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[cimorene]

Why can't we have salt and vinegar potato chips in Finland?

I bought a bag - a rather small bag at that - at Behnford's when we were in Helsinki for something like 8 or 9 euros, I think (inflation's not as much as you might think, because they were Kettle Chips - they could probably stock cheaper ones from Britain). Which was ridiculous, but I'd do it again. They were... a tastegasm. My tongue sort of tingles with bliss just remembering.

My first year here, I used to try to make my own. I'd actually drizzle vinegar over potato chips or dip them in it - proper imported malt vinegar, which you can buy at Stockmann Deli. But the result is mostly just a soggy mess (vinegar drizzled on fat home-cooked french fries, however, is pretty good).

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[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish we had them too!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, they're sooooo good. *___* I have what you might call a major sourtooth.

[bluesbell.livejournal.com]

I ate tons of them in Scotland last spring. Fond memories. *sigh* I love the taste of vinegar.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's just not as good without the salt. I used to try to get the effect by eating ramen noodles with vinegar, too, but it doesn't work. :\

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I have a major sourtooth also, and I too bemoan the lack of salt n vinegar chips in my country. I gorged on them when I went to the UK in August *.* but that was not the same! I would like to be able to eat some regularlyyyyyyy. *whines*

[vass]

vinegar drizzled on fat home-cooked french fries, however, is pretty good

Don't they do that normally in the US?

In Australia we have vinegar bottles right next to the tomato sauce bottles at fish and chip shops.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

depending on which part of u.s. you're from, they don't. in CA, for example, it's pretty rare--but my buddy from the east coast says it's what they all did when they went to boardwalks and stuff: get big baskets of fries and vinegar.

[vass]

I'd forgotten that. Our fish and chip shops don't just sell fish and chips, though. They also sell burgers and battered sausages and corn dogs and roast chickens and sometimes pineapple fritters or even deep-fried Mars bars. (OMG, I had to look that up, but you don't have Mars bars? You know what they are, right? Like Milky Way bars, but with caramel as well as nougat?) They're sort of a one-stop fried food shop.

Edit: and deep-fried dim sims, and sometimes souvlaki.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Are they like a restaurant? Or café? Or like a stall type of thing, like the vendors that sell hotdogs and big pretzels in NYC and DC?

[vass]

They're a take-away shop. Like a fast food place, only they're not chain stores. But yeah, they're an actual shop with a place to sit down and read a newspaper while you wait for your order, but no place to eat (usually. There might be some bar-stools at the counter.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen it or heard of it, not having spent time on the New England coast. Also, there is no such thing as fish and chips shops in America, although there are stands where you can buy fries or fresh-fried chips at fairs and other outdoor events. And apparently boardwalks in the northeast.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

HEY, I HAVE AN ICON JUST FOR THIS KIND OF THING!!!

--sorry about the all caps, i got a little excited there.

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Estrella or Taffel (I don't remember which) had a 350g bag of salt & vinegar chips in production years and years ago, but not for very long. I wonder if it wasn't popular enough or something. I thought they were amazing and could have lived on them alone.