Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips have been out for a while now but I finally got up the nerve to try them. About a year ago I tried several different flavors of Lay’s potato chips that just didn’t do it for me so I gave up trying new flavors until recently.
These Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips smell just like a jar of dill pickle!
I got to look at the ingredients.
They have a few ingredients that are unexpected like whey and sour cream…..???? Why whey and sour cream? They don’t go into spicy dill pickles!
Here are the chips up close.
The chips are smaller in size and are a little powdery.
I taste one. It’s almost too hot and *****IS*****too vinegary for me.
My husband loves them and is woofing them down.
The chips for me are painful to eat slow.
If I eat them faster they don’t hurt my mouth and they really do taste like spicy dill pickles.
Pretty good and worth a try! …Just don’t eat them slow.
There is always something new, weird, different, limited or special edition out there in the wonderful world of food. We never do know what we will come across when we look for food.
Up above is-
NEW – Post Hostess Twinkies Cereal. I don’t know what it is. Looks like yellow cheese curls to me.
NEW – General Mills – Trix Tour World Tour with Marshmallows. Don’t know how the tour went? Might have gone virtual?
LIMITED EDITION – General Mills Elf Cereal with marshmallows……because that is how most cereals roll these days….(with marshmallows)
NEW – Post Marshmallow Fruity Pebbles with NEW Marshmallow shapes. The old shapes were just no good anymore.
LIMITED EDITION – General Mills Sugar Cookie TOAST Crunch…..Because toast just sometimes wish that they were really cookies this time of year…..??????
LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Elf on A Shelf Sugar Cookie Cereal……Umm because cereal really wishes that it is sugar cookies this time of year?????
Below is something that I am not sure what the FORK it is….
DIFFERENT – Post Cereals. According to the picture on the boxes…one looks like it’s made from whole grains. The other looks like it’s made in animal shapes.
DIFFERENT – General Mills Cinnamon Toast Crunch Remix…..I don’t see anything on the bag that makes this different from the boxed cereal…..I could be wrong but to me it just looks like cereal in a pouch?
NEW – Cinnabon – Cheddar Rolls (? with cinnamon?), Frosted Cinasweet Swirls, Ooey Gooey Rolls, Sausage Bites, CinnaPastry and CinnaBiscuit…Might be ok…..can’t say till I try.
The brand Aunt Jemima is considered to be politically incorrect and racist so that brand got changed to Uncle P’s it’s a minority owned brand.
NEW – Uncle P’s Louisiana Seasoned White Rice and
NEW – Uncle P’s Pancake and Waffle Mix. Also Original Syrup.
Saw many new and different ice creams.
NEW Lotus Biscoff Ice Creams in a variety of flavors……might be good?
NEW – Nick’s Light Swedish Style LIGHT Ice Creams in a variety of familiar sounding flavors all are 300 or less calories a pint……sounds sad to me….Nobody eats a whole pint of ice cream….maybe 1/2 a pint? If I eat a 1/2 pint I need it to taste good.
Cheesecake Factory Ice Cream up above is salted caramel and strawberry. Don’t plan to try since cheesecake ice cream isn’t a favorite of mine.
Whoo Hoo! Ice Cream for dogs.
Different and maybe NEW – Dogsters Ice cream style treats for dogs! Nutly & Cheese Flavor and Cheesy Bac’n Flavor. I think my dogs might like cheesy bacon better than cheese with nuts.
NEW – Enlightened Keto NO SUGAR frozen desserts….????? I don’t know if they are good……I have tasted sugar free gelato that was good but not ice cream so far…????
LIMITED EDITION – Reese’s White Elephant – I think if I eat that then I will be as big as an elephant.
Limited EDITION – Reese’s in Nutcracker shaped……The package looks sort of gangster with the legs blown off.
LIMITED EDITION – Mystery shapes. looks like anything goes here…might be batches of Reese’s that melted in the trucks on their way to Phoenix.
LIMITED EDITION – Ice Breakers Gum in Candy Cane Flavor
LIMITED EDITION – Hershey’s Build a snowman in cookies and cream and build a Santa in milk chocolate. Just right for people who like to bite the heads off and make little ones cry.
New M&M’s – (sort of but not really) They are just dumping in multiple flavors in one bag. Up top is Peanut Mix in milk dark and white chocolate coated peanuts. Bottom bag is milk chocolate, peanut butter and peanut.
NEW – Reese’s stuffed with pretzel. I also read that a Reese’s stuffed with potato chips is also coming out. I don’t need more junk food in my junk food.
LIMITED EDITION – Cocoa Cone – Oh my this doesn’t even look edible.
LIMITED EDITION – Krabby Patties Gummy Sliders…..YEEE Claw…sliders with a pinch.
LIMITED TIME ONLY – Pringles Cajun Fries Potato Crisps. I never find these Limited Time Only Pringles anywhere…..
DIFFERENT (and Expensive) Tequila in bright colorful heads….full of head fluid.
DIFFERENT – Saltvert – Licorice Salt…Ummm?
NEW – Red Boat Spiced Garum Salt – Now this one sounds intriguing. Fermented Anchovy and spices salt.
NEW – Hormel Chili I don’t know if can of the left Hot with Beans is new?….But Ghost Reaper Chili with beans is new…..So can of the left is hot……So can on the right is even hotter and like no other? If it’s that hot then why the Fork is hit called Chili?
And there is Holiday treats for dogs too!
LIMITED EDITION – Greenies Gingerbread Flavor Dental Treats for dogs…Oh my…for 5-15 pound dogs. (even my small dog is a lot bigger than 15 pounds)
Who knew that Americas favorite cookie is a cereal on Asian Shelves at the Asiana Market.
DIFFERENT – Who Knew?
And there always is a new Oreo Cookie if you want them or not.
These are the same artificially flavored Oreo Cookies that many people love. Now they have artificial coloring too…
Oh and Oreo is trying to make us feel better about 2020 so they knocked out a few other kinds of Oreos…..wasn’t that nice……??????
LIMITED EDITION – 5 Cool Winter designs and RED FILLING.
LIMITED EDITION….It’s Oh SNAP the Easter eggs didn’t sell so lets push them out for Christmas….Oreo Creme Filled Candy with Cookie Pieces.
Oy Vey there’s more!
LIMITED SPECIAL EDITION – Oreo Oy it’s 2020 Cookies….Only kidding below is the real one….instead of Oy it reads JOY.
Nabisco Oreo Cookies in 5 cool winter designs with red creme filling.
Well that was the New Weird Different Limited and Special Edition foods out there for December 2020. Have a FORKING GREAT NEW YEAR! and who knows WTFORK I’ll come across next month.
I’ve subscribed to Universal Yums at www.UniversalYums.com . It’s a subscription service where you can subscribe or gift international boxes of snacks in a number of ways. Some of the basic offerings are a Yum Box. The Yum Box is six snacks, comes with a small booklet with, fun facts, trivia, a recipe and more and runs around $15.00 that includes shipping.
Fun facts and RecipeTrivia
The larger offerings are the Yum Yum Box. All that above plus more and double the snacks for around $25.00.
The biggest offering is called The Super Yum Box. You get the above plus more and 20 snacks for around $40.00.
I let my husband pick out the first snack. He picked crisp almond cookies called Amarettini.
The cookies are very tiny and very crispy and are extremely almond forward. I think they are very good and the little bag is filled with more cookies than I imagined. This one is very good. I hope we didn’t eat the best one first again.
My husband picks the next one. It’s some sort of carrot/orange snack cake. Now this one I expected to hate because I’m not a big fan of carrot cake or most packaged snack cakes.
This is a first…….It’s surprisingly good and seems fresh. I don’t get the carrot. The cake is just moist. The cream is laced with orange and isn’t too sweet. I can eat this…It’s good.
Next we went to the Yum Bag and tried the Lemon Fizzy Soda Candy at the top of the picture.
OMG this isn’t sweet. It’s so tangy it is painful to my mouth. My husband just munched his down and said, not very fizzy or good. I painfully let mine dissolve thinking that it might get better. Mine didn’t get fizzy either and stayed painful till the last few moments. I would not try this one again.
Artificially ketchup potato chips….???????
I open the bag and they smell like ketchup….They do have the taste of ketchup but a little sweeter and also too tangy….my mouth is very sensitive and the chemicals in the chips burn my mouth…..Doesn’t bother my husband though.
I wanted to save this for last but we didn’t.
Novi chocolate hazelnut bar. This chocolate bar just melts in your mouth. It’s creamy milk chocolate that is full of flavor and even the hazelnuts are full of hazelnut flavor. I wish I had another one of these bars in my box. This one was really good.
Truffle potato chips.
I open the bag and get a slight truffle aroma. The chips are very small and are light and crisp. They do have a pleasant truffle kind of taste to them that lingers in the mouth a bit. Another very good.
Here are tarallini. They are little tasty lemon and black pepper laced micro mini bagel shaped crackers. These are very tasty. I could use another bag of these too.
Now I’m trying my last treat.
It’s a round chocolate ball that is called Tiramisu. I usually don’t like that dessert made with ladies fingers, espresso, cream and rum…..Well I will give this a try.
Ummm I get the espresso right away but it’s not too strong and quickly turns to a rich milk chocolate taste that explodes into my mouth. It’s seems very rich but also is very satisfying….Wow I like it!
Those were my Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – Italy
There is always something New, Weird, Different, Limited and Special Edition out there in the wonderful world of food. We never know what we will come across when we shop for food.
Up above is –
DIFFERENT – Good Value Cheeseburger Onion rings……WOW! How do they do that? And how do you eat them? Do you put them in a sandwich? Do you dip them in ketchup or mustard or relish? They sure are different!
NEW – Yuengling/Hershey’s porter – Maybe it will go well with the cheeseburger onion rings?
NEW – Harpoon DogToberFest German Style Lager. Might be something to woof down?
NEW – For something more out of this world maybe you’d like to sip of Star Trek Wines in red or white special reserve, chateau Picard or Klingon Blood Wine? Maybe we should lock and load some up?
And what goes with wine/
DIFFERENT – Dutch Spicy Kaas Cheese. It’s a pretty looking cheese that isn’t as spicy as it sounds.
NEW – Del Monte Veggieful Veggie Bowls in Roasted Red Pepper with Quinoa and Asian Style with Soy Sesame Quinoa and Brown Rice.
DIFFERENT – Inspired iO Organics Organic Boxed low sodium Red Kidney Bean from Italy. They sound good!
DIFFERENT and maybe NEW _ Trader Joe’s Yuzu Hot Sauce, Truffle Powder Seasoning and Chili Onion Crunch. Tried the Yuzu Hot Sauce on Fish. I like the unique citrus taste and I like that it isn’t too hot. It’s good on fish. I also like the Truffle Powder….It sure beats most of the artificially truffle flavored oils. Haven’t tried the Chili Onion Crunch yet but I was looking for this sort of product.
DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – Watkins Maple Bourbon Rub. I tasted it and it’s not bad. I think it would be good on sweet potatoes or a butternut squash too!
NEW – Barilla Vero Gusto Red Sauce with Calabrian Pepper. It might be good but I have no idea on why a 20 oz bottle would cost $29.00.
Guess we are ready for some sweets.
DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – Hershey’s milk chocolate Pretzel Bites and milk chocolate Cookie Bites…Sounds tasty….?
DIFFERENT and possibly NEW – Dole Snack Bites in Dark Chocolate Blueberry Almond….Sounds delicious….????
NEW – Miniature Reese’s Lover Cups – They are deeper chocolate with extra chocolate and peanut butter cups with an extra peanut chocolate coating layer – (Yes I did) I think they are good. I like the perfect size for candy. You can eat just one and it is enough candy. But the full size ones taste better as they have the perfect peanut butter to chocolate ratio. So you have to get fat and eat the whole cup.
LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Eggo frozen pancakes in gingerbread cookie flavor. they look like they have icing and those little hard crunchy balls (that I hate) on them.
LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Disney Frozen II OK cute movie I can see little kids enjoying this. I see the purple leaves in the cereal but they could have done a better job at making the white puffs look like Olaf.
DIFFERENT – Kellogg’s Zucaritas …???? Looks like Frosted Flakes to me?
DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – General Mills Jolly Rancher Cereal ….(ick)
NEW – Kellogg’s Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies Cereal…..They look like little wheat bagels placed on top of sour cream to me.
DIFFERENT – It’s Back! Pop-Tarts in Strawberry Milkshake Flavor. It’s naturally and artificially flavored…????
DIFFERENT – Soyatoo Soy Whipped Topping……???? Might be good?
NEW – Toblerone Lava Cakes (available at Wal-Mart) They look and sound delicious but ?????
NEW – Tajin Chili & Lime Crunchy Peanuts…might be tasty?
DIFFERENT – ARTISAN FOODS – Coconut Chips in Golden Turmeric Latte Flavor…..I don’t know what this stuff is….
NEW – Cheez-It Queso Fundido They sound really good….White Cheddar, Onions, Tomatoes and Jalapeños……..
Christmas is coming. Did you buy your candy canes yet?
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NEW – WEIRD & DIFFERENT From Archie McFee Ketchup Candy Canes
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NEW WEIRD & DIFFERENT Archie McFee Shiitake Mushroom Candy Canes
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NEW WEIRD & DIFFERENT Archie McFee Pho Candy Canes
LIMITED EDITION – Nabisco Gingerbread Oreo Cookies in 5 festive designs.
NEW – Oreo WOOF in Peppermint…….Excuse me I mean Bark in Peppermint.
Well that was the NEW, Weird, Different Limited and Special Edition Foods out there for November 2020. Who Knows WTFork I’ll come across next month?
I’ve subscribed to www.UniversalYums.com . It’s a subscription service that sends you an international box of snacks once a month. They offer three different size boxes.
Small (called a Yum Box)- 6 snacks, a 12 page activity booklet with a recipe) around $15.00
Medium (called a Yum Yum Box) 12 snacks, activity book & more around $25.00
Large ( called Super Yum Box) 20 snacks, activity book & more around $40.00
So far I’m just doing the basic 6 snack Yum Box.
I open the box and wonder what I’ll get?
I look at the first few pages of the activity booklet first.
I read a little about Russia. I see a recipe for beef stroganoff. Turn the page and I see some fun facts.
The box also comes with a scorecard so I can jot down my thoughts.
I should have read the next page before we started the tastings because they recommended to do the tastings in a certain order. I accidentally tasted the best one first. I picked it because it was a smaller treat and I wanted to start with something small.
We start by sharing one of the snacks.
I’m not sure what it is called but it is a wafer bar with cocoa, hazelnuts and peanuts.
WOW! It’s all melty like REAL chocolate.
Gosh this is delicious. I never tasted a wafer bar with such a delicious coating. No wax here! This is really good. It’s not even like a candy bar. It’s more like the chocolate ganache coating from a pastry shop. American candy bars are very inferior compared to this…….Even the wafers and fillings are good. WOW! I sure wouldn’t mind more of these.
Here is the next one we tried.
I have no idea what the package says but this is a pack of two white chocolate and hazelnut filled wafer bars.
The wafer bars are crisp and the filling is unusually good. More like something from a bakery and not from a shelf. No waxy feeling at all. No chemical taste. It’s rich with the right amount of buttery sweetness. I just wish the hazelnut flavor popped a little more but this is still really good.
We only wanted a little bit of sweet so we opened the Yum Bag.
I wonder what is inside?
Looks like fruity gummies and something more interesting with coconut and hazelnuts. I go for the more interesting.
It’s like a wafer bon bon. It’s a white chocolate coating mixed with shredded coconut that coats a wafer shell filled with extra sweet frosting that has a hazelnut center. This one its slightly waxy and slightly too sweet. Not my favorite.
Here’s the next one.
I was suppose to try this one first. It’s some sort of coated milk cake.
This one lacks sweetness and also lacks a good flavor. It is flavored with something I can’t identify. This its my least favorite so far.
Ok next was mushroom croutons.
They smell sort of odd. They are light, airy and crisp in texture. They taste better than they smell. some of them actually taste like mushroom base. (base the stuff you add to soup if you didn’t make a stock) some of them have more flavor and salt than others in my package. For me some of them run a little salt forward but they really do taste like mushroom. Not bad!
Next.
These are suppose to be Swiss cheese flavored potato chips.
They smell sort of buttery. They have a powdery exterior and are very thin but in my package the chips are not very crisp. At first I can almost imagine a Swiss cheese flavor but that quickly turns to an artificial margarine type flavor. I really don’t like these chips.
These were the gummies from the yum bag. They might be good but I don’t like gummy candy so I made my husband try them. He thought one did taste like lemon or something citrusy but he couldn’t identify the other one.
The last one.
It looks good……..????
I go to taste….The chocolate is extra milky and the filling is more like jelly than the creamy look it has on the wrapper.
You know I can sure go for another one of these………..The was the wafer with cocoa, hazelnuts and peanuts.
Those were my Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums from Russia.
I can’t wait to try what I get next month!
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Everything is subject to change and your experience and opinion may indeed differ.
I picked up these Lay’s Italian Red Meat Flavor Potato Chips at an Asian Market so I thought I’d give them a try. The bag is small and is less than 1 1/2 ounces.
Here’s what the back looks like.
Here are the ingredients. It reads like it might be free of meat.
It also reads Italian braise flavor?
Whatever-
I open it up and take a whiff.
This one smells.
It smells like a combination of fried pastries and burnt tomato sauce.
I’m afraid to try them now.
Oh no here they come.
They are powdery and greasy and have an orange complexion.
I go to taste one.
It’s not horrible…….but it’s not good………It sort of taste like it smells…..Sort of like burnt tomato sauce but sweetened…….
I’m not a fan of this flavor
I note that your opinion and experience may indeed differ…
It’s kind of fun to try different flavors of potato chips. A few are really great. Some are beyond terrible and most fall in-between. I really enjoyed the regular Lay’s Seaweed Chips from Taiwan so I thought the Spicy Roasted Seaweed Chips could be another winner.
The bag is small and only weighs around one and a half ounces.
Here’s the back of the bag.
Here are the ingredients.
There are many ingredients and these chips also are made with milk and fish.
I open the bag and take a whiff.
These chips smell strange. Kind of like something fried like pastry and tea…..
Now I am afraid to taste them……
I go and do the duty not expecting much.
PHEW!
They don’t taste as bad as they smell.
I eat a chip the way I’d normally eat a chip.
They are small chips with a powdery surface. They have a pleasant crunch to them. A slight sweetness, but more salty than sweet and more than anything they have a medium heat to them that builds a little. You do taste seaweed but it isn’t the dominate flavors.
I try to eat a chip very slow to taste it differently.
YUK…..can taste the fish this way and something that taste like burnt tea….
WOW they aren’t horrible if you just eat them but they aren’t great either.
They aren’t even as close to as good as the regular Lay’s Seaweed flavor is.
Not the best….but not the worst either
Don’t eat slow. You need to munch them down to skip over some of the flavors.
I thought this flavor (Kettle Cooked New York Pizza) Potato Chips sounds tasty. After all I really like pizza. I really love east coast style pizza. Most east coast pizza is made with a rich tomato sauce and a really delicious cheese blend. Usually it’s made with a sprinkle of seasonings that many pizza places around Phoenix don’t use. New York style taste different because of the water and usually is made thin with lots of oil. It says on bag that these chips are suppose to be in the style of Grimaldi’s pizza. I haven’t had a Grimaldi’s pizza in years so I can’t tell if it is like Grimaldi’s. Anyway so here we go. I bought a small 2 1/2 ounce bag.
I open it up and take a whiff.
To me it smells just like mozzarella sticks.
I open the bag and read the back.
It seems safe to eat.
I spill some out.
The chips are smaller sized and very crisp. They have a very powdery finish.
I taste one. It’s not bad but it doesn’t taste like pizza to me.
I think it’s too oregano heavy to taste like pizza.
This doesn’t usually happen but I am actually tasting the potato here. Usually these chips lack potato flavor but the potato shines threw.
I guess it taste like a crispy Italian potato croquette.
Could pass for a mozzarella stick though.
It’s not bad but it doesn’t taste like pizza to me.
My bag of chips seems to lack the rich tomato flavor.
Maybe your bag might come with more tomato flavor?
Worth a try!
Those were my Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Kettle Cooked New York Pizza Flavored Grimaldi’s Flavor Icon Potato Chips.
Your experience may indeed differ from mine and everything is subject to change.
Since the pandemic I’ve been researching food more on the internet. I’ve found many imaginary food products that seem amusing. I think a few I found might actually be for real but the majority and part of someones imagination. I found many odd flavors for Oreo Cookies. Up above are McDonalds Cheeseburger Cookies. Can’t you mustard that?
Next are Spam Oreos made with 100% Spam that you might want to pig out on.
They even have the U kosher mark on the package (lol)
How about-
Limited Edition College Flavor Oreos made with pot and ramen.
Or maybe Limited Edition Zombie Brains is more your thing?
They are artificially flavored with Blood Orange.
Lets move on to something different but also weird.
Tastes Like Grandma – Homemade Black Raspberry Jam……Sounds like someone was licking up grandma……
Then there is Fuke brand ??? Not sure what this is suppose to be? Is it meat shredded by a child? Is it meat for children? Or is it bottled meat from children?
The next one is “R” rated.
Grace Brand Cock flavored soup….It looks real? …Maybe it’s male chicken soup?……Don’t know if it is?
I heard of monkey bread…but this is not that.
Roasted Monkey Nuts……Product of China…. (eat before December 23 2010….LOL…OLD NUTS)
Next is 100% “HAND” Reared Pork.
Pinky’s Sausages….Can you handle this?
How about some Limited Edition Pop-Tarts?
But just the crust?…….
Maybe potato chips are more your thing?
Lay’s Sour Milk Potato Chips…That might taste something like sour cream, yogurt or buttermilk?
Maybe some Fagottini?
???
Found another Oreo Cookie!
Nabisco GOreo made with blood cookies that are artificially flavored.
Well that is some of the Forking Funny (mostly) IMAGINARY Foods Out There on the Internet.
I thought it would be fun to try some foreign Lay’s Potato Chips that I can’t buy here in America. Thailand seemed to offer the most flavors at reasonable pricing so I tried a few bags. I liked that these are extra small snack bags. They only contained HALF OUNCE of potatoes chips in each bag.
The first one I’m trying is the Salted Egg Flavor.
I open the bag and take a whiff…..It smells sort of like an egg yolk.
I taste a chip.
It has a nice texture. It kind of taste like it was rubbed with an egg yolk…..It’s not bad…but it’s not a chip that I crave….But not bad…so that’s a win! (Ok-Good)
The back of the bags do have the ingredients in English but they are very hard to read.
Now I’ll try the Extreme Hot Chili Flavor.
I open up the bag and spill some out. These smell kind of good….sort of cayenne pepper. I eat one. YES very hot but it doesn’t hurt or sting. Yipes they do build with heat…..still good…not bad…another win. (OK-Good)
I was saving the Sweet Basil for last because I thought it would be my favorite since I love sweet basil.
I open the bag and take a whiff………I was expecting basil but this isn’t basil…….These smell strange. They smell like burnt cake. YUK! THESE ARE REALLY AWFUL! They don’t even taste like food. Sorry I can’t eat them. (The BIG SUCK!)
Just like American Lay’s the flavors go all over the place – from surprisingly good, good, ok, not so great and the big suck!.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Thailand Lay’s – Salted Egg, Extreme Hot Chili Flavor and Sweet Basil.
Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.
