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Happy National Cat Day! Had I known before today that it was National Cat Day, I may have actually named this International Cat Week ... but nope instead it is DAY THREE of my self-proclaimed International Pig Week here at LilyOnTheLam.
If you have been keeping up with the Porcine-themed posts, you will know that Day One was a restaurant review of the Divin Porcello in Budapest, Hungary and Day Two was a restaurant review of The Thirsty Pig in Portland, Maine.
For Day Three, we are going back to traditional LilyOnTheLam posting with a "New Product Wednesday" - product reviews on products that are new or new to me. But in keeping with the International Pig Week theme, I am reviewing: Corkers Pork Sausage and English Mustard flavoured (or in the US- flavored) potato crisps (or in the US- potato chips).
In my subscription box trial-mania, I recently checked out Escape Monthly's "vacation in a box." I find these boxes to be a super cool idea - you get a guide book and items from the country you are "virtually visiting." This month's box is London. I received a cute British toy car, an elegant tin of tea and several other Brit items including these CORKERS.
Although I must admit that so far I have already traveled to every place that Escape Monthly has sent me boxes on - Paris, Puerto Rico and now London. Next month's box is Hawaii - a place I love and have been to many times. So instead of "Escape Monthly," I have been calling them "Travel Memory Box." Which is probably a better title than "Places Lily Has Already Been Box."
I must have an Irish soul resting in me because when I looked at this package of chips (a.k.a. crisps) from the Escape Monthly box, I thought "Isn't a corker like a weirdo?" I looked it up in UrbanDictionary and sure enough, in Irish slang it is.
Now before you say "You are what you eat, Lily you weirdo;' I have to say "Hey, don't call me a weirdo." ;-)
I will admit that I am not one to shy away from non-American flavored snack foods. My sister Squidge and I tried Frito Lay's India Magic Masala potato chips when we were in Delhi. (Verdict: pretty tasty!)
I also tried peanut-flavored Cheetos when I was in Moscow. (Verdict: Why does God hate me with these awful tasting Cheetos?)
I even tried soft shell crab Pringles in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. (Verdict: "These taste like crab butt." To which my male Brazilian co-worker said: "How do you know what a crab's butt tastes like?" Ahem. No comment.)
But even with my "gastronomical tourism" through snack foods around the world, my stomach wasn't sure if it was up for pork sausage and mustard flavored (or flavoured) potato chips. I had had a particularly naughty weekend of eating a lot of junk food and my stomach was screaming for some fruit and vegetables that had not been deep-fried. Sorry stomach, not today.
I'm not sure why I was so wary. I am a big fan of things cooked in animal fat. It even says so on my curriculum vitae. "Lily - friend of things fried in animal fat since 1734."
Duck fat fries? Yes, please. Hash browns cooked in bacon grease? Bring it on, baby. Yorkshire pudding? Cheerio and yes, yes!
But perhaps my wariness stems from the sad experience that generally food that is made to taste like other types of food can usually end up tasting only like chemicals.
If these were homemade potato chips cooked in sausage fat and drizzled with mustard, I think I'd be more onboard. But these are packaged crisps (a.k.a. chips) with a dusting of some sort of seasoning. And maybe that seasoning tastes like pork sausage and mustard or maybe it tastes like soft shell crab butt. Were my taste buds and stomach really wanting to get onboard this train?
Since it is International Pig Week and it is New Product Wednesday, I decided that this was no time for my stomach to wuss out. So I tried the CORKERS ...
And ...
They tasted like pork sausage and mustard.
Not like a chemical, artificial version of a semblance of pork sausage and mustard, but they really did taste like pork sausage and mustard.
The question now becomes ... do I want potato chips that taste like pork sausage and mustard?
Ehhh ... I prefer a good old regular potato chip.
Who knew that International Pig Week would be the defining point of my potato chip eating lifetime? I've learned something new about myself!
The Corkers were not bad, they were just not my taste. Maybe one day I will be sitting on the couch, watching The Walking Dead on AMC and I will suddenly want a pork sausage flavored potato chip. But so far that has not happened.
HOWEVER ... if you are craving a potato chip that tastes like pork sausage and mustard, this is the chip for you!
I have since learned that Corkers also makes a sea salt and cider vinegar flavor. Now I have had salt and malted vinegar, but cider vinegar chips? I am intrigued!
They also make a red Leicester (like a cheddar cheese) and caramelized onion flavor as well as a Sweet Thai Chili flavor chip. Traveling around Australia, I learned I am quite fond of Sweet Thai Chili flavored snack products. Oh Corkers, you may make a convert out of me yet!
(Sadly their website only ships Corkers to UK addresses - which is a reason to make friends with people in the UK. I am quite content knowing I have at least ten people who I could hit up for an international potato crisp delivery if I ever had the urge!)
Tell me what your favorite potato chip flavor is in the comments section below!
Stay tuned tomorrow for the next International Pig Week blog post!
Happy National Cat Day! Had I known before today that it was National Cat Day, I may have actually named this International Cat Week ... but nope instead it is DAY THREE of my self-proclaimed International Pig Week here at LilyOnTheLam.
If you have been keeping up with the Porcine-themed posts, you will know that Day One was a restaurant review of the Divin Porcello in Budapest, Hungary and Day Two was a restaurant review of The Thirsty Pig in Portland, Maine.
For Day Three, we are going back to traditional LilyOnTheLam posting with a "New Product Wednesday" - product reviews on products that are new or new to me. But in keeping with the International Pig Week theme, I am reviewing: Corkers Pork Sausage and English Mustard flavoured (or in the US- flavored) potato crisps (or in the US- potato chips).
In my subscription box trial-mania, I recently checked out Escape Monthly's "vacation in a box." I find these boxes to be a super cool idea - you get a guide book and items from the country you are "virtually visiting." This month's box is London. I received a cute British toy car, an elegant tin of tea and several other Brit items including these CORKERS.
Although I must admit that so far I have already traveled to every place that Escape Monthly has sent me boxes on - Paris, Puerto Rico and now London. Next month's box is Hawaii - a place I love and have been to many times. So instead of "Escape Monthly," I have been calling them "Travel Memory Box." Which is probably a better title than "Places Lily Has Already Been Box."
I must have an Irish soul resting in me because when I looked at this package of chips (a.k.a. crisps) from the Escape Monthly box, I thought "Isn't a corker like a weirdo?" I looked it up in UrbanDictionary and sure enough, in Irish slang it is.
Now before you say "You are what you eat, Lily you weirdo;' I have to say "Hey, don't call me a weirdo." ;-)
I will admit that I am not one to shy away from non-American flavored snack foods. My sister Squidge and I tried Frito Lay's India Magic Masala potato chips when we were in Delhi. (Verdict: pretty tasty!)
I also tried peanut-flavored Cheetos when I was in Moscow. (Verdict: Why does God hate me with these awful tasting Cheetos?)
I even tried soft shell crab Pringles in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. (Verdict: "These taste like crab butt." To which my male Brazilian co-worker said: "How do you know what a crab's butt tastes like?" Ahem. No comment.)
But even with my "gastronomical tourism" through snack foods around the world, my stomach wasn't sure if it was up for pork sausage and mustard flavored (or flavoured) potato chips. I had had a particularly naughty weekend of eating a lot of junk food and my stomach was screaming for some fruit and vegetables that had not been deep-fried. Sorry stomach, not today.
I'm not sure why I was so wary. I am a big fan of things cooked in animal fat. It even says so on my curriculum vitae. "Lily - friend of things fried in animal fat since 1734."
Duck fat fries? Yes, please. Hash browns cooked in bacon grease? Bring it on, baby. Yorkshire pudding? Cheerio and yes, yes!
But perhaps my wariness stems from the sad experience that generally food that is made to taste like other types of food can usually end up tasting only like chemicals.
If these were homemade potato chips cooked in sausage fat and drizzled with mustard, I think I'd be more onboard. But these are packaged crisps (a.k.a. chips) with a dusting of some sort of seasoning. And maybe that seasoning tastes like pork sausage and mustard or maybe it tastes like soft shell crab butt. Were my taste buds and stomach really wanting to get onboard this train?
Since it is International Pig Week and it is New Product Wednesday, I decided that this was no time for my stomach to wuss out. So I tried the CORKERS ...
And ...
They tasted like pork sausage and mustard.
Not like a chemical, artificial version of a semblance of pork sausage and mustard, but they really did taste like pork sausage and mustard.
The question now becomes ... do I want potato chips that taste like pork sausage and mustard?
Ehhh ... I prefer a good old regular potato chip.
Who knew that International Pig Week would be the defining point of my potato chip eating lifetime? I've learned something new about myself!
The Corkers were not bad, they were just not my taste. Maybe one day I will be sitting on the couch, watching The Walking Dead on AMC and I will suddenly want a pork sausage flavored potato chip. But so far that has not happened.
HOWEVER ... if you are craving a potato chip that tastes like pork sausage and mustard, this is the chip for you!
I have since learned that Corkers also makes a sea salt and cider vinegar flavor. Now I have had salt and malted vinegar, but cider vinegar chips? I am intrigued!
They also make a red Leicester (like a cheddar cheese) and caramelized onion flavor as well as a Sweet Thai Chili flavor chip. Traveling around Australia, I learned I am quite fond of Sweet Thai Chili flavored snack products. Oh Corkers, you may make a convert out of me yet!
(Sadly their website only ships Corkers to UK addresses - which is a reason to make friends with people in the UK. I am quite content knowing I have at least ten people who I could hit up for an international potato crisp delivery if I ever had the urge!)
Tell me what your favorite potato chip flavor is in the comments section below!
Stay tuned tomorrow for the next International Pig Week blog post!
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