Several of these chip reviews ago I lamented that I had seemingly exhausted the local supply of new salt & vinegar chip brands here in Madison. What a fool I was. (Still are. - ed)
I also noted a review or 2 ago that I am quite parochial
when it comes to grocery shopping. Woodman's east is my main source of food
although Jenifer Street Market is where I generally buy coffee. I also make an occasional trek to the Willy Street Co-op. But there are plenty of other places at which you can get
your grub and, as I've learned, some of these joints have hitherto unknown brands
of salt & vinegar chips.
Not too far from home, Meat People Butcher opened fairly
recently in the Lake Edge Mall. While it sounds like the name of a cookbook to
me, I summoned the courage to go check it out recently. In addition to cuts of beef
that I was totally unfamiliar with, they had bags of Lillie's Q Hot Pepper
Vinegar Kettle Chips. I am undecided if these qualify for a review here. Should
I institute a Reinheitsgebot for potato chips? They're salt and vinegar
it's just that the vinegar has been infused with chili goodness. I've already
decided not to review Pringles because they're not slices of potato. And I have
opted to forego non-potato salt & vinegar snacks like plantains despite
plantains being extremely tasty. We shall see…
The bag says these are "Hawaiian Style" but I am
not sure what that means. There was no mention of ham nor of pineapple anywhere
to be found. And I didn't even notice those words on the side of the bag until I
went to take a photo of the it after I'd eaten most of the chips already. They
are unpeeled and the bag says they're cut thicker than your average potato chip
so maybe those are the criteria.
The bag indicated these chips were cooked slowly and this,
perhaps in concert with a little more girth, definitely made for some kettle
crunchiness. Salt was applied moderately while the vinegar tang rated medium to
medium-high. What distinguished the flavor was the lemony zip owing to some
citric acid. I found these chips had a nice earthy potato taste on the finish.
Overall I found these to be very good chips with a good sour
taste from the vinegar and they got a few bonus points for the added citrus sour
flavor which made for something novel.
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