Kettle Chips
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Although the official voting is over and done and the Kettle site has named its winner, it is still not too late to order any of the five unreleased flavors. I’d been saving up my own Kettle Party Pack for just the right occasion and the Super Bowl seemed like the right time to pull it out and inflict it on all my friends. Not all of the flavors were loved (I believe several people called the Aztec Chocolate “disgusting”), but it certainly gave us all plenty to talk about during the pre-game show.
Here is the list of flavored chips that we sampled:
Twisted Chili Lime
Dragon Five Spice
Aztec Chocolate
Royal Indian Curry
Island Jerk
I collected only 8 ballots at the party, but people had a lot of additional detail to report to me about what they like, didn’t like at all, what they thought a potato chip should be, how it should be treated. I had no idea that people felt so strongly about potato chips. In the end, nobody in our small group liked the Aztec Chocolate – the best it could rate was “not as bad as I expected it to be”. Dragon Five Spice got three votes for favorite flavor as did Island Jerk.
For me personally, I found that it was a toss up between Royal Indian Curry, Island Jerk and Twisted Chili Lime. Several people strongly disliked the Chili Lime flavor – it was love it or hate it, I guess. For my tastes the Curry wasn’t spicy enough and had too much sweetness to it. I thought the chip with the best kick was the Island Jerk (glad to see that it won in the official race) and I wished that some of the other flavors had been a little hotter.
Now that the official voting at the Kettle website is over you can create your own party pack with the flavors you liked best and have it mailed to you directly from Kettle. It was a fun idea for a party although don’t forget that some people are potato chip purists and make sure you have some plain, salted chips on hand to keep them happy (and quiet).
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