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My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – February 2021 Ukraine Box

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Universal Yums sells snacks from around the world. You can either subscribe or gift in a variety ways and different available sizes.

I get the basic Yum Box. These days it is 5-7 snacks and runs around $16. a month. My box includes a 12 page booklet with fun facts, a recipe and some games.

The first treat we try are the wasabi spicy potato strips.

They taste like they could be made by Pringles but in a long thin strip and wasabi flavored…Ummmm not bad. I’m surprised that they aren’t all busted up. Not bad..I’d buy them once in a while.

Next we try the baked Milk and Dark Chocolate Bar.

It’s a lot of wafers surrounded by a dark chocolaty wax coating. Not awful….but also not great…..I think mine is an off batch…I have next to zero filling between the wafers. It’s kind of dry. Oh well what’s next?

Next we open the Yum Bag. we try a juice filled Ukrainian mixed fruit jelly (yellow wrapper)……It’s weird….Not sure what it taste like….It’s coated with cornstarch and my mouth full of cornstarch…but is more jelly fruity and wet than corn starch…..It’s weird to me.

A day later I tried the other candy in the Yum Bag.

WOW! This candy is even weirder than the last candy. It’s really soft caramel with a strawberry fruit center that doesn’t taste like much. My husband found this candy less weird. He also agreed that you barely taste the strawberry and it’s mostly just a soft caramel…….I would never eat this again.

This is suppose to be a sweeter condensed milk cream cake. I don’t think mine wasn’t made right. It’s very dry and not sweet…I think it taste like it was made with saw dust………YUK! Neither me or my husband could stomach this one.

This one is a creme brûlée milk chocolate bar…It’s very sweet….like as sweet as thick donut icing….It’s too sweet. I think you can get diabetes if you eat more than one chocolate piece. This one was almost good.

Last snack is the roasted garlic rye chips.

My bread chips arrived mostly busted up. I go to taste one…..Not much on garlic taste….Mine taste like dry wheat bread mixed with wood pulp and they are very dry…..

I hope next month is better or I will have to cancel my membership.

Those were my Forking Thoughts on Ukraine Universal Yums

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NEW WeirD DiFFErent Limited and Special Edition Foods Out There February 2021

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There is always something NEW, Weird, Different, Limited, and Special Edition out there in the wonderful world of food. You just never know what you will come across…..Here is some of what I’ve come across lately.

NEW – from General Mills is Lucky Charms Marshmallow Chip Blondie soft baked bars……I never heard of Marshmallow Chips……….Are they little chips of marshmallow that got stale??????????? Maybe marshmallow chips are better than cow chips?????????????

COMING SOON****That means NEW – Post Birthday Cake Pebbles 50th Birthday Cereal…..You know for those birthdays when all you got was a rock…Well here are pebbles.

NEW – General Mills Dunk Aroos Cereal…….I don’t know…doesn’t look like they are dunking them…looks like the cereal is sitting in a bowl of milk to me…..But I guess you can slam dunk them if you don’t like the way they taste.

NEW – Krispy Kreme boxed doughnuts in chocolate bites, original glazed bites, mini crullers, and blueberry mini crullers. I like doughnuts…especially the ones with holes because they are partially calorie free so you don’t get fat eating the doughnuts with empty centers.

DIFFERENT – Lehi Valley Churo Stars (that look like chicken nuggets) and Simply Cinnamon Roll Puffs (that look like chicken nuggets rolled in dirt). Both do sound tasty…..But I resisted.

LIMITED EDITION – Peeps – Party Cake Marshmallow Birds – Party Cake? What flavor is that?

DIFFERENT – Asher Cinnamon Bun mini cups…they sound intriguing but sure don’t look like cinnamon buns………??????

NEW – Junior Mints MINIS……ummmm smaller than a Junior……I would have called them Junior Dots…….Next to the new Junior Mints Minis are York Mini Peppermint Patties….Do you need encourage-mint to eat Junior Mints and York Peppermint Patties?????

DIFFERENT – F-A-O Schwartz Chocolate Coin made in Italy….Ummmmm Is it money? Or is it not? I might change my mind and try one.

NEW – Hell’s Seltzer – Knicker Twist, Berry Inferno and another flavor that I can’t read. They sound spicy but I don’t know if they are?????

LIMITED TIME FLAVOR – Lay’s Game Day Chili……Could go either way…Some flavors are good….Other flavors…ICK! Game Day has passed…Haven’t seen these yet at the store????

DIFFERENT – Andean Pasta with turmeric, rice, quinoa and amaranth….sounds healthy but it still is a carb….???? Turmeric isn’t so tasty with pasta sauce…IDK about the pastabillities of turmeric in my pasta???

Different – Veggiecraft Pasta in elbows made with cauliflower and penne made with zucchini…..I don’t know about this one….it would have to be powdered vegetable added to my dry pasta dough. I might for getta bout this?

NEW – Trader Joe’s Plantain Croutons with garlic and sea salt. I can’t tell if they are baked plantain batter croutons or plantain chips cut into square shapes????? Could be good?

DIFFERENT from Sogna Toscano is Octopus Salami – This is for those really BIG salami sandwiches that take EIGHT hands….

DIFFERENT…(I don’t think anything was THIS different….I thought the last salami was really different)…..Hellenic Farms (Vegan) Fig Salami with Tikka Masala and Onion…….from supermarket Italy.com

and for something natural.

DIFFERENT – Bagged Milperas…..I found them at Smart and Final. They are mini Tomatillos.

NEW – Ocean Spray Craveology Snack Mix in Spicy Coconut Curry, Tuscan Herb Mix and Chai Snack Mix….It could be berry good?

DIFFERENT – StarKist Red Curry with Coconut Wild Caught Tuna……If it’s tasty you might get hooked on it?

NEW – Funfetti Ice Cream for when you are too lazy to buy your own sprinkles or Jimmies.

NEW Ben & Jerry’s Doggie Desserts (Is it me or does that dog look angry?)

There is always a Forking Oreo.

Oreo Candles who knew?…What a BRIGHT idea?

Anywho-

LIMITED EDITION – Oreo Lady Gaga Cookies – Weird colors…you might poop a rainbow if you eat them?

More Oreos

Limited Edition – Brookie – O Brownie Cream Cookie Dough with artificially flavored cream……oh boy what a treat…….. 🙁

Well that was the NEW Weird Different Limited and Special Edition Foods out there for February 2021. Who knows WTFork I’ll come across next month?

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – Netherlands – January 2021 #UniversalYums

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Universal Yums is an International snacks site ( www.UniversalYums.com ). You have many options and can subscribe to a once a month box if you like. The International snack boxes come in three different sizes. The basic Yum Box comes with 6 international snacks and a twelve page booklet of games, trivia and a recipe and runs around $16. a month.

The next size up is the Yum Yum Box of twelve snacks and more and is around $25. a month and the largest box is called the Super Yum Box of 20 snacks and cost around $40. a month.

I’m not a fan of gummy candy so I let my husband try the gummy candies for me.

These licorice and fruit dummies came from Amsterdam. My husband didn’t like them but said the next bag was even worst.

Oh they look cute….gummy Dutch candy cars in cherry, strawberry and black current. These had a rubbery texture and weren’t good to my husband.

I try the Yum Bag…

I try a ball first.

Dutch Sour Violet Balls…..Oh no wonder why it didn’t taste like food….(ick)

I kind of knew I wouldn’t like the Dutch sour watermelon candies but I did try….

GOD they are gross……….kinda like bubble gum mixed with watermelon and something painfully sour.

I’m beginning to think that this is the worst box ever.

We try again anyway.

Here are Dutch Aged Gouda Cheese Crispies.

Now these taste really rich and good. They have a really great buttery cheese flavor. Unfortunately they have a gross waxy finish in the mouth.

Here are thick cut bio-organic hand cooked cheese onion potato chips……Mine seem very thin and not thick cut but they are nice and crisp. I don’t get much cheese or onion taste to them…..they are just crisp little chips. Not bad…chips…they are ok.

I tried this and latter found out that I didn’t eat it correctly….WHO KNEW! that you could eat a cookie incorrectly?

Anywho-

Me and my husband tried them…(incorrectly) We took bites out of them and they weren’t good to us. I thought it was like a sweet gummy cooked into a thin waffle shaped cookie.

You are suppose to eat these cookies over a mug of a hot liquid. The hot liquid I guess makes them gooier …(ick!)

Here are multi-chocolate covered mini spice cookies. I’m not a big fan of spice cookies but I guess this might be the best of the bunch.

Netherlands wasn’t my favorite Yum Box.

Those were my Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – Netherlands

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Your opinion and experience with the same may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

NEW WEirD DIFFERent Limited and Special Edition Foods Out There January 2021

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There is always something NEW WEIRD DIFFERENT Limited and Special Edition out there in the wonderful world of food. I never know WTFork I’ll come across when I look for food.

Up above we have-

NEW and LIMITED EDITION Lay’s Potato Chips in Frank’s Red Hot – Hot Sauce Flavor….These I bought. They taste sort of like Frank’s Red Hot Sauce but more tangy I can’t can’t eat them. My mouth its too sensitive and they are so tangy that all that tang hurts my mouth. My husband was able to eat them.

NEW & LIMITED EDITION Lay’s Kettle Cooked Beer Cheese Flavored Potato Chips. I didn’t get yet but I am intrigued….(sounds good)

DIFFERENT – Lay’s India’s Magic Masala potato chips. Sound tasty I might give them a try…

DIFFERENT – Lay’s Whacky Hot ‘n’ Sweet Chili …..? Sounds like a flavor I might have to try?…..We’ll see.

DIFFERENT – Al Chipino Thai Green Curry Tortilla Chips – Says that it is a chip that doesn’t need dip. – Sounds Yummy!

DIFFERENT – Al Chipino – BBQ Tikka Masala Tortilla Chips – Says that it is a chip that doesn’t need dip. – Also sounds tasty!

DIFFERENT – Surati Sriracha Splash flavored potato chips…Sounds YUMMY but I don’t know if they are?????

DIFFERENT…REALLY DIFFERENT>>>LOOK AT THEM…Surati Masala Munch Flavored SHELLS….They are sort of taco shell shaped……Could be an interesting snack!

DIFFERENT – Surati – Cheddar Jalapeño Tubes – They also sound tasty…Ummmm

NEW – Andrew Zimmern Spice Blends in Mexican, Tuscan and Mediterranean. Might be good?

NEW – Heinz tomato ketchup with vegetables blended into it….????? Looks like a squash and a carrot….I don’t know why anyone would do this to ketchup. It’s not like anyone eats much ketchup…..so why water down the tomatoes with squash and carrots? This one just seems dumb.

Different – evol – Egg White, KALE, tomato & GOAT cheese breakfast sandwich….I don’t know how it is but is sounds tasty.

NEW – Hormel – Ranch Seasoned Bacon………Do you really want ranch with that?

NEW – Beyond Meat – Beyond Italian Style Meatballs…might be good?

DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – Maestri Veggie Plant Based Pre Sliced Meats. These come in prosciutto, roasted turkey, beef carpaccio, spicy salami and pepperoni STYLE faux meats. I’m curious………..but don’t know if I will ever try since I’m not much of a fan of any sliced lunch meat.

NEW – Land O Lakes Cinnamon Sugar Butter Spread. I guess GREAT for when you don’t have a pantry. Because then you need to buy your butter mixed with cinnamon and sugar for your frozen waffles.

NEW? – Baby Ruth Candy Bars with New Dry Roasted Peanuts..???? WTFork kind of peanuts were in there before? It says improved in the corner…?????

NEW – Dr Pepper Cream Soda…? If it’s cream soda then it’s not Dr Pepper….?

NEW – Nestle M&M’s Coffee Mate………..For Gods sake M&M’s are just milk chocolate and sugar…WHY?

DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – Reddi Whip Non-Dairy Coconut Milk. WOW! that can be delicious in a number of ways!

DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – Great Value SUGAR-FREE Whipped Heavy Cream

DIFFERENT – Sambazon Acai Bites in Peanut Butter & Chocolate 60 calories each…Sounds great to me!

NEW – Oreo Artificially flavored marshmallow pieces in cookie with chocolate marshmallow creme. WOW! what did we do to deserve this?

Well that was the NEW, Weird, Different, Limited and Special Edition Foods out there for January 2021 Who know WTFork I’ll come across next month.

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Magic Masala Potato Chips

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I found these Lay’s Magic Masala Potato Chips at Asiana Market in Deer Valley in Phoenix. They are a medium size bag that weighs around 3 1/2 ounces. These chips are from India.

The ingredients don’t look bad. Not too many chemicals. I’m so glad that they used edible vegetable oil instead of the inedible vegetable oil.

I take a whiff before I try them. It really does remind me of Indian food. They do smell fragrant.

I spill some out.

The chips are on the small side. They have ridges and feel sort of powdery.

I taste one slowly.

It’s very spicy. The flavors I taste are heavy with onion, garlic and chili pepper flavors. There are other flavors…One is something sort of vinegary. I’m getting the tomato and maybe cumin. There are other flavors that fill in but the onion, garlic and heat over power those flavors. Ginger might be there. …It taste like maybe asafoetida is there. I think that is the mystery flavor that makes this Indian Masala.

My husband tries some. He thought he was eating smoky BBQ chips…(lol)

These chips sure are better than many of the Lay’s flavors. I would like more ethnic kind of flavor here but they still are good tasting chips. However these chips are only for people who can take spicy.

Not bad…They don’t suck!

Your opinion may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – December Special Edition Greetings From Everywhere

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Universal Yums ( www.UniversalYums.com ) is a subscription service for a box of international snacks. You can subscribe for yourself or gift in number of ways and different size ways. The basic Yum Box is 6 snacks with a 12 page booklet of games, trivial and a recipe and runs around $15.00 a month.

The next size up is called the Yum Yum Box. It’s the above Yum Box but contains twice as many snacks (12) the booklet and they say more! The Yum Yum Box runs around $25.00 a month.

The largest box is called the Super Yum Box that contains 20 snacks the booklet and more and runs around $40.00 a month.

At this time I’m just doing the basic Yum Box.

The first Yum we try is the Sugar & Anise Polvoron from Spain.

It’s a powdered shortbread cookie. It’s laced with anise and has a little more powdered sugar on it than the typical shortbread cookie.

Our next Yum is the Roast Turkey & Stuffing Potato Crisps from Scotland.

These chips are cut thick and taste like a combination of poultry seasoning mixed with powdered onion.

Next Yum was very unusual.

Salted egg yolk popcorn from Taiwan. My husband screamed when he tasted them. They are very odd and not like any popcorn I’ve tasted before. They don’t have that crunchy kernel thing that sticks in your teeth. These seem fluffier…… But oddly they almost seem seem wet or liquid in them but they aren’t………..They are sweet but are more salty than sweet. I don’t think that they taste like egg but taste sort of buttery in an artificial but not bad way. I don’t really know why but I like them…….They seem light and are odd but pleasingly sweet and salty but not too salty.

Next we tried the Mocktail Bon Bons from the United Kingdom.

They are small powdered chewy and tangy treats. I think people with false teeth might have trouble with them. (LOL) They sort of remind me of what I think were those Now and Later Candies (haven’t eaten then in decades…might be remembering wrong candy?) but tiny. For me they are too tangy but I am sensitive to tangy and sour.

Alpine Nut Cake from The Swiss Alps were next.

It’s a little crunchy cake…almost like a cookie filled with walnuts and hazelnuts….Not bad….I could eat it again.

Ever try cookies from the Netherlands?

Little spice cookies…..Not bad…pretty good…..I never really ate spice cookies. I think they’d be great in ice cream or in a crust for other desserts.

Last and not least.

Cocoa Dusted Chocolate Truffles from France.

YUM! These are smooth and chocolatey, not too sweet and just right. Wouldn’t mind a bigger bag of them!

Can’t wait to find out what I will be trying next month!

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My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – Italy

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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 Recipe
Trivia

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

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I note that your experience may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

My First Box of Universal Yums – Columbia

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I’ve subscribed to a subscription of Universal Yums at www.UniversialYums.com .They send you a box of International snacks. You can subscribe or gift in a number of ways. You also have to choose from three different sizes of snack boxes. The basic Yum Box is 6 snacks, a 12 page booklet with trivia, games and a recipe and runs around $15. a month. Next is the Yum Yum Box it is all that and they say more……and comes with 12 snacks and runs around $25. a month. The largest box is called The Super Yum Box. It is similar to the Yum Yum Box but comes with 20 snacks and runs around $40. a month.

I signed up for just the basic Yum Box (around $15.) that comes with 6 international snacks plus extra. My first box came with all kinds of treats from Columbia. I forgot to take a picture of just opening the box. This is my box after a few days of snacking.

It comes with a booklet with some facts about Columbia.

It also came with a recipe for arepas.

Some fun trivia.

Here are all the snacks.

Mayonnaise flavored potato chips, coconut wafer bar, lemon bacon chips, white chocolate cookie nuggets, a nougat chocolate bar and some sort of confection that is a mash-up of marshmallow and gummy in the shape of penguins.

They also included a surprise bag of a couple other things.

Coffee taffy and a passionfruit bubblegum pop. The coffee taffy tasted just like coffee. Had the texture of taffy but got softer. The passionfruit pop tasted like passionfruit but mixed with talcum powder. I didn’t take it to the bubblegum center.

We tried something that looked sort of familiar…..

Cookies and Cream White Chocolate Nuggets.

They taste like smashed up Oreos with extra frosting that is waxy. If you like Oreo cookies then you will like them.

Then we opened up this one.

It’s a chocolate bar filled with marshmallowy choco-nougat. Outer coating was a little waxy but did have a cocoa taste to it. Marshmallowy nougat isn’t my jam so we go to the next one.

Lemon Bacon chips (oy vey)

They don’t actually have bacon in them.

Pelllet (cooked) style fake bacon

They don’t taste like bacon but they are so artificially sour that they are painful to eat.

This next one looks cute.

They smell like Juicy Fruit Gum.

They are penguin shaped and are like a cross between a marshmallow and a gummy. I guess they are a fluffy gummy penguin.

These aren’t bad. They taste like coconut wafers. These are ok.

Artificially flavored mayonnaise potato chips……(why?)…They smell like normal potato chips……they are powdery and have an odd sour finish…….Or maybe it’s a chemical finish?

There is a YUM scorecard to fill out.

While I didn’t particularly enjoy any of the snacks from Columbia I still enjoyed the adventure. That was my first box of Universal Yums.

I wonder WTFork Universal Yums will send me next time?

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I do note that your experience may indeed differ from my experience.

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Kettle Cooked New York Pizza Grimaldi’s Potato Chips Flavor Icons

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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.

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My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Thai Taste Green Curry Potato Chips

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I was looking for some unusual chips to try and I found these Thai Taste Lay’s Green Curry flavored Potato Chips from Thailand. It’s a medium size bag that weighs less than 3 oz.

Here’s the back.

Here’s the ingredients.

One of the ingredients is packing gas? ….OMG did someone fart into the bag?

Another ingredient is natural identical flavor…LOL WTFork is that?

Anyway I open up the bag and take a whiff.

It smells delicious like green curry.

I pour some chips out.

They are very small ridged chips that feel powdery.

Gosh they actually taste better than green curry from some restaurants.

These chips are full of lots of flavors and some heat.

I taste coconut milk and lemongrass the most.

Next I taste chillies, garlic, shallots, lime and fish sauce a little bit of sweet and something sort of gingery and salt.

Not sure what else is in here but these chips have a very good flavor.

If you are a fan of Thai Green Curry then you should be a fan of Lay’s Thai Taste Green Curry Potato Chips.

Worth a Fork!

Your opinion may differ.

The Forking Truth