Ah, pop-up, pay-a-little food pantries! They' re always a roulette spin of not ever knowing exactly quite what one is going to get for $25... like the potato chips about which I'm about to share my opinion It might have been elsewhere, actually, that I got a bag of Urge! Hold The Fries! Ketchup Flavored potato chips. And, honestly, until a recent Canada-centric survey by Harriet56, I was a bit frightened, if not repulsed, by the prospect of eating catsup-flavored chips. I need not have been. They provide a wholly different experience than eating French fries with ketchup-- which I rarely do, unless they're sweet potato fries--but I enjoyed. After all, Hold The Fries! chips, like fries with the produced-based condiment in question,, offer a combination of sweetly tomatoey, starchy, and, ideally in fries' case, crunchy. If you've tried catsup-flavored potato chips, do you enjoy them?

The next chip about which I'll opine I'm only guessing is beloved of Canadian snackers; it's made by a U.S. company (as Urge! is), but some of its bag's text is in French. So I'm guessing Minnesota-made Old Dutch Creamy Dill potato chips are being shipped north, not in a southerly direction to French-speaking Acadian shoppers in Louisiana. In any case, the chips themselves are peculiar. They're ridged, but not deeply as Ruffles,. They've an appearance and mouthfeel that gives the idea that they're baked, but they're much flatter than Pringles. But they deliver on the promise of dill flavor. The creaminess must come from how the herbal flavor is muted a bit on the--at least my--tongue. But, if you're a Canadian champ for chips or have purchased them there, am I right about creamy dill being a flavor of crisp, potato-based snacks popular in the provinces north of my state?

Third in my taste testing is Lay's All Dressed potato chips. according to the back of the bag I opened, the dressing adorning these chips consists of the flavorings for the brand's sour cream & onion, vinegar & salt, and barbecue 'tater chips. Depending on the type of BBQ sauce one favors, there are taste notes shared between all three components of the All Dressed chips' coating. My expectation was that my taste buds would be blown away by an overpowering complexity of sensations on my palate. Not quite . Instead, this might be the subtlest of the lot, with each constituent flavor breezily floating from my mouth to nostrils and back again as I munched. I'll finish the bag,, but I don't think I'd purchase them outside paying my pop-up pantry share fee. The Wikipedia entry on all dressed potato chips lists ketchup as a fourth flavor traditionally enhancing them. Whether you've eaten all dressed chips and however they were dressed, do you think catsup would add significantly/positively to their taste?

After trying all three flavors of potato chips I reviewed above, I had a small bowl of the trio mixed together. They were pleasant both in taste and texture on my mouth, but, without saying they were necessarily my favorite, the creamy bill chips seemed most prominent Of the three types of chips I tried, which is your favorite (alternately, which would you most like to try?

Whether potato-based or not, if you know of any other bagged, crisp, Canadian snacks I might enjoy, especially ones you know or think wouldn't usually be sold in the States, how about sharing in a comment below?