Just because you can’t travel doesn’t mean you can’t eat like sh*t all across the country!
Lay’s Flavor Icons
Introducing Lay’s Flavor Icons! Sure, there are plenty of delivery services that will ship food from iconic restaurants all over the country right to your doorstep, but only Lay’s can deliver that exact same experience in a bag that’s half-filled with air.
For this new line, Lay’s has teamed with specific restaurants in different regions of the country to produce five exciting new flavors:
- Lay’s Kettle Cooked New York Style Pizza, inspired by Grimaldi’s Pizzeria of Brooklyn, NY.
- Lay’s Philly Cheesesteak, inspired by Geno’s Steaks of Philadelphia, PA.
- Lay’s Nashville Hot Chicken, inspired by Party Fowl of Nashville, TN.
- Lay’s Wavy Carnitas Street Taco, inspired by El Torito of Marina del Rey, CA.
- Lay’s Chile Relleno, inspired by Cocina Azul of Albuquerque, NM.
Who needs social interaction and fine dining when you can have a bag of chips in the same clothes you wore yesterday!?
This review is part of a series. Today’s Lay’s Flavor Icons is:
Lay’s Nashville Hot Chicken
Here’s what I know about Party Fowl: You can get a bloody mary with fried chicken in it, because I did.
Here’s what I know about Nashville Hot Chicken: It will make your butt explode at 3 AM.
It’s rather fitting that this chip is inspired by Party Fowl. If you thought that two fried Cornish hens sticking out out of a Bloody Mary with pieces of fatty skin sinking right into your drink was gross, get a load of this: these chips are made with ingredients like bacon fat, chicken fat, buttermilk solids, and cooked chicken powder.
And if you thought that two fried Cornish hens sticking out of a Bloody Mary sounds GREAT, then welcome to the fam!
The other ingredients that give Lay’s Nashville Hot Chicken flavors of the signature dish are the spices (obviously). Rest assured that this seasoning has a kick to it. It’s very direct and “in your face”, but the thing is that it’s not really all that hot. It’s the kind of spice that resides in the back of your throat without an intense burn. I get a little bit of cayenne and a lot of paprika. And I do get some of that fried chicken wing flavor too.
That said, this certainly doesn’t get your adrenaline pumping with that “rush to the bathroom” excitement of authentic Nashville Hot Chicken. The spice is enough that I don’t want to eat a TON – especially because the flavor doesn’t feel especially unique for a potato chip. Maybe it’s missing the pickles?
But hey – at least I don’t have to drop the kids off at the pool.
Burning Questions:
- But you don’t have kids? I’m talking about poop.
- That’s gross. It’s just a fact of Nashville Hot Chicken.
- Then why do people like to eat it? People like to poop.
Place of Purchase: Harris Teeter
Rating: 5.5 out of 10
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