Chips Ahoy!

I noticed in the grocery stores that there is a wide variety of potato chips that we don’t have in the US.  Those flavors include:

• Ham & Cheese
• Chicken
• Iberian Ham
• Fried Egg
• Caviar
• Olive & Anchovy
• Black Truffle & Sea Salt
• Goat Cheese & Onion
• Worchestershire
• Bacon & Cheese
• Paprika
• Prawn Cocktail

I held a blind taste test of these flavors with my guests as the unwitting judges.  They were not informed of the flavor of the chips prior to tasting — and strangely, they often could not identify the taste even after being informed of the name.

Some were judged to be truly grotesque – the chicken, the caviar, and the fried egg flavors were especially revolting.   I thought the Worchestershire chips weren’t bad, but no one else agreed.  The Paprika were tolerable.  Prawn-flavored??  Yuck!!!  Even though bacon and cheese sounds like it could be good, after all it has bacon….forgeddaboutit!  Not that we (in the US) don’t have some unappetizing chip flavors, but just sayin’… I think I’ll stick with my Marcona almonds as a snack!!