best crisp / potato chip flavour The New Generation

I am of course voting for REDACTED and will harshly judge anyone voting for REDACTED.

all dressed and zapps voodoo are my favorites. not the same flavor profile but they're both in that in-between zone between bbq and salt&vinegar which would be my next favorites in the absence of the combinations thereof

i like ready salted i have to say. cheese and onion obv classic. some of the newer generation crisps with salt and black pepper are nice.

plenty of these i'd eat. texture also a big factor. rippled suits some flavours better than others.

Based on a bag someone brought last night I'm now Team Dill Pickle.

There’s a ton on this list I’ve never had or seen (American). Write in vote for “loaded baked potato”.

went with salt and vinegar but i would love to try all of these tbr

my last meal would include granny goose ridged potato chips and a bowl of clam dip made my me.

Going with plain, specifically "Lightly Salted" ... ime potato chips in the US tend to have too much flavor and/or salt. Last time i bought some Kettle Chips i ended up throwing them out as the extreme saltiness made them inedible.

this is extremely difficult.

When i was a kid my mum would make crisp sandwiches #realengland

wouldn't be allowed today

first time I stopped smoking there was a moment where I realised my previously desensitized and probably destroyed nerve receptors had no fucking clue how explosively flavourful Seabrook's salt & vinegar crisps are. And then brewed Tea etc... but the crisps was the first revelation.

Tough to choose one but Salt + Vinegar.

Black truffle is one I've liked from a couple of brands. I assume truffle is pretty much the same thing.

There were a few with "truffle" in the name somewhere, think at least one was "black truffle" yeah.

Tough to choose one but Salt + Vinegar.

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When i was a kid my mum would make crisp sandwiches #realengland

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this is a thing in America too, usually potato chips on a hamburger bun with ketchup. this has served a reliable fallback veggie option at bbq’s

anyway the thing i wanna know is what kind of flavors can be achieved by layering different potato chip flavors together in the manner pioneered by jelly bean merchants and enthusiasts
https://www.jellybelly.com/jelly-belly-bean-recipes

Last month Tesco had some special edition doritos where one in ten chips were mega-spicy (and the rest were normal), and I wondered why anyone would buy such a thing - I mean maybe once, for a drinking game, maybe? But 99.99% of the time if I'm buying some doritos then I want them all to be the same level of spiciness. Anyway they are now on sale for 50p a bag and I'm still not buying.

I'm very curious to see where my answer lands because in my mind it's not particularly a close call.

I feel like any answer I give would be a lie and a betrayal

I really miss Wasabi Pringles tho

1. Paprika. But the tomato-y kind you get in Scandinavia, not the tasteless other one. Never get sick of this flavor.

2. Chicken, but I think only because I haven’t had it in ages since it’s not a flavor in the US.

3. Lamb and mint. Tbh only the first few chips are good - they’re a bit too rich to really enjoy.

4. All dressed. I get sick of this flavor pretty quickly though.

5. Salt and vinegar, obviously. But they fuck up my mouth real quick.

Would love to try Worcestershire. Love it on fries/hot chips, can’t imagine it’s not delicious on chips.

Best crisps atm are probably Tropical Sun's Caroline Reaper cassava crisps, so let's go hot chilli. Let the record state that Torres black truffle goes hard though, even if it is basically a gentrification punchline

*Carolina

I wish they sold dill pickle chips in aus! Erstwhile ILXor Kim once told me years ago she'd send me a pack from Canadia but we never got it sorted.

I dont know what to choose betwixt Tomato (sauce), cheese&onion, or salt & pepper.

Can't pick won't pick. Never heard of all dressed before though - "a combination of ketchup, BBQ, sour cream and onion, and salt and vinegar", sounds insane.

BBQ would be MOST of the flavor of it, with some extra umami. Basically the Dr Pepper of chips.

All-dressed is the most popular flavour in Canada, I learned from Wikipedia. Sounds fine, just a load of artificial flavours like most of them.

yeah the dr pepper to BBQ's coke is a good way to put it

anybody else extremely averse to salt and vinegar? The smell just completely repulses me.

I know what you mean, I can have a little but can't hover over the bag or anything.

TJs sells these black pepper (? I think?) chips in huge bags. For some reason they make me a little sick, I wonder if they use animal fat of some kind or some kind of product, because it's a specific kind of sick feeling that I generally don't feel ever (and I have eaten barely any meat for 25 years).

I think I'm addicted to salt & vinegar, if I don't have any I get all moody and irritable

BBQ Pringles are my current jam, I like to think of Gene Wolfe while I'm eating them.

https://www.foodandwine.com/gene-wolfe-pringles-11729598

If were voting my full lived truth it's always cheese and onion and then the bacons (which seem increasingly rare?) in second place. But I am choosing garlic because I had some aioli crisps in France a few years back (a brand called Breton then and I think Brets now) and they were a revelation. Since then I've been dogged by the idea that this is where the British crisp needs to go but I can't see it happening - we can learn from the continent (v. the steady climb of paprika) but this is maybe just too French (otoh I could see a high-end aioli crisp and then garlic sauce/garlic mayo mass-market type, so maybe I'm being too despairing)

Chakalaka? I'm a shing-a-ling guy myself

popular flavour in South Africa, apparently. something like a chutney or a relish.

voted worcestershire sauce

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I wanted to vote prawn cocktail just because I will never taste it but I like the idea. but salt & vinegar potato chips are my heart's joy. salt & vinegar hula hoops are the perfection of the form for me but any salt & vinegar potato chip is my friend.

When i was younger a friend insisted that the best way to eat crisps was to stuff as many as possible into your mouth (the whole bag ideally) causing a maximal flavor explosion as you chew down on them all.

salt & vinegar hula hoops is a great call but i would give the crown to salt & vinegar square crisps tbh

SC&O 4 lyfe

i really have to name specific brands here. utz salt and vinegar >>> deep river salt and cracked pepper >>>> all other chips

salt & vinegar hula hoops is a great call

At one job i worked in the 90s we could have these for free (among other snacks) and I would eat a couple of bags first thing every morning -- a fond but also gross memory.

salt & vinegar hula hoops is a great call

it really is

I wanted to vote prawn cocktail just because I will never taste it but I like the idea.

If were voting my full lived truth it's always cheese and onion and then the bacons (which seem increasingly rare?) in second place. But I am choosing garlic because I had some aioli crisps in France a few years back (a brand called Breton then)

These, as Brets, are becoming fairly easy to get now. A lot of the corner shops which have modernised via the kids of the original owners taking over stock them, at least near me.

I’m interested in how much chippage y’all are consuming

The co op salt and vinegar might be the best of the best imo, the vinegar will legit burn the skin off your mouth. Lovely.

King cheese & onion probably the best of all crisp flavours just for the sheer perfection and simplicity the execution, people glaze Tayto so much but King is really the best.

What else? I probably like prawn cocktail but not enough to go out of my way to buy. Googled and found a story that apparently the EU has forced the discontinuation of smokey bacon flavour crisps due to carcinogens (?) but there’s only a Sunday World link out there.

Obviously I remember the summer of scampo fondly

I had some prosciutto flavoured crisps from M&S the other day. Not bad and did genuinely taste like prosciutto.

Where does one go to buy chorizo or norishio potato crisps?

In the UK? M&S

norisho is a very common flavour in Japan, apparently

I would rather just eat the nori

just noticed that falafel flavored chips exist. would try

some write-ins from across the pond:

curry squid
mayo, bonito flake and cod roe pizza
chicken skin & yuzu pepper
grilled corn & purple potato

wow. want to try those.

voted Truffle for specifically Torres' version. Brets Camembert are droolworthy, too.

both great
fortunate to get a free supply of brets and torres every month

Now, to award The Best Crisp Flavor According to ILXors...

(Aimless hands System the envelope. System fumbles with it tries to wrestle it open, fails, looks sheepishly at the audience, then whispers in the ear of Aimless, who runs backstage looking for a pair of scissors...)

(Aimless walks slowly back onstage, because his mother always warned him about running with scissors...hands them over...System has no hands, so Aimless opens the envelope and holds up the results in front of System who studies them briefly, then...)

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salty and acidic - ilxors and ilxors' favorite potato chip

Boooo, worst flavour booooooo

Heh, did all the Americans sit this one out?

I voted (for salt and vinegar). I've only tasted about 12 of these, but several others I could rule out because I don't like the taste of those in other contexts

A fellow hot chilli voter!

Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length) at 6:35 6 Aug 25

I am of course voting for REDACTED and will harshly judge anyone voting for REDACTED.

Seabrook crinkle cut salt & vinegar is what I'm saying. But Seabrook prawn cocktail brings the flavour as well.

i voted salt & vinegar with pride. but salt & vinegar in the UK is >>>>>> whatever we're doing over here

Seabrook crinkle cut salt & vinegar is what I'm saying

I am also saying this. pity they aren't as easy to find as Walkers/McCoys

they got bought out by a Japanese snack company called Calbee in 2018, yet still their national retail distribution is not good?

Suprised no one voted for chicken, its prob the most commonly eaten flavour in chips here along with S&V and BBQ.

People do love their artificial flavors and preservatives.

The flavours are real

I have come to the conclusion that the ketchup ruffles you get here in Portugal taste identical to the UK prawn cocktail flavours

People do love their artificial flavors and preservatives.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 August 2025 14:21 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is because they are delicious

Is cajun squirrel actually real? I voted for it as a joke. Tbh I would apparently have been the only salt & pepper voter

Hedgehog Flavour Crisps

In 1982, Lewis was taken to court by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for an alleged breach of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 as the crisps did not actually contain any hedgehog.[3][4] The product was taken off sale during the legal dispute. Lewis argued that his description was accurate as Gypsies who had visited his pub stated that they tasted similar to actual baked hedgehogs.[3]

Since this poll, the vending machine in my work has introduced (smokey) bacon crisps and omg I'd forgotten how delicious they are.

This poll is sadly null and void because I, a crisp scientist, didn’t vote

Would have gone salt & vinegar I reckon

Since this poll, the vending machine in my work has introduced (smokey) bacon crisps and omg I'd forgotten how delicious they are.

Me too, except my method of choice was picking up a bag of these little fellas at Dublin airport. Certain other people thought they were too salty, but honestly, who needs regular blood pressure anyway? (I know they’re not crisp crisps, don’t @ me).

all dressed is the best.

contrarily, i like unsalted fine. just gimme that sweet sweet tater flavor

But I am choosing garlic because I had some aioli crisps in France a few years back (a brand called Breton then and I think Brets now) and they were a revelation. Since then I've been dogged by the idea that this is where the British crisp needs to go but I can't see it happening - we can learn from the continent (v. the steady climb of paprika) but this is maybe just too French (otoh I could see a high-end aioli crisp and then garlic sauce/garlic mayo mass-market type, so maybe I'm being too despairing)

― woof, Friday, August 8, 2025 9:58 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Got some ridged garlic bread crisps in Aldi last week, then saw chicken and garlic crisps in M&S. It is happening.

appalling poll results these

topical:

https://www.talkhouse.com/dan-wise-and-mark-ibold-eat-potato-chips-at-union-pool/

I had the lemonade Utz’s about a month ago. Totally skeptical to start with. First chip - kind of gross. But let’s a try a second. Hmm, something there. Third, maybe. Good enough to keep going now. Half an hour later the bag was almost gone…

kettle chips released a limited edition lime and black pepper flavour a few summers back which were divine

Bret’s ‘sauce pommes frites’ are the only crisps I care about these days

well well, look who showed up

On holiday in Nice. About to buy Bret’s tartiflette

Can't believe I missed this poll. Crisps are my true passion.

However, I have gone extremely boring in my old age in that a good "ready salted" is something I'd go for. Always love cheese & onion too. When I was a kid I loved prawn cocktail but would never choose them now - too sweet.

The actual best flavour is Walkers Barbecue - but NOT BBQ Sauce. I'm talking about the original, black bag that you can't get here any more. I found some in France a couple of years ago, brought a multipack home and banned my kids from touching them.

For a present once I got these Spudos crisps where you get a huge tub of really crunchy unflavoured crisps and put your own flavouring on from a selection. The all tasted a bit "noochy" except the Chip Shop Curry one which was a revelation.

(Spudos are a good idea but sometimes it was far too much work involved to get crisps out of box, put in paper bag, shake with the flavouring, then repeat 3 mins later when you want more).

never heard of Spudos before, noticed it comes with "as featured on Dragon's Den" in the blurb

International Crisp Sandwich Day tomorrow, in case anyone had forgotten.

https://vole.wtf/crisp-sandwich-day/