The History of American Chip Flavors
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In the U.K. âCheese and Onionâ is one of the big flavours rather than âSour Cream and Onionâ. The first time I encountered âSour Cream and Onionâ as a flavour was with Pringles who seem to stick to the US model even here in the U.K.
Yup. Here in Denmark, Kims Chips has had Sour Cream and Onions for decades, and we also have Pringles' version.
The uk is salt and vinegar cheese and onion ready salted and prawn cocktail
Iowan here! Cheddar with or without onion is probably the 5th most common flavor in America.
Actually as an American, cheddar and onion/cheddar and sour cream/just cheddar are basically ubiquitous options now here, too. I was kind of surprised he didnât bring one of those up. Also, heâs Canadian. And if thereâs one thing I know about Canada itâs that he NEEDS to do a video on their chip âcannonâ. He could then talk about all dressed, pickle, and ketchup. Also, I live in the potato chip belt. I live in the city of chambersburg not far from a place owned by Utz, and the base location for the gibbles brand. I would actually call where I live the German potato band. Thereâs a big group of Amish and Mennonites around for whom chips are part of the culture. You could even locally have gotten them delivered in big âpopcornâ tins. But, specifically why it isnât limited to chips is because we also live right by the martins plant. They are not just known for chips but a whole smattering of potato bread options.
I knew this as a kid from Father Ted
Nothing beats a video talking about the obscure lore of mondane things we see everyday.
*mundane
@@Shatterverse enadnum*
@@Shatterverse woah minor spelling mistake
guess you're new to the channel
@Etterra They can't edit it now otherwise they'll lose the pin.
Mexico's chip cannon is a lovely reflection of its land:
-Salt is the standard
-Lemon (My favorites)
-Adobadas (Mild-spicy)
-And Habanero (Real spicy)
Came here to talk about that and you beat me on it by 1 day hehehe I would like to add jalapeño, cheese, and "michelada" as other common alternatives (although they might not be canon yet)
Personally the Cheeto brand of habanero chips taste like really bad candies, like they're super sweet like a mango then just bitter, no spice whatsoever
@@SilverZeruel michelada? Like the beer mix? God I hate the way it smells
@@_Dat_Edgy_Boi_ yes, they are based on that but they actually taste really good. Here in Mexico we sometimes add the same sauces that we would use in a beer mix, but with chips. Maybe that's why they created this flavor.
Can't find lemon chips around where I live, I'm kind of sad about it.
It's nuts how much this guy actually sounds like the canadian accent parodied in South Park...I had no idea the South Park accent was so accurate đ
That's because it's an affected accent and not in any way real haha
No way it's real.
Iâm Canadian and I didnât even notice the accent until I read this comment. Itâs fairly similar to what I hear in my daily life
As a Canadian (in Alberta to boot) I heard it eventually but it didn't sound off 95% of the time. I would say this is a Canadian accent turned up about 10% he's definitely throwing some stank on some words but most of it sounds normal for those in Western Canada, which is VERY different from the East Coast XD
@@TheFeralFerret Is the weird caDENCE also a deLIBERATE choice? Because it's really kind of ANNOYING?
Meanwhile in Germany most of your options are basically paprika and sweet paprika (although I have seen them getting a bit better about having more flavors in stores)
Germany's Chip Canon
-Paprika
-Sweet Paprika
-'Not as sweet, but still sweeter than regular' Paprika
Most American supermarkets feature a large variety of flavors of potato chips nowadays (not that the big 4 arenât still the most popular). Iâm surprised thatâs not the case in Germany. I remember those flavors from when I was a child and I miss me some Paprika Chipsletten.
Crunchips Wasabi sind die besten Chips.
Iâve seen KĂ€se, Paprika, Sweet Paprika, and FlavorlessâŠ
I spend a lot of time in Switzerland and was recently in Germany and must say that German paprika flavor and American bbq flavor are moving toward each other.
My grandma told me that when she was young in the 1930s and 1940s, there was a potato chip truck that came around every week. You bought a large tin canister from them the first time, and then every week they'd refill your canister with potato chips for a set price. This was definitely in the Potato Chip Belt, as she grew up in Syracuse, NY. She told me the name of the company, but I can't remember it.
My mom had one of those cans that she turned into a âsit-up-onâ in Girls Scout. It was basically a chair with a string for a handle, and you could store all your stuff in it.
Was it Charles Chips? They were founded in Syracuse.
@@lobsterhat6927 I was going to guess Utz but I think that's from PA
I wish they still did this, zero waste!
I grew up in Syracuse in the 70's and 80's; I think that company was Charles' Chips.
Pittsburgher here. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York are considered the âSnack Beltâ as this is where most of the dry, salted snack companies (Snyderâs etc.) are based. Itâs less a potato chip domination, and more a preoccupation with dry, salty snacks. Pretzels are big here (the dry hard kind) as well.
In Sweden the most traditional flavours are: Salted (yellow), Sourcream and Onion (blue), Dill (green) and "Grillchips" (orange).
"Grillchips" are more or less onion flavour.
Grill chips Àr inte lök liknande
In Poland âlow-classâ people are still called onions to this day, and itâs common to call the country âOnionlandâ as a cheeky remark about Polandâs place in geo- and socio- politics.
In Estonia we call Russians the "onions". It has to do with the fact that near Estonia-Russian border there are a lot of onion farms and since it is near the border there's naturally more Russians. Hence, onions=Russians.
I wonder if there are bad associations with Onions in Russia. My name sounds like Onion in Russian, but a Russian friend said it should sound more like manhole cover. I like onions and don't find manhole covers all that flattering, so I wondered why she insisted on that.
Bro. I fucking love onions they taste so good
â@@bobtheduck Luke? Right, "onion" in Russian is more like "Look". And no, there are no bad associations with onions.
Surprisingly though, our "potato belt" is Belarus.
What a shame! Onions are amazing, esp. for a vegetable
I'm sure multiple people have already mentioned this, but I do think the whole "Flamin' Hot" flavor has become a recent phenomenon and I think its slowly but surely being introduced into the potato chip canon.
oh really? well it seems to have reached non american markets as its becoming a sensation here in india as well though not has popular as others
Nah it's just a fad because Hot Ones is popular. It'll die out in a few years.
@@HOTD108_ what? Spicy chip flavors arenât going away
@@HOTD108_ this is one of the subtlest White As Fuck takes i've ever seen
While I think itâs going into chips not potato chips
Why is your chair so bouncy?
Canadian autists are really cool!
exactly
Here in Brazil we have four basic flavors that you can rely on every brand of chips, crackers or just general salty snack foods to have: original (or plain), onions and parsley (green packaging), cheese (orange packaging) and barbecue (usually red). Then different brand will usually have different variations, like salami, green or red peppers, picanha (instead of just general barbecue), pizza, shrimp, sundried tomatoes, bacon, ribs with lemon (i've tried those, you can really taste the lemon), and a bunch of other ones. I'm pretty sure one time I saw one that was just flavored the abstract concept of spice.
Next up, brazil invents math flavored chips đ
I lived in Sao Paulo for 6months and they had great chips. Even at restaraunts, freshly made. But the grocery store brands, the bags were always smaller than back home and it was near impossible to find chip dip. I finally found one after going to 5 grocery stores (2020) and introduced it to the family I was with. But shit, it was expensive.. even for Sampa standards
@@xtho7999 oh yeah, super expensive. I mean, I really only eat chips on special occasions. And there isn't even a lot of them in any given bag.
@@maxwellmarques1607 Yeah, fair enough! I didn't find as popular culturally down there, Man, I miss Brazilian food, culture and people so much. Food wise, one of the most underrated in the world! Saude!
Torcida really is the best, a bunch of flavors, really cheap and a small packaging so no one asks for a little bit of mine, count me the fuck in!
Oh! im from PA and itâs more common to have chips instead of frech fries on the side of your burger here! I never knew about the âpotato chip beltâ thatâs so interesting lol
In Chicago it is mostly fries, McDonaldâs hailing from the state and all, but Billy Goatâs Tavern which was famously associated with the Chicago Cubs 100 year curse is famous for the saying âNO FRY, CHEEP!â Sadly itâs a chain now and all except the original sell fries
as a fellow pennsylvanian i would say this varies where iâm at
Itâs probably different from where you are in PA, Iâm also from PA born and raised in this state, and I have never had burgers without fries
i live in New York and we eat french fries like normal people
From Ohio. Can also confirm
This is such a great series. Iâm interested in the colour coding of chips. In Australia we have chicken (green) in the mix, alongside plain (blue), and bbq (orange).
And salt and vinegar (pink)
Bra, Salt & Vinager is the best selling flavour at my work (in Australia)
And depending on the brand S&V can also be purple
Here in the UK itâs red for ready salted, green for cheese & onion and blue for salt & vinegar.
That is, of course, unless itâs walkers (which is what we call Lays), in which case the blue and the green switch. No one knows why and a huge number of people remember this change taking place in the late 80âs or early 90âs, despite the company denying this ever happened. Classic Mandela effect, or a very niche conspiracy? Who knows.
@@CEHFitness meanwhile, Lays in Romania have red for salt, green for sour cream&dill, blue for paprika, yellow for cheese, black for barbecue + a few more.
During my stay in Germany, Paprika flavored chips were incredibly popular. I've never seen them in the US, but I hope they eventually make the jump.
They are one of the most common flavours in W-Europe. The two most basic flavours are salt and paprika, but pickles and salt&pepper are also big. Now there are dozens of flavours, but they are more recent and more niche. In the 90s I remember only a few baisc flavours.
I've had paprika chips and they are awesome!
I'm sure lays has paprika flavored chips states side, but do it taste the same? I wouldn't know.
I live in Canada and there's an imported snack store around the corner from my place where I was lucky enough to get my hands on Paprika Pringles. They were heavenly.
Here in Italy the paprika flavored chips are sometimes the only chip along with the plain one.
Tomato flavored chips are also very common.
in Australia, we have a few chip flavours I would consider the "canon", that actually include all the american ones. the extra ones we have are: honey soy chicken, cheese and onion, and plain chicken. I have no idea where any of these came from, but it's interesting to hear that other countries don't really have these! I would really recommend trying cheese and onion if you have the chance
i think honey soy is more recent one, it wasn't a classic flavour until i think around the mid 2000s and most definitely took over by the 2010s. I personally don't think cheese and onion is popular, it's barely bought and talked about. Chicken on the other hand is a very popular favourite.
Honey soy?? Why?
@@Khorne_of_the_Hill tastes good
I mean the U.S. has some wacky flavors too. Chicken and waffles, dill pickle, biscuits and gravy etc etc.
@@RockinFootball_23 to be fair alot of our 'cultural cannon' only really came about in the last 50 years since we didnt experience the same kind of separation from the uk as america, i mean it took us untill like 1966 to get our own currency
I'm surprised JJ didn't mention the fascinating color association linked to the flavor cannon. His illustrated graphic even captures it. Yellow=plain, brown/orange=BBQ, green=sour cream and onion, light blue=salt and vinegar.
Interesting. In australia, the big company has blue for plain and pink for salt and vinegar
The biggest deviant being Wise, whose Salt & Vinegar chips are a deep maroon.
clover valley salt and vinegar chip bags are interestingly a deep purple
I mean, I think it's fairly trivial except for the salt and vinegar. plain potato chips are yellow. barbecue sauce is brownish red. sour cream and onion dip, while not normally green, often includes green herbs like chives, parsley, dill, or spring onion. salt and vinegar is the only mystery that remains. perhaps it's blue for the sea because of sea salt. perhaps it's just blue because that's the only remaining distinctive primary color from the others. it was probably a branding choice of one of the more popular companies just to make the flavor look distinctive from plain chips since they don't have the visible seasoning on them like BBQ or SC&O.
@@tsawy6 Maybe Iâm just unobservant, but I canât think of any food packaging in the US that uses pink, except for maybe some candies. To the point where thinking about a major chip brand using pink packaging was kinda surprising!
In all my years of living in NY I've never experienced any sort of potato chip pride. If anything, the most popular non-huge corporation brand here is Cape Cod potato chips.
owned by the Campbell Soup Company. Big Soup has you in their pocket, my friend.
Hey good to see you here Atlas Pro. Love your videos!
I agree there isn't much potato chip pride in my experience in NY. I wonder if there's more in Albany but I've lived in the central and finger lakes regions. Cape Cod are my personal favorites as well.
I do notice that visiting my family that lives in PA there's potato chips at most casual meals so maybe there's something there
Itâs not supposed to be pride, just a lot of chip eating
@@JJMcCullough ahh yes that makes sense. Every event I attend has chips. My family went through 2 family sized bags a week. Chips are everywhere. I've never lived long term outside the chip belt but I'm wondering now if that would be something I notice when I move elsewhere.
@@christianhowles I'm in NC and there's still a lot of chips here...chips are like the default snack food.
JJ's channel is like a non-stop wikipedia binge. I love it
Hi JJ. As a scottish person, it never fails to tickle me the way you pronounce things like 'about' and other words with the 'oot' sound. It's just kinda heartwarming in a horrendous CZcams wasteland where people be no matter where their from, often use the sickening text-to-speech accents supplied BBY our corporate overlords.
I always considered "cheese" to be a staple chip flavor. There's doritos where that's their main thing, but also cheddar ruffles and cheddar lays. I'm sure most american chip brands have some sort of "cheese" variety
Old Dutch cheddar and sour cream
I don't remember seeing cheese flavored potato chips myself, though I'm not a big chip guy. Just asked my wife and she does remember them, though, so ... yeah, there ya go. They are a thing!
I agree! Cheddar Cheese pringles come to mind as well
@@chloeelkins5599 I saw some Lay's cheddar and jalapeño chips at the store today too. Also you can't forget cheezies, cheetos, and cheddar/white cheddar smartfood popcorn
Yeah, same here. Between Cheetos, Doritos, and cheddar and sour cream Ruffles (my personal favorite chip), as well as flavor varieties of other chips, it's definitely a pretty popular flavor.
From Canadian in-jokes to hyper reality to types of chip flavours.
This is why we love J.J.
What in jokes?
@@SA3Future watch the video and youâll know.
Iâm surprised Ketchup and all-dressed chips didnât get mentioned tbh. Maybe heâs hoping to make it a two parter with an âinternational episodeâ next week where he brings them up
@@nacricissa Oh yeah I've tried the all dressed up, I think it was the ruffles brand.
I thought we loved him for the luxurious flow
I love history and I love food/snacks. This series is the best ever. Thank you for this J.J.!!
This is the first video of yours Iâve ever seen and I love the way you present relevant information in an engaging and entertaining way.
In the UK, I'd say the big three are plain, cheese and onion and salt and vinegar, with roast beef and prawn cocktail coming close behind. In recent years, sweet chilli and salt and pepper have started making inroads.
What about ready salted? Its not that different to salt and vinegar but it is still different
@@chargestone96
That is what they mean by plain, crisps are by default salty
Didnât expect to see you here Jago
@@camatzuma well thats nonsense to me lol, ready salted is sold ascits own flavour and plain/original which you only see in pringles arent salty
In fact the standard is cheese and onion so if you said plain id assume you mean that
@@chargestone96 âthe standard is cheese and onionâ hahahahaha
Iâm from Ohio and currently live in Pennsylvania and can confirm that we are the chip belt. There are soooooo many regional chip brands in this area. At my local grocery store, the regional brands are actually given more shelf space than the national ones.
ok but utz isn't even GOOD?? I'm from pa lol
oh but I adore cape cod chips! like the baked ones mmmmm
Sooo true!! Also from Ohio and Mumfordâs chips are the best!
The Original Hartley's potato chips were amazing back when it was owned locally in Pennsylvania. There still regional but unfortunately when the company was sold the quality went with the original owners.
If you ever come thru St Louis Missouri, make sure to get some Red Hot Riplets. Best spicy chip evah
In the UK, the most popular are Ready Salted (Red), Cheese and Onion (Blue) and Salt and Vinegar (Green). Also, there are others such as Pravin Cocktail (Pink) and Roast Chicken (Orange).
That's... an attempt at spelling prawn. There's also often some form of beef, bacon or chilli flavour, they're all quite common.
There's probably enough to say about potato chip flavours to warrant a second video, since the cravings for more and more flavours continues to evolve. Ketchup, All Dressed, Dill Pickle, Ranch, Nacho Cheese, and more are somewhat common now, and companies try to introduce new flavours every year. I've even seen attempts to make 'chips' from other dried veggies, and not just root vegetables either.
No exaggeration, This is one of my favorite series on CZcams. Not just for this channels but on the platform. So interesting to figure out the origins of the staples in our society that have become so ubiquitous to us that we never really think about them.
Then it is also very interesting to break out of our cultural bubble to see how other people have different set canons around the world.
plus it's amusing hearing him say stuff like 'hoosewives'
I was literally just wondering where sour cream and onion chips came from because my bf realized they were basically baked potato flavored so thank you for this well-timed video
wow
I'm allergic to them, so thanks for telling me what I'm missing
@@321gofast7 theyâre disgusting donât worry about it
@@321gofast7theyâre amazing, ignore the other guy
@@theone7097 Ruffles are the only good sour cream and onion chips
As a girl living in Washington State, I find it interesting how Salt and Vinegar chips originated in the nearby city of Tacoma. That's honestly really cool.
Also, I find it kinda hilarious how a majority of Northern Europeans thought things like onions and potatoes were vile and barbaric, yet thought something that was literally expired alcohol was fancy. Clearly I'm the savage in that case, since I hate the taste of vinegar yet love me some barbecue potato chips. xP
Vinegar is an ingredient or base in a lot of barbeque sauces though
@@charlietian4023 ...
...you win this round, logic. xP
Theres something so special about these videos. Thanks for your time JJ
Here in India, the potato chip canon is a bit different. Here, the standard flavours are salted (almost always in yellow coloured packets), sour cream and onion (sometimes the name "American" added in front of the name and always in green coloured packets), being the same, while the other two flavours are tomato (Lay's markets it under the name "Spanish tomato tango", almost always red coloured packets) and masala (the word literally means spice/ spice blend, Lay's markets it under the name "India's magic masala", and almost always blue coloured packets).
I go to the Indian grocery store in my home town here in USA just to get some magic masala chips and a thumbs up. I have never been to India but thank you all
@@fritzyberger pleasure to know that you like 'em. Would definitely enjoy when you visit our country.
Hey, I have an idea for a video. My wife is French and she finds the idea of American Prom and Homecoming so weird. Do you think you could do a deep dive into why these dances have such a cultural significance?
The French comic artist Quentin Zuttion has Instagram content about American prom because he is really interested too! I wonder what about prom culture captivates our French neighbors so much âșïž
@@gabriellastauffer tbh I'm on their side (I'm American,) I never went to my prom and I don't regret it (even now, I'm 36) I've never understood the hype behind it.
A friend of mine was hosting a student from France this year and she was absolutely devastated that the prom in our tiny Arkansas town was nothing like the magical, party fantasy sheâd seen in movies!
They are weird
They stem from the old debutante culture of the southern US.
Amazing analysis as always, JJ! I love the food-culture videos you produce!
I really like the flavor videos you make. Always think about another video you made when I see candy flavors. Thank you for the unique and interesting content đ
I love how you present the most âboringâ or âmundaneâ topics, but theyâre actually full of really interesting history, weâve just accepted them as being so boring and mundane since itâs such a part of the American culture.
>american
>culture
I think the lesson here is to not label any topic as mundane or boring. All it needs is the right presentation and the right teacher. And JJ definitely is that!
"Boring" was my nickname in highschool.
In Nigeria, we seem to invest in sweet potatoes and cassava chips instead. They're usually salted, but I'd also noticed chili, and "chicken noodle" flavor for the latterm
Chicken noodle flavor sounds cool. I'd be interested in trying that... though I'd have to import them since I'm nowhere near Nigeria.
In sierra leone we eat mostly plantain chips that can be either salty or sweet as well as cassava chips.
@@ct-p6004 You can find sweet potato and plantain chips in the US. They're usually sold as a healthier alternative. They also make sweet potato fries too.
@@incubus_the_man nobody in sl sees them as healthy lol americans are amazing
@@ct-p6004 they have more nutrients than white potatoes
I've always loved "sour cream" and "onion" flavored pringles even though I'm not a big fan of real sour cream and onion
So there's also regional chips too like Zapps being popular in the South especially Louisiana
My personal favorite are Golden Flake "sweet heat" BBQ chips.
Iâd love to see one of these on soda flavors. Like; cola, root beer, ginger ale. Roots and ginger seem like weird flavors and i donât even know what âcolaâ is
Cola, also known as Kola, is a type of nut from West Africa which contains caffeine, and is used in the region for the types of things caffeine is generally used for, and is what gives cola drinks their flavor beyond just the sugar and carbonic acid. The name Coca-Cola originates from the Coca leaf, used to make cocaine, and the Kola nut. The "root" in root beer actually refers to the sassafras root, which was originally used to make root beer, but artificial flavoring was used after sassafras root was found to contain carcinogens. Root beer and ginger ale were both originally created via fermentation, and were thought to be healthier than local waters for that fact, and also for the medicinal properties of their contents. This fermentation is why they are called ale and beer, and they did actually contain some alcohol, though not very much. Both sassafras and ginger were used for herbal remedies for various ailments, and some people still drink ginger ale when they're sick today
cola nut
@@cstockman3461 thank you!
Cola/orange/lemon & lime + honorary member lemon too (e.g. Coke or Pepsi/Fanta/Sprite or 7 Up + Fanta Lemon. Also in Ireland we have Club Orange and Club Lemon in addition to the corresponding Fantas, plus Club Rock Shandy which is the two mixed together. There are also still-common drinks with rarer flavours, like Cidona (apple), Lilt (pineapple/grapefruit, i.e. tropical), Tanora (only found in Cork, tangerine))
What about dandelion & burdock?
When I was a child in England in the early 1950s, crisps (potato chips) were unsalted. There was a small blue twist of paper holding salt in each bag so you could salt the crisps to your own taste.
And that's why what amerixans call American 'plain chips' is called Ready Salted here
They were called Salt and shake werent they. Lol I'm 19 but lived with my grandparents who had these crisps
The salt would stick to the chips?
@@Akane1313 Yes. Although some of the salt inevitably ended up at the bottom of the bag
My grandmother likes these.
One of the most insightful channels I've come across in a very long time.
Watching this while started to get hungry has made me hungrier. I'm going to have some of the barbecue flavored Pringles I have in my house. LOL.
This was a super fun and informative video. It's fascinating to hear such a vibrant history of a food item so common to us!
I visited the Caribbean on a cruise and loved going to the grocery stores there. So many crazy flavors I'd never seen before. I thought it was hilarious that what we in the states would call "Ranch" flavor, they called "American" flavor đ
In the Dominican Republic where I live, a popular flavour is lime. Basically a slightly frutier version of salt and vinegar
Makes me very happy to know that. It's not ranch it's "American" flavor
Here in Texas lime is a popular flavor for hispanics
Westerners living in Japan often complain of the chips here, but I personally find many of them enjoyable. The best sour cream & onion I've had is a Japanese brand, and their local favourites like consommé and seaweed + salt are surprisingly delicious. Consommé has actually taken a place in my top 3 chip flavours along with all dressed (Canada) and sour cream & onion. Also partial to the numerous horseradish-flavoured chips in Japan (marketed as wasabi, but the real stuff is too expensive to use as a chip flavouring).
Funny thing is that in India, the chip flavor we generally call "American" flavor is the sour cream and onion flavor. Even in Indian grocery stores where you'll see the imported chips, you'll see packets labeled "American Onion" or "American Style Cream & Onion"
I'm from Greece and one of the most popular flavours is oregano. We generally use oregano much and put it everywhere, so it makes sense.
Oh that's a great idea! Oregano and Thyme are so amazing. I love Greek cuisine.
Yeah as a Greek myself I agree they must be the second most popular flavor. Salt oregano BBQ and most probably plain with olive oil are the big players. I think oregano must be the most original
Oooh oregano chips sound really good, when I visit Greece this summer Iâll be sure to try them!
As a greek I thought this was generally a popular flavor, damn.
Living in Cyprus at the moment. Love oregano chips and starting to like the ones with feta flavor :) but every time i visit my home country (Lithuania) i feast on the ones with dills, and can't get enough of chips with spicy tomato flavor!!!
This video was much more comprehensive than I expected. It was really facinating. In Norway we use bell pepper chips a lot. Bbq and salt and vinagre are not commonly used. There is a lot of experimentation from some companies, so we do have a lot of flavors, but it depends on the brand.
In Spain we recently got all of these four flavors of Pringles, but some good ol' flavor is Country (not in the sense of american country, just traditional food). They're a mix of bell pepper, onion and tomato flavoring, and some paprika too if I'm not wrong. I think they're also popular in Italy and Portugal but I'm not sure. We also have olive oil chips, (obviously).
And finally something really Spanish and not just Mediterranean is wheat bark snacks. They're not frites but are often thought of as such. I haven't been able to find them in other languages and only in Spain, and not in the Americas. They're sometimes marketed as faux pork rinds (which we also eat, a lot, but that's not exclusive to us). Lay's's are called Boca Bits if you wanna search them, tho they're not always as aerated as theirs.
Edit: I've also seen import Tikka Masala rice pringles. They're uncannily delicious
This video is fascinating. I initially wasnât excited about the topic, and only clicked on it bc I like J.J.âs videos, but as I watched it I completely did a 180. I really enjoyed the exploration of Americana that has shaped the US and then exported across the world. Really enjoyed the video! Would love to see more!
Thank you my friend. I like this video a lot.
As a Pennsylvanian myself, I can confirm how insanely popular potato chips (and pretzels) are, with big names like Herr's, Utz, and Snyders all major regional players in the snack aisle. Kettle chips are the latest craze these days too!
Living In SE Michigan I never realized that our isles are filled with tons of different brands of chips like you. cool seeing this video highlight something about my region I didnât know was a thing!
âKettle chips are the latest craze these days too!â
Did you write this comment 10 years ago?
utz honey bbq >
I would not ever eat Utz potato chips or any Utz brand corn based foods. This includes "tato skins" which are made of corn with a little bit of potato starch in them
Iâm from Ohio and Herrs is one of my absolute favorites! Thank you to the Pennsylvanians for those!!
Here in Brazil, the plain flavor was the only option for potato chips until like the early 2000's as corn based snacks, like Cheetos and Fandangos, were the most popular ones.
But since then, I think the Churrasco (Brazilian Barbecue) flavor has become the most common alternative. It differs from the Barbecue flavor as it has a more smoky and less sweet flavor.
(American) Barbecue also appeared recently as an alternative.
Sour Cream and Onion and Salt and Vinegar exists here but it's no one's favorite.
JJ talks like someone learning and speaking English simultaneously, where ending each sentence brings a sense of pride and accomplishment.
When I was in Nepal the chip flavor, "Americanized Sour Cream and Onion" was super popular. I saw people eating them all the time and I can honestly say they were better than actual Sour Cream and Onion chips from America. It makes me wonder what the difference is though đ€
At some of the Indian grocery stores in the US you have Lay's American Style Cream & Onion. Once we did a side by side taste test with US Lay's Sour Cream & Onion. We liked the Lay's American Style better than the standard US one. I don't recall what the differences are... may need to do repeat this again!
@@AquarianDragon out of curiosity i looked at the ingredients for both. they're pretty different, one thing that stands out is that the "americanized" versions have real sugar and the american ones have maltodextrin.
@@olivecooke5657 the american style chips do taste sweeter from what I remember...
interesting... mexican nacho flavor doritos are also better than americas, more jalapeno flavor.
Probably msg.
In India the chip cannon is: magic masala (mixed spices), Spanish tomato tango (tomato and pepper), salted, and American style sour cream and onion. Nowadays, I see more Chile limĂłn too, but Indian people love Spanish and Mexican inspired flavors, so lays may lean into the same type of flavors for both regions
This is true, and the hilarious part is that you can't get Spanish Tomato Tango in Spain.
This was well researched, interesting, and educational. The trifecta.
Here in Poland i would describe that flavours:
- paprika/bell pepper - red
- green onion - green
- fromage/white cheese - blue
- plain - yellow
Those colors are typed from memory and should be actual colors from Lays
Naturally we have other tastes like BBQ/ribs, kebab, wasabi, cheese and onion...
I would also add ketchup and cheese&onion
@@justlyssa6837 i think the ketchup flavour is more for stuff like cheetos than potato chips, but yes cheese-onion is like the most common flavour and I think more popular that just onion
Fromage is cream cheese with herbs
I live in Latvia and we love potatoes a lot, so, naturally, we love potato chips. Nowadays, you can find all the American chip flavors in stores, but even now they're not as popular as some other flavors. I'd say the most popular and widely liked chip flavors in Latvia are dill, sour cream & onion, cheese, and tomato. This is probably due to the fact that we mostly buy and eat chips from our own Latvian brand "ÄdaĆŸu Äipsi", I'm pretty sure they were the first ones to start selling tomato, dill, and cheese flavored chips over here. Nowadays they have many different and interesting flavors (like pickles, chimichurri, shashlik & roasted onion, horseradish, creamy mushroom sauce, and thyme, rosemary & pink pepper), but the 4 classic ones (dill, sour cream & onion, cheese, and tomato) are still the most popular and a staple at every party.
Regarding the BBQ flavor - I think bacon is more popular here, without going to the store and checking I can only remember one brand that makes BBQ chips, but at least 3 that make bacon flavored ones.
Also, I saw another comment about this, the color coding of chips seems interesting. Over here, sour cream & onion is in a purple packet, but I'm sure the color differs in other countries.
I lived in Latvia for 5 months and I was extremely surprised by the popularity of dill in foods! I actually never heard of dill before I went to Latvia (I'm from Mexico) and seeing dill-flavored chips was impressing (maybe foreigners think the same about mexican "guacamole and cilantro" chips).
Btw AdaĆŸu krejums & sipoli are great! much better that the American equivalent.
@@DanielEsparza37 we do love dill a lot :D as a foreigner, guacamole and cilantro chips do sound weird (and interesting!), but i'd love to try them someday. and omg! it's great to hear praise for ÄdaĆŸu Äipsi, especially for their sour cream and onion chips because those are probably my favorite chips ever, i'm glad to see foreigners enjoy them too :)
Dill chips sound like a dream come true!
fellow latvian i see
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Great vid! As an American, any time I've travelled to another country, one of the things I've always done is sampled different flavors of potato chips/crisps. Since my first visit to the UK in the late 90's, I still regularly import Walkers Chicken & Thyme crisps and lament that I can't get a similar flavor at home. I especially miss the chardonnay flavoured crisps from a co-op in Scotland I once sampled. My visit to Australia was great... the vegemite crisps by Smiths, not so much.
I think you'd also love prawn cocktail mate, it's a similar meaty flavor but it has a lot more tang to it đ
I love how different the main four are.
Plain is just that, but a little bit of salt goes great with the fried potato flavor.
Sour cream & onion has a great balance of being a light flavor but still having quite a bit of taste.
Barbecue is sweet, just a little spicy, itâs quite savory.
Salt & vinegar is very flavorful, it really hits ya but once youâre used to it they can be quite good.
Socio-cultural food focused anthropology, I love it! Keep up the good work!
As an Anthropology major who took as many Anthropology of Food classes as I could before graduating.
I'm a big fan of JJ and more so when he explores food of the US and the World at Large!
Iâm Peruvian and we often pride ourselves for having the âlargest variety of potatoesâ so of course ânativeâ potatoes chips are part of the canon, and actually my brother was telling me the other day that Inka chips, the brand that is known for making the native variety of chips, is actually surpassing Lays in sales by a lot so other chip brands that market themselves as ânativeâ or âauthentically Peruvianâ are popping up
And Iâm sure that if other Peruvians see this comment they will get what Iâm referring to just by saying itâs the purple potato chips
Also there have been many, many experiments of making traditional dishes as chip flavors âa thingâ with varying degrees of success
@@cristinabottger1509 Are there chips made from different kind of potatoes? I'd love to try how different they are.
I have to say that the Lay's classic flavored chips in Peru are seemingly more burnt and burnt tasting than the ones I've had in the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Inka chips are just great, way better flavor that what lays offer
Amazing video, subscribed!
From singapore we do have a whole bunch of random ones, and kettle chips tend to give a lot of curious variety. What seems to be a staple here between a majority of chip brands here is regular, sourcream n onion, bbq, cheese, seaweed, and variations of "spicy", some using chilli, others using more localised hots like curries, mala, tomyam... these tend to be a bit less common.
Salt and vinegar is definitely seen here and there but seems to be rare.
in portugal, we have this chip flavor called "camponesa", which literally means peasant. it's this garlic, tomato, onion, bellpepper flavor. it's honestly my favorite type of chip. it's sorta like the pizza pringles but even better. i believe they're made by lay's, which is the most popular chip brand here, alongside ruffles, both owned by pepsi.
but i'd say the most common and popular chip flavor is presunto, which is sorta like ham, i think americans use the italian name prosciutto
Thank you for sharing this! I'm in the US (Texas which borders Mexico) and recently went through a drive thru restaurant called Chicken Camponesa. Their specialty was a certain flavoring on their chicken, with a camponesa sauce. I assumed it was Mexican, but maybe not. The flavor tasted very much how you described!
Definitly the major staples of Portuguese potato chip culture are presunto, Camponesas, ketchup, and a variation of the plain one that are "fried in olive oil" (that taste almost the same as plain ones). Digo isto por experiencia prĂłpria.
I'm portuguese, I can confirm this comment and the second comment too. Camponesa chips are probably my favourite (they're by Lay's too)
In Mexico we kinda have a canon for chips too and never noticed:
- Salty.
- Adobadas (like tomato and spices, maybe even like those exotic ketchup chips but never tasted them).
- Jalapeño (not so hot).
- Hot chips (Maybe habanero or a mix of chilli. Very hot).
- Cheese (like cheddar I think).
And maybe lemon with some chilli but Iâm not so sure
he's Canadian ketchup chips are not exotic at all to him lol
Doritos incĂłgnita are some of the best ones Mexico has got. Tbh I trust any Mexican chip flavor
LimĂłn in Spanish can also be lime in English, and lime and chili is another popular flavor here. Also becoming popular are guacamole flavor chips. However, some of them aren't very good, and seem like they're basically just green food coloring.
@@skamiikaze I trust Mexican food in general. Such a great balance between umami, spice, sweetness and acidity/"brightness"
@@TheUltimateHum true, I think that most of my tastes come from Mexican food. I love spicy stuff and I love acidic / salty stuff
You should try Zapps brand Voodoo chips. They are a combo of BBQ and Salt & Vinegar. They are delicious.
they are so good omg
2:28 as an Irish person, I felt this
Hi J.J. I use to be a chip potato agronomist in western New York and can attest to the pride and economic importance of NY potato chips.
It's actually pretty cool how we grow specific potatoes and conduct specific lab tests to optimize chip quality in our potatoes. I even did a term paper in University focusing on potato fry quality and breed selection.
Really interesting! Buffalo has a big presence in this comment section
I honestly think english canadians are super racist and ignorant towards language education and usually likes to bully bilingual people
dang jobs are so specialized
As a 21st century European, the fact that potatoes and onions (aka "two of the closest things I think of that make life meaningful" ;p) were once scorned and frowned upon by my continent's elites, baffles me. I've heard that this is the case (at least in Britain) for quite a number of fancy food items. Monk fish and turbots were considered peasant fare due to the arbitrarily "ugly" appearance of those particular species, whereas these days that kind of seafood fetches premium prices in the kind of establishments with reputations to uphold.
Also, being the common English lout that I am, I can confirm that fish and chips drenched in salt and vinegar makes life worth living... :3
I honestly think english canadians are super racist and ignorant towards language education and usually likes to bully bilingual people
No one asked drown in that vinegar rot tooth brit
Lobster used to be seen as a pretty low form of food in the US IIRC. When available it would be used in prison food before it caught on as a more fancy dish.
@@williamapple7705 I'm trying to imagine prisoners these days getting anything remotely adjacent in the gastronomic stakes to lobster. Those horrible red and white fish sticks, maybe?
Idk y I love watching these videos where a Canadian teaches me about my own country
Here in the UK, we have a pretty set "big 3": ready salted, cheese and onion, and salt and vinegar, being seen in typically red, blue/yellow, and green/blue packaging respectively. We do also have some other big flavours like prawn cocktail (pink), beef (brown), roast chicken (golden-y beige) or worcestershire sauce (purple/orange). In puffy corn snacks we tend to see standard cheese and spicy flavours, but also pickled onion as a pretty popular flavour, moreso on corn snacks than potato ones.
I really appreciate that even though youâre Canadian youâre giving me such in depth knowledge about my own American culture, thank you
Lol, "American culture"
@@haylinpm8973 Woah, we got a badass over here
@@geozop Uhhh, what?
@@haylinpm8973 It's a meme
@@geozop Yeah I know dude but it doesn't quite fit here
Here in the UK our standard crisps are Ready Salted (our version of original/plain), Cheese and Onion, and Salt and Vinegar. Sour Cream and Onion is associated specifically with Pringles. Other popular flavours include roast chicken (my personal favourite), prawn cocktail, smoky bacon, and Worcestershire sauce.
Here in Ireland it's literally the same except the warcistershire sauce
I'd also like to add that out of those the biggest one for a 4th main flavour is probably smoky bacon as it's the one you'll be most likely to see in a those 24 pack multi-flavour bags. Also Ready salted is red. Smoky bacon is purple, cheese and onion is blue and sal and vinegar is green. Tho those last 2 do change in quite alot of brands
Cheese and onion sounds gross. Does it taste good?
@@TreefuckTunes In Scotland it was always Navy Blue = plain, Sky Blue = Salt and Vinegar, Green = Cheese and Onion and every single company followed the pattern. Then fucking Walkers shows up and fucks up the colour and now plain crisps are always red but most non-Walker brands still use light blue for Salt and Vinegar and green for Cheese and onion.
Green for Salt and Vinegar is fucking weird.
I should also add that Walkers are fucking disgusting. They are ridiculously undercooked resulting in literally no flavour other than from the seasoning which is both lacking in quantity and pretty poor on taste. Also Walkers gained their market share by pioneering the "multipack but the bags are all smaller" method of hoodwinking people. Its a shame it worked. BOYCOTT WALKERS.
@@RedPanda450 it tastes beautiful
You have such a skill for looking very deeply into something taken for granted and seen as normal.
in the uk we have the main crisp brand called walkers and on there multipack with four flavours we have ready salted (red), cheese and onion, salt and vinegar and prawn cocktail (pink)
the reason why i missed out the colours for cheese and onion and salt and vinegaris because for most crisps it blue s and v, green c and o, but walkers switch it around
I never knew about the âpotato chip beltâ but it seems to fit most of Pennsylvania. Iâm from central PA and can name at least 7 chip companies and/or factories local to my area. I also always hear people commenting or arguing about which chip brands or flavors they are most loyal to.
Iirc Pennsylvania is even referred to as the chip or snack state sometimes with how many different snacks and chips are made there
Eastern PA here, can confirm. What I find find is that i'm not loyal toa particular brand, but some brands flavors are better than others.
I honestly think english canadians are super racist and ignorant towards language education and usually likes to bully bilingual people
huh i always just buy from the northwestern brands here like tim's cascade snacks
Yep, there's Utz, Herr's, Snyder (not to be confused with Snyder's, the pretzel guys), and Wise just off the top of my head and I'm not even from there. Utz would probably be most familiar to people outside the region; they definitely have a presence as far as Georgia given that a reference appeared in a Homestar Runner cartoon.
Here in Australia our potato chip flavour canon matches pretty closely with America's. The big four here are salted ("original"), salt and vinegar, BBQ and Chicken (which is meant to be the flavour of the seasonings you put on roast chicken).
We also have sour cream and onion, but it's not quite as popular as those four. Other popular flavours are cheese and chives, and honey soy chicken, which most manufacturers have a variation of. There has also been a push by some companies to make lime and cracked pepper a staple flavour for some reason.
And, yes, we have had Vegemite flavour in the past. They weren't great though.
I would argue that sour cream and onion is only big for Pringles in Oz (or at least Victoria) . Cheese and onion would be 5th place. Your Big 4 are spot on.
Sour cream and chives is my favourite. But I prefer Grainwaves over potato chips
I was shocked when learning that chicken flavoured chips were basically just not a thing in places outside Australia. Seemed like easily the most popular flavour growing up. Like chicken salt always struck me as a niche Aussie thing but chicken flavour chips just seemed like they should be everywhere.....
Here in California, especially in the southern parts, Mexican populations popularized Chile and lime flavored chips. Not only do we have a lot of Mexican chip brands here, a lot of American chip companies adapted to this and created âChile and limeâ flavors as well as separating them into âlime flavorâ and âhot and spicy.â The most obvious and popular one being hot Cheetos and Takis. Doritos has a few of these flavors as well as lays.
I'm in the UK, and over here the big three are ready salted (so called cos they used to come unsalted with a salt sachet you could add yourself), cheese and onion and salt and vinegar. There's also the honourable mention of prawn cocktail as a fourth if you're feeling fancy.
Yes, as a Thai, I can confirm that every other week or even a few days, thereâd be a new Lays flavor on the shelves. Some of the ones worth mentioning are Durian and Tom Yum Kung, theyâre not bad to be honest.
Sounds fun to try out new ones so frequently, at best we get a new lays flavor once every few months in the States :/.
As an expat in Thailand, that new truffle flavor is pretty fire
@@hurgcat wow i need that in my life
i think my favorite flavor was a wasabi flavor that was here in the states, it was like a kettle cooked chip.
In Indonesia sadly last year PepsiCo who owned Frito-Lay (Lays, Cheetos, Doritos) ceased their joint-venture with Indofood as Indofood Frito-Lay Makmur. In turn their products got rebranded and assimilated into Indofood range of products, Lays become Chitato Lite, Cheetos become Chiki Twist, and Doritos become Maxicorn.
I was a member of the United States Air Force in the '90s and I was stationed in the UK where I was introduced to vinegar and salt on French fries. I enjoyed it so much that I have actually made my own french fries and then put salt and vinegar on them. And I started eating salt and vinegar chips as a result of my time in the uk. For some reason I had never seen salt and vinegar chips before joining the Air Force. Maybe my parents just didn't like them?
@@josephbowman1092 yup, vinegar on fries is very common in New England
Not sure why itâs not more common. However, I know national burger places like Five Guys stock malt vinegar next to their ketchup as condiments
Salt and vinegar on chips isn't common in America? Wierddd...
I live in the Czech Republic and paprika is king here too, and you can find bbq as well, but one flavor I have encountered that you didnt mention is mustard flavored chips
from northern MD, just below the border into PA, and can confirm that we love chips in this part of the country
In Ukraine, where I lived until recently, they have alot of strange chips. (they also have weird flavored peanuts). I've never tried the shrimp flavor, but the chicken flavor feels like you're eating chicken broth bouillon cubes. And these are name brand chips that I know from America.
We have chicken chips in Australia. They are the most divisive flavor, with the population split 50-50 on weather they are an absolutely disgusting abomination or the best thing in the world of chips. I think they might be the same as what you are describing from Ukraine, as to me the do taste like eating a whole stock cube.
In the US their is Chicken in a bisket, Crackers dusted with chicken flavor.
I can confirm that US's Chicken-in-a-Biskit is equally as divisive; half the population recognising in awe the perfection of the food and half the population chicken-denying heretics.
Where? Is that the same place as Novorussia?
Here in nothern Italy (and probably the centre and south too) THE potato chips company is San Carlo. The most basic flavours I can think of are:
1) plain (called classiche)
2) crinkled plain (rustiche)
3) tomato/ketchup
4) paprika
Cheese flavor is popular too but it's more commonly associated with maize based chips. In particular, there's a brand called Fonzies that's very iconic.
Fun fact: when I visited Sardinia (an island region in Italy) I discovered that chips made of carasau bread are very popular, if not more popular than regular potato chips
I adore your videos! I particularly adore the way you say âaboutâ. Iâm from Winnipeg originally, but your way of saying that word is even more âCanadianâ than my family in the middle of nowhere. Itâs so comforting! Sorry for my lame, sappy comment. Actually, Iâm not sorry. Love it!
I do kind of agree on your theory about barbecue sauce snobs.
The only store brand my family gets on the regular and that we use in almost everything involving barbecue sauce is Sweet Baby Ray's.
Every single sauce I have ever gotten from them has been phenomenal, especially considering it is available at almost every supermarket and grocery store.
I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, so I'm also lucky in the fact that we have an excellent local barbecue chain called Shigs In Pit (high-class people here lolol) who also sells their sauces in the local stores and that stuff is HEAVENLY, it's just more expensive.
Being from India chips have been an essential part of my youth. the most of the chips found here are the lays ones but other Indian chips brands are also popular like uncle chips and Kurkure.
also, the most popular flavour here would be the sour cream and onion ones which are labeled as 'American cream and onion' on the pack also the Indian spiced chips are also quite popular
The Lays magic masala is the only flavour I ever buy
I would love to try a masala flavored one! Saw it once in Canada and still regret not getting it.
@@ScorpiotideOne my friends got those and they are fantastic
@@Sixtixx Salt, Magic Masala supremacy
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I would love to try the masala ones! I've seen cucumber and squid flavours at the Asian supermarkets near me, which is more of an East Asian one, but none of the south Asian supermarkets I've gone to have chips :(
In midwest and east coast, I've seen more cheddar chips than salt+vinegar.
Also, Jalapeno flavored chips seem to be getting more popular starting maybe ~ 10 years ago. They are currently my favorite!
Both Middleswarth and Martin's here in PA have some really fantastic Jalapeno flavors
You sir has single handedly made me interested in the culture of other country's
I never really thought about potato chips being like a big thing within the north east, but now that you mention it we have many local potato chip brands that you can't get outside the north east. Some are so big they make more than just potato chips too, but still small enough companies that they are regional. I think part of it is probably the big sandwich culture there is in the north east and the deli culture that comes with that, perhaps also the fact that chips go good with a packed lunch which many in the rust belt(western PA and Ohio)would have been consuming every day when going to work at the factories, hard to say though. May also just be geographic proximity to the place where they originated, the same way that buffalo style chicken wings are in particular quite popular in the north east and eastern mid west. Hard to say really though. I would also say Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar is making its way to the US staple flavors of chips, still has a decade or two to really get over the hump but pretty much any function I go to that has chips at this point has them there, and they are p popular at grocery stores in my area as well.
I would love to see a video form you about Ranch. Ranch has quickly entered the American Cultural Canon as one of our biggest dipping sauces and salad dressings, but its origins and its rise to power are quite shrouded in mystery. Is Ranch really the ketchup killer or just another sauce?
You might say its origins are shrouded in a hidden valley.
ranch is weird. i dont understand it. like blue cheese without the flavor. just glop.
As a non American ranch Is such a mysterious substance to me
We need the sauce canon next
@@dar2ski309 As an American it's just as weird to me. I only really like it as a salad dressing, and it's not even a great salad dressing.
The first time I traveled to the US (from Australia) I was shocked, SHOCKED they didnât have chicken flavoured things. Every brand of chips in Australia has chicken flavour. We also have a thing called chicken salt and we put it on fries. Itâs so good.
Other standard flavours in Australia are:
Salt/Plain
BBQ
Salt and Vinegar
Sour Cream and Chive
Cheese and Onion
There's "Chicken in a Biskit" crackers here, at least.
@@cableshaft I love those!
Roast chicken is a pretty common flavor in Canada
Brazil has grilled chicken flavor. Also grilled "BBQ beef", which is not like bbq sauce, but the actual meat flavor
We do have chicken flavored chips, but you are right that they aren't as popular here. Tbf, it isn't really chicken flavor anyways.
In New Zealand we have plain, salt and vinegar, sour cream and chives, and chicken. Chicken chips are by far the best, and is really good in a marmite sandwich to add crunch. We also have a very similar dip called "Kiwi Dip" which is a packet of onion soup mix, a tin of reduced cream, and a dash of malt vinegar. It's still pushed hard today, you find the soup and reduced cream right next to the chips at the supermarket.
In Chile we have
-Salt
-JamĂłn Serrano
-Onion
-Pizza (just some brands)
-Cheese (also just some brands)
I live within 30 minutes of Saratoga, and there is a lot of regional pride that comes with the invention of potato chips, with local restaurants selling expensive chips with long winded stories on the back.
Lived all over Saratoga county, settled in Charlton, I can confirm this.
Very interesting that pepper flavoured chips aren't such a big thing in the US. They're the most basic flavour in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, often branded as 'Hungarian' flavour.
Hungarian!?
I'm really confused about (bell)pepper chips... I don't think I've seen any and we have loads of chips in the Baltics!
I grew up on cheese ones but dill, sourcream and onion were the big two from what I recall. There's a lot of tomatoey ones nowadays, which for the life of me I can't understand
Yeah, moved to germany recently and âungarischâ or just âpaprikaâ is all I can find
@@JJMcCullough I know this one! âŠ.kinda. My (also Canadian) mom has 2 kinds of paprika in her cupboard. Sweet Paprika, and Hungarian Paprika. Iâm guessing this bell-pepper based spice has some form of relevance in the Hungarian culture? Maybe it grows well in their climate?
@@JJMcCullough Exactly, they're a staple, every German supermarket has them.
I told a Hungarian friend once and she wasn't too happy of her country being reduced to paprika (and goulash) all the time, but that's the way cultural stereotypes work.
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also i love the way you talk lol
100% agree I never got why so many people I know like salt and vinegar chips but can't fathom adding vinegar to fries/fried food. I haven't done it yet myself because it isn't a priority but if I go to a restaurant and it's recommended I want to try it, I imagine it would be very good.
14:35 It's funny how prominent the "simulated flavour" is. Today they do everything possible to hide the fact that "salt and vinegar flavor" is actually just malic acid, and may not have any actual vinegar at all. (Or a vanishingly tiny amount so they can list vinegar in the ingredients.)
Some brands use malt flavoring to make it a more malt vinegar-y taste. But yeah, it's acid whose taste is kinda close to the acidic tang of vinegar.
@@animeartist888
Wondering where you guys get vinegar?
I'm from the Phils, a very tropical country so we only have coconuts and that's where we get our vinegar.