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
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.
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.
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.
Can confirm, I like that flavour.
Best flavor affirmative.
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
If you’re not gasping for air after inhaling on a freshly opened bag then they are not worthy
I’m both of those things, so that checks out.
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)
While they may co-occur, I think my enjoyment of Salt & Vinegar chips is independent of my freakiness and perversion
Would you like to attend one of my salt and vinegar orgies?
Fixed it:
I’m sure farsighted people appreciate this 🙏
What freak doesn’t like salt and vinegar?
TIL: I’m a freak and pervert
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.
TIL that I am also a freak.
