Adventures in Chiptasting
Nov. 4th, 2003 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6So, I had a hankering for some chips today, so I wandered down to the store before my last class. I was planning on getting some Miss Vickie's Hot Chile and Sour Cream, but I saw some interesting new bags and took a look. They were for some "Taste of Canada" line from.. lays, I think. Traditional Canadian flavors. One was a Toronto something-street pizza (incidentally, doesn't 'street pizza' tend to imply something probably altogether unintended?), and that caught my eye, but then I saw 'Sea Salt and Pepper'. So, I bought that.
Disappointing. When something has salt in the name, it should be enough of a presense in the flavor to be strongly noticeable. I'd prefer it, frankly, if it were knee-weakeningly salty, but I can't get that often, even when vinegar is used as an intensifier. But this was... well, it tasted about as salty as a plain chip, and I can get that anywhere. The pepper might have saved it, but it was barely there. It was a hint, not a flavoring. I should have gone with my original choice. Even diluted by sour cream, that was a stronger taste (although, granted, of chili pepper rather thanb lack pepper).
So, yes, disappointing. I would hate to think of that bag of chips purporting to be the Taste of Canada. We Canadians have much stronger tastes than that!
On the plus side, lasagna when I got home. Yum!
Disappointing. When something has salt in the name, it should be enough of a presense in the flavor to be strongly noticeable. I'd prefer it, frankly, if it were knee-weakeningly salty, but I can't get that often, even when vinegar is used as an intensifier. But this was... well, it tasted about as salty as a plain chip, and I can get that anywhere. The pepper might have saved it, but it was barely there. It was a hint, not a flavoring. I should have gone with my original choice. Even diluted by sour cream, that was a stronger taste (although, granted, of chili pepper rather thanb lack pepper).
So, yes, disappointing. I would hate to think of that bag of chips purporting to be the Taste of Canada. We Canadians have much stronger tastes than that!
On the plus side, lasagna when I got home. Yum!
