Fickle Fork of Fate

Archer Farms Thick-Cut Chips: FINALE?

OK, I think I'm done. After multiple visits to multiple Targets (for other reasons - I'm not that snack-chip crazed), I have determined that there are seven different flavors of the new thick-cut chips. Which is an odd number and an odd number, if you catch my drift, so possibly an eighth may appear in the future. But anyway, since I'm not touching Greek Inspired with my ten-foot pole, here are the last two.

HONEY BARBECUE RIBS:

I'm not sure what to think of the trend of naming chips after meat dishes when the flavoring is just the sauce or condiments to those dishes. I mean, All-American Cheeseburger Doritos don't taste like beef. Of course, neither do the burgers they're simulating. Anyway, this tastes like a sweet barbecue sauce. A sauce I really wouldn't mind having in a bottle form, actually. These are even better barbecue chips than the General Tso chips, and may actually increase my consumption of barbecue chips overall.

ROASTED VEGETABLE AND OLIVE OIL:

These don't taste anything like roasted vegetables and olive oil. They taste salty and a little bit sour. I can't even really place the flavor beyond that. It's definitely not any roasted vegetable I've tasted, though. Maybe some vague herbal tastes, which would make sense, but that weird sourness is too distracting for me to care all that much. Not inedible, but clearly the second-worst of the six, after Macaroni and Cheese.

In fact, let's just do a ranking right now.

  1. Fire Roasted Fajita - the winner by a long shot.
  2. Honey Barbecue Ribs - not actually riblike, but tasty.
  3. General Tso's - spicy barbecue with a bit of Asian tilt.
  4. Loaded Baked Potato - acceptable if you're a fan of fake smoke.
  5. Roasted Vegetable and Olive Oil - completely unrelated to its name and a bit odd.
  6. Macaroni and Cheese - They have discovered powdered bland, and sprayed it on fried potatoes.

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The Greek ones?

Actually not too bad. A little sharp-tasting, vaguely feta-and-oregano-ish. We tried these and, eh, what was the other? Oh, the Fire Roasted Fajita last weekend, because I was having an "I will eat chips or you will die" kind of moment, and I liked them both well enough. Not well enough to go to Target and get them, but not a bad choice when you are tossing them into the cart because someone will get shot if you don't get salt.

Hey, we ain't got no stinkin' chips....

....out here at our Target. Started looking for them when this thread showed up, but they're a no-show, just yet. 'Course, you live in the epicenter of all things Target, Minneapolis being their corporate HQ.
Evrything takes a little longer to show up out here in Coloraddy.

On the up side...

...there'll be no temptation to try the Mac & Cheese.

Aw, come on, you know I'm gonna try the Mac & Cheese....

After all, you tried the Cheeseburger Doritos. And the General Tso's? My favorite Chinese chicken on a chip? Indubitably.
Where are those goddamn chips? I'm gonna have to complain to the management if I don't see 'em today.

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