On Jun 24, 3:29*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> 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.


I don't know if actual barbecued potato chips are even possible.