It's great when people pick up chips for me when they're out and about. A couple weeks ago a friend from work (Tyler) was dipping down to the states and asked if I wanted any chips. To both of our chagrin, the Voodoo Heat (Zapp's) that I had filled him in on where nowhere to be found. He was however still nice enough to bring me back a couple bags of chips, one of them being Lay's Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle Flavored. When I read the bag it seemed familiar but I wasn't 100% positive, I searched the blog but nothing came up..so I looked through my phone notes and what do you know, low and behold Lay's released a bag of chips last year under an almost identical name, "Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle Remix "inspired by hip-hop music" (I'll touch on that bag later). I cracked my new bag of Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle and took a whiff..mostly dill pickle seasoning with a slight oiled potato smell (not much, if any, flamin hot that my nose picked up on). The chips are standard Lay's, mid crunch, fairly sterile and void of 'defects'. When I popped one in my mouth I was initially met by dill pickle almost immediately followed by a hot pepper heat, more aggressive than jalapeno. It's the heat of one of those red peppers that you usually get with pho, I don't know what they are but there's definitely some kick to them. Following suit, these chips have quite the kick, it mostly comes after in the later half of eating each chip and builds the deeper you get into the bag. There's flavour to the heat, but it's towing the line between enjoyable and minor feat of strength chips. They're good, but if you're planning on eating more than 50g in a sitting you'd better be prepared with some sort of dip to cut the heat. I'd say one of the hotter "flamin hot" salty snacks that I've tried. I will finish this post with some pretty good forehead sweats going.
I wrote the above before I read my notes of the "inspired by hip-hop". Now lets see what the remix was like when I had them April 16, 2019. "Looks bangin', shiny magenta bag. Smell like dill pickle for the most part. Taste like, starts off dill pickle, ends with a heat that's a notch above jalap with some sweetness. Standard weight Lay's with medium crunch. Part of Lay's "turn up flavour" contest. Chips and music you say....cool. The heat borderlines chemical but still remains in the 'natural' spectrum. Gets some good forehead sweats going. The flamin' hot for the most part outweighs the dill pickle. I like what they're going for but others have done spicy dill pickle better. Worth a try if you like heat. Almost missed this tag at the bottom of the bag, "inspired by hip-hop music"..um, sure Lay's..sure."
There you have it, same chips, slightly different bag and labeling. I didn't notice the sweetness as much tonight but I can sort of see where I was coming from last year.
Now, inspired by hop-hop music, I would vehemently disagree. What a heat this aggressive you have to go into the heavier side of metal, and tonight the first band that came to mind was Toronto's Sacrifice. The first time that I had heard of Sacrifice was by way of Propagandhi in the late aughts when they were gearing up for a split album. I didn't pick up said album and actually didn't check out Sacrifice either, but due to the Prop connection Sacrifice was burned into the back of my mind. Fast forward almost a decade, last spring I was in Into the Music and I stumbled across a used copy of Sacrifice's The One's I Condemn, it's now happily in my record collection. The One's is a banger. Thrashy metal, that (without comparing side by side) is a bit slower and slightly heavier than Slayer (when I say a bit slower, I mean a wee bit..they could very well be on par). Riffidge and shredidge galore. The vocals are fairly clear, with a bit of shriek adjacent throaty gravel. The lyrics fit in with the dark imagery present on the jacket of the record..and their name. All in all, Sacrifice rips and if you have even a passing interest in thrash you'll dig.
Stay hydrated,
Marc
I wrote the above before I read my notes of the "inspired by hip-hop". Now lets see what the remix was like when I had them April 16, 2019. "Looks bangin', shiny magenta bag. Smell like dill pickle for the most part. Taste like, starts off dill pickle, ends with a heat that's a notch above jalap with some sweetness. Standard weight Lay's with medium crunch. Part of Lay's "turn up flavour" contest. Chips and music you say....cool. The heat borderlines chemical but still remains in the 'natural' spectrum. Gets some good forehead sweats going. The flamin' hot for the most part outweighs the dill pickle. I like what they're going for but others have done spicy dill pickle better. Worth a try if you like heat. Almost missed this tag at the bottom of the bag, "inspired by hip-hop music"..um, sure Lay's..sure."
There you have it, same chips, slightly different bag and labeling. I didn't notice the sweetness as much tonight but I can sort of see where I was coming from last year.
Now, inspired by hop-hop music, I would vehemently disagree. What a heat this aggressive you have to go into the heavier side of metal, and tonight the first band that came to mind was Toronto's Sacrifice. The first time that I had heard of Sacrifice was by way of Propagandhi in the late aughts when they were gearing up for a split album. I didn't pick up said album and actually didn't check out Sacrifice either, but due to the Prop connection Sacrifice was burned into the back of my mind. Fast forward almost a decade, last spring I was in Into the Music and I stumbled across a used copy of Sacrifice's The One's I Condemn, it's now happily in my record collection. The One's is a banger. Thrashy metal, that (without comparing side by side) is a bit slower and slightly heavier than Slayer (when I say a bit slower, I mean a wee bit..they could very well be on par). Riffidge and shredidge galore. The vocals are fairly clear, with a bit of shriek adjacent throaty gravel. The lyrics fit in with the dark imagery present on the jacket of the record..and their name. All in all, Sacrifice rips and if you have even a passing interest in thrash you'll dig.
Stay hydrated,
Marc
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