Walkers has a pretty cool website. It’s a flash site that you can tell they spent a lot of resources to put together. And it’s pretty fun and useful. We thought this baked flavor they had was interesting and how they display the bag with the description and nutrition info is fancy, animated and helpful.
What a celebration. National Potato Chip day. Didn’t even know that existed. ChicagoNow.com has a slideshow of close to a hundred different chip kinds and flavors. Pretty cool. I wish I could have participated somehow.
We noticed a lot of Walkers Chips from the UK pictured in the gallery. We noticed a bag of their Tomato Ketchup flavor at a local grocery too. Not a flavor I’m interested in, but I thought it was amusing. They have quite a few going on, including one that gave me a double take, Cajun Squirrel. What? That rules. I’ll keep investigating that one.
So if you were wondering what you might not be getting from your favorite snack companies, do like I did on the Pringle’s website. Change the country name. You’ll see what’s happening in a lot of places. I was looking for a Balsamic Vinegar I got wind of. Didn’t spot that there, but they do have a few Xtreme flavors that I wish I could get here.
If you’ve been on international flights, you’ve seen your share of meal combos. Some aren’t bad. I’ve enjoyed meals going to Japan and Europe. The website EnglishRussia has a view of the inner workings of airplane meals. It’s not only fascinating to see the production environment, the food looks quite good. Too bad some of their plate design work will get bumped around and displaced while rolling on the tarmac and ramps inside those closed container carts. The presentation is quite good. Are the showing off for the camera? You might think so, but given the urgent ongoing need for meals, they don’t have much time to invent new things just for a photo shoot.
Thanks to Lisa Katayama at Boing Boing for posting this collection by Flickr User Fried Toast. Finally we see a great deal of the world’s KitKat’s all in one place. See this flickr KitKat set.
I thought this was a good product to highlight because of the uncommon ingredient of hemp as well as the Omega 3 in it. I’m not expert on Omega 3, but from what I’ve read, it’s a fatty acid your body needs and it promotes good health. Found in some fish and obviously hemp. This beverage has a bulky thickness, not quite like egg nog, but a good weight to it.
I think it wouldn’t be a taste you would crave, but it does have potential to be mixed with many things. They provide some fun recipes at the Taste The Dream Website and on the container.
What an excellent idea. Bacon-flavored popcorn you can buy online at ThinkGeek. I’d rather get it at a local store than online, unless I could buy a mini case and share it with friends and coworkers. Something tells me you could make this yourself given a few hundred failed attempts. I guess because the bacon smell lingers so much that you just know you could harness the vapors once you’re done cooking breakfast. Having said that, this popcorn is all veggie. No real bacon at all.
New Scientist has an article about the five snacks that are shaped like space. Sounds interesting I suppose.
Even after having run out of money, I still splurged for the popchips bag I saw on the shelf at Target. Apparently frying a chip is too unhealthy, and baked chips? Too boring, according to the bag that is. I knew with all that talk, I’d be getting something a little different.
The bag is too small, too light. It’s 3oz for nearly the same price of any other bag of chips. To contrast that, a box of Pepperidge Farm crackers near the same price point is about 8oz. It needs another 35% to feel right for the $3 range. The texture of these chips is a lot of fun. The taste is decent. Not crazy delicious, although I can only speak for the salt & pepper version. I’m wishing I got the salt and vinegar version to try.
According to the popchips website, “we found a way to pop all the flavor in while keeping fake stuff and more than half the fat of fried chips out. Thanks to the magic of popped.”
Men’s Health magazine calls them the best potato chip. As I read the hype I can’t help but get a little annoyed. Too much too soon I think. Feels like a marketing campaign with one of the big players behind it. But I don’t know. The domain is registered by Sonora Mills, which looks wholesome enough. I’m probably just imagining things, right? It’s probably not a conspiracy, just another high priced organic snack. Hopefully.
The chip is decent, it’s a good addition but not very memorable. When I first had salt and pepper popcorn or pita chips, I had to tell some people. This one, I’m not running next door to share. (There’s not enough left in the bag!) I’d be pleased to see the right size bag in a snack machine or a bowl at a party, but let’s not get ridiculous and pretend it’s a game-changer. I’ll try to get around to more flavors to provide more description, but the thing is, I’m not all that thrilled to buy it again either. That’s my point. They need to make the size more worth the money, because the texture isn’t selling it. If I want a healthier snack, it ain’t a chip. I could easily pass these by. They’re good, but their flavors are like everyone else’s. I’m thinking in a year or so, they’ll push the limits with a few different tastes that suit the texture.
If you want a different texture than chips and boring flavors I suggest one of the many flavors of mini rice cakes.
I keep Dove Almond Chocolates in the house and always on the list. Popchips, not so much. I don’t regret the purchase, but I don’t have much emotion over them. Add %35-%40 more and you’ll have something here that you’ll pull away snackers from the competition. They are definitely on the right track here. My rating is 7.5 out of 10. And the answer is no, I don’t have a consistent rating system.
This isn’t the first time I’ve reviewed a snack from Blue Diamond. They are, in my opinion an ideal vendor. They are prolific in the stores and you can still order from them online, if you don’t mind buying by the case that is.
These Nut Thins, almond crackers are one of many kinds of rice crackers around. Whether they come in a box or in a roll package, nearly all rice crackers are overpriced. They are simple and delicious though, if not too salty. Blue Diamond’s ARE too salty, but you get over that. Ingredients are pronounceable and they have an easy taste. My wife could eat this type of cracker (in a Trader Joe’s brand) when she was early in her pregnancy. One of the few things she could eat.
Besides the the Blue Diamond almond cracker, we also tried the pecan flavor. I’ll be very clear about my problems with the pecan version here though. Sometimes a snack has a flavor that is released into the air inside your mouth, not so much on your tongue, but it’s an aroma + flavor, intentional or not. I can’t explain it exactly, but a slight bitter cardboard / berry flavor appears from within the pecan cracker when you munch on them. It’s not subtle, just difficult to explain and it’s wrong for the cracker. But you’ll like the almond cracker, go for it. B+ Ignore pecan for now.
