Noticing at Coles today there is a variety of chips and chocolates. So let’s debate what’s your favourite packet of chips and what’s your go to chocolate bar and why? Whether it’s on the go or on the couch in front of the TV. Note: The Reject Shop/Aldi sells a different variety of chips and chocolates not sold at Woolworths or Coles. Which would you recommend?
What’s Your Favourite Packet of Chips and Chocolate Bar?
Ozjoey on 13/02/2023 - 15:09
Last edited 13/02/2023 - 15:10
Last edited 13/02/2023 - 15:10
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Tyrells is too cripsy
Blasphemy!
Shun the non-believer!
Shhhhhunn!
At the same time ? Smith's salt and vinegar and any plain milk chocolate , salty and sweet yummy
What every you chose.
You ever make two slices of toast and put Vegemite on one and honey on the other? Ya take alternating bites and it's pretty bloody good but I always get stuck on which bite to finish on… the salty or the sweet?
Yes! I thought it was just me.
Mush them together and eat both at once. This is the way.
You're a monster!
second to this!
Peanut butter and honey together on a sandwich or toast is amazing. Not sure if I'm ready for this one
Any arrowroot type biscuit with a small amount of Vegemite and marg works well.
An interesting piece of info is that the chemical used to give the Salt and Vinegar flavour is the same chemical we get if we mix vinegar and baking soda. This chemical, sodium acetate is, by the way, considered by many people as a miracle cleaning compound. Makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
chip
kettle style chips eg tyrells or kettle or the coles one
chocolate bar
can't go past a cold cherry ripe if we're talking domestic colesworths range
but if I have friends going to Japan I usually ask if they can help bring me back a couple of box of Royce Nama chocolate. Bloody unreal.
Did you ever try the Royce chocolate covered potato chips? those were so good.
Yes! I did when I went to Japan in 2018!
I was kinda let down though to be honest, I love chips (all kinds) and Royce chocolate…like how can you go wrong?
How does it stay cold in the pantry
I pretty much inhale it on getting it. Doesn’t even make it to pantry
There was a place selling them in SA. Something like $20+ a box.
Red Rock Deli's dijon mustard chips and a salted caramel Lindt block.
Burger rings/ Blue Indian lays and Lindt Swiss Gold Milk chocolate blocks…
Unsure if you want reccommendations from Reject Shop or not, but you can't go past Penguin(pengwin, pingwin) at Reject shop. Old style ruffles can't be beat.
How much do they cost roughly?
Will be trying them next time..
damn it now i need to make a quick detour into reject shop on the way home
Ruffles were the bomb!
If we're just talking about Coleswoth:
Smith's double crunch
Old Gold rum n' raisin
Tasty toobs, the ones made in poland.
kettle, chilli,
red rock deli, finger lime and pepper leaf
natural chip company, cracked peppernot a fan of meat flavours in chips.
Bring back O'Gradys Chips from the 80s/90s. They were similar to Double Crunch but thicker, or the large plain pack at Costco.
o'gradys
god i love a good ruffle cut chip
That was my exact thought. My god i miss them, the extra thick crunch and fantastic flavour. Seems thins and ruffles killed them at the time and i hated both of them.
OG Milo Bar :(
I wish I could find one of those. Or more than one…
There is a company that makes a knock off OG Milo Bar called the OMG bar, they also do a knock off Pollywaffle.
Tyrells chips, just plain salt (or the Coles one when they aren't on special)
Aldi Dark Choceur (the cheapest one of these)
Smiths sour cream & onion thin and crispy, though sometimes also crinkle cut salt and vinegar
Cadbury hazelnut is pretty tasty, or choc covered almonds
You mean Smiths Cheese & Onion or Thins Sour Cream & Onion? I feel both are awesome for the first couple fistfuls but you get sick of it real quick.
Sour cream and onion
Definitely the better of the two
Heinz tomato sauce chips were my favourite…sadly they have been gone awhile.
Best chocolate bar…might cause some debate but Turkish Delight.im with you on the tomato sauce chips, as a substitute I do smiths original and dip in ketchup.
Chocolate i dont mind Turkish delight but will go for mint aero as my first preference
Liking the French Fries Salt & Vinegar chips although the vinegar content seems to change between the batches. Also Kettle Chilli chips are pretty dope.
Chips? ones that don't cost $7
Grain Waves sour cream & chives / KitKat whatever flavour.
Kitkat
There are so many wild crazy flavours in Asia especially. But I reckon og chunky has to be the best.
Milo chunky is pretty damn good
Grain Waves sour cream & chives
How much has it shrinked ? I remember it was 210g bag.
I like them for the 'healthy' wholegrain and fiber.
These days they are 170g packs, inline with shrinkflation of potato chips in general …
Kitkat is coming down in size as well. It looks like they're in a transition phase because I've seen a mix of 170g and 165g sizes recently.
Atomic Tomato ftw! Chocolate-Lindt when its on special.
Aldi's El Tora nacho cheese flavoured corn chips - and the good old original kit kat. That's my killer combo.
Kettle Chilli or Blackstone Chilli because I like chilli.
Chocolate… probably Twix.
What’s Your Favourite Packet of Chips and Chocolate Bar?
Ones without carbs
so water?
protein
💪 based
No such product exists sir. You must have dreamt it.
Chips? Torres truffle chips.
Chocolate? Godiva
I recently had a frozen snickers for the first time in donkeys. was not the experience I remember. I mean at 44g it's not great, pretty sure they were 60g or so. couldn't peel off the chocolate with my teeth first like I had previously. Flavour was like I recalled.
favourite chip - plain thins
favourite chocolate bar - chomp or chokito
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Turtle chips
Well, yes - but only the chocolate ones.
Salt truffle is the best, original second.
Churro is too sweet.
I wish they would bring back dark chocolate mars bars - there were absolutely divine.
Smith's salt and vinegar..
Cadbury creations…
Mmmmm theres dessert sorted.
+1 for Smith salt and vinegar
Cadbury fruit and nutI use to love Thins Light and Tangy, until all of a sudden I found them to be mouthfuls of Oil and could not eat them.
I bought them a few more times- as you do on auto pilot of your favourite products, but they kept tasting like mouthfuls of greasy fat, so it definitely was not just bad batches over and over again. I don’t know if the recipe changed or if my taste buds changed.
Favourite chocolate varies - sometimes rum’n raisin, sometimes toblerone, sometimes Maltesers, and Always Cherry Liqueur individual chocolates.
I haven’t eaten chips again after my awful experience with Thins- just completely turned me off.I've maintained auto pilot on Light and Tangy for too long. Thanks for the confirmation. I will seek a substitute though.
And our chocolate tastes are weirdly similar.No- Thankyou- for Confirmation that it’s not just me but that the chips recipe actually changed to being over saturated in oil? About 6 months ago.
Yeah.
Aldi have their own version of Light and Tangy that are heaps better than the original, I think they're $2.69 and it's either 200g or 230g pack but they're limited time only.
Ruffles/ripples! Plain, NOT crinkle cut. Can inhale a whole bag in seconds so I haven't bought chips in years, and can't confirm if these still exist or not.
Second fav are Hula Hoops from the UK, luckily not available here if not they too would disappear in seconds.Don't have a favourite chocolate though, so long its plain, or has nuts or wafers, and is of reasonable quality I'm sold!
Unfortunately not available any more, although you can get imports like the Bluebird range sold in the Reject Shop.
Smiths salt and vinegar / crunchie.
all disgusting after you've stopped eating it, really is like an addiction
if i dont eat junk food for a month is tastes terrible, way too salty or sweet
compare that to fruit, for example, which will always taste heavenly
Monster Munch and Yorkie.
Best crisps are Tayto.
Best chocolate (from a supermarket) Lindor White or Raffaello
Kettle, hwithout question. Sea salt generally, but the chilli, and salt & vinegar flavours are also good. The honey soy chicken is a bit much.
However the infrequency with which it goes on half price sale, and the new 'normal' price of $6 at Coles is a sick joke.
Needem $2.32 half price special, and bigly.Chip: Doritos
Chocolate: Lindt excellence Milk chocolate
Tyrrel's mature cheddar and chives (only buy when they are half price).
Lindt Lindor blocks where the chocolate is already in individual squares.
This isn't preachy because I'm still a glutton, but since losing weight and becoming a bit more healthy I often find myself walking the dirty aisle up and down craving chips and chocolate but being borderline repulsed by each of the options.
It's like I've finally reached the tipping point where the vast majority of the options I can associate with negative effects, eg Cadbury blocks give me cystic pimples, smiths chips make me oily and queasy, BBQ pringles leach their smell through skin pores the day after. All of them screw my mood up with a peak and trough, and all of them lead to regret.
Even the 'heathy' options like Vege Chips are guaranteed to give mega heart burn haha.It's probably a good thing, but man it's frustrating when I've already given myself a greenlight to indulge!
Surely there's a market for treats that aren't clearly trying to kill you..I think at this stage my favourite chocolate is the way overpriced speciality Whitakers in the international aisle (the thin one with manuka and berries etc) and home made chips made out of Lebanese bread and seasoning (still unhealthy but at least doesn't leave me feeling sick).
Indomie Chitato Mi Goreng Chips is the one true answer
might as well smash some indomie mie goreng in the packet and eat straight of that… pure MSG hit!
Eating Mamee noodles like that, is probably better for that MSG hit.
Oh wow, I haven't thought or eaten Chitato since I was a kid! Indonesian crisps are great, although chocolate selection over there is pretty bad.
Debate and personal preference…..
subtle nudge to consumer spending
Ruffles au gratin
Nutrageous
Aldi chips are really good, I think they're called Sprinters. They're cheaper, you get more and far better quality than other brands. However they do have a Red Rock Deli rip off brand and the Sweet chilli and sour cream ones are terrible.
Yeah I like the cheese & onion ones. In the bougie knock-off range I like salt & cracked pepper. Their Dorito's knock off is pretty good too. Their shapes knock offs are fkn atrocious though.
Yes the Cheese and onion are really good. Well I'm glad I haven't tried their Shape's knock offs lol.
Without a doubt the best salt and vinegar chips are Aldi Blackstone. I have done plenty of research regarding this
Red Rock Deli Thai chilli and lime. Kit Kat.
Salt and vinegar of any kind, but my favourite is Burts Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar. Mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Chocolate - dark chocolate, Lindt 70% is good but really any dark chocolate that isn't too sweet works well for me.
Cheetos puffs. Reeses cups.
Burger Men for chips and and Whittakers for chocolate.
Smiths plain crinkle cut overall. Can't go wrong with Cheezels as well.
With chocolate it's Bounty every time.
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Smiths, just the right amount of oily/crunch.. Pringles if I'm going for no oil. Tyrells is too cripsy and Thins are exactly that.. too thin
Toblerone for chocolate, but those Italian chocolates from reject shop are pretty good