The first Chile Con Queso I ever tasted was from Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurant. It was a creamy cheesy sauce made from a Mexican Style Cheese blend and was spiked with little pieces of tomatoes, chiles and scallions. The Queso was served with a bottomless basket of hot white corn tortilla chips. Chile Con Queso seemed very exotic a few decades back but these days it’s a common southwest Texmex kind of snack food that often is served with soft pretzels and beer. These days it’s common to whip up Queso  in your own kitchen when you want to snack while watching a football game. At home most Americans just microwave a brick of Velveeta (a processed cheese food product) with shredded jack cheese or cream cheese with a can of Rotel (chopped tomatoes and chiles).

Well lets see what I think!

I open the bag and take a whiff.

My bag looks only 1/3 filled.

WOW, it smells mostly like a dirty deep fryer……..(ick)…….laced with maybe a little cheese…..just like what Chi-Chi’s deep fryers were like!

The chips are on the smaller side and have a granular feel to them.

The chips are extra thin and are speckled with something.

I eat a couple chips. They feel extra fragile in the mouth.

The actual chip lacks a potato flavor.

The first thing I taste is something sour.

It’s like the sour in sour cream but more sour.

Then it turns a sort of buttermilk taste followed by a soft kick of chile peppery seasoning. The first couple have a sourness to them that is unpleasant.

I eat one chip slowly.

This chip taste better than the first two.

I don’t get that sourness as much and the spice seems to grow. It’s spicy but a mild spicy……not bad for Lay’s……It’s also a little onion-ee……a little….garlic-ee…..it’s kinda black pepper-ee. There are other warm pepper tastes and a little salty. Something here reminds me of margarine…..

The spice and mild heat does grow and covers up the milky sourness.

Too bad the cheese taste is very disappointing……..They didn’t get the cheese taste right.

Almost good…….

Not horrible….but not great either……….The spice blend is pretty good for Lay’s but the cheese taste is off.  Instead of a processed cheese taste it’s something more like buttermilk.

This tasting is subjective. The Forking Truth is that your experience and opinion may differ.