Hey, I'm back! And so is the Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" group of food outliers. Let's dig in.
The "Everything Bagel With Cream Cheese" chips don't smell like much of anything, which is a shame. I actually put my whole nose into the bag, and mostly smelled the bag and maybe some fried potatoes. (Okay, I'm fighting the dreaded summer-cold, but that can't account for ALL of it.) The cream cheese is front and center in the taste arena, with all the other things hanging waaaay back. I guess it's too much to hope for the taste of an actual bagel in a kettle chip, but I can't even tell much about the seasonings. (The ingredients list includes actual poppyseeds, which of course leads me to speculate that consuming enough might cause a drug-test malfunction, but people who would eat that many of these chips have bigger problems.)
Of the three new flavors, this was the one I was most excited for. With the kettle chip texture, I even held out hope that we might get those wonderful crunchy bits of blackened onion, but this is a letdown there too.
No matter -- I've got two more new flavors to try, and I'm sure to really like one of them. Oh, and speaking of things I'm sure to really like, I'm off to see the live Mystery Science Theater tour tonight, and I'm finally restarting those reviews here in the next week.
As usual, the buy link is a ridiculous price, but these are currently available ALLLLLLL over the country, so you shouldn't have a hard time finding them at a local store.
