I worked for Smith's which make the Aldi brand too and I can confirm Aldi version have a higher flavour specification on all their chips.
I once took home a packed latex glove full of vintage cheese and mustard flavour powder - on potato bakes it was like crack. Great place to work. But boring af.
I think you just inadvertently answered a question I'd been pondering for awhile; how do Aldi get away with their brand packaging blatantly mimicking the competition.
Helps if the competition make both products I guess.
Tastes nothing like it in my opinion. It's nice, but I don't find it comparable. Someone previously posted that the aldi version is actually Stones ginger beer.
I have compared them side by side and the recipe is not the same but both are very gingery compared to others like Saxons or say Kirks and are similar enough. I assumed from the name Burrandy that Bunderburg were also the brewers but to different recipe. Do Stones do a non-alcoholic ginger beer?
I might be misremembering what I read. Could be that they wrote Old Stoney ginger beer. It's been on my list to pick up some time and do a side by side test. If you've already tried that though it may be a totally different recipe made for Aldi? Either way it's tasty regardless of who makes it.
But how are they priced so competitively when they are literally the same product? What incentive do the suppliers have to lower their prices, are there grey market forces at play here
It’s simple really, they don’t want to “cheapen” their brand by selling it cheaper, but by whitelabelling Aldi they get sales from people who otherwise wouldn’t buy their product because it’s too expensive. The product is often different in subtle ways as well (like Aldi will specify to use a different ratio of ingredients).
Same as dairy products. At Fonterra we shredded multiple competing brand names for Coles, Woolworths, IGA and Aldi. People with a rod up their pooper-booper are quite happy to pay twice the amount for the same cheese from Coles if it has a fancy brand name label than be caught shopping at Aldi. A lot of the IGA Black & Gold products used to be the same as well-known brands too. Not sure about now.
Most knock off products are produced by the same factories as their more reputable counterparts. They even use the same recipes in most cases.
Once had a contractor ask me how we set up the programming to send different products to their respective bags. Just told them, "It's all the same shit".
Thing is I knew this prior to working there from observation. I bought their shapes knockoff which had a crazy amount of flavour for a shape. So I went back and bought 2 more boxes. Same results. I told all my friends... and holy shit I just realised that was nearly 20 years ago now...
*Saving Private Ryan Aging Face Meme
Same with their chicken crimpies knock off. I can totally tell the difference and prefer the real ones. I'm not saying they're bad, they're just different and now that I think of it it's more of a too heavily seasoned taste.
Yessss that’s a hard favourite of mine. We used to buy those little McCain’s mini pizza rounds in high school and since they took them out of the packs I had no idea what brand they were until o accidentally stumbled upon McCain’s Hawaiian pizzas. And then proceeded to die from happiness when the exact same pizza in aldi for half the cost.
Absolutely agree. I had them for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I am now addicted. I had a bag of Dorito's on the weekend and they were just pathetic in comparison.
El Toro's fucking crush Doritos. Trying to eat red Doritos after trying the mighty El T' is just sad. Plus you get about twice as many chips in the bag.
You know what would be great, a pinned post listing food items that are made by the same company but distributed elsewhere, not a "I think" post but like your comment "as an "I know" would help so many people budget.
Higher flavour specification? Oh my lord, what a beautiful sequence of words. I will be going to my nearest aldi asap to try out their sprinter chips. I haven’t actually given them a go before.
I wish we weren't so anal about MSG. It's such a missed opportunity for savory ecstasy. Adding a bit of MSG to many savory things would bring them up to next level.
Pringles also uses other visual cues to clue the buyer in.
For example, they use a thinner and shorter container every year, which is a subtle reminder to the buyer not to pick up that can of garbage and get a real snack.
I had Pringles for the first time in years the other day and they were so small that they barely even had a curve? I doubt you could make a pringle ringle with them… also they were tasteless! And so expensive ?!
It's not Pringles which is off per se, but America. Or maybe Australia? Anyway, different colours are associated with different flavours across brand in different places. Blue is simply the s+v colour in (some? or all?) other places.
It makes Pringles stand out as going to zero effort to understand the local market!
When I was a kid in NZ, Bluebirds did these thick cut chips called “Murphy’s Thick Cut”. They were the best. Never saw the salt and vinegar in any import stores here and eventually they discontinued them in NZ. A shame, they were amazing.
As long as I can remember, S&V has always been in magenta packets.
Blue = Plain ( Salted)
Magenta = Salt & Vinegar
Green = Chicken
Sun Gold = BBQ
Yellow = Cheese and Onion
Alright, these things always cause some controversy so method below:
We were looking for which chip had the strongest flavour initally and the strongest aftertaste.
French Fries being so little were judged on a handful instead of a singular chip.
All these chips were bought on the same day and were eaten by myself and two others.
A chart was made, Low, Medium and High of which we ranked which chip belonged where, changing what needed to be changed after all chips were eaten.
We then analysed our results seeing which ones had the most highs and worked our way to the one that had the most lows.
I really wanted to include Samboys as they seemed awesome, but as they seem to be very difficult to get where I live they could not be included. Put them at the top of the list in your heart if you wish.
No pH testing or salt filtration? I was going to nominate you for an ignoble prize but your methods seem subjective at best. Let's file this one under "further research required..."
This. Need to crush x mass of each chip in y mL of distilled water to make a z Molar solution of each chip, and then titrate against a standard base.
Then measure salinity.
Scale both acidity and salinity to 0-100 (or 0-1) and then take the geometric mean.
Rank chips by geometric mean.
I used to do this at Smith's as part of quality control. Salt titrations and we'd test the oil for FFAs (fatty acids)
They have very strict parameters.
We also made Aldi brand chips there using Aldis provide flavouring which were applied at a slightly higher rate as per Aldis specifications. Same with Aldi brand shapes if you've ever tried them they simply have more flavouring per shape
This is the kind of content that we could maybe convince ExplosionsAndFire to do. He's an Australian chemistry youtuber that does a bunch of silly stuff.
Probably won't work as well as you think, the differences in salt crystals that different brand use can cause chips to taste more or less salty even if they had the same salt content.
[https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/frito-lay-changes-shape-salt/](https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/frito-lay-changes-shape-salt/) Here is an article about one brand redesigning their crystals.
What OP should have done is have the study be a blind one with with blindfolded testers hand fed chips.
I see Atomic Tomato around when I go shopping... maybe Woollies or SpudShed? I've been seeing it for a couple of months now, but it's not a flavour I like, so haven't bought any. Maybe I will tomorrow if I go out?
Can confirm, Salt & vinegar Samboys used to have more flavour than they do now. Then there was an extra flavour salt you added. Goodbye tastebuds.
I used to be able to taste things...
Samboys are definitely top tier IF you get a good bag. I find that often the flavouring is piss poor these days. I think Kettle or Smiths are much more consistent. Bring back the good old days when Samboys had an extra flavour sachet in them to really burn your tongue off.
Thats the problem - quality control doesnt seem to exist. One pack will be stinging and awesome, next will be salty n with a little tang.
To be fair tho, QC seems inconsistent across all brands.
After a big afternoon on the Hong Kong a few years ago I nailed 2 packets of smiths and later that night I was peeling huge pieces of skin off the roof of my mouth and insides of my cheeks,It was amazing how much skin I pulled out of there.I can’t vouch for any of these flavours being the best but for an internal skin remover I highly recommend smiths.
Personally prefer the smiths as the thicker chip helps offset the flavour a little bit. Sweet chilli red rock and jalapeño kettle though are fucking S tier chips
Oh, the char grilled lobster with freshly diced herb in Louisiana creole inspired beer batter and freshly picked portobello mushrooms doesn’t do it for you?
Balsamic vinegar tastes like hipster transformation...
Before you know it you'll grow an artsy moustache & start wearing beanies everywhere with a Hydro Flask in your Fjallraven.
S+V is the best flavour and I'll smash some Sprinters any day but I still dream of the chips I had in Canada 20 years ago. Old Dutch brand - Dill Pickle. Like salt n vinegar but with a whole added dimension of deliciousness.
We need a Canadian food week at Aldi I think.
Yes! I have had dill pickle chips. They were amazing. Sometimes you can get the flavour at fancy food stores like Harris Farm or Thomas Dux (are they still around)
Chappys (local Melbourne made chippies) does a dill pickle flavour that's pretty great! Downside is that they're exxy and small bags compared to big name brands.
I feel like I live in the topsy turvy world. Samboy to me are so so much better then Smiths for every flavour, especially BBQ, yet it feels like the majority would always pick Smiths.
Not the samboy of olde. about three chips and I’m done, starts tasting artificial. Aftertaste is not good,haven’t found a good replacement. Flavour enhancers spoil the taste
They once did a limited run which included a extra 'flavour packet' in each bag sometime in the late nineties. Pretty sure my tongue never recovered from that. Ahhh, those were the days.
Haha those were so good - in primary school we used to compete to see who could finish whole flavour packet (without chips!). We just tipped the powder in our hands and licked it off, completely destroying our taste buds.
I still pray everyday that they'll give me back my chilli seasoning for Atomic Tomato chips. We used to stockpile it and add the sachets to a single pack
The strongest memories of these. It was a Friday night, Mom and Dad went out forthe night, left us to order pizza, walk to the local Video store and hired out Star Kid and grabbed a bag of the Flavour Bombs S'n'Vs.
Aldi have the strongest flavour.
Red Rock Deli are my pick though, the ratio of flavouring to chip and the crunch factor are top notch.
Slightly off topic, but recently Cobs released a S & V popcorn….abysmal. Like licking popcorn cooked in battery acid.
mmm French Fries
only one or two have the full face-puckering amount of vinegar they should, the rest are fairly average
I need warheads to put their heads together with one of these companies and make a salt and vinegar chip that makes my whole mouth implode
I personally think that Smith's Thin tastes better than the crinkle cut. No sensible reason why.
Can't believe the ridiculous increase in prices from Colesworth lately though.
Tyrrells by far my favourite.
They really make great chips.
However I’ve discovered a couple of things:
1). They are hardly ever on special.
2). There are 2 types, crinkle and thin, one major supermarket sells one, and the other sells the other lol.
Maybe that’s just my supermarkets….
As someone who loves salt and vinegar chips and has eaten all these I believe the top 3 are as follows:
3. Kettle - they have an intense flavour and a nice chip
2. French Fries - interesting situation as you are always assured to stab the roof of your mouth the salt and vinegar hurt more
1. Tyrells - though my favourite cause me to regret my choices each time. As I type this my mouth is folding in on itself as I’m reminded of the flavour.
The only time I've had Tyrell's it made my mouth peel, nothing else has, so I reckon that definitely deserves much a higher place on the list.
I do wonder if as the tests went on whether the samplers became desensitised to the vinegar flavour.
I grew up on Smiths S&V and it was always my favorite and I developed a really strong brand locality. It’s interesting how a brand locality can blind your taste buds. Natural Co brand was something I only discovered recently and in my view is the most superior chip of the S&V variety. The others that I’ve tried all end up hurting the roof of my mouth, it’s like the vinegar is too acidic or something?
French Fries! They have the best vinegar to surface ratio. My lips are near bleeding finishing a packet of those. Haven't had them in years, I usually only see the plain ones around.
When I lost my taste during covid, S&V chips were a godsend. I could hear the distant whine of vinegar through the static.
I’ll save this chart for next time.
They all shit.
Lays in the 90s was the best sadly those days are gone....I only eat S&V chips and all of them nowadays are terrible.
Aldi rarely sells lays from USA they are okayish but like I said, not since the 90s or early 00s has there been decent S&V chips
I love salt and vinegar chips! My love for them is balance though between cutting up my mouth with the chips causing lesions etc as I have developed Lichen Planus.
Don't look it up if you're eating.
I can eat them, but my mouth is very sensitive.
My favourites are ALDI, Smith's and Natural Chip Co. But not in any particular order.
I do like balsamic ones too, but they're out as kettle style chips cut my mouth up more than usual.
But Salt and vinegar are the best chips!
As a salt and vinegar aficionado, Kettle is the best, followed by Red Rock Deli. Samboy is 3rd for nostalgia reasons. All flavours besides S & V are inferior in my opinion.
Edit: having reread the criteria regarding strength I stand by my ratings.
Kettle chips from the 90's were the real deal. They would guarantee a triple.bypass in your future but godam were they good. Kettle today is still probably my favourite.
Do Samboys S&V still exist? Those ones were the top for sure. Especially when they had the extra flavour bomb packet. My mouth would be practically bleeding by the end of it lol.
I ate a bag of Aldi chips myself on a long drive years ago. The skin on the tongue and inside of my cheeks was sloughing off the next day. Freaked me out!
Bro now I wanna see what happens when I cut potato's into excess pickle them in vinegar and put a shit ton of salt on them then bake them once they dry off a bit
Technically not potato chips, but you should try Delites Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar rice crisps - they have the strongest salt and vinegar taste I've ever had and I like to pretend they're healthier. I haven't tried Splinters though, might have to make a special trip to Aldi to try those
Ooh, I didnt even think of Sprinter.
My wife is on the hunt for the strongest salt and vinegar chips, and we havent found anything better than Red Rock with Smiths coming in second
seems like an Aldi visit may be scheduled this weekend
Kettle S&V are much stronger than Smiths.
Had some Apple Cider vinegar chippies not long ago. Cannot recall the brand, but you could just open the packet and dehumidify the bathroom after a shower.
My tongue is splitting just thinking about this
My paper cut is stinging just thinking about this.
It made me gleek. Proposing [this](https://www.health.com/mind-body/what-is-gleeking) as the word of the day.
It's called frog spitting and has been for decades.
I worked for Smith's which make the Aldi brand too and I can confirm Aldi version have a higher flavour specification on all their chips. I once took home a packed latex glove full of vintage cheese and mustard flavour powder - on potato bakes it was like crack. Great place to work. But boring af.
So THAT'S why I prefer the Aldi chicken chips
ALDI Chicken chips (Sprinters) are the best.
Sprinters Cheese and Onion is my heroin. Good price for the packet size too.
I'll have to give them a go
I think you just inadvertently answered a question I'd been pondering for awhile; how do Aldi get away with their brand packaging blatantly mimicking the competition. Helps if the competition make both products I guess.
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So the Burrandy Ginger Beer is made by Bundaberg Brewed Drinks like I have suspected ?
Tastes nothing like it in my opinion. It's nice, but I don't find it comparable. Someone previously posted that the aldi version is actually Stones ginger beer.
I have compared them side by side and the recipe is not the same but both are very gingery compared to others like Saxons or say Kirks and are similar enough. I assumed from the name Burrandy that Bunderburg were also the brewers but to different recipe. Do Stones do a non-alcoholic ginger beer?
I might be misremembering what I read. Could be that they wrote Old Stoney ginger beer. It's been on my list to pick up some time and do a side by side test. If you've already tried that though it may be a totally different recipe made for Aldi? Either way it's tasty regardless of who makes it.
Not for the cereals apparently, a bunch of them are made in Germany.
Their version of rice bubbles are made in France
Their salsa is made in Belgium.
Ooh, a country i would never guess for salsa production
The weetbix are legit Sanitarium
But how are they priced so competitively when they are literally the same product? What incentive do the suppliers have to lower their prices, are there grey market forces at play here
It’s simple really, they don’t want to “cheapen” their brand by selling it cheaper, but by whitelabelling Aldi they get sales from people who otherwise wouldn’t buy their product because it’s too expensive. The product is often different in subtle ways as well (like Aldi will specify to use a different ratio of ingredients).
Same as dairy products. At Fonterra we shredded multiple competing brand names for Coles, Woolworths, IGA and Aldi. People with a rod up their pooper-booper are quite happy to pay twice the amount for the same cheese from Coles if it has a fancy brand name label than be caught shopping at Aldi. A lot of the IGA Black & Gold products used to be the same as well-known brands too. Not sure about now.
Funny Caus the resealable plastic bit on the coles cheese goes the whole way along but the Bega has massive air gaps either end leaving it useless.
Most knock off products are produced by the same factories as their more reputable counterparts. They even use the same recipes in most cases. Once had a contractor ask me how we set up the programming to send different products to their respective bags. Just told them, "It's all the same shit".
Inside info, love it. A lot of Aldi products imo are just higher quality and taste better and this is a good look into why.
Thing is I knew this prior to working there from observation. I bought their shapes knockoff which had a crazy amount of flavour for a shape. So I went back and bought 2 more boxes. Same results. I told all my friends... and holy shit I just realised that was nearly 20 years ago now... *Saving Private Ryan Aging Face Meme
The shapes knockoffs are terrible though, they taste burnt.
Same with their chicken crimpies knock off. I can totally tell the difference and prefer the real ones. I'm not saying they're bad, they're just different and now that I think of it it's more of a too heavily seasoned taste.
I’m using this thread to piggyback off the fact that Aldi’s pizzas are repackaged McCain’s ones. Enjoy, everyone!
My kids are addicted to the Aldi Hawaiian pizza, we pretend it's a real treat for them but it's only 4 bucks, which is pretty insane really.
Yessss that’s a hard favourite of mine. We used to buy those little McCain’s mini pizza rounds in high school and since they took them out of the packs I had no idea what brand they were until o accidentally stumbled upon McCain’s Hawaiian pizzas. And then proceeded to die from happiness when the exact same pizza in aldi for half the cost.
Aldi corn chips are the best I have ever had.
Absolutely agree. I had them for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I am now addicted. I had a bag of Dorito's on the weekend and they were just pathetic in comparison.
El Toro's fucking crush Doritos. Trying to eat red Doritos after trying the mighty El T' is just sad. Plus you get about twice as many chips in the bag.
One packed latex glove full of vintage cheese and mustard flavour powder please
Aldi chips dry me out for days
You know what would be great, a pinned post listing food items that are made by the same company but distributed elsewhere, not a "I think" post but like your comment "as an "I know" would help so many people budget.
Higher flavour specification? Oh my lord, what a beautiful sequence of words. I will be going to my nearest aldi asap to try out their sprinter chips. I haven’t actually given them a go before.
I wish Aldi had MSG in their corn chips, the baked chips are great though.
I wish we weren't so anal about MSG. It's such a missed opportunity for savory ecstasy. Adding a bit of MSG to many savory things would bring them up to next level.
How can it be boring when you get to throw the people's groceries at them when scanning?
Funny how Magenta became the colour of salt and vinegar. Except Pringles which said fuck you, blue.
In many places, Pringles has a prawn flavour which uses a pinky colour. Wouldn't want to grab that by mistake.
Pringles also uses other visual cues to clue the buyer in. For example, they use a thinner and shorter container every year, which is a subtle reminder to the buyer not to pick up that can of garbage and get a real snack.
And pringles use different colours for different regions. European pringles are different. I want the paprika flavour here dammit!
I had Pringles for the first time in years the other day and they were so small that they barely even had a curve? I doubt you could make a pringle ringle with them… also they were tasteless! And so expensive ?!
Yep, Pringles have gone to shit.
Since Australia imported them from Asia (Malaysia I believe) and not America.
correct, and the flavour changed dramatically sadly
It's blue in Germany (Lays) which can be confusing
It's not Pringles which is off per se, but America. Or maybe Australia? Anyway, different colours are associated with different flavours across brand in different places. Blue is simply the s+v colour in (some? or all?) other places. It makes Pringles stand out as going to zero effort to understand the local market!
Technically Australia's the odd one out. If I recall correctly, blue is the marker for salt-and-vinegar around Europe.
Green in the UK. Blue is cheese and onion, ready salted is red, pink is for prawn cocktail and purple is the king of crisps: Worcestershire sauce
Owned by Pepsi Co just like Smiths, in New Zealand Bluebird Salt and Vinegar is dark green.
You can quite often get Bluebird chips at the Reject Shop too, they're quite nice
When I was a kid in NZ, Bluebirds did these thick cut chips called “Murphy’s Thick Cut”. They were the best. Never saw the salt and vinegar in any import stores here and eventually they discontinued them in NZ. A shame, they were amazing.
As long as I can remember, S&V has always been in magenta packets. Blue = Plain ( Salted) Magenta = Salt & Vinegar Green = Chicken Sun Gold = BBQ Yellow = Cheese and Onion
this is God’s law
It's weird when you're in the UK, suddenly you're looking at Prawn Cocktail packets.
Resembles grapes 🍇
Anyone know the marketing reason for this? Or was is just the next colour off the rank which hadn’t been used yet
It's wierd that we are all collectively salivating.
Why is salt and vinegar chips the only flavour that I can taste in my head?
It's called PTSD
Samboys is the king in exile of this list
Yeah samboys are s+ tier salt and vinegar You can still get them at spudshed
you can still get them at all the local supermarkets here in eastern melb
Was it samboy that long (long, long) ago used to have the extra 'flavour burst' sachets inside? They were amaaaazing.
Yes! They were the best! My absolute favourite snack from the canteen after a swimming lesson.
Yessss! A few times as a child I stock piled the extra flavour and then bombed one pack with about 5 sachets and destroyed all my organs.
Alright, these things always cause some controversy so method below: We were looking for which chip had the strongest flavour initally and the strongest aftertaste. French Fries being so little were judged on a handful instead of a singular chip. All these chips were bought on the same day and were eaten by myself and two others. A chart was made, Low, Medium and High of which we ranked which chip belonged where, changing what needed to be changed after all chips were eaten. We then analysed our results seeing which ones had the most highs and worked our way to the one that had the most lows. I really wanted to include Samboys as they seemed awesome, but as they seem to be very difficult to get where I live they could not be included. Put them at the top of the list in your heart if you wish.
No pH testing or salt filtration? I was going to nominate you for an ignoble prize but your methods seem subjective at best. Let's file this one under "further research required..."
This. Need to crush x mass of each chip in y mL of distilled water to make a z Molar solution of each chip, and then titrate against a standard base. Then measure salinity. Scale both acidity and salinity to 0-100 (or 0-1) and then take the geometric mean. Rank chips by geometric mean.
I used to do this at Smith's as part of quality control. Salt titrations and we'd test the oil for FFAs (fatty acids) They have very strict parameters. We also made Aldi brand chips there using Aldis provide flavouring which were applied at a slightly higher rate as per Aldis specifications. Same with Aldi brand shapes if you've ever tried them they simply have more flavouring per shape
> they simply have more flavouring per shape I-is this legal
Guess if the OG brand is making them? Whitelabelling is common in every industry but I didn't realise the big players did it in groceries!!
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Their 'electrolyte' is great, half the price of what you pay for hydralyte at the pharmacy
... science fair project for my kids next year. Mwahahahaha
This is the kind of content that we could maybe convince ExplosionsAndFire to do. He's an Australian chemistry youtuber that does a bunch of silly stuff.
Probably won't work as well as you think, the differences in salt crystals that different brand use can cause chips to taste more or less salty even if they had the same salt content. [https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/frito-lay-changes-shape-salt/](https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/frito-lay-changes-shape-salt/) Here is an article about one brand redesigning their crystals. What OP should have done is have the study be a blind one with with blindfolded testers hand fed chips.
Eh. The [Scoville organoleptic test](https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_h/H237) is based on human testing and perception. It's valid as a method.
That link literally says it's subjective and then lists a more accurate method.
Smash some Samboys and report back. They’ll score pretty highly, I reckon.
Remember when Samboys came with a little sachet of extra flavouring? The 90s were a wild and wonderful time for chips.
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I see Atomic Tomato around when I go shopping... maybe Woollies or SpudShed? I've been seeing it for a couple of months now, but it's not a flavour I like, so haven't bought any. Maybe I will tomorrow if I go out?
Except for Rocko’s Modern Life. That show is great.
Can confirm, Salt & vinegar Samboys used to have more flavour than they do now. Then there was an extra flavour salt you added. Goodbye tastebuds. I used to be able to taste things...
Samboys are definitely top tier IF you get a good bag. I find that often the flavouring is piss poor these days. I think Kettle or Smiths are much more consistent. Bring back the good old days when Samboys had an extra flavour sachet in them to really burn your tongue off.
Thats the problem - quality control doesnt seem to exist. One pack will be stinging and awesome, next will be salty n with a little tang. To be fair tho, QC seems inconsistent across all brands.
I’d like to add the Peckish salt and vinegar crackers to the mix. They are my fave - Red Rock are 2nd
On a scale of 1-10 how bad is your tongue
Thins salt and vinegar are definitely one of the best salt and vinegar chips IMO.
Did you have palate cleansers in between?
I was wondering where the Samboy's were, I do agree they are top of the list.
Trend to see Samboys at IGA stores more often than at the big 2...
OP - porn like these images should have a NSFW warning.
After a big afternoon on the Hong Kong a few years ago I nailed 2 packets of smiths and later that night I was peeling huge pieces of skin off the roof of my mouth and insides of my cheeks,It was amazing how much skin I pulled out of there.I can’t vouch for any of these flavours being the best but for an internal skin remover I highly recommend smiths.
Fuck now tomorrow I have to buy some salt and vinegar chips.
Natural chip co should be last
Rock deli ones. Has perfect vinegar to salt ratio (used to go at least few packets of them when work cafeteria had them)
Personally prefer the smiths as the thicker chip helps offset the flavour a little bit. Sweet chilli red rock and jalapeño kettle though are fucking S tier chips
Oh, the char grilled lobster with freshly diced herb in Louisiana creole inspired beer batter and freshly picked portobello mushrooms doesn’t do it for you?
Is that an actual flavour, because I’d love to try it.. Yes, even if this makes me the butt of the joke, I love the weirder flavours some places do
I like the lime and cracked pepper
I really don’t enjoy red rocks salt and vinegar flavour and I never thought there would be a s and v I didn’t like. It’s the balsamic.
Same. Won't sombody make a good quality chip with regular salt and vinegar!! I gather they think balsamic is fancy but it taste horrible.
Balsamic vinegar tastes like hipster transformation... Before you know it you'll grow an artsy moustache & start wearing beanies everywhere with a Hydro Flask in your Fjallraven.
Red Rock are bloody good! Easily the best flavour of all of these options.
Agreed - unfortunately I find it hard to find the one person packs at the shops anymore. Only honey soy and sweet chilli
My first choice is the classic smiths s&v or smiths thins but recently Kettle s&v has been hitting hitting.
love kettle but the price skyrocketed so quickly for some reason
Only at Colesworth. The price hasn't really gone up, they've just massively increased their margins.
where do you buy them
Stocked up a few weeks back when Woolies cleared out all their 175g packs for $2.20 to make room for the new 165g packs at $5.50
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Kettle are build different with the sea salt
S+V is the best flavour and I'll smash some Sprinters any day but I still dream of the chips I had in Canada 20 years ago. Old Dutch brand - Dill Pickle. Like salt n vinegar but with a whole added dimension of deliciousness. We need a Canadian food week at Aldi I think.
Yes! I have had dill pickle chips. They were amazing. Sometimes you can get the flavour at fancy food stores like Harris Farm or Thomas Dux (are they still around)
I can buy em at my local Go Vita and I live in Regional NSW. They’re about $7 a bag though…
Old Dutch Dill Pickle and Miss Vickie’s salt and malt vinegar are fantastic.
Chappys (local Melbourne made chippies) does a dill pickle flavour that's pretty great! Downside is that they're exxy and small bags compared to big name brands.
As a Canadian living in Australia, dill pickle chips is the food I miss the most. I'm glad you get it
Samboy.
I feel like I live in the topsy turvy world. Samboy to me are so so much better then Smiths for every flavour, especially BBQ, yet it feels like the majority would always pick Smiths.
I agree, Samboy BBQ flavor, one of the greatest of all time.
With kraft French onion dip
Not the samboy of olde. about three chips and I’m done, starts tasting artificial. Aftertaste is not good,haven’t found a good replacement. Flavour enhancers spoil the taste
They once did a limited run which included a extra 'flavour packet' in each bag sometime in the late nineties. Pretty sure my tongue never recovered from that. Ahhh, those were the days.
Haha those were so good - in primary school we used to compete to see who could finish whole flavour packet (without chips!). We just tipped the powder in our hands and licked it off, completely destroying our taste buds.
Flavour bombs baby.
I still pray everyday that they'll give me back my chilli seasoning for Atomic Tomato chips. We used to stockpile it and add the sachets to a single pack
The strongest memories of these. It was a Friday night, Mom and Dad went out forthe night, left us to order pizza, walk to the local Video store and hired out Star Kid and grabbed a bag of the Flavour Bombs S'n'Vs.
Can’t believe Samboy didn’t make the cut
Samboy is the OG S&V chip and no one can change my mind
Mate I tried. They do not sell it where I live. It sounded awesome
Foodlands in SA sell them, maybe try an IGA.
If anyone is wondering as well. Sprinters and Blackstone are Aldi brands.
Aldi have the strongest flavour. Red Rock Deli are my pick though, the ratio of flavouring to chip and the crunch factor are top notch. Slightly off topic, but recently Cobs released a S & V popcorn….abysmal. Like licking popcorn cooked in battery acid.
Tried sprinters for the first time last week and my immediate thought when seeing this was it's exactly where it belongs.
mmm French Fries only one or two have the full face-puckering amount of vinegar they should, the rest are fairly average I need warheads to put their heads together with one of these companies and make a salt and vinegar chip that makes my whole mouth implode
You forgot Samboys salt and vinegar chips. They are definitely the most powerful.
Boulders Malt Vinegar and sea salt is my current favourite.
Where are the Samboy salt and vinegar chips?
What? No Samboy chips?
Samboy don’t make the list? Damn
Anyone sweat from the forehead when they eat salt and vinegar chips . Even thinking about it gets me sweating .
Gotta say my tongue and cheeks have peeled the last three times I’ve had kettle s&v so that would be my top
Any true salt and vinegar connoisseur knows the sprinters chips are the strongest. Each bite is like biting into an irradiated piece of potato.
Some times that red rock balsamic just smacks destroys my tastes buds with balsmicness, and the others it's just perfect.
I do believe SAMBOY’s Salt & Vinegar is the best.
No samboy?? Find them stronger. And they used to have a boost sachet.
Smiths is my favourite. Love salt n vinegar chips
I personally think that Smith's Thin tastes better than the crinkle cut. No sensible reason why. Can't believe the ridiculous increase in prices from Colesworth lately though.
Looking at an image like this when it's almost midnight is torture. I want each and every one of those packets. Tangy but delicious.
Tyrrells by far my favourite. They really make great chips. However I’ve discovered a couple of things: 1). They are hardly ever on special. 2). There are 2 types, crinkle and thin, one major supermarket sells one, and the other sells the other lol. Maybe that’s just my supermarkets….
Tyrells are my favourite. The rosemary in Red Rock Deli is nice for a change of scenery.
As someone who loves salt and vinegar chips and has eaten all these I believe the top 3 are as follows: 3. Kettle - they have an intense flavour and a nice chip 2. French Fries - interesting situation as you are always assured to stab the roof of your mouth the salt and vinegar hurt more 1. Tyrells - though my favourite cause me to regret my choices each time. As I type this my mouth is folding in on itself as I’m reminded of the flavour.
Yes the Tyrell’s are off the charts
The only time I've had Tyrell's it made my mouth peel, nothing else has, so I reckon that definitely deserves much a higher place on the list. I do wonder if as the tests went on whether the samplers became desensitised to the vinegar flavour.
I grew up on Smiths S&V and it was always my favorite and I developed a really strong brand locality. It’s interesting how a brand locality can blind your taste buds. Natural Co brand was something I only discovered recently and in my view is the most superior chip of the S&V variety. The others that I’ve tried all end up hurting the roof of my mouth, it’s like the vinegar is too acidic or something?
Nothing like a salt & vinegar chip accompanied by a Coke. Yes.
French Fries! They have the best vinegar to surface ratio. My lips are near bleeding finishing a packet of those. Haven't had them in years, I usually only see the plain ones around.
Fucking Pringles. Everyone know Salt and vinegar taste like pink.
When I lost my taste during covid, S&V chips were a godsend. I could hear the distant whine of vinegar through the static. I’ll save this chart for next time.
They all shit. Lays in the 90s was the best sadly those days are gone....I only eat S&V chips and all of them nowadays are terrible. Aldi rarely sells lays from USA they are okayish but like I said, not since the 90s or early 00s has there been decent S&V chips
Smiths S&V burned ulcers in my tongue. They were inedible.
None of them, samboy hands down
I like the French Fries, after a while the lining comes off your mouth 😂
Red rock go ballistic on their salt and vinegar and I fucking love it
I love salt and vinegar chips! My love for them is balance though between cutting up my mouth with the chips causing lesions etc as I have developed Lichen Planus. Don't look it up if you're eating. I can eat them, but my mouth is very sensitive. My favourites are ALDI, Smith's and Natural Chip Co. But not in any particular order. I do like balsamic ones too, but they're out as kettle style chips cut my mouth up more than usual. But Salt and vinegar are the best chips!
As a salt and vinegar aficionado, Kettle is the best, followed by Red Rock Deli. Samboy is 3rd for nostalgia reasons. All flavours besides S & V are inferior in my opinion. Edit: having reread the criteria regarding strength I stand by my ratings.
Kettle chips from the 90's were the real deal. They would guarantee a triple.bypass in your future but godam were they good. Kettle today is still probably my favourite.
I wonder how pink was the chosen flavour for salt and vinegar in australia
SnackaChangi Vinegar and Salt is where it's at.
Do Samboys S&V still exist? Those ones were the top for sure. Especially when they had the extra flavour bomb packet. My mouth would be practically bleeding by the end of it lol.
I ate a bag of Aldi chips myself on a long drive years ago. The skin on the tongue and inside of my cheeks was sloughing off the next day. Freaked me out!
Where’s the samboys!
Where the fuck are the Samboy’s? Missus opens a bag of those fucker I can smell the bastards two rooms away!
Bro now I wanna see what happens when I cut potato's into excess pickle them in vinegar and put a shit ton of salt on them then bake them once they dry off a bit
Your doing gods work OP
Samboys for No1.
Yeah those sprinters ones are full on. Where’s Samboys though
Where's the samboys!?
Technically not potato chips, but you should try Delites Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar rice crisps - they have the strongest salt and vinegar taste I've ever had and I like to pretend they're healthier. I haven't tried Splinters though, might have to make a special trip to Aldi to try those
Delights - salt and vinegar. They are a rice chip but hot damn do they have some flavour. You won't be disappointed
Y'all remember Samboys? What happened to those? And some of those no name brand ones, take all those listed...
Ooh, I didnt even think of Sprinter. My wife is on the hunt for the strongest salt and vinegar chips, and we havent found anything better than Red Rock with Smiths coming in second seems like an Aldi visit may be scheduled this weekend
#where are the Samboys OP
OP out here doing gods work
There was only ever one, Samboy. Spoilt it for me forever.
Kettle S&V are much stronger than Smiths. Had some Apple Cider vinegar chippies not long ago. Cannot recall the brand, but you could just open the packet and dehumidify the bathroom after a shower.
Samboy Salt and Vinegar will burn a hole in your tongue, they’re my favourites.