The strangest chip flavors from around the world

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: The strangest chip flavors from around the world.

When I was in America for the first time, I didn't think clearly when I grabbed a bag of blue Lays chips in a gigantic (because: everything is bigger in America) supermarket. Blue = paprika = exactly what I was craving. Super happy, I sat back in our rental car, a cola on the side and started snacking. And it was disgusting. Not for a second did I think that they hadn't received the memo that in the Netherlands blue means paprika chips. A bit dumb of me too, because now I was stuck with a mega bag of vinegar-flavored chips. VINEGAR! It was just as sour (and disgusting) as it sounds.

But practice makes perfect: I will never make that mistake again. Always read what’s on the bag. In English, that's fine, but in Spain and also in France, I've sometimes stood in front of the chip aisle with Google Translate. And that has saved me from quite a few bad purchases, thank goodness. Because what some companies do with chips is just criminal. Honestly, would you want to try one of these flavors?

1. Cucumber flavor from Lay’s
With this flavor, I can honestly imagine very little. Cucumber really tastes like... Nothing? The only nice thing about cucumber, I find, is the bite and the moisture on a scorching hot day. It’s all in the combination with what you eat that bite with, which makes cucumber tasty. So my guess is that this just tastes like very boring potato. Watery potato? In any case: it’s a no for me.

2. Lay’s milk chocolate chips
Ridge chips are always tastier than chips without ridges, I am absolutely convinced of that. But... Potato chips with milk chocolate flavor? How does that work exactly? Chocolate in the form of ridge chips: yes yes yes. Ridge potato chips in chocolate flavor: no no no.

3. Again Lay’s, with garlic butter scallop flavor
Um... I don't even know where to start with this variant. Some people find scallops difficult to cook well, so maybe this is the solution for them? I really have no idea. And then with garlic and butter as flavors... And scallops as the main ingredient. How can they possibly make this taste like that dish?

4. Pringles with cinnamon and sugar flavor
Look, this seems like a fine flavor, for a pastry for example. A croissant too. But on potato chips? That’s a weird sweet-savory combination that I really can’t get into. If you are, would you also like to try the Pecan Pie flavor? Pringles has also launched that. I wouldn’t dare to try it myself.

5. Lay’s with Caesar Salad flavor
In the category ‘I want to be healthy, but not really’: is this the same as eating a salad? Nah. How they make this taste like Caesar Salad... To be honest, I am quite intrigued.

6. Doritos with brie flavor
Honestly: I can actually get behind this. A bit of a combination of two tasty things, that can't go wrong, right? Brie is tasty, chips are tasty. I probably prefer just melted brie over plain chips (that’s what I want to make now!), but I would definitely try it.

7. Cheetos with avocado flavor
Goodness gracious. This really can't be? Just like cucumber, the taste of avocado is not what you’re after, right? And then potato chips with avocado flavor just tastes like... Nothing? You could build your own salad with the Caesar Salad-flavor, cucumber flavor and then this. Heeeeavenly.

8. Mackie’s chips that taste like... Whisky & Haggis
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. This is really the grossest ever? Haggis is already so uh... remarkable, and whisky... Well, you have to love it. But a combination of both I already find a pretty disgusting idea, let alone merging them into chip form. I’m a bit thrown off by this.

9. Lay’s caviar
Transforming a delicacy into chip form: bold. Caviar chips: only in Russia, right? You really make me happier with a paprika chip.

10. Chicken wings and blue cheese flavor
Let me start by saying that I really have a great passion for chicken wings and blue cheese sauce. I could eat that every day. I also find it really a shame that we hardly have that on the menu in the Netherlands, because this is really an underrated dish. But in chip form? Nah. I’ll skip that.

11. Lay’s with kiwi flavor
No words for it. Ten euros if you finish a bag.

12. Lay’s Mint Mischief
I understand that if you are Lay’s, you have to stay a bit innovative and come up with new flavors, but how come that the tastiest Marco Borsato chips have been taken off the shelves (still a shame) and they do come up with chips with mint flavor? Then you might as well just take a mint?

13. Lay’s hot & sour fish soup (or Tom Yam)
Tom Yam is already quite a unique flavor in itself, which works very well in soup form. Why do you think there are no potatoes in it? Because it doesn’t taste good. Just don’t do it.