Tales of the Salty Bag

Off the dome I can only think of 1 restaurant chain x chip colab (Lay's Chalet Sauce), I'm sure there have been more (I want to say Covered Bridge have collaborated with east coast restaurants, but they're not widely known). Well, a couple days ago a friend from work made me aware of a second colab..and followed up by providing me with a tube of Limited Time Only Pringles Wendy's Spicy Chicken Flavour "Potato Chips" (sure Pringles, these are "potato" "chips"). I quite enjoy a spicy chicken go wrap from Wendy's so even though these are Pringles I'm actually looking forward to trying them.  Pop open the tube and..they smell like Pringles, not much of a seasoning smell, just that sterile tube chip smell. Pop it in my mouth and the initial flavour is spicy breading, decent kick, because this flavour is so often associated with chicken breading it (I think tricks my mind into thinking that it) tastes like chicken. Pepper kick. The back e...

 Herr's Buffalo Style Blue Cheese Flavour(ed) Corn Snacks. Herr's is coming about you with puffy cheese corn sticks. The heat is a sort of mild vinegar based heat, there's a bit of a bite but they don't really make you sweat. The blue cheese flavour is present but not overpowering (for the most part) and seems to come and go as it pleases becoming the most present at about the 3/4 mark of consumption. Like I said these are puffy, so the crunch is light. I'm really digging the blue cheese in these (if you're not a fan of blue cheese you might not want to get these [but if you're not a fan of blue cheese and you picked up a bag of these regardless of reading my thoughts, that's on you, the bag emphasizes Blue Cheese]). The further I get into the bag the more the heat builds up in my mouth, it's not overwhelming and still not cracking a sweat but it's a nice mouth tingle. There's a bit of the standard cheese puff cheddar at this party as well, b...

 So the Salty Bag's international correspondent sent in a whole wack of notes/reviews/what have you. Without further ado: Various Mayonesa (mayo) flavoured chips were all over Ecuador , Sometimes powdered flavour and sometimes an actual sachet of mayo to throw in the bag (Yupi Rizadas). Neither good nor bad, salty and fatty as expected, I preferred the (Tostitos) Pizzerolas (sabor a pizza).  I didn't find a lot of chip variety where I was wandering around in Spain but the (Ruffles sabor a Jamon) ham flavour made sense, they were salty. The UAE had these (Lay's) French Cheese chips. I don't know how you expect to distill all the cheese in France into a chip but these were forgettable (not like French cheese which is amazing) and perhaps an apt metaphor.  The Sun Chips (not the North American Sun Chips brand) Mix Masala chips from Sri Lanka weren't actually Lankan. I think they were imports. I wanted them to be more spicy.  The Maldives had a fair amount of chips, th...

I kept sleeping on the Bad Operation LP. A while ago I signed up for the notification when a new pressing was available from Bad Time Records. The first notification came in and I guess I waited a bit too long to order, so no dice. Finally a month or so ago the 3rd pressing came up for order so I got me a beautiful cotton candy. That is however not what I'm writing about today, when I got the first notification (yet after I went and saw the 2nd pressing was already sold out) I went through the Bad Time bandcamp to figure out what albums I was going to order with Bad Operation. I only sampled a few songs from each band because I like the surprise of a new band and through that sampling I decided that I'd order Kill Lincoln, The Best of the Worst, and Joystick!'s newest albums. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago when my order from Bad Time came in. I was pretty excited to listen to the lot because I only had a vague guess as to what they would sounds like..and let me tell you...

 I just ate way too many nachos. I put some chopped up garlic sausage, perogies, cheese and onion on them. Bangarang. Sooooooo, I'm dipping back into the phone notes for tonight's chip review. Without further adieu let me take you back to July 6, 2021 when I had some Great Value Hot Chicken..Nashville-Style!! flavoured potato chips. Did you know these chips are free from artificial flavours and colours and are inspired by Nashville (I find it weird how meat flavoured chips can be free from artificial flavours). These Great Value chips are ridged..mid sized ridges to be exact..with a light crunch. The flavour, well the flavour has a little bit of charcoal and tastes like bbq'd chicken. There's a dash of brown sugar sweetness here and there. The heat is dry and mid ranged that builds the deeper you get into the bag. Hot chicken is a very apt description. Good spicy chip, Great Value once again lives up to their name. I couldn't think of a band from Nashville so I did ...

 President's Choice World Off Lavours (what are Lavours?..[ohhhh, World OF Flavours {*badum chhhhh*}]) Taco flavour (Mild [doux] heat). Do these PC chips taste like tacos? Yes. *drops mic* Nice big ridges, similar to wavy Lays, with a great mid weight crunch. I taste taco seasoning, cheese, a bit of sour cream and a hint of onion and lettuce (the picture on the bag is pretty, pretty accurate [how do you simulate lettuce flavour, maybe it's just the picture on the bag that makes me think I'm tasting it..but I'm pretty sure there's some lettuce up in this bag]). If you've ever had taco dip, that's these but in potato chip form. I feel as though the people who concocted the seasoning for these chips had a bag of Old Dutch Mexican Chili and were like, "yeah, those are okay, we can do better", ran with a taco seasoning based chip and nailed it. The mild heat label/symbol on the bag is pretty accurate. I'd like to have a crack at some taco dip with t...

 I'm sitting here listening to the new Kitty Kat Fan Club 12", "I love music. I love my friends. I just want to have fun. All I want is love. Sweet Love." or All I Want Is Love . The A side is comprised of 4 new songs. The B side is the 7 songs that made up KKFC's first 2 7"s. I've loved everything that KKFC have put out and this is not an exception (and it's nice to have the 2 7's on the B side so I don't have to keep flipping). I wrote about their (hopefully) first (of many) LP here and their first 7" here . The new songs are, well, KKFC songs. Jangly tweeish pop rock, some synth and I think organ too?..they're the sonic equivalent of heading out to wakeskate on a glass lake after a sun-shower with a rainbow overhead. I can't find the new 4 songs on bandcamp, they're however shown as singles on the KKFC spotify . Do I wish that the 4 new songs were 10 or 12, yeah..but if that's my only complaint about a release,...