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Best Flavored Potato Chips: Our Taste Test Results

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Sep 1st 2009 @ 4:36PM

Everyone loves potato chips. To satisfy your potato chips cravings and find the best flavored potato chips, read this potato chips taste test from Slashfood.

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Flavored Potato Chips

We crunched, munched and blind taste tested our way through more than 100 bags in search of the tip-top flavored chip in all the USA. In the end, we selected three runners-up and one winner each in the categories of Salt & Vinegar, BBQ and Sour Cream, and ten each for Hot and Wild Flavors. Flip through to find a new fave, or see if we gave the thumbs up to (or skipped!) your favorite chip.

Get snacking!

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Flavored Potato Chips

We crunched, munched and blind taste tested our way through more than 100 bags in search of the tip-top flavored chip in all the USA. In the end, we selected three runners-up and one winner each in the categories of Salt & Vinegar, BBQ and Sour Cream, and ten each for Hot and Wild Flavors. Flip through to find a new fave, or see if we gave the thumbs up to (or skipped!) your favorite chip.

Get snacking!

Rachel Been, AOL

Runner-up: BBQ
DIEFFENBACH'S BAR-B-Q
(Womelsdorf, PA)

An appealing combo of sweet heat and a whisper of smoke makes this cult chip worth seeking out.

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Runner-up: BBQ
LAY'S BARBECUE
(Nationally available)

Nearly every taster used the word "subtle" in their description of this chip's flavor, but also noted that the light BBQ spice, minus any overpowering heat, would make it oh so easy to munch one's way through an entire bag at a picnic.

Blogger Bob Sassone shared his Lay's thoughts on our blog at Slashfood.

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Runner-up: BBQ
MISS VICKIE'S SMOKEHOUSE BBQ
(Dallas, TX)

This chip lives up to its "Smokehouse" title with a sweetly fire-kissed 'cue taste and a tangy, crunchy, full-mouth feel. We just can't seem to quit loving you, Miss Vickie.

Blogger Bob Sassone shared his Miss Vickie's thoughts on our blog at Slashfood.

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Winner: BBQ
BETTER MADE RED HOT BARBECUE
(Detroit, MI)

We were almost put off by the unnatural hue of the chip's surface, but gosh are we glad we blazed on through. This is one standout chip, with a lingering, yet not overpowering sweet heat that creeps up and warms the ears, and leaves the tongue a-tingling. Of all the BBQ chips we sampled, this is the one with the most potentially addictive appeal.

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Runner-up: Salt & Vinegar
KETTLE CLASSICS SALT & VINEGAR
(San Francisco, CA)

An avowed kettle chip disliker on our tasting panel loved the interplay of explosive acidity and unapologetically applied salt so much, she grudgingly used the word "perfection." We could hardly disagree, and boy, did we love the crunchy texture.

Buy these chips at Anchor's Chip of the Month
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Runner-up: Salt & Vinegar
MISS VICKIE'S SEA SALT & VINEGAR
(Dallas, TX)

Quality potato flavor stands up to a slightly sweet vinegar sting for an especially well-balanced and quite crunchable chip.

Blogger Monika Bartyzel shared her Miss Vickie's thoughts on our blog at Slashfood.

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Runner-up: Salt & Vinegar
LAY'S KETTLE COOKED SEA SALT & VINEGAR
(Nationally available)

This chip's a major mouthful, with a pleasing tease of malty flavor, and slightly briny salt. Since they're a cinch to find on grocery store shelves, wow the crowd at your next big shindig.

Blogger Bob Sassone shared his Lay's thoughts on our blog at Slashfood.

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Winner: Salt & Vinegar
DIRTY SALT & VINEGAR
(Gramercy, LA)

Ka-POW! This chip knocked us in the kisser so hard one of our tasters claimed she popped straight to a London pub for a sec. A solid crunch matches the initial vinegar and unsubtle salt burst for a truly vibrant chip experience.

Buy these chips at Anchor's Chip of the Month
Did we miss or hit your favorite chip? Shout it out on our blog at Slashfood.

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Runner-up: Sour Cream
STEWART'S SOUR CREAM & ONION
(Saratoga Springs, NY)

After an initial salt kick, a subtle, sweet, creamy flavor underpins an onion essence present enough to please the palate, but light enough not to leave any aftertaste.

Did we miss or hit your favorite chip? Shout it out on our blog at Slashfood.

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Awesome junk food flavor: Miss Vickie's Honey & Roasted Garlic Potato Chips

COMMENTS 7

by Monika Bartyzel, Posted May 19th 2008 @ 2:00PM

For years, I avoided potato chip flavors other than the occasional dip into sour cream & onion. And then I found Miss Vickie's, which have quickly become my guilty flavorful snack. Instead of just the classic concoctions, the Canadian brand looks outside the box with combinations like lime with pepper, roasted red pepper grill, sweet chili with sour cream, and my simple favorite: Honey and Roasted Garlic.

I half love this brand because the flavors are so intense that it keeps me from eating more than a handful or two. But that's not quite the case with the honey/garlic variety. It's an incredibly smooth-flavored chip that has the potent taste of garlic that's cut with the vaguely there sweetness of honey. If you're a garlic fiend, these chips should be crispy, garlicy heaven.

Merge that with some tasty dip or maybe some sharp cheddar, and the whole thing is even better.

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Miss Vickie's Chips: 1 country onion + 3 cheeses = wow!

COMMENTS 2

by Bob Sassone, Posted May 18th 2008 @ 7:35PM

Miss Vickie's chips From up north (Canada) come these delicious chips that I didn't even know about until this year: Miss Vickie's! I'm addicted to their Country Onion and 3 Cheese (which, oddly, I can't even find on their site).

Actually, Miss Vickie makes some other great flavors, some rather unique chips you a lot of other companies don't make, including Roasted Red Pepper Grill (which my local supermarket never has for some reason), Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar, Honey & Roasted Garlic, and Lime and Black Pepper. But it's the onion and cheese flavor I'm most drawn to. It's the type of chip that tastes like it has dip on it, and the flavor is very strong (but not that fake taste you often get with potato chips).

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