Moving on to the next tasty potato chip from the Kettle Brand line are these Spicy Thai chips. What’s so cool about Kettle Brand is that these chips weren’t even on the list of five varieties we were asked to try that were on their “hot & spicy” list. As it turns out, Kettle Brand has discontinued their five flavors of hot & spicy that we had originally tried, as they have settled on the Death Valley Chipotle as being the People’s Choice for this year. That said, we continued to plow through these chips just to continue to explore the Kettle Brand version of hot and spicy.

Ingredients: select Russet potatoes, expeller pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil, honey powder, (evaporated cane syrup, honey) salt, garlic powder, jalapeno pepper, ground ginger, onion powder, habanero pepper, dried parsley, citric acid, cilantro extract, ginger oil, cayenne pepper, white pepper, lime oil

The ingredients list is pretty similar to the Organic Chipotle Chili Barbecue chips, but without some of the ingredients being listed as “organic.” Their look has a nice aesthetic appeal, as you can see the spice-laden chips as they came out of the bag:

Taste: The emphasis with this chip is spicy, but not hot. Despite habanero and jalapeno peppers being listed as two of the ingredients, it’s fairly modest in terms of its heat. However, the chips themselves are very tasty and munchable. The honey and ginger adds a non-sugary sweetness that you won’t find in most store-bought chips, whose sweetness comes from stuff like high fructose corn syrup. This sweetness is very complex, yet subtle, and melds nicely with the other spices to make another snack with wide taste appeal. A five-ounce bag barely lasted long enough once opened for us to scrawl down our tasting notes before it disappeared.

Overall recommendation: Another winning spicy snack chip from Kettle Brand, but I hope they decide to start packaging these chips in more than five-ounce bags. Such a small amount is not enough, especially if you’re mail-ordering these from the company. If you do decide to pick some up, you’re in for a treat. These aren’t a prototypical Thai spicing as we imagined it, but these chips are spicy-sweet, loaded with ginger, and destined for extinction in short order once you open the bag. Enjoy!