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BalSnack Grand Chips (Estonia)

We've had it too good for a while. 8's, 9's and even a 10. Let's take a look at what's going on down below.

Grand Chips, unlike what the bag says, are not potato chips. They are almost equal parts potato flakes and wheat. I'd call them very flat potato biscuits but that's just my take. I don't know about you but wheat isn't what I'm looking for when I crave myself some chips. Another funny detail is that the ingredients do not list onion at all. It might just be hiding behind the word "seasoning", but it's very unusual for a chip to not mention onion specifically.

Worth mentioning too that the packaging is irritatingly bomb proof. Scissors or knife is needed to open the wrapping, it takes finger strength to get through the transparent second layer of wrapping and then the chips are held in a little plastic tub. Feels excessive.

The chips themselves have this interestingly long, rectangular shape. If anything the texture is pretty alright. Not crunchy by any means but there's a fun flaky feeling when you bite down on it. That's the one good thing I have to say.

My experience with Grand Chips ended as soon as it began. They have a powerful artificial butter taste that overwhelms whatever other flavors might be there. It's not that they're buttery, no, it's that whatever is in them is imitating butter so hard the neolithic humans who first churned fat off of milk are rolling in their graves. Sour cream, onion - Grand Chips might contain them but I surely won't be fighting my way through this barricade to find them. The taste is so unpleasant I did not finish a single chip.

Just to be sure, I returned to them after a few days. Just as repulsive as I remembered.

I have a friend who likes these and I know of others who are obsessed with them. So that explains how they are still being sold to consumers despite my experience. But on my rankings Grand Chips will be the first chip to enter the 0 points category: thoroughly inedible.

0 / 10

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