By this I am referring to simple, salted chips. No extra flavours. One made from potatoes, often crinkle cut, the other from corn. There can only be one. The nitrogen-filled bags await.
Poll: Corn Chips vs Potato Chips.
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I only like Corn Chips with Pace Picante Mild Sauce near by. So my vote is on the Potato Chip, as I eat those the way they are.
Wait you can get corn-based chips?
How does that work? What do you serve it with? I can't imagine that going too well with tomato sauce or gravy.
Edit: Nevermind. Read the rest of the thread now. You mean CRISPS. I get it now. That seriously threw my brain for a second. I don't eat enough crisps to judge too much really. I'll eat either.
How does that work? What do you serve it with? I can't imagine that going too well with tomato sauce or gravy.
Edit: Nevermind. Read the rest of the thread now. You mean CRISPS. I get it now. That seriously threw my brain for a second. I don't eat enough crisps to judge too much really. I'll eat either.
The fuck is a corn chip? Fuck that noise.
Potatoes or go home. Go home and eat your scrubby corn chips.
Sorry, I just really like potato-based things.
Potatoes or go home. Go home and eat your scrubby corn chips.
Sorry, I just really like potato-based things.
Well, if you're talking plain old, unflavoured, salted... Then it has to be corn chips.
All the way.
Otherwise, I'm partial to Salt and Vinegar crisps... Flavoured doritos on the other hand can go die somewhere...
All the way.
Otherwise, I'm partial to Salt and Vinegar crisps... Flavoured doritos on the other hand can go die somewhere...
Corn chips with nothing but salt are perfectly good snacks, but inevitably come off as a bit bland. They need some extra spice to really shine.
Salted potato chips, on the other hand, have a unique, rich flavor which instantly gets lost when more spices are added. I'll happily go to town on a bag of BBQ chips, paprika chips, cheese & onion chips or salt & pepper chips, and any time some new, experimental flavor comes out I'll likely try it at least once, but straight-up salt is the one variety I always find myself going back to!
Salted potato chips, on the other hand, have a unique, rich flavor which instantly gets lost when more spices are added. I'll happily go to town on a bag of BBQ chips, paprika chips, cheese & onion chips or salt & pepper chips, and any time some new, experimental flavor comes out I'll likely try it at least once, but straight-up salt is the one variety I always find myself going back to!
Whether or not it has something to do with the fact that I'm Irish, I get enough potatoes in my diet. Besides that, many potato chips are greasy and I gave that up. So, between the two and ignoring (for now) chips with better flavors, I'm with corn chips.
I like kettle chips too much to go with corn chips. Although you know I guess the occasion matters, I like tortilla chips with salsa and they are corn based. Although I'm a snob about those...
Potato chips, has to be. Corn chips are just salty and grainy and depressing.
Flour-based tortilla chips are acceptable.
Flour-based tortilla chips are acceptable.
Depends on how you're planning to eat them. Plain I prefer potato chips. Either kind unflavored works well with dips. But you can't make Frito pie or nachos with potato ships, you need corn for that.
I don't care... Just give me some chips so that I can crumple them in my hands and springle them on my foot-long hot dog, glob dammit!
Other than that, it's also nice to put some chips in your burger... because America why not, right?
Other than that, it's also nice to put some chips in your burger... because America why not, right?
It depends enormously on when. Sweeping the US currently (and for the past several years) is a wave of health-nut-ism, of a shallow and obnoxious kind. Upon realizing the increased risk of heart attacks posed by trans fats, many food vendors elected to stop using them, replacing the partially hydrogenated oils with vegetable ones that make fried foods taste awful. Eventually, public demand called for nearly everyone to abandon them, in the name of "health", much to the annoyance of those of us who didn't sleep through biology class. The FDA is even planning on (or may have already; it's really too depressing a situation to keep up with) revoking partially hydrogenated oils' GRS status (generally recognized as safe; essentially a requirement to be used in foodstuffs). If you're wondering why I dismiss this as "shallow and obnoxious", consider the following two facts:
1. The FDA has no problems with the GRS status of fully hydrogenated oils- those, as far as they're concerned, are perfectly fine.
2. These dietary changes have caused no drop in heart disease. The reason being, fried foods now taste awful, so (since most of them are salted), this is made for by adding boatloads more salt, turning, say, fries from "salted potatoes" into "potato-flavored salt". And you can guess what that big increase in sodium does for heart disease, which makes uninformed health nuts demand stronger action. It's a seemingly never ending spiral of stupid.
So, prior to... let's play it safe and say 2000, potato chips, all the way- they actually had real flavor back then. Nowadays, corn chips- they're bland by themselves, but a lot less offensive now.
1. The FDA has no problems with the GRS status of fully hydrogenated oils- those, as far as they're concerned, are perfectly fine.
2. These dietary changes have caused no drop in heart disease. The reason being, fried foods now taste awful, so (since most of them are salted), this is made for by adding boatloads more salt, turning, say, fries from "salted potatoes" into "potato-flavored salt". And you can guess what that big increase in sodium does for heart disease, which makes uninformed health nuts demand stronger action. It's a seemingly never ending spiral of stupid.
So, prior to... let's play it safe and say 2000, potato chips, all the way- they actually had real flavor back then. Nowadays, corn chips- they're bland by themselves, but a lot less offensive now.
I bought crinkle-cut potato chips for the first time in a long time two days ago. They're absolutely foul.
Unflavoured corn chips are the best chips, hands-down. A really high-quality, thinly cut and well faloured potato chip can be very nice, but it will never beat a corn chip.
Unflavoured corn chips are the best chips, hands-down. A really high-quality, thinly cut and well faloured potato chip can be very nice, but it will never beat a corn chip.
Trans fat is allowed until 2018. Hydrogenated oils (Artificial) have been removed from the generally safe list.Recusant said:
Some fun facts:
1. Fully hydrogenated oil doesn't have trans fat. Trans fat is what makes partially hydrogenated oil particularly dangerous, which is why its been kicked (The artificial stuff, anyway) and hydrogenated oil is still allowed. Hydrogenated oil isn't exactly healthy, of course, but as far as I know, there's no avalanche of studies proving it affects our diets to the same degree as partially hydrogenated garbage.
2. Since trans fat is still in a lot of stuff, its kinda of unreasonable to start making generalized statements about how its removal from the food supply has had no affect. I'd also be massively interested if you have any studies or proof that salt intake has significantly been increased since Trans fat started getting a bad rap. Though...
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/research/2012_ChartBook.pdf
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute claims that a) deaths from heart disease have been declining for over 50 years and, more importantly, b) the prevalence of heart disease in general has reduced since 1999. Does this mean trans fat reduction in the food supply has resulted in healthier hearts? Not on its own, of course. But your assertions seem a bit... well, not true. Particularly the whole 'salts killing us faster then trans fat' thing.
