potato chips

March 14th is National Potato Chip Day. There’s no official government proclamation – it’s probably a creation of snack food companies to celebrate the nation’s favorite snack food. Americans eat 1.2 billion pounds of potato chips every year. Regular or plain potato chips are the most popular, but some of the other top sellers are barbeque, sour cream and onion, salt and vinegar and ranch. Read Mo

I thought I'd seen every flavor of potato chip possible.  I've seen ketchup flavored, dill pickle, even pizza.  But that doesn't even scratch the surface of the strange flavors that they put on chips.  Now thanks to Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" contest, there are three new possibilities to hit shelves soon.

How many potato chip flavors do we need? For me, barbeque, salt and vinegar, maybe sour cream and onion and just plain old regular will do. But when you’re the world’s largest potato chip maker you need dozens. Lays puts out such flavors as Dill Pickle, Ketchup, Garden Tomato & Basil, Thai Sweet Chili, Oven Roasted Chicken & Thyme, even Seaweed. Most of those flavors are available overseas

Lay's Potato chips has introduced a new flavor.  If Salt & Vinegar, BBQ and Sour Cream & Onion just isn't enough, how about BLT flavored?  I usually have regular potato chips with my BLT sandwich, but now you can have chips that taste like a BLT too.

According to the latest Foodnetwork.com poll, chips and dip lead the way as America's "go-to snack", but with only 25% of the vote.  (Not the run-away favorite that everyone thought the good ole potato chip was!!) Fresh fruit was also very popular with 24% of the vote. 19% favored.......