Favorite chips

MidCakePa said:
But seriously, my favorite chips are hand-cut, house-made potato chips that you get at some of your better independent burger joints. Fresh out of the fryer, sprinkled with a bit of salt, they’re hard to beat.

In a pinch, I’m not above enjoying a bag of Ruffles. They’re hard to beat too.
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I liked Ruffles. The ridges kept my onion dip from sliding off. My least favorite chips are Pringles. Too thin and the container a big turn off. I need bagged chips.
 
MidCakePa said:
But seriously, my favorite chips are hand-cut, house-made potato chips that you get at some of your better independent burger joints. Fresh out of the fryer, sprinkled with a bit of salt, they’re hard to beat.

In a pinch, I’m not above enjoying a bag of Ruffles. They’re hard to beat too.
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Do try Cape Cod Waves. Thick and crunchy.

And yes, the ferias in Spain when I was stationed there, and the food casetas where the vendor’s kids would be throwing whole potatoes in the slicer, dad would be turning the handle, and into the vat of bubbling olive oil the potatoes would slide. Mama would scoop them out when they were just done with a huge slotted industrial-width flat shallow scoop, give them a secret number of shakes while a kid sprinkled sea salt, and then the batch would slide into a cone of rolled newspaper. So good.

Then it was off to the whole roasted garlic chicken caseta, then the pimientos fritos caseta, then the pinchitos caseta, punctuated by beverage stops and then a stop for ice cream and then a stop for…oh sorry, food memory lane rabbit hole. That last stop was always the Lepanto brandy tent, very late.
 
In any game of Bacon, Chips and Cocktails, it is played similarly to Rock, Paper, Scissors, but with one important distinction - Bacon always wins. (Don’t get technical on me. I just made this up. Feel free to write new rules.)

I think Bacon just got played here.
 
In our family, it’s not technically a road trip unless we stop at a c-store and pick up Corn Nuts and Cheetos. Neither is technically a chip — distant cousins, maybe. But they’re “road food” at its best.
 
Cheetos on a road trip? All I can think about are the orange all over my hands and not having a sink to wash my hands.

Getting off the topic here, but our road trip food is typically combos, mostly because my spouse and I can eat them and only 1 of the kids like them, so we get to eat them more.

We also go to Chex frequently, that's more my spouse than me. Chex can be a bit more messy than combos, but sometimes combos are hard to find in the store.
 
If I’m going with salty things in a bag that are snack food but not usually called a chip, one of my desert island must-haves is white cheddar popcorn from a quality brand.

Or that addictive 3-flavor sweet, salty, cheesy popcorn blend from the airport kiosk in Chicago.

Poll: I admit to picking out the bits I like in Chex Mix and eating them in order. No mixed handfuls all at once. Chex first, nuts second, pretzels last. You?
 
Menards (hardware store like Lowes) has a version of corn nuts which (dare I say it) are better than corn nuts and aren't as much like rocks that will make you think you're going to chip a tooth. They are good, but you have to be on a road trip that takes you by a Menards. That constrains your trip to passing through Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania - I think.
 
Capt MJ said:
If I’m going with salty things in a bag that are snack food but not usually called a chip, one of my desert island must-haves is white cheddar popcorn from a quality brand.

Or that addictive 3-flavor sweet, salty, cheesy popcorn blend from the airport kiosk in Chicago.

Poll: I admit to picking out the bits I like in Chex Mix and eating them in order. No mixed handfuls all at once. Chex first, nuts second, pretzels last. You?
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SAME eating Chex Mix methodology. Save the favorites for last.

Bit of a tangent…but homemade Mix is the best. My Ensigns fav is double the sauce (real butter of course), half the pretzels, extra nuts and cooked one cycle less than the recipe calls for in the oven (so 45 mins, instead of 60). Yes, I’ve made this more than a few times!

Of course it’s eaten out of a bag on road trips. Keeping on point.
 
When I was in college in California, there was a local company that made tortilla chips fried in coconut oil. OMG!!!

Since then, no tortilla chip has ever come close. Don’t know whatever happened to that brand. Wonder why more companies don’t do it.
 
MidCakePa said:
When I was in college in California, there was a local company that made tortilla chips fried in coconut oil. OMG!!!

Since then, no tortilla chip has ever come close. Don’t know whatever happened to that brand. Wonder why more companies don’t do it.
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There is a restaurant in Virginia Beach that made the best chips for us and with this homemade white sauce. My wife and I left the area in 2000, but have been for a place that's half as good.

Last night I grab a personal size bag of plain chips. Then threw some old bay in the bag. Was actually pretty good.

We just finished off our weekend bag of kettle corn.
 
THParent said:
Menards (hardware store like Lowes) has a version of corn nuts which (dare I say it) are better than corn nuts and aren't as much like rocks that will make you think you're going to chip a tooth. They are good, but you have to be on a road trip that takes you by a Menards. That constrains your trip to passing through Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania - I think.
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Behold! The Menard's Empire! I knew I had seen them in Michigan.
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brewmeist said:
My favorite chip? Nestle Toll House semi-sweet.

My family loves taco night, because the next day I cut up and deep fry any leftover tortillas. OK, so I'm frugal...
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Do try Ghirardelli 60% cacao chips, if you like dark chocolate.

Even better, order Valhrona chips online. And just eat them out of the bag.
 
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Love Miss Vickie's Lime & Cracked Pepper. Hard to find in stores, but there's a sub shop here, Capriotti's, that has them in the small single-serve bags.

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