This is a love story.
When I was a kid, I was hopelessly addicted to Munchos, the chips that Julie wrote about earlier. I still like them, but my current love affair has turned to Natural Lays Thick Cut Potato Chips with Sea Salt.
These fantastic chips are shelved (in my supermarket, anyway) in the aisle with the other "fancy" or gourmet chips: Kettle, Terra Red Bliss, and others. I'm not really sure why. There's nothing particularly different about them (unless you count orgasmic taste as different) and they're not exactly healthy (sorry, the "Natural" in the title is probably very true, but that doesn't mean these are low fat or low calorie). They should probably be in the regular chip aisle. Then again, if they were, more people would buy them and my store would probably run out and I'd be upset that night.
What makes these chips so good? It starts with the sea salt I guess. I've become a real big fan of sea salt the past couple of years, whether it's on cashews and almonds, whatever I make for dinner, or potato chips. Sea salt really does make foods taste different than if you had regular table salt on them. These chips manage to be really hearty (they're thick cut) with a strong potato chip flavor, but they're also very light and crispy and clean. They're really the perfect regular potato chip.
On a related note, I just found out that Lays is the company that makes another one of my favorite chips, Miss Vickie's! Their Country Onion with 3 Cheese Cheese Kettle Chips are outrageous.
Check out AOL Food's Plain Potato Chip Test!
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