Potato Chip Quiz

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Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Golden Flake Thin and Crispy; Lay's Original; Kettle Chips Lighty
salted with Fresh Ground Pepper; Zapp's and the former Dirty Potato
Chips.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Both

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Both

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

Yes

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

No

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

Yes,yes,yes,yes,yes, guacamole, jalapeno, chipotle

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

No

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

NA

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

No. And don't forget Fritos, Doritos, Cheetos, Banditos and everything
else that's salty and crisp like bagel and pita chips and stop me
before I explode.

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Good question. I never buy them. Rarely eat them.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

n/a

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

no

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

good god no.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

Plain

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

No

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

No :-) That's one of the reasons I never buy them and rarely eat them.

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to
occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Wise, used to be the low sodium but back to the regular.
Low started to be more like no ... potato chips gotta have
salt.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

3. Smooth or ripple chips?

I wouldn't slap someone who gave me any of the above.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

I had some baked ones at my brother's place down the
shore, they were surprisingly good. Having said that, I
forget the brand.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

Yes. With plain sour cream is just fine with me. Or
without.

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b. BBQ

Tastes quite metallic to me, my teeth want to curl
up to get away from them.

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c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Anything I would make that one would think of as
potato chips, wouldn't *be* potato chips, to me.
In other words, potato chips come in a bag from the
store.

I know I told this story already; my mil's father was
an entrepreneur from Italy, he found a way to make
potato chips in his garage, my mil's job was to bag them
up to sell in their little produce store downstairs.

Some people from Boston came and bought his
potato chip business. Sad say in the house for her.

Makes me laugh, that building, the family home hand
built by her father, it's not on a dirt road any longer, it's
on Route 1&9 in Elizabeth, NJ.

As an aside, we sold the house to some guy who opened
a restaurant next door. Drove by it on Christmas, darned
if he hasn't resided the house and breathed new life into
the old place.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

Sometimes.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

I think I confuse hash browns with home fries. Maybe.

nancy

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Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to
occupy my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally
known?

Jay's brand. I don't know where they come from. Don't care either 😉

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Kettle.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

It's a tie.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted, aren't technically potato chips)?

I don't like baked chips.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

No salt? OMG, chips MUST have salt.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

A and E. I also like the dill pickled chips.

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Sure have.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

C.

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

Nope 😉

Michael

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jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

3. Smooth or ripple chips?

4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Jill

Jill

Jalapeno kettle chips (not jalapeno and cheddar.) Second favorite is
just plain ripple-cut, like "Ruffles".

I did try making my own potato chips once upon a time, but they turned
out too greasy and I haven't tried it again. I used my trusty worn-thin
vegetable peeler. I don't know what I'll do when it eventually wears
thru and breaks because new peelers are nowhere near as sharp and a worn
out one.

Bob

Bob

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Quoted message said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to
occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Lays.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Regular. Really don't like kettle chips.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth!!!

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

Yes, I love Baked Lays.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

Never tried them. Doubt I'd like them. The salt is the best part!

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

Yes

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b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion

Sure, sometimes.

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d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt

Now you're talkin', baby!!! Excellent on occasion, but not for every day.

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f. Other _________________________

Have tried, but can't say I particularly like, some of the Herr's brand
chips....dill pickle, ketchup, Coney Island Hot Dog, Steak and Onion (I
think? it was something to do w/ steak). The dill pickle are the best of
these.

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

No.

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

I have, but most of the time I eat *way* more than one. I try to stay away
from them (but that's ok, absence makes the heart grow fonder). It used to
be that when you ordered a sandwich in a restaurant, you got chips with it
(fries were extra). Who knows, maybe it's still that way -- I don't eat out
much anymore. Those were always lousy chips, anyway.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Aha! You snared me into having egg-a-cup the other day, but I can resist
breakfast potatoes quite easily, my dear. Besides, I already had a bagel
(w/ cream cheese and strawberry jelly).

Chris

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Cape Cod ar emy favorite, but on the odd occasion that I actually
purchase potato chips, it's usually the Aldi or Meijer brand.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

kettle.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

ripple.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

I like pringles, but not baked lays. I used to like munchos, but I got
sick of them after a while.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

no

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

plain, salt and vinegar, and sour cream and onion. I don't like BBQ
chips. I like some of the "wierd" flavors that Uncle Rays and some other
companies make, like steak and dill pickle etc.

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

no

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

nope.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

yum! I think, because of your quiz I'm going to have to have a tuna
sandwich with potato chips sprinkled on top 🙂

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jmcquown a écrit :

Quoted message said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Truly. Appears to be a house brand for Zeller's, a subsidiary of the
Hudson's Bay Company (also known as The Bay...no, not eBay!). AFAIK,
they only come in 170g bags.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Regular.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

Well, yes, enough that I will sometimes choose Baked Lays over others.
I have a thing about eating potato chips with egg salad sandwiches.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

Yech. Do you?

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Once.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
b. Knife

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

At a time? Suuuure...

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1. What's brand do you prefer?

Don't remember what they're called. A friend brings them sometimes from
London.

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a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

I hear they're available in some places other than England, but not here in
the Netherlands.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Kettle.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

I have absolutely no idea.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

No.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

Olain or salt and vinegar or sour cream and chive.

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Oh yes.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

Cheese slicer.

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

I doubt it.
--Katrina

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

Sorry, but we might at most buy 3 bags of chips in a year so my answers
likely are of little use to you 🙁 I make homemade chips a couple of
times in the summer if that is of any help.

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1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

internationally known

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

regular

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

smooth as a side, ripple for dipping

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

too processed for my liking

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

I don't mind homemade ones but really salt makes the chips.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

plain

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

yes

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

mandoline

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

My limit would be about 4 or 5; DH's limit would be more.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Jill

Jill

zxcvbob wrote:

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I did try making my own potato chips once upon a time, but they turned
out too greasy and I haven't tried it again. I used my trusty worn-thin
vegetable peeler. I don't know what I'll do when it eventually wears
thru and breaks because new peelers are nowhere near as sharp and a worn
out one.

That's because the new peelers have all the safety guidelines snapped on
them with lawyers making sure they can't accidently cut even a drunken
sailor!

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Bob

Bob

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?

Herr's

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a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

local (though featured on FTV's Unwrapped)

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

50/50

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

smooth

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

Yes

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

no

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

y

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b. BBQ

y

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c. Sour Cream/Onion

y

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d. Cheese

y

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e. Vinegar & Salt

y

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f. Other _________________________

"Steak & Worchestershire"
All Dressed, Dill Pickle, Ketchup in the Great White North

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

yes

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

b &c

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

no.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Jill

Jill

slice one potato very thin, add some grease to the frying pan and cook them
until they are crispy, burnt and brown.....watch one football game and use
the dip, washed down with beer......or non alcoholic soda....
crusty

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

I can't think of a particular brand as I so seldom buy
chips.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Most definitely kettle!

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth - but them I've never seen ripple kettle chips.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

No.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

Oh, if only? Know where one could get them? Actually I
would like lightly salted if I were going to eat them
plain, but unsalted if I'm going to eat them with some
sort of dip.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

I like plain and BBQ.

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Not yet, been meaning to try it some day.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

I imagine I would either use my Benriner (mandoline-like
tool) or the food processor.

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

Well, maybe, if someone shoots you dead just as you
swallow the first one. ;-)

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Yum, now you got me craving 'em.

Kate

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Ooh, I just remembered about Route 11 Potato Chips in
Middletown, VA. They're just local to the area or
regional. I think they do mail order. I've only had
them when I was in the area. Went to the factory and
bought them. They are awesome! Wish they sold them in
Pgh. I can't really justify spending the money to buy
them mail order. :-(

Kate

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1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally
known?

Jay's, Utz, and "foreign chips" particularly German style "paprika
chips" and Japanese BBQ. (oddly, they are similar)

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Regular

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Smooth and as thin as possible.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted, aren't technically potato chips)?

Baked - no, ick. Pringles? only if there is alcohol involved.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

Yes - I guess I am in the minority here. Most of what I buy is Jay's
unsalted. I just they weren't so hard to find.

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

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f. Other: See above - German paprika and Japanese BBQ

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Yes, both at home and when I worked in a restaurant. Unfortunately, it is
hard, even with an oversized fry-daddy to have enough room to make chips
that can compare with the fry machines in restaurants, so I gave up
making them at home. They came out well, but it wasn't really worth the
hassle and the mess.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife

(d.) Restaurant grade meat slicer

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

Love 'em. Even though I think some of the less popular flavors - pizza,
chili, and such - are an affront against nature, I still have problems
resisting. Moreover, after making them from scratch in ideal conditions
in a restaurant, they can be superb.

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to
go with breakfast 😉

ooooh. I like home fries too.

Kate Connally said:

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Ooh, I just remembered about Route 11 Potato Chips in
Middletown, VA. They're just local to the area or
regional. I think they do mail order. I've only had
them when I was in the area. Went to the factory and
bought them. They are awesome! Wish they sold them in
Pgh. I can't really justify spending the money to buy
them mail order. :-(

Oh Yeah, good stuff . Sold here in the Wilmington,DE area. Maybe a
DuPont connection.
(there are a few DuPont plants in the Shenadoah Valley).

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Kate

jmcquown said:

Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

Walker's (UK brand)

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

Regular

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

No preference

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which, granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

Thought Pringles were fried. Fried is better.

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

No

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain

Plain is good.

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b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt

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f. Other: Cheese and onion, roast chicken, tandoori, prawn cocktail, bacon

7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

Yes

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline

Mandoline

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

No

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Okay, not really a quiz (no one will be graded!), just an attempt to
occupy
my mind this morning. So, potato chips...

1. What's brand do you prefer?
a. Is it a local /home town/regional brand or internationally known?

I rarely ever eat them any more...for 3 reasons, 2 of which are health
related 🙂
When I was younger, I liked Pringles now and then, but really, if I was
having potato chips, I was gonna have Old Dutch. I don't see them as much
here in CA, but in Minnie-Soda they were the chip.

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2. "Kettle" chips or regular?

I dislike Kettle chips..too hard!! Regular.

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3. Smooth or ripple chips?

Depends...am I dipping the chips? 😉 I prefered smooth, but used Ripple for
heavier dips.

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4. Do you like "baked" chips (like Baked Lays or Pringles, which,
granted,
aren't technically potato chips)?

See above 🙂

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5. Do you like unsalted potato chips?

Is there such a thing?!?

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6. Plain or seasoned?
a. Plain
b. BBQ
c. Sour Cream/Onion
d. Cheese
e. Vinegar & Salt
f. Other _________________________

C! Preferably with Top the Tater (another thing I can't find here in Sandy
Eggo)

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7. Have you ever made your own potato chips?

As a class project in 8th grade home-ec, yes.

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8. If yes to question #7, how did you slice them?
a. Mandoline
b. Knife
c. Food Processor

We used the old mandoline with the plastic box underneath to catch the cut
veggies/fruits.

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9. Can you really only eat just one? <G>

LOL! I sure can now!

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I don't have any potato chips but I think I'll make some home fries to go
with breakfast 😉

Jill

Fun post, Jill! When I was a kid, potato chips were great. Nowadays, they
are too damaging to my blood sugars and like I said, no Top the Tater here
in good old SoCal, so nothing good to dip them in ;-) lol.
Can't get puffcorn here either :/ hehe

kimberly

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Jill