I don’t eat a lot of flavoured potato chips (crisps to some of you,) so this is only a passing interest story for me, but it seems like a lot of chips with meaty names don’t necessarily have to have animal ingredients in them, what with the artificial flavour industry routinely turning out things that would make Willy Wonka weep.
That said, for some reason I had Walkers Crisps from the UK in my head recently as having something to do with vegetarianism, if not veganism, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. I almost hope I’m wrong, because they just released a haggis flavoured offering that, as the reviewer put it, is “like a small piece of fried potato failing to recall a repressed abuse memory while sitting on your tongue.”
I’ve never had haggis – not even the veganized versions – but just knowing that this thing is out there means that there’s one more haggis vector I need to be aware of when I plan my daily activities. How does one defend oneself against the ongoing flood of haggis and haggis-equivalents out there?
And more to the point of this post’s headline, has anyone done the research on potato chips and veganism? Aside from cheese flavours, are there any surprises out there that you wouldn’t guess are vegan from the name but are in fact totally plant-based (as confirmed by the manufacturer, not a scan of the ingredients list)?
Then again, now that Daiya cheese is available here I might even forego regular chips from now on and stick entirely with corn tortillas in various nacho configurations. Know this: ethanol’s impact on corn prices will have nothing on the vegan nacho crazes that will erupt in this decade. Until they add haggis, of course.
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In NZ, the only chips you can buy that are vegan are ready salted… as NZ is the land of beef and dairy etc etc, milk powder is in EVERYTHING! Salt and vinegar? Even that! Crazy… but also good, as there goes the temptation to consume all those freaky-deek chemicals too…