The strange thing about chips is that so many companies
make so many of the same flavours of potato chips, yet I never feel
ripped off. Certain brands always excel at certain flavours. I’ll
always go for the Mrs. Vickie’s "Sea Salt and Vinegar",
and Lays used to make the best "Au Gratin" flavour in
history. What I really want to know is: who makes the best chips;
not the best flavour, but the best chips?
The plan is simple - go regular or go home. I just wanted to say
that so it would appeal to the sporting demographic who might read
this. However, I guess few jocks are really interested in candy,
so it might have been a little useless. But this is my plan: I’m
going to put plain chip against plain chip in an all-out battle,
to once and for all answer the question that has plagued mankind
since I thought of this…
Who makes the best plain chip?
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Humpty Dumpty
Ripples
For some reason, when I think of Humpty Dumpty I think of splattered
egg. I should read less and eat more. I can’t explain the
appeal of ripple chips. I guess they just feel good on the tongue.
It’s like a getting a massage inside your mouth without doing
anything obscene. If I were craving salt I may have been disappointed
in these, but I am a big potato fan; I actually enjoy the taste
of potato. I’ve been known to eat a plain baked potato for
fun. These chips have that potato-like taste, and that’s good
because I’m hoping they’re made from potatoes.
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Lays
Classic
I see Lays has decided that plain isn’t good enough for
them, they have to be “classic”. Well la-di-dah, I say!
These chips are super thin. It's kind of cool because with all the
oil they soak up, some of them are almost transparent. They’re
a little saltier than some chips, but not too bad. If you’re
craving salt and still like the flavour of potato (read above) then
you’re in good shape with these. I also find that these chips
are a little more blemished than others. I personally like that
because it keeps the chips real, but some may be grossed out.
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Maple Leaf
Regular
I figure I had to buy these because I’m Canadian and these
seemed to call my name. I think this batch may have been overcooked
or something. Maybe it's just the first one I ate (really brown
and spotty) that is affecting the rest of the bag. They say "regular"
and they mean it. I barely taste any salt at all. The other problem
is that the burned flavour really overpowers the potato taste and
either the whole bag tastes like that or the one chip ruined it
for the rest of them. Let me try some more…
The burnt flavour is gone and after carefully choosing a few chips
that looked good I notice that the potato flavour is really low.
In fact I think it's more oil flavour than potato or salt, and I’m
not really cool with that.
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Plain
as the chip in my hand