overall score: positive

Since I did not barbecue anything for the 4th of July, I figured I could do something else that would be culinarily celebratory. But, you know, easy.

And I don’t love barbecue chips, so I decided to really go wild and try the Maple Bacon Kettle Chips. The cashier was SO EXCITED that I was buying their favorite chips, which seemed like a promising sign.

My review:

1. I can’t taste maple or bacon in these chips. But I’m not sure I want to? There’s definitely sweet, salt, and smoke flavors, all of which are enjoyable.

2. The package really throws me off, because it has a picture of pancakes on it. There’s bacon next to them, sure, but it’s the pancakes that are the visual star of the picture. And I just can’t reconcile pancakes with potato chips — the textures are all wrong. (Also the chips have nothing to do with pancakes!)

3. The flavor is pretty good. But it bothers me that I can’t match it up with what I expect when I look at the bag way more than I thought it would.

4. I am going to eat them all anyway. Honestly, if they renamed them “Salty Sweet Smoked Potato Chips,” I’d probably buy more. As long as there was no pancake picture on them.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.