Peanus butter

esper · Sun 16/10/2005 07:35:42

Hambourkers???

Anyway... My friend in college married a Canadian girl, and her brother came down for the wedding (Elliot Hird, are you from Canada??? Her name was Kristine Hird, and I think she might have had a brother named Elliot)... He came bearing two of the stupidest potato chip flavors I have ever seen in my life...

Dill Pickle... and Ketchup.

Now, the Canadians seem to be taking over America, because we're selling Dill Pickle flavor in all our supermarkets. The Ketchup brand seems to have yet to catch on though... And also the Dill Pickle flavored popcorn...

Although I must say, prawn chips and mayonnaise and beef chips sound even worse...

SpacePirateCaine · Sun 16/10/2005 07:53:22

I stand corrected, I s'pose. We get 'barbecue' flavor in California, which I suppose has a vaguely meaty taste - though primarily 'barbecue sauce', but I'd honestly never seen a 'meat' flavored chip before I came here. Oh well - the mascot's still cute.

Las Naranjas · Sun 16/10/2005 07:56:47

They briefly sold "Meat Pie and Sauce" chips here.

As well as spider [soft drink and icecream] flavoured fanta.

And both were as tasty as they sound.

Kinoko · Sun 16/10/2005 09:31:13

That meat pie and sauce chip was amazing in just how much it tasted like meat pie and sauce though. I remember they had two other flavours in that campaign... one was the particular flavour of cheese and... I can't remember the other, but they all tasted like very real flavours whether you liked them or not.

I never ventured to try the icecream spider fanta though.

I do't think any of the chip flavours I've seen in Japan are terribly weird. There's wasabi (I won't touch them) and nori/seaweed which is actually a rather nice mild taste. Haven't seen anything 'kookier' than those though and thay're not terribly interesting.

Haddas · Sun 16/10/2005 10:41:29

Oi. We have Dill and Ketchup. Dill is awesome. I have yet to taste te Ketchup ones. Pringles comes up with some stupid flavours nowadays too

Pet Terry · Sun 16/10/2005 11:12:22

Apparently, it's a known fact that they don't have Sour cream & onion flavoured crisps in Greece. I remember trying to find those in a couple of different markets in Agia Anna, with Helm and Adam.

I guess I have boring taste as my favourite crisps are plain salted and sour cream & onions. I haven't dared to try those exotic flavours like ketcup and stuff.

And on the topic regarding peanuts (or peanus, what ever you prefer), I remember begging my mum to buy some peanut butter years ago. I always thought it would taste sweet, but BAH! It was horrible and after the almost full jar had been in the fridge for weeks my mum finally tossed it away.

Nikolas · Sun 16/10/2005 11:16:59

* Nikolas defending Greece *

Yes they do! I'm pretty sure that I've seen sour cream and onion flavour in Greece!

And in Greece we also have Feta Cheese flavor (?) and ketchup, which is my favorite!

esper · Sun 16/10/2005 11:31:45

Paper Carnival · Sun 16/10/2005 11:39:45

Quote from: Nikolas on Sun 16/10/2005 11:16:59
* Nikolas defending Greece *

Yes they do! I'm pretty sure that I've seen sour cream and onion flavour in Greece!

And in Greece we also have Feta Cheese flavor (?) and ketchup, which is my favorite!

Heck yeah! You forgot to mention the olive flavor and olive oil flavor (not the plain kind, it tastes different)

. Yummy....

Haddas · Sun 16/10/2005 11:44:32

I like Feta cheese but not on crisps. We've had goats, and I tell you, they smell like those crisps taste. and after you've seen dirty goats and associated that with the smell you don't want to eat feta crisps any more.

Vince Twelve · Sun 16/10/2005 11:59:41

Kinoko, try the wasabi chips, they're excellent! Also, green tea chips rock.

Isn't it weird how this thread called "Peanus butter" has changed into a thread about global potato chip flavors?

esper · Sun 16/10/2005 12:10:33

Green tea chips sound weird, but I made some Green Tea ice cream once... Then I went into an Indian restaurant that made it and it was a hundred and fifty times better than mine...

Here's something a bit more regional... In America, especially in the Northeast, seemingly, apparently only in Portuguese dominated sectors where people eat Linguica, Chourico, and Cacoila, there is a big thing about COFFEE!!!!

Coffee Ice Cream is seeing its way around the country. However, I bet some of you people outside the original 13 colonies have never had coffee flavored Mousse, coffee flavored Milk, or coffee cookies.

When I left home and went to college in the South, my beloved coffee flavored items and portuguese meats were replaced by pig's brains somehow finding their way into my scrambled eggs and french toast being made by way of deep-fryer. Now that I'm in the Old West, no one has ever heard of anything...

....except Sarsparilla.

Nikolas · Sun 16/10/2005 12:16:29

Quote from: esper on Sun 16/10/2005 12:10:33
Here's something a bit more regional... In America, especially in the Northeast, seemingly, apparently only in Portuguese dominated sectors where people eat Linguica, Chourico, and Cacoila, there is a big thing about COFFEE!!!!

I hate coffee. I'm a grown up, but I still drink milk with chocolate flavor

But I do know that here in the Uk, and in Greece there is a couple of flavors which remind me of coffe: Toffu and Moca.

I've never tried any of this cause I would vomit, but is it the same as coffe or not?

Paper Carnival · Sun 16/10/2005 12:26:25

I tried toffu candy, it tastes more like caramel than coffee

esper · Sun 16/10/2005 12:27:22

Toffu probably is the equivalent of Toffee, which, yeah, is a bit more caramelish. Mocha is coffee mixed with chocolate.

EDIT: Here, I'll tell you how to make it. Take one cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, and half a cup instant coffee and boil in two cups of water until syrupy. Refridgerate it in a closed container, and when it is cool, put a tablespoon or two in a glass of milk. DELICIOUS!

Kinoko · Sun 16/10/2005 12:56:45

I hate wasabi. I really, really do. I'm not wasting 100yen on chips flavoured with it. I'm sticking with good ol' potato flavoured

Las Naranjas · Sun 16/10/2005 23:55:56

Coffee flavoured milk is just as available as soft drink.

Nikolas · Mon 17/10/2005 00:46:08

Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 16/10/2005 12:56:45
I hate wasabi. I really, really do. I'm not wasting 100yen on chips flavoured with it. I'm sticking with good ol' potato flavoured

How much is 100yen? In GBP, Dollars or euros, please...

Kweepa · Mon 17/10/2005 01:35:49

www.exchangerate.com

Nikolas · Mon 17/10/2005 01:48:01

Since we entered this field, let me just say that since Greece entered the EEC prices have gone waaaaayyyy up!

I mean it almost costs 1 euro (137 yen!!!

), to buy a bag of chips. It's not so bad as the Uk, I guess but still, just before we started using euros prices were definately 50% down!. It seems that they just decided to go: "Hm, 30 drachmas, lets make it 30 cents!"