Potato Chips

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.

I was up early this morning to write a newsletter. I heard the intermittent sound of firecrackers out the window while I was writing. After I finished writing, I decided to go for a run before the midday heat.

I’ve tried a lot of crab flavored potato chips. There was crab curry, soft shell crab, and chili crab. There’s been a crab fried rice flavor (that I had just once) that I don’t seem to have reviewed yet.

No, not what I expected at all. In fact, there’s a couple different aspects to this. The primary one, of course, is that I did not expect the extra crunchy grilled eel with Japanese sauce to be my favorite of this recent tasting.

I’ve got a directory labeled chips on my computer’s filesystem, and it has 51 files in it. I think that’s my backlog of flavors yet to introduce to you all. Those are for later.

I haven’t been eating at nearly as many restaurants as I used to. Yesterday, however, I happened to be out for lunch and had a terrific bowl of duck noodles.

The new flavors have been coming so quickly that I just can’t keep up. There was the cheese pizza flavor—I called it the gateway chip—and I’ve been think about it ever since.

Funny how I happened to be in 7-11 again the other day. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw some unfamiliar packaging, and took a closer look to find the details of this new flavor.

I never saw this one coming. This KFC Original Recipe surprised me. After the Chef’s Signature series and then the 25th anniversary flavor retrospective, I wasn’t expecting this KFC x Lays Thailand collaboration.

Lays Thailand continues to celebrate the flavors of the past 25 years. I’d had both of these before, but I don’t believe I wrote about them. There was the nam phrik phao flavor—something like an open flame chili paste in the translation.