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Contest alert for all you potato chip lovers out there - Kettle Chips has teamed up with Smart Car and they are holding a contest to win free chips for a year. All you have to do is visit their website and guess how many bags of potato chips they have crammed into a "For Two" Smart Car. Unlike a lot of these "guess how many" contests, they provide a rotating picture of the car so that may make it a little easier for you to count/guess.

They are also taking suggestions for new Kettle Chip flavors, so while you are there you can submit your own ideas - you can come up with something better than Carrot & Coriander or Blue Cheese with Bacon, right?

(thanks, Erica!)

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This past December, Nicole let us know that Kettle Foods ,the makers of Kettle brand potato chips, was holding what I call their annual "Chip-Off." Kettle Chips introduces a new flavor, but lets the people decide by releasing "contestant" flavors to the public, and allowing them to vote online. Kettle says that it was a three-way tie among Island Jerk, Dragon Five-Spice, and Twisted Chili Lime for a while, but in the end, the Jerk won out.

I actually got to try all five flavors in the Party Pack, and I'm certainly not surprised that Aztec Chocolate wasn't even in the Final Three. The chocolate flavor was a little too weird and had a bitter aftertaste. I like chocolate-covered potato chips, but the Aztec Chocolate Chips were just flavored with chocolate without the accompanying sweetness.

Though Island Jerk wasn't bad, I am a little disappointed that Royal Indian Curry wasn't the winner. In fact, I'm a little surprised that it wasn't in the final three. With all the hype and food trend-casting of spice for 2007, I would have thought Twisted Chili Lime would have been somewhat boring. I ate the Royal Indian Curry Chips in on sitting because they were so good -- except of course, that they were so powerfully "fragrant" that I smelled like garlic and curry for three days. But all is not lost. Before the winning flavor goes into official production, you can still order the other flavors online. Royal Indian Curry Chips just might make it in time for the Super Bowl!

When Kettle Chips decides to introduce a new flavor, they often create a "party pack" of unreleased flavors and let you - the consumer - vote for your favorite. The downside to this is that if your favorite flavor isn't the one that is chosen, you know exactly what you're missing out on, but it's still interesting to try the experimental flavors. The Passport to Flavor Pack is their newest selection. It includes five 5-oz. bags of chips in Royal Indian Curry, Dragon 5 Spice, Aztec Chocolate, Island Jerk and Twisted Chili Lime flavors, as well as a world music sample CD ("A Taste of Putumayo: Music for Every Palate"), food and drink pairing ideas and a chip clip so that you can seal up any uneaten chips. The pack is $19.95 and after you've tried the different flavors, you can go to Passport To Flavor to vote for the one you'd most like to see on store shelves next summer.

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Kettle Foods, the company that is famous for its natural, thick-sliced, hand-cooked potato chips, is holding a contest to select its next flavored chip. The new chip flavors are inspired by a "happy hour" theme and include Spicy Mary, Dirty Martini, Buffalo Bleu Cheese, Tuscan Three Cheese and Creamy Caesar. The chips are being sold, not in stores, but on the Kettle website in a party pack for $9.95, which includes a 5-ounce bag of each flavor, a tasting guide and step-by-step instructions for hosting your own happy hour. No doubt that the happy hour instruction guide recommends serving Kettle Chips. The Dirty Martini and the Creamy Ceasar sound the least appealing, but only the taste will truly tell which chip is the best. Voting can be done online or by the ballot included in each party pack.

Not that I eat them or anything (no, really I don't) but for some strange reason crisps seem to be featuring regularly on my culinary radar. Not only have I just discovered the apple crisps from Tyrrells but now I stumble across new healthier crisps.

 Kettle Chips newest release is 'Just Potatoes Undressed' with the tag line of 'Liberated Potatoes'. Undressed because they promise to be all natural with no added nasties. The Liberated part refers to the lower salt content following the UK's government low salt campaign.

Then there are Walkers Heads. The new addition here is Cheese Head with no artificial colours, flavours or perservaties. They also claim to be 70 per cent less in saturated fats than their competitors.

Staying in the snack arena I thought I would mention a new addition to the Nobby's range. For those who havent seen the TV advert the range is Nobby's Nuts with a humorous play on which packet the guys reach for... now there is Nobby's Cuts a meaty, beef-jerky snack aimed at 'blokes looking to satisfy their man-sized appetities'. Classy.