Life in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada)

This week, Takis tortilla chips are on sale at Walmart , at almost half off the regular price! It's my first time trying this brand, and I'm pleasantly surprised. Very generous flavour coating! You can expect strong, vibrant flavour. The rolled tortilla chips survived largely intact, compared to what happens with most clips. The "hot" rating is I think more like "medium" heat. Kaboom is one of the flavours, and supposedly "ketchup-sriracha". However I found it very unlike typical sour ketchup flavoured chips. In fact it is barely sour at all, the sriracha flavour is clear with sweet undertones, and the tortilla flavour also shows up once you start chewing it. Overall, definitely worth trying, especially right now from Walmart at a discount.

My mom loves crunchy chips of all types but is generally too conservative to try anything new, so I got her some fancy Lay's "Truffle Mushroom" Chips . Turns out she really loves them -- says they taste too good to swallow, she just wants to keep savouring the flavour! It's got that perfumey truffle flavour to be sure, and it's also strong and clear. But flip over the package to look at the ingredients and it reads ARTIFICIAL truffle. Be more mindful as you eat it and you may detect a slight sweetness, a buttery note, and a slightly bitter aftertaste. If you're still fine with faked truffle flavour, you may nevertheless want to wait for them to go on sale as it's a rather small amount of chips for your dollar. That said, the flavour is so strong that more than two or three chips at a time and you may start to be turned off, akin to having that greasy feeling from having too much rich cream in one sitting.