That being said, Engine Co. 51’s Hot Ripple Chips do not take us anywhere we haven’t already been many times before, and they are exactly what they say they are – Hot Ripple – nothing more, nothing less. A perfectly adequate vehicle for delivering salty HOT seasoning to our mouths. We love it when the brand takes the generic flavor name route (sarcastic font used), and provides us with no REAL description as to what their “hot” flavor will actually taste like! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. As always we would love to hear what you think. The company is a subsidiary of KLN Snacks. What kind of theme do we have this time? Coated with a bright red dusting, and apparently a seasoning combination that includes cheese, of course the usual suspects of garlic and onion, plus a real dash of both jalapeño and habanero chili peppers. He’s a hard flavor tater working man! after a couple of handfuls of the crunchy chips that HOT appeared with a pow! KLN offers Beer Chips for sale online through their company store. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. Here is what you can expect from a generically named “hot” potato chip. Nothing gets more Minnesotan than being the official chip for the Minnesota Twins. The fries are certainly crispy, crunchy in fact, but the potato just doesn’t evoke that same silky, smooth mouth feel, and certainly do not melt down into a rich pool of fat upon the tongue. This Cable Guy really seems to know how to get’r done! That’s right, lip-smackingly game changing biscuits & gravy flavored potato chips!! Available flavors include: Original Sour Cream […] Excellent taste, very flaky. Larry The Cable Guy is once again back with two more new summer flavors for us to enjoy. For the Summer of 2014 everyone’s favorite cartoon tow truck released two more new flavors. Good serving size. These were the talk of the party. We were hoping that we would also be seeing some hot dog, bratwurst, or maybe even sweet corn flavored chips to further accentuate the summer picnic theme. With last summer’s release of two new additional flavors, Larry appeared to be targeting an outdoors-y, picnic-barbeque theme?! Next up, the unmistakeably fragrant and vegetable jalapeño chile flavor arrived with a boom-pow! Let us just start everything out by saying that these are most definitely not just another jalapeño flavored chip. The following summer Larry switched gears and gave us two new flavors that we described as summer, outdoor-sy, picnic-barbeque “dishes”. Who knows. Their flagship offering tastes of, well, beer. And, we were especially looking forward to crunching Engine Co. 51’s variation after loving their Hot Popcorn , and after reading Taquitos’ glowing review. And you know what? First and foremost, Larry’s tater chips themselves are as consistently delicious as ever. This season: Hollar-Peño Popper and Bacon Ranch. Although we more often than not try to taste the flavor that we are least interested in first (which would have been the chili cheese fries), we simply could not help ourselves with these ones. (firetruck sirens….right?….no?….how would you spell them?!?). It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Bust out the dip and dive in with Barrel O’ Fun tortilla chips. Maybe the buttermilk flavor helps portray that aspect of the combo a little bit, but really all we can pinpoint for sure is that these potato chips taste like delicious gravy! Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Unfortunately, neither of those precursors ended up being a good indication of the quality of these Hot Curls! Chips provided to Chip Review by KLN for review. Packed with the same intensity as those who rush into burning buildings, our Hot Ripple Chips are sure to spark a fire with smoke eater everywhere. We would have liked a lot fresher crispy crunch. Seriously, we have no idea! Season 3: Chili Cheese Fries and Biscuits & Gravy! A great introductory line-up, showing us all that Larry meant business with his bar food themed flavors! Some of them have been really good (such as Old Dutch and Archer Farms), and many of them, not so much! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018. And, like we’ve already said above, we are on team Hollar-Peño! In 2010 Stern sold the company to Barrel O’ Fun for an undisclosed sum of money. barrel o-fun-beer-chips nutrition facts and nutritional information. ); but leave it to a small town Minnesota gas station to surprise us with these ‘new’ (to us at least) Hot and Spicy Fries! Let’s just say…WOW! There can obviously be plenty of variation between bright reds, but the hot chips should be dusted with a good layer of red seasoning powder. These chips really do taste like chili and cheese, and well, we’ll equate the fried potato chips to the fries aspect of the equation.