Another review delayed. The photo is dated early December of last year. I honestly do not recall where I found these chips but, given the date, I suspect they were bought somewhere in Chicagoland.
Pop Daddy is a Michigan company, Howell, to be precise, which looks to be about halfway between Detroit and Lansing. Their "About Us" section says the company was founded by folks looking for healthier junk food, essentially. Ha!
The chips' webpage uses phrases such as "Sharp, tangy" and "bring the zing". I just found these words and so had no tangy, sour preconceptions about these chips going in.
Not a bad photo. I think the preponderance of red helped my cheap camera to not wash the color out with its auto-enhancers from Hades. These chips were thick and had nicely browned edges, though I couldn't tell if it was because the skin was left on or from the cooking process. The surfaces of the chips were densely packed with bubbles. Overall color was a fairly deep yellow but dotted with brown spots. Many of the chips were curled up into non-Euclidean snack shapes.
The aroma in the bag was big on oil and followed by some spud and then a hint of vinegar.
These puppies had a nice, big crunch to them. The potato flavor was on the sweet side and, being thick kettle chips, the oil flavor was prominent. Salt levels were normal. There was a medium vinegar taste to the chips but my tongue didn't register much tanginess which I thought to be really odd. Odd as in preternaturally weird.
Consulting the label I found malic acid, citric acid, vinegar solids, apple cider vinegar solids, and tartaric acid. Given this lengthy list it seems inconceivable that these chips didn't A) have a stronger vinegar taste and B) have more of a tangy zip to them.
As they were, I wished that the spuds had more of an earthy flavor to them, a fairly minor gripe, as, overall they had a nice, vinegary taste. But there was virtually no tang. The mind reels. Their website's description beggars belief.
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