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Lost in the Supermarket

A few months ago good ol' Ricky was in some store in Winnipeg and he stumbled across bags of Tyrrell's Hand Cooked English Chips; WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE & SUNDRIED TOMATO FLAVOUR. He was nice enough to snatch me up a bag of these delicious sounding salty treats. The bag looks like it's trying to evoke a feeling of days gone by. The front of the bag refers to England and the back explicitly states "MADE IN ENGLAND" but they refer to the chips as, well, chips (this confuses me, if anyone from England/UK reads this, please explain to me why they wouldn't refer to them as crisps). Anyway, today I went downstairs and grabbed my bag of Worcestershire Sundried Tomato out of the salty stash..continued on to the beer fridge and pulled out a Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout (because when in England, amiright) and popped a squat on the couch. I opened the bag; yep, kettle cooked lil' things, the seasoning is pretty light based on visual inspection. I gingerly tossed a 'chip' into my mouth and..the visual was correct. These chips are (for the most part) light on the seasoning. There is a somewhat muddled Worcestershire sauce flavour with the slightest hint of tomato (every once in a while I hit a chip that had a strong sundried tomato flavour)..honestly they [for the most part] taste like BBQ chips to me. As I picked my way through the bag, the seasoning seemed to get slightly stronger (I don't know if this is just in my head or what. Either way, cool). While continuing consumption I noticed that the after taste contained more Worcestershire sauce flavour than the initial crunch (this is very welcomed) with a hint of a burn in the back of the throat. The flavour type/flavour levels are pretty uneven throughout the bag. The chips are on the good side of the kettle cooked spectrum, not super greasy. If you like BBQ chips give 'em a toss, I wouldn't go out of my way to find them however.

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Stay hydrated,
Marc

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