A Delicious Collection: All of Lay’s Crazy Flavors in a Row
Are you also such a fan of the supermarket abroad? Then you probably dive straight into the chip aisle too—you know, the one near the nuts and the beer-and-soft-drinks section. We know plain and paprika by now, but what special flavors do they have on store shelves in other countries?
The website Lays Around The World provides an overview of all Lay’s chips’ creative experiments from around the world. Anyone can submit their finds, and by now there are almost a hundred flavors on the site. Top supplier: Thailand, with no fewer than 58 crazy flavors, closely followed by China and Taiwan. People, there’s so much to enjoy!
Cheetos Cheese
The love child of your two favorite chips: plain and, of course, those crumbly, cheesy Cheetos. What a brilliant idea! Unfortunately, they’re only available in America. In Thailand, they can (of course) take it one step further: Extremely Cheesy Cheese. No idea what that tastes like, but I want it!
Cream Cheese Garlic
It might resemble our baguette with herb butter, doesn’t it? This Korean variety features a baked potato on the bag, topped with that deliciously fragrant, melting herb butter. Get a pack of gum right away, because something tells me this is going to make you, um… stink enormously.
Ghost Pepper
Spicy chips are hot hot hot—not just literally, but figuratively too. The collection at Lays Around The World includes several flavors that look like they’re bursting into flames, at least on the packaging. Thailand’s Ghost Pepper looks dangerous, as do America’s Kettle Cooked Jalapeno and Jordan’s Flaming Hot Lime. For enthusiasts: these are the hottest chips you can buy. Don’t call us if you catch fire.
Summer BLT
A bag of chips that tastes like a sandwich, what’s next? A cup of hot chocolate that tastes like a platter of bitterballen? Anyway, in America they dare to do it, calmly putting chips on store shelves that taste like a sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato. With a little mayo, according to the description.
Wild Mushrooms and Cream
Wild mushrooms—no, not magic mushrooms that make you go wild, but mushrooms found in the forest. Apparently, the Romanian Lay’s team regularly heads out along the paths and lanes to gather ingredients for chips with a Wild Mushrooms and Cream flavor. Anyone going to Romania soon may bring back a bag for us.
Limón
A Spanish name, an American chip—whatever, toss it my way. According to the website’s tasting panel, the chips taste very sour and rather artificial. Apparently, sour belts haven’t yet found a place in the American retail landscape? And that Spanish name, well, supposedly it’s meant to tempt Spanish-speaking people in particular to dip this bizarre chip.
Chinese Fresh And Spicy
Another weird crossover: Chinese flavors in a chip in Greece. The testers describe the taste as resembling the smell of a Chinese restaurant. That sounds anything but like a recommendation. Is this fusion?
Patatje Joppie
Yes, yes, we Dutch are represented on the list too. And with our culinary showpiece, Patatje Joppie, the most incredible snack sauce ever invented. Is the world waiting for that? Not really, judging by the review: ‘I can easily eat a bowlful of grasshoppers, but I can’t manage more than two of these chips.’
