Krunchers - Everyday snack food or supreme snack greatness?
Potato chips are great. You take a potato, one of the starchiest foods on the planet, then you proceed to fry it in grease. Just when you thought it was healthy enough, it gets doused in salt, or some other salt-based, chemical, arificial flavor powder. (Did you ever look close at a Cool Ranch Dorito? Some of the stuff on there is blue!)
Potato chips could be classified in 3 goups.
1.) Baked. The wuss version of the potato chip. They are baked not fried, and they taste bad, not good. It is like eating flavored cardboard.
2.) Standard. These are your Jays, Lays, and Ruffles. They are extremely greasy and salty. Anything that requires a napkin or jeans wipe when you are done eating is worth considering.
3.) Kettle cooked. Could be just as unhealthy as the standard chip, but most of the oil is absorbed by the chip, creating an extremely crunchy product. Many companies make these now, the most prominent are the Jay’s Krunchers line.
Krunchers provides 5 different types of chip (as far as I am aware).
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Original Krunchers - These are pretty lame. Pretty much your standard kettle cooked chip. Crunchy and salty, filling all the requirements for a basic potato chip.
Goes great with - Panera. It’s the only damn chips you are going to get there anyway, so I hope you like ‘em. |
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Mesquite Krunchers - Just like the originals, only caked with barbeque powder. These are exremely sugary and very tasty. It is like a meal and dessert all in one!
Goes great with - PJ’s Royall With Cheese (Milwaukee, WI). I would kill for one of those right now. |
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Jalapeno Krunchers - At first they just seem to be slightly spicy, with a great taste. After you are a quarter way into the bag, you are finishing them. Either keep eating, or the burn sets in
.Goes great with - a Slurpee. Eat the spicy chips, cool off with a slurrpee. It is like speedballs for fat people. |
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Sweet Onion Hawaiian Krunchers - I couldn’t find a picture of these, by I know they exist. They are extremely addicting. They have a sweet taste that is hard to put down.
Goes great with - Nothing. They are great by themselves. They are very sweet, and can throw off the tastes of any accompanying foods. Quite possibly covered in heroin powder. |
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Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper Krunchers - These are the newest flavor, and also my favorite. They have a very simple taste, that works with just about anything. If you like salt and pepper, you’ll love these.
Goes great with - A bag lunch. I bring some with me when I brown bag it. |
Krunchers are the most comercailly available kettle cooked chip. However Dirty’s are my favorite. The only place I have seen them is at Mario’s Deli. Head over there and get a Joey’s sub and a bag of dirty’s and you won’t be disappointed.