Taste Testing Battery-flavored Tortilla Chips

Battery not included.

I get a batch of overseas pitches successful my inbox, but “9V battery-flavored maize chips” still stopped maine successful my tracks. My mind was ringing pinch questions (What? Who? Why!?!), but astir importantly: What are they going to sensation like?

This constricted version spirit comes from Rewind, a caller marque launching successful Europe, starting pinch nan Netherlands, promising to blend “nostalgia pinch breathtaking flavors.” Most of these sound beautiful normal — cheese and onion, sriracha, paprika — but their motion to nan “weird cosmopolitan memory” of licking a artillery was guaranteed to get my attention.

It’s been a while since I past licked a battery, truthful successful nan sanction of subject I bought my own. Licking a 9V artillery is probably safe, though Rewind is clear that it does “not urge aliases condone licking, biting, aliases different ingesting existent batteries.” But I fig if it’s good capable for my workfellow Sean, it’s bully capable for me. I recovered nan acquisition beautiful unpleasant: a small, crisp daze and a lingering metallic aftertaste. Not what I usually look for successful tortilla chips. 

Rewind’s return is simply a small little intense. There is simply a sharp, acidic spirit astatine first, but it’s milder than I expected. I emotion brackish and vinegar chips, and I’ve had packs that make maine wince overmuch much than these. What stands retired a small much is that location is simply a mineral sensation underlying it all, an overseas tanginess that isn’t a cardinal miles from artillery metal. The chips themselves are a small thinner than I for illustration — I for illustration a much important crunch from tortilla chips — but aren’t bad astatine all.

“It was decidedly an different brief,” says Mattias Larsson, nan cook who developed nan flavor. “We utilized a blend of citric acerb and sodium bicarbonate to create nan tongue-tingling effect, and balanced it retired pinch mineral salts which springiness nan chips a metallic tang.”

The 9V artillery chips are constricted edition, but if you’re funny past Rewind has a shape wherever you tin request a sample pack, which ships worldwide.