Cities
Szczecin, Poland
Szczecin is really mouthful for anyone who doesn’t speak Polish so it’s better known as Stettin to Germans. Stettin is actually a huge city with nearly a thousand years of history, it used to be the largest German port in the Baltic Sea and printed a lot of Bibles. You Read more
Lays
AAQ, BBQ, CCQ, DDQ
Michael Edgar is back for this review. There are many versions or barbecue sauces and that’s what makes or breaks a good grill. Sure, you can dry barbecue, but then that’s not the point of these flavours. Otherwise, you might as well just buy ribs or Wagyu flavoured crisps. The Read more
Lays
(Sour) cream?
Lays markets both flavours as having a creamy and savoury taste with a wavy texture. The key ingredient distinctions in sour cream and onion versus regular cream and onion are buttermilk and cheese. While buttermilk is exclusive to the sour cream variant, the regular cream variant has two types of Read more
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Leaves a salty taste in your mouth
Michael Edgar is the guest reviewer for this trio, our notes have been combined. The Poppables are generally more desirable the regular in every non-taste regard. But, we’re not just here to test texture and appearance, we also wanted to find out what made or broke a salty flavour. We’ve Read more
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It’s a pickle
The cucumber vs dill pickle debate is, perhaps, less popular than the choice between hickory BBQ and old-fashioned BBQ. The first that that struck me was the lack of any vegetable ingredient (apart from vegetable oil and perhaps some herbs in seasoning) in either flavour. It’s really a love-it-or-hate-it situation. Read more
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Laying the groundwork
There was a discount offer for all Frito-Lay and PepsiCo products, so I went to the supermarket and picked up every single flavour I could find. That plus a couple of cans of Pepsi. Like planning for my travel articles, I had to find a way to categorize the varieties Read more