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REVIEW: 🇯🇵Calbee Potato Chips

Whyyy. From what I can tell from the bag, these are supposed to be plain #potatochips? Maybe I’m too much of a purist, but plain potato chips to me are fried potatoes + salt. If there were any other flavor, it would be _______ potato #chips. I had wanted a plain potato chip with these, and while they are potato chip in form with an ok crunch (kind of too brittle for me though), and texture with air bubbles and folds, but the flavor. Whyyy. There’s this umami flavor from MSG, which manifests into a seafood-y, shrimp-y flavor. I think the MSG (and mysteriously, vitamin c??) is supposed to bring out the flavor of the potato, but it just makes it taste funky. And not funky in a good way, since it was very unexpected. If I wanted a low seafood instant noodle flavored potato chip, I would’ve wanted wanted to know that’s what I was getting? - 📍Nijiya Market, West LA

So what’s going on with this chip? Here are its highly scientific stats: Saltiness: MEDIUM-HIGH Flavor level: MEDIUM Thickness: MEDIUM-HIGH

Opinion ratings (1-10): Crunch: 6,7 Texture: 7.0 Flavor: 4.1

Overall: 4.9


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