I never do get tired of lists of "crazy potato chip flavors around the world!"

[conuly]

The trouble with those lists, though, is you don't know how normal those are elsewhere. Do people in Japan really chow down on blueberry flavored chips after school, or is that a novelty item? I mean, I can go out and purchase some Thai Curry chips, or Cheddar Horseradish if I like, but I have to make a special trip - they're not something I can just snag at any old corner store.

This poll is the chip flavors I think of as "pretty normal" - I'd expect to see them in most or all corner stores, and certainly all supermarkets. (If one of them had to go, it'd be Cheddar and Sour Cream, but that's still found nearly all over the place.) Which ones do you think of as normal? And, the impossible to poll for question, which ones are normal (or do you like to eat) that I couldn't list?

Poll #19749 Potato Chips

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 118

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Which, if any, of these chip flavors do you think of as standard/normal?

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Plain salted
116 (98.3%)

Barbecue
88 (74.6%)

Onion garlic
16 (13.6%)

Sour cream and onion
82 (69.5%)

Cheddar and sour cream
37 (31.4%)

Salt and vinegar
91 (77.1%)

None of these
2 (1.7%)

Ticky?

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CRUNCH
91 (100.0%)

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Comments

[glinda]

I would say the standard flavours here (Scotland in particular but also across the wider UK) are Ready Salted (plain), Cheese and Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Smokey Bacon and Prawn Cocktail - the ones you'd see in most vending machines and small shops) with variants by region (its pretty common to see pickled onion, barbecue beef or tomato ketchup) and then there's the skewing factor of Pringles which I imagine mostly do the same flavours everywhere. My adventures inter-railling around mainland Europe have taught me that Paprika is a default flavour for vending machines in most countries there.

Also, I appreciate the word Orped too, it has a nice feel in the mouth.

[white_hart]

UK: the big three normal flavours are ready salted, salt and vinegar and cheese and onion. I think other flavours vary with fashion - when I was growing up, smoky bacon and prawn cocktail were very common, but these days I'd say sweet chilli and barbecue are more common. In Europe, paprika crisps are widely available and delicious, but they've never caught on here.

[moem]

Here in the Netherlands, the most common chips flavours are salted, paprika and bolognese.

[moxie_man]

Here in the Maine wilderness where Humpty Dumpty brand is king (even though it's no longer a Maine brand, but Canadian-owned), the common flavors were on your list: Plain, BBQ, Sour Cream & Onion, and Salt & Vinegar. Along with Ripple.

Other flavors they're known for:
Clam & Onion
Ketchup
Dill Pickle
and "The Works" which is something they recently added in the past 3 years after the Canadian take-over and a flavor I've seen by other brands over the boarder in Canada. Can't easily describe it, but basically, like a "Works" bagel flavoring--a little of everything they do (except clam) combined onto one chip.

Occasionally, Zapp's out of New Orleans will find itself in the local Big Lots, which will get wife happy as she grew up down that way. Their 'VooDoo' flavor is great. Another one of those hard to describe flavors.

[jo]

"The Works"? It's properly called "All-dressed". From the way Quebecers ask (in French) for a pizza with "everything" (pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, onions) on it -- "une pizza all-dressed". That's the flavour it's attempting to emulate.

[wpadmirer]

Must be nice to find a $4 million dollar painting in a closet.

[fred_mouse]

Sour cream and chives; chicken (including Twisties -- are they a thing you get? Standard for those is cheddar); sweet chilli; teriyaki chicken; sea salt. I think of tomato as standard, but they are a 'not always available' flavour. And there are fancy flavours that are everywhere as well -- American pulled pork and peking duck are made by one of the big companies, but I've never tried either of them. Lime and black pepper is another one that I think of as 'fancy' but everywhere.

Youngest tells me that sour cream and onion is a thing here, but I've just never noticed it! In fact, doing a search at the online supermarket, it looks like sour cream and onion has more of a market share than sour cream and chives -- at least one brand that I thought was 'and chives' is 'and green onion'.

[chickenfeet]

Years ago I was the production manager of one of the major flavour manufacturing plants in the UK. Snack food flavours vary enormously by country. Cheese and onion is, I think, uniquely British while things like sour cream and onion or nacho would only be found in North America. We used to export Bauernfruhstuck flavour (onion and apple) to Germany but nowhere else.

[pink_halen]

Save me from awful potato chip flavors. I find all of them nasty. I find the powered flavors the problem. While I don't really like sour cream, I think Sour cream and union dip is far preferable to the powdery coating on the chips.

[topaz_eyes]

In Canada, you can't go anywhere without seeing all-dressed, ketchup, and dill pickle flavours.

[dine]

these are definitely not commonly found in this neck of the woods, but I adore ketchup and honey butter chips - they're definitely worth special-ordering from amazon every so often!

[ruuger]

The most common ones in Finland are plain, sour cream & onion, and barbeque, but I think the weirdest flavout you can find in pretty much all supermarkets in is salty licorice :D

[marahmarie]

So you can internet-swat me if this is too off-topic, but I can't resist: off-kilter flavors are one thing; how about off-kilter chips? Forex, I'm eating my way through a bag of BBQ-flavored kettle-crunch-textured sweet potato chips this week, thanks to a store closing that lets me buy unusual things very cheap, and wow, they're pretty good!

The other strange thing I'm eating is crispy wheat chips flavored with real gouda and garlic, but as they're non-potato chips they probably don't count, for purposes of this poll.

[conuly]

It's a museum closet, so that at least makes sense.

[conuly]

Is that "smokey bacon and prawn cocktail" or "smokey bacon" and "prawn cocktail"?

[conuly]

Bolognese??

[conuly]

I'm salivating. We've got to do a snack swap, all of us, one of these days.

[conuly]

I don't think ripple is a flavor, it's a cut?

Also, Utz sour cream and onion ridged are delish, but Utz sour cream and onion not ridged are blech, why do they hate me like this?

[conuly]

Twisties look like crunchy cheez doodles. Ever so much better than puffy cheez doodles.

Lime and black pepper is another one that I think of as 'fancy' but everywhere.

Sounds yummy.

[conuly]

Onion and apple!? Did you ever snag a bag for yourself?

[conuly]

Ah, more for me!

[conuly]

We're starting to get ketchup Herr's chips sneaking into NYC, but it's still very off-and-on.

[conuly]

Honey butter?

[conuly]

I've heard of salty licorice, but I didn't realize people made it a chip flavor.

[conuly]

Hard to find sweet potato chips around here, but plantain chips are everywhere.