled cheese and tomato soup cheese curls are so great: it’s not just a cheese curl, and the tomato element is recognizably “tomato soup.” Just like with the Lay’s thing, I don’t usually like puffy cheese curls as much as crunchy ones, but Herr’s has such great flavors that they trump the textural pref. I’m a Willy Wonka kid, I like flavor realism I suppose.
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I tried some Yamayoshi uni flavored chips that I bought at Nijiya. They weren’t bad but didn’t taste much like uni.
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Since you mentioned uni, here’s a bag of “scallop butter & uni” potato chips that I bought in Miyako (a major player in Japan’s sea urchin industry). The bag on the right is uni-flavored (ish) miso soup.
I’m not saying that either product was made in Miyako, but the souvenir stores knew their audience.
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Pringles all the way..
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Pringle bells
Pringle bells
Pringle all the way
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