Spudmaster Potato Chips

My friend Cary down in Houston happened on these in a supermarket and reported they were sensationally good, both tasty and immense.

I had my crack culinary team get on it and in short order they procured boxes of both the regular and ShaZam-flavored chips to enable an in-depth investigation.

Long story short: These chips are unlike any I have ever encountered in that they are sliced along the long axis of the potato as opposed to the cross-sectional method employed by other makers.

This yields — even after transportation from Spudmaster World Headquarters in Bellflower, Missouri to bookofjoe World Headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia — several complete potato long-axis cross section chips (pictured above and below).

The chips were packed in a foil bag inside a cardboard box (below) with some newspaper balled up around the chip boxes and arrived pretty much intact, more so than the chips I bring home from my local Kroger.

This is likely the result of Spudmaster being much thicker than even Kettle or Cape Cod, with correspondingly more strength and resistance to shear and subsequent breakage.

I recommend the ShaZam flavor: it's not super-hot or spicy or BBQ but, rather, simply seems tastier than the regular chip, itself hard to stop eating before — yikes! — the whole bag is gone.

Either flavor costs $5.99 for 10 ounces direct from the company.

Cary said they were $6.99 at the market.