Boulder Canyon: Spinach & Artichoke Profile
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| Boulder Canyon Natural Foods: Spinach & Artichoke, Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt and Totally Natural |
I love casually exploring the chip isle of Big Box grocery stores. Of course you're always going to be confronted with typical chip fare, but if you look hard you can really find some gems.
Take this afternoon for instance, when I stumbled across the Boulder Canyon chips in the above 3 flavours. Cuddled up to Kettle Brand, a more familiar bag in my repertoire, I almost passed these similarly packaged chips by.
Initially I was drawn to the Spinach & Artichoke because of its innovative flavour concept. According to the back of the bag, Boulder Chips started in 1994 uusing a family recipe. They produce in small batches and have that Kettle-y kind of vibe to them. All that really matters though, is that these chips are seriously delicious.
Not only is this totally new flavour a great idea, but the execution is perfect. Unlike some of the more disappointing chip trends (read Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger) that are more about shock value than real taste, Boulder balances the saltiness of the potato and spinach with the creamier, sweeter notes of the artichoke and adds a hint of Parmesan for balance. It`s basically just like having a regular kettle chip in a creamy spinach/artichoke dip.
One more rave-worthy highlight is the bit-sized potato portions and ideal crunch texture used by Boulder Chips. Although I have compared them to Kettle chips here a lot, it is important to note that Boulder Chips are thinner and less jaw-jarring than their Kettle counterpart.
Diagnosis, delicious. I encourage everyone to get the boulder rolling and find a bag of these chips.
UPDATE: a friend bought the Balsamic & Rosemary Boulder chips upon this recommendation and invited me over. The balsamic was perfectly tart with just the right amount of balsamic sweetness and the rosemary very aromatic and complimentary.
ReplyDeleteI will be making a conscious effort to try every Boulder flavour I can find. So far, no misses yet!
Here, here. A little underwhelming, however were the Parmesan & Garlic flavour.
ReplyDeleteThe Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar chips were really good, and they had a distinctive malt vinegar flavour. In a blind taste test, one could definitely differentiate between the malt vinegar and balsamic vinegar flavours in, respectively, Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar and Balsamic & Rosemary chips.
Also, Boulder chips have a satisfying crunch, but don't feel like they're cutting up your gums and destroying your dental work.
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ReplyDeleteAnnie, glad to hear you feel the same about the texture!
ReplyDeleteThe Malt chips sound like a really great twist on typical Salt n' Vinegar flavour. I can't wait to try them. I'm actually NOT a fan to the Ms Vickies S & V chips because I find them too salty to really consume en mass. But the sweeter Malt idea sounds truly delicious.
And, so reminiscent of Fish n' Chips. (yum)