Every fibre of my body repulses this flavour but I LOVE pure salt chips.
In Spain I was betrayed when I wanted “normal” salted ones and was confronted with the most disgusting taste a chip can possibly hold.
Never again…
Huh. Guess I’ll have to try them.
TIL: I’m a freak and pervert
Are you single? 😉
Neuroatypical person when confronted with the existence of people with different opinions
I started to angrily disagree but on reflection it’s true, at least in my case.
Same
I had it once.
It’s disgusting. But I have to say… It grows on you.
I ate the whole bag including the crumbs.
Do you realize you just insulted my entire race of people?!
But yes
Some of the UK
potato chipcrisp flavors I’m learning about are really freakin’ weird to someone who comes from the land that invented them.Prawn cocktail? Beef? Pickled onion?
And then there’s this…
prawn cocktail fucking slaps though
For all I know, it is the greatest potato chip flavor in the world. America’s range of flavors is surprisingly limited.
You want weird? We also have fish flavored crisps.
I mentioned prawn cocktail, but this is also weird for sure. I don’t understand this one at all considering scampi is supposed to have a kind of subtle flavor to it, or at least in my experience, whereas potato chips are generally the opposite.
crisps probably don’t come from the US on the crisps wikipedia page in the history section it says
The earliest known recipe for something similar to today’s potato chips is in the English cook William Kitchiner’s book The Cook’s Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. The 1822 edition’s recipe for “Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings” reads “peel large potatoes… cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping”.
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Early recipes for potato chips in the US are found in Mary Randolph’s Virginia House-Wife (1824) and in N.K.M. Lee’s Cook’s Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.
A legend associates the creation of potato chips with Saratoga Springs, New York, decades later than the first recorded recipe.
I skipped a bit with another early recorded version that was also from a british book but that’s it
I checked the book and it doesn’t claim to have invented it it just presents it with all the other recipes but that could just be the style of cookbooks at the time I dunno I’m not a historian but eh proof enough that there’s no evidence of them being american atleast and some evidence they’re maybe british
Fair enough, the Saratoga Springs story was what I had heard.
They sound fucking delicious. Mackie’s ice cream is top tier too.
I’m not saying they’re bad. Just weird.
I haven’t tried them.
I’m both of those things, so that checks out.
My home state has salt and vinegar chips that are so acidic that eating more than a handful will burn the inside of your mouth and the skin on the edge of your lips will fall off.
So anyway those are my favorite flavor ever and I eat so many every time I have the chance to eat them that I can’t taste for a week.
Edit: I hate autocorrect. Always have.
Here in NZ we have the regular salt and vinegar chips, but also the more intense vinegar and salt chips.
I like the stronger ones, but too many makes my mouth feel like it is about to fall out.
I suppose the fix is to find a basic drink to neutralize the acid before it burns your mouth?
I can’t think of any basic drinks…
EDIT: Apparently, milk, tea, and certain juices are basic/alkaline.
Pro tip: After vomiting, have a glass of milk (assuming you can keep it down). It’ll neutralize the stomach acid burning your throat
Surely water is better because the pH of your average fresh milk is between 6.5 to 6.9
Milk of magnesia is ph 10.5 though.
But that’s the good stuff.
Basically most food is at least a bit acidic (even milk and tea) because it keeps better.
when I was a kid, I was convinced that salt/vinegar combo was attractive to smokers because they’d burned out their ability to taste stuff unless it was extreme.
now I don’t think it’s limited to smokers, but all folks who have burned out their taste buds. Never liked them or sought them out, but:
Utz salt and vinegar are actually… pretty fucking good, and that’s a damned high praise from someone who doesn’t like the flavor at all I think.
It varies a lot but the chip brand too. As an adult, I don’t like the brands I used to but I’m not sure if that’s because they’ve changed or my tastes did. Given how many cheap or on recipes either is possible.
But there are various brands of salt and malt vinegar that I really like now.
Still liked the overall flavor both as a kid and an adult, but maybe I am a freak :-)
Salt and vinegar is much better if you get anything other than Walkers.
yeah I was surprised. it’s fascinating how flavor prefs evolve over time too.
Laughs in Canadian.
Not enjoying salt & vinegar is just a sign of weakness
*addiction to sugar ftfy
UK lemmings be piling in to explain how this is the best flavour in the world…
… Which it is
I was always blown away by the wild chip flavors when I traveled to England as a kid. Monster Munch is a flavor unlike anything you can find stateside
Monster Munch is a brand. They do a tangy pickled onion, roast beef, flaming hot, and a handful of others. Pickled Onion are incredible.
Yeah but if someone says monster munch and doesn’t specify the flavour you know they mean pickled onion.
It’s apparently not a universal opinion, but I reckon pickled onion are the all time best monster munch flavour. Beef and hot are both great too, but picked onion is best IDST
Potentially more controversially, I rate them in a crisp sandwich situation too
I… feel like my entire life has been a hollow waste. 😆
We Americans really have a near total dearth of flavors in our processed foods. It’s been getting better over recent decades, but it’s still just industrial flavorings. The flavoring is just something Americans invented to cover up a lack of nutrients in our food. These processed foods have the added bonus of spurring us to eat more because the food is so nutritionally empty, yet tastes like it should be nutritive. Ref: “The Dorito Effect” by Mark Schatzker.
Speaking of wild chips flavors, have you guys tried ketchup chips? It’s mostly sold in Canada and it sounds like it would taste awful, but it’s actually pretty good.
walkers also does ketchup crisps here in the UK
never liked monster munch as I don’t like pickled onion but beef space raiders are great and they’re the same sort of crisp if you’ve ever tried those
nah prawn cocktails the best crisp flavour salt & vinegars alright too though I think I prefer pretty much any other flavour apart from bacon artificial bacon flavour is foul
As someone who always goes s&v I actually agree, however I have a couple s&v brands I really like, and have only been disappointed by prawn cocktail over the last decade. It used to be the best, but most crisp flavours have been getting more mild and losing their character and I think prawn cocktail has suffered this the most.
i’m still salty (and vinegary) over the fact UK is hogging the best crisp flavour which is indeed prawn cocktail. I need to go to the local “imported foods” store to get those and i’m at the mercy of my fellow countrymen to keep buying them so the store keeps restocking
A prawn cocktailian? Here?
Sir, I will have to ask you to step outside.
