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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Huh. Guess I'll have to try them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's one of the best

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I had it once.

It's disgusting. But I have to say... It grows on you.

I ate the whole bag including the crumbs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Laughs in Canadian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Neuroatypical person when confronted with the existence of people with different opinions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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 :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Salt and vinegar is much better if you get anything other than Walkers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

yeah I was surprised. it's fascinating how flavor prefs evolve over time too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL: I’m a freak and pervert

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Are you single? 😉

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I started to angrily disagree but on reflection it's true, at least in my case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Do you realize you just insulted my entire race of people?!

But yes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

prawn cocktail fucking slaps though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

For all I know, it is the greatest potato chip flavor in the world. America's range of flavors is surprisingly limited.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You want weird? We also have fish flavored crisps.

And they really do taste like scampi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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".

...

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough, the Saratoga Springs story was what I had heard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They sound fucking delicious. Mackie's ice cream is top tier too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not saying they're bad. Just weird.

I haven't tried them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, guess I'm either a freak or a pervert.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's your phone number? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

...just a guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I've never had the fortune of trying salt and vinegar flavoured stuff. Seems like there's a really ardent fandom around it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You've never eaten a pickle?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Then it's not really salt and vinegar flavoured, it is salt and vinegar

also pickles here are more spicy than salty

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

about the fandom or whether I've had it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

about having salt and vinegar in a food combo

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