Trader Joes had dill pickle flavor potato chips when we were there today. I don't like dill pickles, but my five year old does. Bet she would love them.

I think I'll stick with the real things. But no pickles in any form please.

You have to wonder what chemicals are used to make a potato chip taste like a Reuben sandwich.

kswl, yes I know! But, just the idea of these flavors!

I'm not one much for potato chips anyway, but those sound horrible.

Years ago, many, many years ago, my office vending machine had something called Coney Island Chips. There wasn't any indication of what that meant flavor-wise. We were on mandatory overtime and getting silly, so I decided what the heck, I'll be the one to buy & try them. They tasted like a hot dog with mustard! I HATE hot dogs. I almost gagged. But I put a smile on my face, tipped the open bag towards a co-worker, and said "Try one! You'll like it!" They were one of the most disgusting things I've ever eaten and I only ate one. Bleeech, just thinking about them again makes me shudder.

I love potato chips. But they must be pure, unadulterated, no extra flavoring chips. I only eat them at parties or if they come with a burger. I don't buy them because, except for the Coney Island chips, I can't eat just one.

They come out with maybe four a year, and then keep a flavor around if they are popular, I think. The Wasabi ones from a couple years ago were good. But they had Coffee-something ones that most people who tried them said they were awful.

I'm 100% with hhireno on this one - to me there is no acceptable flavor for chips other than salt! I love a good chip like the Kettle krinkle chips but never buy them - way too dangerous to have in the house. Can't imagine eating chips flavored like a Ruben - blech.

My favorite is Paprika flavored Pringles. Not available in the US, so I go on a chip-eating-bonanza every time I'm in Europe. i just salivated....

I am also in the no flavor chips camp-- except that I do like Salt & Vinegar.

Homemade chips are different ballgame. I havent actually made my own (because I would never stop!) but I have had homemade chips with rosemary and garlic.. delicious! Of course, I'd eat a shoe if you'd cover it in rosemary and garlic!

Try them! You only live once and they're only potato chips.

I tried the other 2 flavors - West Coast Truffle Fries and Greektown Gyros (think tzatziki sauce and gyro seasoning).

You know what? They're actually very tasty if a little too salty (for me). The ingredients aren't horrifying (for mainstream flavored chips). Duck fat and black truffle are actually listed in the Truffle Fries ingredients - though it's possible they just waved them over the vat of ingredients :-P

hhireno - Coney (Island hot) dogs were a Detroit fav served circa 1980s by a pre-Seinfeld "soup Nazi" with "Chips, chips! No fries!" A trip on the way-back machine!

I am a salty snack eater over sweets, so give me a chip, plain, or a salted nut, and I am good. My DGD loved the dill pickle dips when she was around 3, but not so much now. And home-made chips? Swoon! But they can't, and don't, sit around long.

I like fresh ground pepper on potato chips.

Speaking of those new Trader Joes Dill Pickle Flavored Popcorn, I bought a bag the other day while I was there. . . and I really like them. When I need a snack, I almost always go for salty or spicy over something sweet. Last night, while DH and I were watching "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" I had some. Not bad with a scotch & water (LOL)!

dill pickle flavored popcorn and a scotch and water...... lol

Mtn - funny you say that. We don't keep chips in the house and don't eat much junk food at all. However I love cooking with paprika and there is some switch that goes off for paprika Pringles. Horrible, I know. But I am weak.

Am I to understand that dill pickle chips are a rarity where most of you are? How sad.

I'm with outsideplaying - give me a savoury treat over a sweet one any day. Salt and vinegar chips are my fave, but like others have said - can't have 'em in the house.

I'm not big on potato chips so maybe I have just missed them. But this was the first time I have ever seen dill pickle flavored potato chips. And I have lived in Missouri, Colorado, Virginia, and California as an adult.

funny. Dill pickle is almost as common here as salt and vinegar - and has been since I was a teen. What about ketchup and sour cream and onion?

I have never seen ketchup flavored potato chips. Sour cream and onion is common.

No shortage of potato chip flavors around here. All the national brands and local Zapp's. Couldn't tell you the last time I ate one.

Zapp's potato chips

Many years ago (35+) when I was in South Africa, flavored chips were all over the place-- I remember ketchup, dill pickle, steak & kidney pie and salt & vinegar. I lived in a British area (vs Dutch/Afrikaans) so I suspect they came from the UK. More recently, we've seen lots of flavored chips and pretzels in my area-- but we are very close to the headquarters for Utz, Snyder and a number of other snack food companies. I suspect they test the markets here before releasing them to larger markets.

I don't care for the artificial pretzel flavors either-- but i do like the ones made with sesame and pumpernickel.

Fifty years ago when my family first moved from Boston to Pennsylvania, my mother was shocked by the size of the pretzel aisle in the grocery store. She had never seen so many shelves devoted to just pretzels.

My husband's grandmother loved the pretzels called Special Dark. They just taste like burnt pretzels to me. It was a brilliant marketing idea - let's sell the mistakes as a special treat! They were actually a little hard to find and it was a treat whenever we bought them for her. She died 10-12 years ago, I don't know of the availability has changed since we haven't looked for them since then. No one else in the extended family liked them.

...but i do like the ones made with sesame and pumpernickel.

For a few months World Market stocked Utz pumpernickel pretzels. Then they disappeared. I'm just happy that Trader Joe's carries them now.

I have one child who used to really love ketchup... for a snack he would dip potato chips in ketchup, which didn't appeal to me in the least!! quite a few yrs ago, when I saw them for the 1st time, I bought a bag of ketchup flavored chips thinking he would love them-- but he didn't care for them at all!!

I haven't seen them being sold for quite awhile now, so I guess others felt the same way about them!! they were very short lived- locally, at least!

I had a friend who loved the utz dark... I like them too for a thin pretzel and buy them occasionally, but i prefer the big snyders sourdough.... I actually don't buy pretzels too often anymore, but used to buy them regularly and loved them with either diet coke or lemonade! I always preferred pretzels over potato chips...