Pork Chop Potato Chips from Thailand

Despite my best intentions to avoid junk food, I still occasionally find something so interesting that I just have to give it a try. This happens most often in foreign countries, where foods are unfamiliar to me and I really want to gain the experience of trying something new.

When I was in Thailand recently, learning as much as I could about Thai food, my friends Josh and Kim had a bag of pork chop-flavored Lay's potato chips. My first thought was, "Um, gross," but after a few days the idea grew on me. My husband and I walked down to 7-11 (because there's one on every corner in Bangkok) and bought a bag.

We opened the bag and smelled the chips. Guess what? They smelled like pork chops. It was weird, but we gave them a try.

They look tasty enough...


For some reason I expected them to be brown, or red. Alas, they just looked like regular old potato chips.


The verdict: Hey, these are actually pretty good!

Overall, they tasted a lot like pork chops. Eerily so. They were good, though I only ate a few before I gave up in the interest of not overloading my already dehydrated system with superfluous sodium.

Here's a scan of the bag, in case you're curious, and a few more photos of interesting Thai snacks. ขอให้เจริญอาหาร!

The back of the bag, for those of you who read Thai.

Some other fun snacks from Thailand:


Lobster flavored Lays Stacks. I'm not sure how I feel about seafood flavored chips.


Mediterranean flavored. Made with real mediterraneans?


Grilled shrimp Pringles. Didn't try them, but curiosity was picqued.


Chipsletten? Not sure what that means, but paprika-flavored chips sound pretty good.

 

 

 

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Comments

[P Markham72]

06:55 AM on 03/04/2011

I think the Pascagoula area of Mississippi is a testing area for Doritos. I spent a year there and so more flavors of Doritos than anywhere else I've lived. Some were pretty good but only lasted shortly.

[Elizabeth Lee Hammons]

10:03 PM on 03/01/2011

I had a bag of Roasted Chicken Potato Chips (which were delicious) so I believe they would be good.

[holdin5aces]

06:50 PM on 03/01/2011

I'd buy a bag, but my Yemeni neighbor wouldn't come for the bbq in the 'hood with them on the table. I like the Frito flavors. I fueled a lot of college with Frito/Hormel chili pie. Another layer of flavor would have been ooo la la.

[JScott]

12:38 AM on 03/01/2011

You usually can get shrimp flavored chips/crackers in the asian food section of the grocery store

[hagagaga]

11:51 PM on 02/28/2011

Bacon ranch Pringles are foul.

[HerrMonk]

05:50 PM on 02/28/2011

It warms me on the insides to know we brought trans-fats to Southeast Asia and soon they'll be as obese as we are.

[jsarets]

09:37 AM on 03/01/2011

Potato chips don't use partially hydrogenated oils.

Some molded reconstituted "potato crisps" do, though.

[Alice Radley]

01:30 PM on 02/28/2011

I do wish we had more creative flavors here in the US. I'd enjoy trying them!

[hagagaga]

11:51 PM on 02/28/2011

Bacon ranch Pringles...

[truthinperson]

01:48 PM on 03/03/2011

Mozz sticks pringles

[No stinking fans]

01:14 PM on 02/28/2011

The new pekingese flavor is becoming a best seller in china as well.

[jsarets]

01:06 PM on 02/28/2011

Here in America we just have a half dozen or so kinds of cheese-based flavors. Even the ones that aren't advertised as a cheese flavor are in fact based on some kind of spray-dried cultured milk product.

[Dennis LeGear]

12:14 PM on 02/28/2011

I am not sure if these are the ones I had, but Canada has some interesting flavors too, like ketchup chips. I would love to try some pork chips.

[Stephanie J. Stiavetti]

12:32 PM on 02/28/2011

I would LOVE to try some ketchup chips. Sounds interesting.

[tombollocks]

08:24 AM on 03/01/2011

Herr's has a ketchup chip, and they are based in Pennsylvania. You can order these online, if you can't find them locally. They are quite good. :)