I was finished fumbling my way through the men's clothing section at Target last week when I wandered over to the grocery area and made a detour through the junk food aisle. There, much to my delight, I found some Good & Gather salt & vinegar potato chips. Good & Gather is apparently the new house brand, presumably having supplanted Market Pantry. New name, new color scheme. The salt has escaped its dish but the vinegar is still in a cruet and at a less spilly angle. These tariffed times call for some marketing ingenuity, I guess.
And so, instead of walking out to my car with a new shirt or two for work (they had nothing in burgundy), I found myself clutching a can of gumbo since Rue Bourre was no more and the above bag of potato chips. New brands of salt & vinegar chips are few and far between these days so I considered my shopping venture a success despite the failure on the haberdashery front.
Sticking my nose into the bag and taking a whiff, I caught nearly equal parts of oil and earthy potato goodness with a hint of vinegar. These kettle chips are real lookers. Browned edges surrounded the bubbled surfaces which were dark yellow with patches of gold and brown. They seemed to be thicker than your normal chip.
Being kettle chips, they had a big crunch. Salt had been administered in slightly elevated doses. After a couple servings, I found that the vinegar had been applied unevenly. Some chips seemed to have had the tangy goodness applied with a light touch while others got the heavy hand treatment. Taken in concert, I'd say these chips had a wonderfully firm vinegar taste. My tongue felt it when I chowed down 2 or 3 full-strength ones. Plus they had a very nice earthy potato flavor that was less sweet than most chips, to my taste. But that could have been acetic acid numbness.
These were some very fine chips.
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