Too good not to share

Forgive me if I’ve reviewed this one previously. I checked the reviews over the past few years, and I don’t find it.

I’ve been cutting back on the potato chips. But I’ve been cutting back on the reviews more extensively than I have been cutting back on the new flavors. That puts me in a difficult situation.

You’ll recall I had an entire directory on my computer with flavors waiting for their turn in the spotlight. The directory is still there, and now has considerably more files in it than it did when I first disclosed it.

So, in an attempt to reduce that backlog, here’s a new review. Mayonnaise. Potatoes and mayonnaise bring to mind certain versions of patatas mixtas and innumerable izakaya sessions in Japan. Our terminology regarding chips and crisps runs a real risk of confusing the reader here, so I’ll write as plainly as possible.

The bar food involves real potatoes, cut to a size that one could perhaps eat with a fork, or fingers, or with chopsticks, and then dip into mayonnaise. Likewise, these bagged potato chips in Thailand are of a size that one can hold them in the hand, or could hold them with chopsticks—although probably not with a fork. In short, if one wanted to have potato chips with mayonnaise, it’s easy to dip these into mayonnaise. That’s what I was thinking as I bought them, and that’s what I was thinking as I ate them.

Sure, these taste of potatoes and salt and mayonnaise. But so would plain chips with fresh mayonnaise. This flavor may be better on items that are difficult to dip into fresh mayonnaise. Peanuts, for example, or cashews. Or popcorn.

These chips? They had such an underwhelming impact on me that I didn’t write the review for more than two years. But that idea about taking this flavor to nuts and popcorn? That’s too good not to share.