![]() “Oh cool, like dill pickle chips but then it hurts.” So said Mia upon trying her first Lay’s Flamin’… Review: Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips.Let’s call these munchable but unremarkable. I guess I thought a Trader Joe’s snack pitching heat front and center might be a little more daring than this. Actually I remember more heat even in Golden Flake Hot chips. Flamin’ Hot Nacho Doritos are unambiguously hotter. Nearly all of what I taste is black pepper and jalapeno, and I snarfed that entire plate without a beverage. I can’t taste any ghost pepper at all, and there is very little of the gradual build that is so characteristic of Capsicum chinense cultivars. I’m not sure there’s enough here for the chips to carry themselves in a solo consumption. I would enjoy these with a burger or a ham sandwich, and that’s probably how I’ll dispatch the rest of them. There is some chile, some garlic, and a whisper of onion. For the ingredient list, there’s really not a lot of complexity here. Salt hits first, and the spice mix is appealing, if surprisingly vague. There’s enough oil to deliver a very slight melt on the back side of the mastication, but not so much that it is excessively heavy. ![]() Kettle-cooked chips are generally more robust in this department anyway, and the increased surface area from the lattice cut may be a minor contributor as well. (I’d have realized that had I read the ingredient panel before I poured them out.) The crunch is quite satisfying. I expected the chips to be red, or at least reddish. There is a fair amount of MSG lurking behind a couple of these names, so if you believe yourself sensitive to MSG, be aware. It’s a lengthy list, but nothing out of bounds for a processed snack food. ![]() Ingredients: Potatoes, sunflower oil, ghost pepper seasoning (maltodextrin, spices, dextrose, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, yeast extract, torula yeast, citric acid, vinegar, natural chili pepper flavor, natural capsicum flavor, natural smoke flavor ), sea salt. Note that they are kettle chips (which I prefer) and lattice-cut, which is something of a rarity in a bagged grocery store snack. So I was excited to get home and get into them. This is the first Trader Joe’s product I’ve ever tried, as far as I know, and Trader Joe’s press is nearly universally glowing. My sister and my niece brought me a surprise from their Trader Joe’s.
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