Huh. Guess I'll have to try them.
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Every fibre of my body repulses this flavour but I LOVE pure salt chips.
In Spain I was betrayed when I wanted "normal" salted ones and was confronted with the most disgusting taste a chip can possibly hold.
Never again..
It's one of the best
I had it once.
It's disgusting. But I have to say... It grows on you.
I ate the whole bag including the crumbs.
Laughs in Canadian.
Neuroatypical person when confronted with the existence of people with different opinions
when I was a kid, I was convinced that salt/vinegar combo was attractive to smokers because they'd burned out their ability to taste stuff unless it was extreme.
now I don't think it's limited to smokers, but all folks who have burned out their taste buds. Never liked them or sought them out, but:
Utz salt and vinegar are actually.... pretty fucking good, and that's a damned high praise from someone who doesn't like the flavor at all I think.
It varies a lot but the chip brand too. As an adult, I don't like the brands I used to but I'm not sure if that's because they've changed or my tastes did. Given how many cheap or on recipes either is possible.
But there are various brands of salt and malt vinegar that I really like now.
Still liked the overall flavor both as a kid and an adult, but maybe I am a freak :-)
Salt and vinegar is much better if you get anything other than Walkers.
yeah I was surprised. it's fascinating how flavor prefs evolve over time too.
TIL: I’m a freak and pervert
Are you single? 😉
I started to angrily disagree but on reflection it's true, at least in my case.
Same
Do you realize you just insulted my entire race of people?!
But yes
Some of the UK ~~potato chip~~ crisp flavors I'm learning about are really freakin' weird to someone who comes from the land that invented them.
Prawn cocktail? Beef? Pickled onion?
And then there's this...
prawn cocktail fucking slaps though
For all I know, it is the greatest potato chip flavor in the world. America's range of flavors is surprisingly limited.
You want weird? We also have fish flavored crisps.
I mentioned prawn cocktail, but this is also weird for sure. I don't understand this one at all considering scampi is supposed to have a kind of subtle flavor to it, or at least in my experience, whereas potato chips are generally the opposite.
crisps probably don't come from the US on the crisps wikipedia page in the history section it says
The earliest known recipe for something similar to today's potato chips is in the English cook William Kitchiner's book The Cook's Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. The 1822 edition's recipe for "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" reads "peel large potatoes... cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping".
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Early recipes for potato chips in the US are found in Mary Randolph's Virginia House-Wife (1824) and in N.K.M. Lee's Cook's Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.
A legend associates the creation of potato chips with Saratoga Springs, New York, decades later than the first recorded recipe.
I skipped a bit with another early recorded version that was also from a british book but that's it
I checked the book and it doesn't claim to have invented it it just presents it with all the other recipes but that could just be the style of cookbooks at the time I dunno I'm not a historian but eh proof enough that there's no evidence of them being american atleast and some evidence they're maybe british
Fair enough, the Saratoga Springs story was what I had heard.
They sound fucking delicious. Mackie's ice cream is top tier too.
I'm not saying they're bad. Just weird.
I haven't tried them.
Well, guess I'm either a freak or a pervert.
What's your phone number? Asking for a friend.
What kind of friend?
...just a guy.
I'm both.
I've never had the fortune of trying salt and vinegar flavoured stuff. Seems like there's a really ardent fandom around it
You've never eaten a pickle?
Then it's not really salt and vinegar flavoured, it is salt and vinegar
also pickles here are more spicy than salty
whaaaaa? are you.. sure?
about the fandom or whether I've had it?
about having salt and vinegar in a food combo
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