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Product Review: Lay’s Do Us A Flavour Bacon Poutine Potato Chips

August 26, 2014 by Suzie the Foodie 14 Comments

Product Review: Lay's Do Us A Flavour Bacon Poutine Potato Chips

The Bacon Poutine competitor in Lay’s Do Us A Flavour Contest is a winner in a lot of ways. When I ate them I felt like yes, I could see this being on grocery store shelves for sure.

Product Review: Lay's Do Us A Flavour Bacon Poutine Potato Chips

As I continued to enjoy the smokey flavoured chips I thought, yup, in that way it is a winner. But that is where my interest in the chips came to an abrupt stop.

Product Review: Lay's Do Us A Flavour Bacon Poutine Potato Chips

They were too… normal. Like I had had them before. They definitely were not bad. I could taste the bacon, the savoriness of the gravy flavour, but I was bored.

Reg’s perspective was that it had all sorts of elements from other chips combined that he had had before – from roasted chicken chips to bacon to barbecue – it would be hard to tell the difference between them.

I brought them over to a friend’s barbecue and Emily was pleasantly surprised. She was not expecting to like the chips but she did. Other people were so-so about them and I think overall, they are good but a little underwhelming.

Product Review: Lay's Do Us A Flavour Bacon Poutine Potato Chips
Inspiration: When I was young, every once in a while mom wasn’t home to cook dinner. As a treat, my dad would take me out for Bacon Poutine.

I personally do not want traditional when it comes to the flavours of chips. Yes, poutine is distinctly French Canadian and intellectually and culturally I think this is a cool idea for a product. I would recommend them for a good solid chip but did it win my foodie heart? No.

They were not ruffled. They were not kettle cooked. They were just typical chips which added to the flatness for me. More “meh” than “awesome!”

Guillaume Lorrain’s idea for a chip was great and I think the execution was pretty good but not wow-ing when it comes to my foodie world.

I give this product three out of five wooden spoons.

Adequate but not exciting.

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  1. Debra She Who Seeks says

    August 26, 2014 at 4:19 am

    Too bad! Pierre Poutine will be disapppointed.

    Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    August 26, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    I really liked these chips. I find most of the flavors are too strong and artificial. Tammy Murnaghan

    Reply
  3. Shell says

    August 26, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    I have fond memories of eating poutine. Hoping the chips would taste better. Here in the USA, one of the chips to be voted on is mango salsa. We actually like it here. Wish we could try the flavors you have in Canada.

    Reply
    • Suzie the Foodie says

      September 7, 2016 at 7:07 pm

      Mango salsa would be interesting Shell, I would like that combo of savoury and sweet. I had a maple pulled pork poutine that rocked my world a could of years ago! So good.

      Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    August 30, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    Really? I thought these chips just tasted like thyme, they don’t taste anything like poutine as far as I’m concerned. Overall, don’t try ’em.

    Reply
    • Emi says

      September 7, 2016 at 5:22 am

      Thyme is right

      Reply
      • Suzie the Foodie says

        September 7, 2016 at 7:04 pm

        Interesting! I was thinking sage….

        Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    September 5, 2014 at 4:44 am

    I tried all of the Lay’s flavour finalists and I liked this one best. They were tasty, but not too overpowering. That is what won me. When I eat a chip, I like to taste the potato, not just salt and simulated flavours. Bacon Poutine is the winner to me!!!

    Reply
    • Suzie the Foodie says

      September 7, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      Wow, OK, well, there is a chip flavour for everyone, glad you liked it!

      Reply
  6. Linda says

    September 7, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    Thanks for sharing this. I am wondering if you were perhaps thinking of a flavour that used to be around in the past (but one I personally haven’t seen for quite sometime)…bacon and hickory?

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      September 8, 2014 at 1:35 am

      Were you thinking of Hickory Sticks?

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      • Suzie the Foodie says

        September 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm

        I loved Hickory Sticks!

        Reply
  7. G. says

    August 15, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Worst chip flavour ever! Maybe it was just a bad bag but they were extremely bitter, definitely not for me. I asked a family members to try them to see if it is just a matter of individual taste but they also agreed the chips were very bitter and would not eat any more, had to throw them out.

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    • Suzie the Foodie says

      September 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm

      Thanks for letting me know you agreed with my assessment G!

      Reply

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