TIL: I’m a freak and pervert
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.
I’m both of those things, so that checks out.
Neuroatypical person when confronted with the existence of people with different opinions
S&V was an unknown flavour in my country. So i was rather sceptical when I tried fries in the UK with that kind of seasoning for the first time.
I am a convert now. Anyone who considers this flavour “freaky” can go and drown in American ketchup (you know that kind with 50% HFCS).
You tried chips in the UK btw
I wanted to keep it readable for the American audience. Actually, I tried both: Crisps and Chips.
Aye fuck that mate, not our fault they have the reading comprehension of toddlers 😂
Ironically you just made it more confusing. Americans know that fries are chips and chips are crisps in England. Just call them what they’re called there; most people will know what you’re talking about.
Yeah its like converting to centigrade for us.
Not that confusing since they used the word fries which only applies to one item across both the US and UK variants. It’s arguably more confusing to use chips since then you don’t know if they’re using the UK or US word.
Look, all I’m saying is that America has fish and chips too. They don’t call it “fish and fries”. No need to dumb things down.
Bro, both Ketchup and S&V are worse than salted. They taste so bad they actively lower the quality compared to no flavouring at all
Well, guess I’m either a freak or a pervert.
I’m both.
What’s your phone number? Asking for a friend.
What kind of friend?
…just a guy.
Fixed it:
I’m sure farsighted people appreciate this 🙏
I had it once.
It’s disgusting. But I have to say… It grows on you.
I ate the whole bag including the crumbs.
I started to angrily disagree but on reflection it’s true, at least in my case.
Hmm… in Canada that is one of the basic best selling flavours… you basically have to offer salt and vinegar if you sell chips. Is it really that uncommon in the states. I mean I heard it’s hard to get ketchup flavour down there, but I wouldn’t have suspected salt and vinegar as being rare.
Nah salt and vinegar chips are also very popular in the US. But I’m not personally a fan, so I agree with the meme.
As for ketchup flavored chips. I did not know that was a thing, you may be right about that.
Yeah, ketchup is basically salt and vinegar but with sugar and “tomato” powder. So it’s ultimately a bit milder than salt and vinegar.
Ketchup chips taste more like “plain salsa” chips to me. Just a vague tomato flavor with no tang at all.
I’ll eat salt and vinnie’s all day though, so maybe i’m biased.
I’ve seen ketchup chips promoted as a “limited edition” flavor in the US.
As an American fan of salt and vinegar chips, you’re never having a hard time finding them, but they’re not in the variety packs and if you bring them to a cookout without any other flavors you will get mean looks. Though really the only flavor other than plain that wouldn’t get you mean looks for only bringing it is barbecue (maybe jalapeño)
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.
My mom must’ve been one helluva freaky pervert then heh
She really was.
Do you realize you just insulted my entire race of people?!
But yes
Meanwhile in Lithuania:
Yes for pink
I believe these are potato and beet flavors.
The first one is more like bacon and sour cream, but tastes a lot like cepelinai, Lithuanian potato dumplings.
The second one is beet, green onion, cucumber, egg and kefir. So just like Lithuanian cold borcht (but a lot saltier).
The same company had made pussy and penis flavoured chips too, but I have never tried those.
The number of people who, having ostensibly read your reply, have not simply shit themselves trying to ask you “EXCUSE ME WHAT THE REFRIED FUCK?” is staggering.
A bit of old news, really.
Looks like specifically cold borshch flavour. So beets and yoghurt
That doesn’t really sound bad; I love a savory chip.
Why not have beet chips at that point? Like, from beet instead of potato. Its amazing
