Wednesday night we always have a game night of sorts with our friends and we rotate between houses each week for dinner-duty. We all have a fondness for salt and vinegar chips.

A couple weeks ago on our turn, we held a blind taste test of these salt and vinegar chips. We were pretty cool to do it. Each person voted for their favorite and here are the results, in order of preference:

"Lay's Kettle Cooked Sea Salt and Vinegar Extra Crunchy Potato Chips"
3 votes
Edged out the Cape Cod by one vote. And for the price...a good bargain. "tastes like balsamic", "prefer over regular Lay's", "good everyday salt and vinegar". One thought "tastes a little cheap".

"Cape Cod Sea Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips"
2 votes
High quality good stuff. Good potato chip thickness. As usual with gourmet chips comes a gourmet price. Taster said things like "good vinegar", "best texture" and "whoa, potent". Another taster also thought the chips were inconsistent.

"Kettle Chips Sea Salt & Vinegar Natural Gourmet Potato Chips"
1 votes
Kettle is found in the natural food aisle. I guess it's natural. This is one thick chip, ranging from "mmmm chunky" to "too thick". One thought it had a "strange potato taste". Overall a boring flavor.

"Tim's Cascade Style Sea Salt Vinegar Potato Chips"
0 votes
Hands down, the worst of the bunch (but still very edible I suppose). Comments included "salty not vinagery", "texture tastes processed", "weird aftertaste" and "don't like these at all".

So what was my comment?

"They all fall short."