Chips In Thailand

[petitechevre]

I cannot be the only one dreading the thai chips? They make them from pork, cheap cheese... pizza, peper steaks... anything cheap

They for the most part taste horrible to people used to western food. Has anyone found a place where you can buy good western type chips? even just regular BBQ.. dear ggod that would be good. or tostitos? im dying for tostitos/crispers/natural jalapeno baked chips

[rixalex]

Are you talking about what us Brits call crisps?

[Guest Reimar]

I'll move this thread to Western Food in Thaland

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[lopburi3]

I suspect he is talking about tortilla chips but not sure how he thinks they are made from pork (but suspect he believes it is fried in pork?). I do agree the local made tortilla chips are the pits.

[zaphodbeeblebrox]

Lay's Ridges Extra Barbecue or Mexican Barbecue are pretty close to U.S. crisps. Or, you can go to Villa Market and pick up Dorito's or lots of other western-style crisps.

[PeaceBlondie]

If you cannot afford to buy Dorito's imported from Dallas for about 5000 baht per kilo, Danitas makes a domestic version (plain or with chili powder) for way cheaper.

If you mean french fried potatos, I am now disappointingly eating cold, soggy FF that were never cooked half as much as if I had gone to McD's or Burger King. Now, is that typical of Thai cooking Western food wrong?

[Sophon]

I suspect he is talking about tortilla chips but not sure how he thinks they are made from pork (but suspect he believes it is fried in pork?). I do agree the local made tortilla chips are the pits.

I think he is talking about the different flavours since he also mentions pizza. It's true they have some (at least to me) strange flavours here in Thailand but they also have the classic versions.

Sophon

[fred2007]

Lay's Ridges Extra Barbecue or Mexican Barbecue are pretty close to U.S. crisps. Or, you can go to Villa Market and pick up Dorito's or lots of other western-style crisps.

[Ulysses G.]

I miss Fritos Corn Chips. I can't figure out why they never caught on with the Thais as they usually like corn snacks. Dorritos are a pretty good substitute.

Lays potato chips are just fine once you figure out which one you like (plain, garlic with sour cream or onion with cheese and ridges).

[mahtin]

Are you talking about what us Brits call crisps?

Bag of Walker's salt and vinegar with a pickled egg, washed down with a pint of mild from the wood, straight glass, in the Public.

Did I lose some of you from the New World?

[Lickey]

Mahtin, couldnt agree more, then a jar of cockles and a pint of Greene King Abbott Ale to ensure a good nights sleep,

Bottoms up mate, Cheers Lickey..

[Goshawk]

Lays potato chips are just fine once you figure out which one you like

Nori Seaweed..

[lopburi3]

Danitas makes a domestic version (plain or with chili powder) for way cheaper.

I have never been able to eat more that the first chip - rancid or stale taste to me - and have tried a number of times as can not believe they are sold everywhere and that bad so give them another try every year or so; only to can the bag.

[PeaceBlondie]

lopburi3, you are so right. Danitas will turn off any Frito/Dorito lover. They do not get the oil or the frying correct, and the chips are thick. Still, for a fraction of the ransom for which you have to pay here, I am usually the cheap charlie.

Ulysses, you chose my favorite flavors of Lays.

Mexicans (who coined the term Fritos, in San Antonio) have chips loaded with chile peppers, lime, lemon, etc.

I noticed some Thai made chips made from corn. One is chocolate flavored, yumm!

[ChangMaiSausage]

We once started our BBQ using Dorrito's they burn really well!

[Cuban]

We once started our BBQ using Dorrito's they burn really well!

Fantastic !

...Although I prefer eating the Crab Curry chips.

[aglae4]

I cannot be the only one dreading the thai chips? They make them from pork, cheap cheese... pizza, peper steaks... anything cheap

They for the most part taste horrible to people used to western food. Has anyone found a place where you can buy good western type chips? even just regular BBQ.. dear ggod that would be good. or tostitos? im dying for tostitos/crispers/natural jalapeno baked chips

I hate Lays. I think I tried every taste (I found one kind with vinegar that was ok, but I think they don't make them any more). I can eat two or three and then enough!

But I found at Carrefour a brand that is very good : real chips! They exist in lightly salted, vinegar, cheddar, and one other kind, something with yoghurt or so.....I am not in Thailand right now (holiday).....I am trying to remember the brand : I think it is Mrs Heathie or so......They are a little more expensive than Lays, but they taste a more like homemade chips.....Maybe that is what you are looking for.

[cathyy]

I miss Fritos Corn Chips. I can't figure out why they never caught on with the Thais as they usually like corn snacks. Dorritos are a pretty good substitute.

I agree with missing Fritos. I disagree with Doritos being a suitable substitute. The only thing they have in common is containing corn; they look, taste, and crunch completely differently. I have been made aware that Fritos are a Midwestern thing in the US, and are not available on either the east or west coasts. Friends brought us back just a few from the US when they returned from a visit back there. I wish I had more.

[PeaceBlondie]

cathyy, I think Fritos were invented in San Antonio - midwestern south central Texas. Lays are headquartered in Dallas, in the frozen north.

I broke down last week and bought Doritos, nacho cheese. Delicious, but easily double the price of Danitas. And worth every satang of the difference.

[Ulysses G.]

I have been made aware that Fritos are a Midwestern thing in the US, and are not available on either the east or west coasts.

Fritos were everywhere in America when I lived there. I can't imagine that would have changed. You could get cans of Planters Corn Chips imported to Thailand until a few years age that tasted just like Fritos. What happened to them?

[mandala]

I cannot be the only one dreading the thai chips? They make them from pork, cheap cheese... pizza, peper steaks... anything cheap

They for the most part taste horrible to people used to western food. Has anyone found a place where you can buy good western type chips? even just regular BBQ.. dear ggod that would be good. or tostitos? im dying for tostitos/crispers/natural jalapeno baked chips

I have found that Charlies English Fish and chips in Chiangmai are the best fresh fish fresh chips mushy peas malt vinegar located on Kampangdin road lane one or just follow the signs on the lamposts or

[compounds]

I miss Fritos Corn Chips. I can't figure out why they never caught on with the Thais as they usually like corn snacks. Dorritos are a pretty good substitute.

Lays potato chips are just fine once you figure out which one you like (plain, garlic with sour cream or onion with cheese and ridges).

I miss Fritos corn chips too!

Cheap and Simple: Corn, Corn oil, Salt.

How could anybody screw up that recipe?

I can't find them anywhere in Thailand.

And I am for jonesing for them.

Thai people like salty stuff. Where are the good corn chips!

Is there an importer in Bankok that helps people with food addiction?

[Michaelaway]

Everybody loves Fritos, but this is ridiculous (what would you do for a bag?):

Lahoma Sue Smith of Oklahoma plead guilty to a prostitution charge for accepting a box of Frito-Lay chips in exchange for oral sex. Smith, 36, struck this deal with a man who described himself as a Frito-Lay employee, and the box of chips was valued at $30. She was ordered to pay $1,142 at the sentencing. Wow, musta been a BIG box, Lahoma... someone stop the Fritos madness!!

[Ulysses G.]

Lahoma Sue Smith got the best of that deal. What a waste of Fritos.

[rice555]

Remains of Doritos Creator to Be Buried in Chips

Published September 26, 2011 | Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — Arch West, a retired Frito-Lay marketing executive credited with

creating Doritos as the first national tortilla chip brand, has died in Dallas at age 97.

A statement issued by the West family says he died Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital

in Dallas. A graveside service is scheduled for Oct. 1. Daughter Jana Hacker of Allen

tells The Dallas Morning News the family plans on "tossing Doritos chips in before

they put the dirt over the urn."

West was a marketing vice president for Dallas-based Frito-Lay in 1961 when, while

on a family vacation near San Diego, he found a snack shack selling fried tortilla chips

Hacker says her father got a tepid corporate response to the tortilla chip idea but

conducted marketing research that led to the Doritos rollout.

[rice555]

The Man Buried in a Pringles Can

Fredric Baur dreamed up the original Pringles can. Now he's buried in one.

In 1966, Baur came up with a clever way for Procter & Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it. So when Baur died last month, his children buried the 89-year-old's ashes in one of his iconic cans.

(See pictures of what the world eats.)

"When my dad first raised the burial idea in the 1980s, I chuckled about it," Baur's eldest son Larry, 49, told TIME. Larry Baur quickly realized his father was serious. Family jokes circulated about the Pringles plan, but no one questioned the elder Baur's decision. So when Frederic Baur died after a battle with Alzheimer's, Larry and his siblings stopped at Walgreen's for a burial can of Pringles on their way to the funeral home. "My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use," Baur says, "but I said, 'Look, we need to use the original.'"

If there were a junk food hall of fame, the original Pringles can would stand proudly next to a Toblerone pyramid in the exhibit on ingenious packaging shapes. Baur's canister has become a treasured symbol of snack culture around the globe, as recognizable as a Hershey bar or Coke can from Argentina to Zambia.

"It's all about the inherent beauty and power of uniformity," says Eric Spitznagle, author of The Junk Food Companion. "Every chip looks the same, acts the same."

(See why potato chips are good comfort food.)

Not everyone liked the Pringles can when it first hit the market. "People resented it," says Phil Lempert, founder of supermarketguru.com. Uniform chips didn't jell with 1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur.

Although Fredric Baur earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and served in the Navy as an aviation physiologist, the Pringles can proved his biggest hit. At one point Baur engineered a freeze-dried, just-add-milk ice-cream product called Coldsnap. Despite a product team that included a young Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's CEO, the elder Baur achieved more success with his can than the cone.

Baur's Pringles can helped inspire a burst of innovation in supermarket product packaging. In the tradition of the culinary pioneers who transformed Toblerone into a pyramid, cheese into string and doughnut holes into round Munchkins, here are a few post-Baur supermarket design triumphs.

[Michaelaway]

Yikes!! Saw them today!

Fritos ARE available... in Pattaya: Villa Market sells 'em for 179 baht/ bag (that's a lot less than Lahoma Sue paid, and sooooo much easier...).

[IMA_FARANG]

Lays Patato Chips (Crisps I guess to you Brits) can be found in Bangkok in supermarkets such as Villa, Tops, etc. in those cylindrical cardboard containers you see everywhere in the U.S. Barbecue, Sour Cream, Onion flavor...all of them. They are more expensive than you expect however. They are not a Thai thing...but the Thai teenagers (my 17 year old grand daughter munches on them often) do eat them. Doritos too are available.

You can find that stuff in places like Big C also, often close to the checkout counters...they are regarded as an "impulse buy" item.

You just have to look and be willing to experiment on "munchies" in Thailand.

You may not care for them but I like those Shrimp, Crab, or Cuttlefish flavored crackers as "munchies" with beer.

Especially the Cuttlefish.