Utz

[Anonymous No.19253727]

Utz changed their ripple chip supplier/recipe
What used to be the best chip on the market is now lays-level trash
Take a moment for another fallen foodstuff.

[Anonymous No.19253735]

>>19253727
Ripple chips are textbook antisemitism.

[Anonymous No.19253744]

>>19253727
did they get bought by some mega corp?

[Anonymous No.19253754]

>>19253744
I have no idea, I can't find anything on what happened or why, but the ripple chips (and anything based on them like their previously GOAT sour cream and onion) is now trash
Pic is the old style

[Anonymous No.19253767]

>>19253727
Spitz sunflower seeds did this same shit. They're literal garbage now.

[Anonymous No.19253787]

>>19253754
>>19253744
>>19253727
Apparently their CEO stepped down in December of last year and the COO of Post took over.

[Anonymous No.19253809]

>>19253787
Ah yes the typical long nosed grubby CEO man who decides to cut costs wherever possible to ruin the product and leaves if sales are down to ruin another company

[Anonymous No.19253833]

>>19253787
>>19253809
Probably trying to cut costs so profits look better then they can sell the company for a higher price

[Anonymous No.19253840]

>>19253767
Wait, how do you lower quality on sunflower seeds?

[Anonymous No.19253852]

>>19253840
They used to use these nice round shells with large seeds and the seasoning tasted good
Now they use these thin long ones that look like the kind of sunflower shells you find in, like, bird seed. The seasoning tastes way off too

[Anonymous No.19253883]

>>19253727
It might be pretty cool if Utz made ridgie crab chips then they would hold up better to dips instead of breaking.

[Anonymous No.19253887]

[Anonymous No.19253889]

>>19253883
Maybe with the old recipe
The new ridges are brittle as fuck
I don't know if they're slicing thinner or using different potatoes or using more oil or what but the chips are much less dense

[Anonymous No.19253890]

A lot of chips now are just some sort of potato paste pressed into a chip-shaped form, instead of actual slices of potato. The texture of the pressed chips isn't that good usually

[Anonymous No.19253898]

In the UK Walkers changed their recipe for their Cheese and Onion flavour, it still tastes good but it's not the same. Not sure about Lays in other countries.

[Anonymous No.19253924]

>>19253890
what brands are still good? lays, snyders and herrs feel like the only chips i find that taste at all like i remember, and lays are extremely over greasy and oily, half of all bags taste like chugging vegetable oil

[Anonymous No.19253941]

>>19253924
OP here
The only brand left with decent quality seems to be Cape Cod

[Anonymous No.19253975]

>>19253898
British Cheese and Onion crisps were the BEST many many years ago, then they changed and got worse and less flavorful, now it sounds like they changed again. Sad.

[Anonymous No.19253984]

>>19253727
I just get poor brother's kettle chips.
They are hard to find, but god damn they are good.

[Anonymous No.19253994]

I can't find a picture but some of the new Utz packaging uses comic sans font. I think it's the sweet potato chips. It looks so unprofessional.

They own or distribute Zapp's Voodoo and those chips are still delicious.

[Anonymous No.19254360]

>>19253994
Zapp's voodoo are indeed delicious
>>19253890
I think this is what happened, they're so light and puffed they don't seem like sliced potatoes

[Anonymous No.19254471]

Simple
>Utz is a publicly traded company
>Publicly traded companies live and die on "infinite profit growth"
>During inflationary periods, to give on the appearance of strong profit, either prices go up dramatically or the ingredients, process and packaging are cheapened with hope people will barely notice and buy anyway
>Utz went with #2

[Anonymous No.19254504]

This will come across as goofy but putting some of that utz crab chip seasoning on some wise onion & sour cream ridgies chips might be pretty good. The best of flavors and those chips are pretty strong that is they dont break easily.

[Anonymous No.19255085]

>>19253727
Stop eating goyslop. Take it as a sign.

[Anonymous No.19255267]

>>19253898
Doesn't India also have this flavor, they (Pepsi/Lay's India) still make a good product.
>>19253924
I agree with American Lay's, but Walker's and Indian Lay's (including Uncle Chipps brand) are better about the oil.

[Anonymous No.19255294]

>>19253727
i had that shit like a week ago and shit was cash i don't know what your talking about

[Anonymous No.19255318]

>>19253975
>>19253898
They started using soybean oil after the tarrif spat meant US growers had to find ways to offload millions of tons of soybean. The majority of it became soy oil and it's not in almost every processed food and definitely in every fast food or cheap restaurant.
Shit sucks because it makes my joints hurt because I'm mildly allergic, and now I have to double check everything I buy that isn't extra fresh.

[Anonymous No.19255328]

>>19253898
Walkers and Lays are the same thing

[Anonymous No.19255337]

>>19255328
But produced in different countries using different ingredients.
Regular pepsi (not diet) in France has half sugar content replaced by stevia, but in other countries it has full sugar content

[Anonymous No.19255621]

>>19253727
maybe
i'll take your word for it

[Anonymous No.19255641]

>>19255294
The change was recent, so a lot of packages on the shelves are still the old sliced chips
The new shitty pressed chips will show up for you soon

[Anonymous No.19255877]

>>19253727
Fuck. I've noticed a change recently. Was hoping it was just a bad batch.

[Anonymous No.19255895]

>>19253727
fuck, thats super depressing man. dont have chips much, but always remember liking utz.

[Anonymous No.19257496]

>>19255877
The first time I got the new batch I thought maybe they shared a packing plant with a different brand like WISE and there was a mix-up

[Anonymous No.19257616]

>>19254504
Those Wise guys make a good chip.

[Anonymous No.19258815]

>>19253727
as long as they dont change crab chips i really dont care.

[Anonymous No.19260905]

>>19253727
i opened a new bag of fried pickle ripple utz last night and i think i agree they taste off. won't be buying again anytime soon

[Anonymous No.19260923]

>>19258815
you know they are not crabs, right? It’s just old bay. Try prawn crackers

[Anonymous No.19261246]

>>19253727
Utz was always poverty tier trash nothing of value was lost

[Anonymous No.19262008]

>>19261246

[Anonymous No.19262013]

it's because they don't use duck fat anymore

[Anonymous No.19262018]

>>19253754
I ate a bag of these while drunk once and could never eat them again afterwards. the artificial taste was stuck in my mouth the whole next day

[Anonymous No.19262022]

>>19261246
They were better than lays though

[Anonymous No.19262023]

>>19262018
>artificial
lol
the taste you're calling "artificial" is shortening

[Anonymous No.19262026]

>>19262023
Shortening is not natural genius

[Anonymous No.19263749]

>>19253727
And the king retains his crown...

[Anonymous No.19263837]

Speaking of Lay's... has anybody tried the new flavors? These are nice, for the short time I'm able to taste them. I thought yesterday I was under the effects of dehydration, heat stress or whatever... and things were different today after a full night sleep, but after having some more just now, I'm noticing the same problem.

I think there's some chemical in these that are dulling my taste buds significantly. At first I can taste every nuance of the flavor, but several minutes later it becomes muted, as does anything else I try to eat. It made my spicy chicken taste plain and the ice cream as subtle as a shortbread cookie. Kinda scary.

[Anonymous No.19263861]

Who here not too young to remember way back when Sobe made the tastiest drinks? I preferred the orange carrot but the lizard cum drink was pretty good too. Anyway, I think it was more than just switching from glass to plastic I'm pretty sure PepsiCo had the formula/recipes ruined for I'm sure cost effective reasons. Anyway, fuck PepsiCo.

[Anonymous No.19263865]

>>19263837
Pic related I loved, the blt is fine and not a new flavor but I tried and was taken a back by how horrible their honey barbecue chips are

[Anonymous No.19263905]

>>19263837
I think it's just the salt and msg overwhelming your pallet. I notice the same thing whenever I eat too much junk food. After a while, normal food ends up tasting bland in comparison.

I'll probably get accused of "appeal to nature fallacy" or whatever, but something like Doritos, for example, is way more intensely flavored than almost anything in nature. I think it dulls your pallet after a while.

[Anonymous No.19263932]

>>19263865
The BLT tastes nothing like a BLT. It shouldn't be hard to create an artificial bacon flavor, so to me it's a failure. The cuban has very distinct notes of rye and pickle though, almost tasting like Big Mac sauce.

>>19263905
Ehh, I dunno about that. I'm a junky mcfatfuck and not unused to eating processed, prepackaged death all day. I mean the meal I had was salt and pepper chicken which is loaded with MSG and spices and I can taste other things fine after eating it. So for these chips to dull my pallet where that chicken tastes completely unseasoned is extremely out of the norm for me. I actually thought they had under seasoned the chicken and sent it back for them to give it a second coating and it still tasted bland. That was all last night though. When I ate the leftovers today (before the chips) it was sufficiently spicy. So I'm quite convinced these chips specifically are what's fucking with me, but I would not at all be surprised if it's something only I'm experiencing due to my physiology. I tend to fall squarely in the "rare side effects" bubble when taking medications, so I already know I'm genetically weird.

[Anonymous No.19263951]

They killed my local chip a long time ago. Peanut oil was too expensive; basedbeanbros won again.

[Anonymous No.19263962]

>>19263861
This hit me right in the 90's nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.19263968]

>>19255328
Walkers was a separate company at one point and the taste is slightly different to Lays.

[Anonymous No.19264746]

>>19263932
Interesting. I know there a certain spices like sichuan peppercorns and sansho peppercorns that have a numbing effect on the palate. Those spices wouldn't really fit the flavor profile of a Cuban sandwich but maybe something similar is going on.

[Anonymous No.19264760]

Come home chip man

[Anonymous No.19264997]

other chips need not apply

[Anonymous No.19265809]

>>19253727
Settling for ripple chips.
Step it up.
>Potatoes.
>Lard.
>Salt.
The greatest chip ever is still the same after all these years.
Enjoy!

[Anonymous No.19266160]

>>19264760
come home white man

[Anonymous No.19266339]

>>19263861
fuck man this brought me back. i dont think they sell them in my country anymore. i used to beg my mom to get me the pink and dark pink ones but the cum was good too

[Anonymous No.19266704]

>>19266339
>>19263861
The drinks were just ok but those glass bottles made for perfect grav bongs. The way they manufactured the tempered glass left a tiny chunk of the bottom extra thin so you could easily punch through it without hurting the bottle's integrity or leaving sharp edges. Drill a hole in the cap for a bowl and you were set.

[Anonymous No.19267089]

>>19253890
All the chips in container like Pringles are not real potato slice but made with that fawkin past with aditive in it.

[Anonymous No.19267376]

>>19263749
Just finished a bag, top tier chip, only the spicy version outdoes it