Current Events > Ketchup chips are a Canadian thing?

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What flavors do they have in the US?
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Well, clarifying your nomenclature might help when asking a question that potentially spans countries.

What's called chips abroad is referred to as french fries in the US, with the lone exception of ordering 'fish and chips'. What's called chips in the US is more commonly known as crisps abroad.

If you're asking about potato crisps, then ketchup certainly isn't a normal flavor in the US. One of the brands, Lays IIRC, does a bunch of weird food flavors that rotate every few months. I've never seen ketchup as a flavor though.

Now if you're talking about toppings for chips/french fries, then ketchup is quite common. Where things differ from Canada is in the case of poutine. That's very much a Canadian thing. In the US a common alternative is chili cheese fries.
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You can buy them in the UK too, but the only ones I know of are Walkers (Lays).
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I tried them but I did not like them
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Ketchup chips can occasionally be found in the US, at very large grocers.

DuneMan posted...

Well, clarifying your nomenclature might help when asking a question that potentially spans countries.

What's called chips abroad is referred to as french fries in the US, with the lone exception of ordering 'fish and chips'. What's called chips in the US is more commonly known as crisps abroad.

If you're asking about potato crisps, then ketchup certainly isn't a normal flavor in the US. One of the brands, Lays IIRC, does a bunch of weird food flavors that rotate every few months. I've never seen ketchup as a flavor though.

Now if you're talking about toppings for chips/french fries, then ketchup is quite common. Where things differ from Canada is in the case of poutine. That's very much a Canadian thing. In the US a common alternative is chili cheese fries.

We have ketchup chips in Canada.
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And dill pickle and all-dressed chips.
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I guess a better question to ask would be, "Is this carried as a normal flavor by various manufacturers, or is it just one of the Lays(and subsidiaries) experiments?"
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Dill pickle, all-dressed and ketchup all top-tier chip flavours

DuneMan posted...

I guess a better question to ask would be, "Is this carried as a normal flavor by various manufacturers, or is it just one of the Lays(and subsidiaries) experiments?"

All chip manufacturers where I live (in Toronto) have dill-pickle, all-dressed and ketchup chips. Not just Lays.
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you know those bad halloween candy that taste like chalk known as rockets?
thats american smarties

canadian smarties are the chocolate with a colored candy shell

we also have pizza pops, coffee crisp and poutine
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Okay, so ketchup chips confirmed as a Canadaian norm. On the US side of things though I haven't seen that around here. But that doesn't preclude a regional release. IIRC Minnesota has some overlap with Canadian foodstuffs. Maybe they'll have them there?
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DuneMan posted...

I guess a better question to ask would be, "Is this carried as a normal flavor by various manufacturers, or is it just one of the Lays(and subsidiaries) experiments?"

Yeah, if you're a fuckin nerd.
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Insecure much?
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Fuckin nerd much?
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I don't understand some of these flavors. If you want ketchup flavored chips, couldn't you just... put ketchup on your chips? Pickle flavored chips? If you want something that tastes like a pickle, why are you eating potato chips and not... a pickle?
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DuneMan posted...

Well, clarifying your nomenclature might help when asking a question that potentially spans countries.

What's called chips abroad is referred to as french fries in the US, with the lone exception of ordering 'fish and chips'. What's called chips in the US is more commonly known as crisps abroad.

You're being ridiculously pedantic here. This is a US-based site. He's talking about ketchup chips. It's quite fair to think that he's talking about literal potato chips, not crisps, as the Brits call them.
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r4X0r posted...

I don't understand some of these flavors. If you want ketchup flavored chips, couldn't you just... put ketchup on your chips? Pickle flavored chips? If you want something that tastes like a pickle, why are you eating potato chips and not... a pickle?

Well that's a stupid argument... why buy nacho cheese doritos when you could put nacho cheese on tortilla chips?
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NES4EVER posted...

Well that's a stupid argument... why buy nacho cheese doritos when you could put nacho cheese on tortilla chips?

Melting cheese on tortilla chips is delicious, though. Putting ketchup on chips would be less so. Might as well just have fries and ketchup then.
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Alucard188 posted...

NES4EVER posted...

Well that's a stupid argument... why buy nacho cheese doritos when you could put nacho cheese on tortilla chips?

Melting cheese on tortilla chips is delicious, though. Putting ketchup on chips would be less so. Might as well just have fries and ketchup then.

Yes I know it's delicious, but tastes nothing like nacho cheese doritos. Much like dipping a potato chip in ketchup tastes nothing like a ketchup chip. Never dipped a chip in pickle juice so I can't comment on that one (and I hate dill pickle chips). But people buy them because they enjoy the taste. Old Dutch ketchup and all dressed flavours are amazing!
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Yes. Ive never seen them in the US but they were everywhere when I lived in Canada. They pretty gross tbh so I dont miss them.

NES4EVER posted...

Old Dutch ketchup and all dressed flavours are amazing!

Agreed. I like how there's a difference in flavour between Old Dutch and Lays, too. Rip-L chips are the best, though. Ruffles all-dressed chips are top cheddar.
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Chicken posted...

. . . nerd much?

Apparently too much of one for the CE board. XD
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I dont look for them specifically but I feel like they are(used to be?) all over gas stations in the south(although they're usually regional brands and not Lay's(though probably still owned by Frito-Lay))

idk if they're the same thing as what you'd get in canada though
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yusiko posted...

we also have pizza pops, coffee crisp

What the fuck, those are Canadian things?
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Alucard188 posted...

Ruffles all-dressed chips are top cheddar.

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SGT_Conti posted...

yusiko posted...

we also have pizza pops, coffee crisp

What the fuck, those are Canadian things?

I think US has Hot Pockets.
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SGT_Conti posted...

yusiko posted...

we also have pizza pops, coffee crisp

What the fuck, those are Canadian things?

yep
americans will never know the joy of biting into a pizza pop
ive tried hot pockets and they are inferior
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jpenny2 posted...

ive tried those
they are disgusting
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yusiko posted...

jpenny2 posted...

ive tried those
they are disgusting

They're the kind of thing that you see in a store and think to yourself, "I need to try those." They're not my favorite.
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jpenny2 posted...

They're the kind of thing that you see in a store and think to yourself, "I need to try those." They're not my favorite.

its like putting two great things together and creating something terrible

poutine is good
pizza pops are good
poutine flavoured pizza pops are terrible

the gravy they use tastes bad
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Dill pickle chips are everywhere in America.
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Pizza pops are sweet.

I especially miss Coffee Crisp, Wunderbar and Mr Big chocolate.

I brought a big box of the above to my office (but sub Caramilk for Coffee Crisp) after my recent Canada trip. 90 minis I believe. They were nearly all gone that same day and everyone was saying how they were some of the best candy they ever tasted.

thelovefist posted...

DuneMan posted...

I guess a better question to ask would be, "Is this carried as a normal flavor by various manufacturers, or is it just one of the Lays(and subsidiaries) experiments?"

All chip manufacturers where I live (in Toronto) have dill-pickle, all-dressed and ketchup chips. Not just Lays.

I live in Toronto too, and can vouch for this. Ketchup chips are extremely common here.
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