(Organic) Kettle Sea Salt

Round Five! Kettle Brand organic Sea Salt chips. Again, coming specially from our resident organic expert. I think that we're going to be comparing these to the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed. But first, it's very important that everyone knows how difficult of a time Will had opening these. Like, it was ridiculous. He pulled and pulled, with all his might, and they would not open. Will's not a weak guy by any means, and these gave him a run for his money. Finally, after several minutes of struggling, he was able to wrestle them open. He'll tell you he was trying to be careful to not rip the bag right in half, but he's just trying to cover up his bruised ego.

Anyways, on to the less important issues at hand. These weren't as good as the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed. They're not as salty as the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed. They are, however, crunchier than the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed. I'm pretty sure that we liked the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed better.

Side note, I had some of the other organic sea salt chips we reviewed today, and man are they full of salty goodness.

Ruffles Jalapeno Popper

Round four! Jalapeno Popper chips, made by Ruffle. Apparently we're following a theme of flavours that would be good for that football party.

First and foremost, if for no other reason than to have it be known, I want to point out that Norm got a burnt chip.

Now that that's out of the way, on to the important stuff. These have great flavour. They taste exactly like you'd expect jalapeno popper chips to taste. They've got a good spice too them...not too much, but not too little. They've also got a really good mix of jalapeno flavour with a subtle amount of cream cheese.

Perhaps the whole review can be summed up into this one simple quote from Will:
"These are really good. I forgot how good they are."

Double Dutch Buffalo Wing and Blue Cheese

Round three: Double Dutch Buffalo Wing and Blue Cheese. Another really good flavour for that Sunday afternoon football game. Sadly, they're hitting a lot of points that we don't like our chips to be like. They're cut too thick, so they don't have a good crunch to them. They're not spicy at all, which for a buffalo wing flavour is an outrage. They have that kind of weird fake blue cheese flavour to them, and it tastes a little chemical-y.

Don't get me wrong, they're not bad chips at all. They're actually pretty enjoyable. I would still probably buy them, like I said, for that Sunday afternoon football game. They just have all these small things that could have made them better.

Ruffles Cheesy Quesadilla

Round two of our rapid-fire review week features Ruffles Cheesy Quesadilla flavour. The big thing that we notice about these right away is the size of the chips. Holy smokes, Ruffles really uses the biggest potatoes they can find.

The flavour for these is pretty good. Cheesy, with a bit of a taco seasoning zing to them. These are one of those flavours that would be ideal for a Sunday afternoon watching a football game. These chips taste like the SuperBowl would, if it was potato chips. Oh, hey, would you look at that. The Grey Cup is in less than two weeks. Everyone should go and buy these for their Grey Cup party.

Blair's Death Rain Ancho Chili Cheeseburger

We've been busy lately, and have been falling behind in our posts lately. I think we've got about a dozen reviews that are still just in draft form going back all the way to September. So we're going to do a rapid-fire review blast, and pump out a bunch of them this week.

Let's start with Blair's Death Rain Ancho Chili Cheeseburger. We got these bad boys out of the whole ordeal where we got the flavourless Chipotle chips. Honestly, we were hoping that these would be a little spicier than they actually are. They have flames on the bag, for Pete's sakes! Sadly, all they have going for them is a strong black pepper-y taste. No ancho chili, no cheeseburger, just black pepper. Most were in agreement, these weren't very good. Jeff liked them, but almost everyone else was in agreement that they could use more, and better, flavour. We can't, in good conscience, recommend that anyone buys these chips. They're so disappointing that we didn't even take a picture of them. That picture up top is totally just one we found on the Internet.

Doritos Dinamita Chile Limón

When Michelle came back from Palm Springs with the Doritos Dinamita Fiery Habanero chips, she also brought back a bag of these...Chile Limón. We weren't really sure how they were going to be, since Doritos isn't exactly known for their "fruitier" flavours. Usually it's all cheese, all the time. But beggars can't be choosers, so we gave 'em a whirl.

The first thing you notice with these is how incredibly red they are. They are really, really, really, really red. Like, stain your fingers red, red. Like, stain your whole mouth red, red. I don't know if I'm being clear enough about this, but they're red. They don't really have a strong scent to them, so we're just going to have to try them and see.

Holy fake lime flavour, Batman! That's unbelievably strong! Usually when you get lime flavoured chips, you get a hint of lime. Like on those tostitos "hint of lime" chips. It's just a hint. These decided to do away with that idea and go full lime. They've still got a medium amount of spice to them, so the chile label isn't misleading (even if it's not as much as we want it to be...we'll take it). But dat lime!

Everyone was pretty split on these. Will (who admittedly hates fake lime flavour) didn't like them at all. Too much lime, he said. Arthur was on his team, comparing the taste to a bad froot loop. David and James both said that they're really good. Prajeet said that they were probable one of his favourite flavours yet.

If you can find them, and are feeling adventurous, give these a go. They're worth a try.

Kettle Brand Sriracha

Sraracha flavoured chips? Has science gone too far???
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Probably, yeah. These aren't as good as we expected. They're only medium spicy, not quite the flaming bottle labeled "HOT!" as depicted on the bag. And they don't taste like sriracha. They're not terrible tasting by any means, but we had higher hopes when we opened the bag. Honestly, they're a little disappointing. We were expecting more. Poor form, Kettle Brand.