I picked up this bag of Lay’s Whacky Hot ‘N’ Sweet Chili (spelled Chilli on bag) Potato Chips from the Asiana Market in Deer Valley Phoenix Arizona. This bag is from India so it is not a flavor that you will find everywhere. I like Chili and Sweet can be ok so I decided to give this bag a try. It’s a very small bag with very little in it.
The bag only weighs 2 ounces.
The ingredients look pretty good for flavored potato chips.
I’m so glad that the potato chips main ingredient is potato and they used edible vegetable oil instead of inedible vegetable oil.
I open the bag and sniff them.
They smell really odd. Something like tahini mixed with a frozen pizza.
The chips are smaller in size with ridges and do have a powdery surface.
I get scared to taste them.
I taste one….
It’s very spicy but not too spicy and it is sweet.
They are more savory than sweet with a tiny bit of onion and garlic an also an odd taste in the background.
You get the odd taste more near the
bottom of the bag.
It’s something like soy sauce.
Those were my Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Whacky ‘N’ Sweet Chilli Potato Chips.
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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