Christopher Helms wrote:
>
> Barbecue flavored potato chips are kind of a weird idea in the first
> place. Why would it have ever occurred to anyone to put powdered
> barbecue sauce on a potato chip? Truth be told, the taste really has
> nothing to do with the taste of barbecue. It's just salt and sugar
> mixed until neither one stands out and combined with some vaguely
> tomato-ish, reddish brown powdered stuff and thrown on hot fried
> slices of potato. I don't know what it is, but it's really not
> barbecue, or even barbecue related by any honest definition.

And it inspired me to smoke some Lay's potato chips
in my BBQ. I suppose I had some notion of getting
to the "real" BBQ potato chip flavor. The first batch
was burnt -- potato chips burn really quickly when
exposed to heat. The second batch was visually perfect,
but tasted awful and made me sick. When you smoke food,
you really need to let it have a long, slow heat to
drive off the noxious components of smoke. I couldn't
do that with potato chips, so they had a lot of the
early components of smoke, which are not good. They
have a bitter, tangy flavor, and make you feel sick.