Lays Chocolate Potato Chips
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thistlechaserI never go to state fairs, so I miss trying all the fun foods. I never had a deep fried cookie, never had a deep fried candy bar, the last funnel cake I had was almost twenty years ago. (I vow to one day try chocolate covered bacon.) Now and then one of these wacky foods appears outside of fairs, and I make an effort to try them then.
Lays released chocolate covered potato chips, sold only at Target:
You can't tell by that picture, but the bag is very small. Think the size you pick up when you get a sandwich at Subway or some other sandwich chain. A single-serving sized bag. The $3.50 price would seem very high for that amount.
The chips have chocolate on only one side:
(Photos not mine.)
So you'd think with the tiny bag and the half-covering of chocolate, the $3.50 price price would be out of line, but I don't think it is. The chocolate is really, really thick. Like three times as thick as the chip. (I didn't get an odd bag, other reviewers have mentioned how thick the chocolate is too.) If it had chocolate on both sides, that would be too much.
How did it taste? On first bite, I thought I didn't like it. Salt + chocolate = Yay! Salt + potato = not so yay. But then I ate a second one and a third one, and I stopped tasting the potato and just tasted the chocolate/salt.
Interestingly (probably because of the thickness of the chocolate) it only took a couple to be satisfying. While they were good, I didn't have a hard time putting the rest of the bag away.
Will I finish the bag? For sure.
Would I buy them again? No. I need neither more chocolate nor more potato chips in my life.
Would I buy them again if I had no issues with weight or other health matters? Yeah. Even at that price, they're worth it.
...holy cow. The tiny bag has FIVE servings in it! A serving is four chips. If you can stick to one serving, the calories aren't too awful (160). I wish they put the number of servings and calories as the biggest items on food packaging (kind of like how the warning is so big on cigarette containers).
Lays released chocolate covered potato chips, sold only at Target:
You can't tell by that picture, but the bag is very small. Think the size you pick up when you get a sandwich at Subway or some other sandwich chain. A single-serving sized bag. The $3.50 price would seem very high for that amount.
The chips have chocolate on only one side:
(Photos not mine.)
So you'd think with the tiny bag and the half-covering of chocolate, the $3.50 price price would be out of line, but I don't think it is. The chocolate is really, really thick. Like three times as thick as the chip. (I didn't get an odd bag, other reviewers have mentioned how thick the chocolate is too.) If it had chocolate on both sides, that would be too much.
How did it taste? On first bite, I thought I didn't like it. Salt + chocolate = Yay! Salt + potato = not so yay. But then I ate a second one and a third one, and I stopped tasting the potato and just tasted the chocolate/salt.
Interestingly (probably because of the thickness of the chocolate) it only took a couple to be satisfying. While they were good, I didn't have a hard time putting the rest of the bag away.
Will I finish the bag? For sure.
Would I buy them again? No. I need neither more chocolate nor more potato chips in my life.
Would I buy them again if I had no issues with weight or other health matters? Yeah. Even at that price, they're worth it.
...holy cow. The tiny bag has FIVE servings in it! A serving is four chips. If you can stick to one serving, the calories aren't too awful (160). I wish they put the number of servings and calories as the biggest items on food packaging (kind of like how the warning is so big on cigarette containers).
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Date: 2013-11-30 05:13 am (UTC)Cost Plus has chocolate-covered bacon / bacon chocolate bars, which I really liked (but which are waaay overpriced, imo)
Chocolate-covered potato chips is not a thing that I would think would be tasty... but I tried pumpkin spice tortilla chips the other day, which was another combination that seemed rather odd in theory, and they were actually really good! Still, I think chocolate + potato chip probably won't work for me just based on texture, but I am intrigued to know this is a thing that exists...
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Date: 2013-11-30 05:15 am (UTC)It does seem like a really odd combo, doesn't it? It seems to work though. (There's so much chocolate it overpowers the potato.)
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Date: 2013-11-30 08:34 pm (UTC)We miss out on a lot of things I've learnt lately!
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Date: 2013-11-30 10:31 am (UTC)I had a deep fried Mars bar in Glasgow - Scotland's pretty famous for deep frying everything, haha, and the chippy to which I went whilst I was there had it, heh. It was battered, which I didn't expect, but when I had it, I didn't taste the batter at all. Rather, the Mars bars was warm and melted inside my mouth, and it tasted amazing! Totally worth the £1 I paid for it.
Salt + chocolate is an amazing combination indeed.
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Date: 2013-11-30 05:55 pm (UTC)Mmm, the fried Mars bar sounds amazing. One day I shall get to try one!
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Date: 2013-11-30 03:14 pm (UTC)In any case, I didn't finish the bag.
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Date: 2013-11-30 05:57 pm (UTC)Trying these chips made me realize that bacon drizzled with chocolate is probably better than dipped in chocolate. Alas, there is such a thing as too much chocolate.
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Date: 2013-12-01 03:01 pm (UTC)Is the cookie coated in batter or something? I've heard about deep fried Mars bars from a Scottish friend, but never cookies.
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Date: 2013-12-01 05:20 pm (UTC)Hopefully you'll get them soon too!