New Smith’s chips flavours

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A few months ago Smith’s started the Do us a flavour competition, to come up with a new iconic Australian chip flavour. After 1000′s of entries, 4 flavours have been picked, put into limited production and are now on sale.

The flavours, Steve’s buttered popcorn, Aline’s caesar salad, Lucas’ late night kebab and Vinnie’s BBQ coat of arms. It’s now up to Australia to vote for their favourite.

I know which one I will be voting for…none!

The buttered popcorn was OK, but didn’t really taste like popcorn. I guess the fact that they are chips and not popcorn may have something to do with that.

The Caesar salad, kudos to them for managing to make a chip taste like lettuce. But just because you can..does not mean you should. Lettuce flavoured chips is just wrong!

The kebab wasn’t too bad, a bit spicy and probably less bizarre tasting than the rest.

BBQ Coat of arms, now to me I thought it meant it was bbq roo and emu flavour..would you not think that? The smell was very strong, as was the taste and despite the site saying it wasn’t actually roo or emu my tongue said it was and I couldn’t go past a little lick.

The children polished the rest of the bags off, so they must have been edible at least.

Have you tried them, what did you think?

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20 Responses to “New Smith’s chips flavours”

  1. a girl called e
    October 16, 2009 at 9:11 am #

    i walked past these last night in the supermarket and thought about buying some… but i had no idea which flavour to pick so decided against it
    now i’m glad! lettuce?! ewwwwww
    .-= a girl called e´s last blog ..Your Legs Are As Hairy As My Beard =-.

  2. Fiona
    October 16, 2009 at 9:32 am #

    I probably won’t try them unless they’re on the table at work or soemthing, but the kebab sounds slightly appealing
    .-= Fiona´s last blog ..Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change =-.

  3. Tina
    October 16, 2009 at 10:33 am #

    EEEEWWWWW no way saw them advertised on TV teh other day & just thought gross!

  4. rah
    October 16, 2009 at 7:20 pm #

    gimme good old tomato flavoured chips any day – or salt and vinegar!

  5. zoe
    October 17, 2009 at 5:45 pm #

    Caesar salad all the way

  6. Anna
    October 20, 2009 at 2:14 pm #

    Lettuce? LOL I didn’t get that at all, I tasted a lovely Caesar salad dressing flavour and it was really good. It wins my vote, hands down. Runner up would be the Late Night Kebab. Didn’t care for the other 2 at all.

  7. pat
    October 21, 2009 at 6:15 pm #

    smith chips were promoting australian ozzy ozzy bla bla new flavour neither taste like what was discribed, the competition was very misleading and now we have all these stupid non australian flavoures, except the coat of arms which is quite frankly gross, they should of chose croc and sea salt or croc and green onion, or the great barrier reef and prawns, all it is, is salt flavour anyway, example… does chicken chips taste like chicken??? answer..no.. not at all, but does chicken chips taste nice??? answer.. damn right it does..yes.., besides original,chilli flavours and salt and vineger there is no other flavour on the planet that taste like what it advertises, we just think it does. maybe I will sue the chip company for misleading us. lol my chicken chips taste like sweet salt and is of yellow colour, but my chook is white and tastes like chicken. so I guess because they are not looking for the great australian icon flavour, then that leads me to think KFC flavoured chips would be the biggest seller potatoe chip in the world, but for marketing australian ..do something with the croc, croc is nice croc is iconic to australia world wide,cartoon friendly marketing, croc slaughter la la… is just salt… who cares we slaughter chickens from the the day they are born, till they reach full retardation growth which is when they are about a week old and we love it, oh yummy nothing like juicey suculent spastic chook, I even have man boobs because of it. “smithchips!!” re do competition make it au icon taste and promo just like the rules set out in the competition, australian flavour uniquely australian…. what happened.. ??? pop corn and butter so ooo USA kabab ?? oh it taste ok, of them all it was a safe one to make, but its not unique Australian, its middle east… coat of arms ?? my cat loves that type of food and so does my front bumper …ceasar salad taste nothing like salad and yes lettice chips gross…

    • Aaron
      July 5, 2011 at 8:26 pm #

      Haven’t tasted any of them and probably won’t mainly because I entered this comp and obviously didn’t get a look in. I thought my flavours were better of course.

  8. Fiona
    October 21, 2009 at 7:58 pm #

    WTF?
    .-= Fiona´s last blog ..The Terrible Plop =-.

  9. Patrick
    October 30, 2009 at 5:59 pm #

    hahah one of the flavors i put in was spicy meatball just imagine a sorta spicy chip with a very delicious taste of meat but yeah that was all i could think about and i also though that vinnies coat of arm is just a waste of money and the buttered popcorn i especially liked the late night kebab haha.

  10. Carol
    November 11, 2009 at 9:55 pm #

    i think the flavours chosen are are absolute crap, it has certainely turned me off smiths chips .what about good old fish and chips or meat pie flavour?I cannot see any getting past first base.

  11. Trish
    November 14, 2009 at 3:39 pm #

    haven’t even been keen to try them …nothing appeals to me
    .-= Trish´s last blog ..Are we there yet ? =-.

  12. C
    November 17, 2009 at 11:34 pm #

    The Ceaser Salad flavored one is really nice – I hope it wins because it has a really good flavour. The buttered popcorn one was alright but didn’t taste THAT great. I just tried the Kebab one and I don’t think I’ll buy it again – it was pretty bad tasting. I haven’t tried the coat of arms one and probably won’t – it sounds disgusting.

  13. Joanne
    December 7, 2009 at 9:27 pm #

    I live in Perth, and have yet to see these new flavours on the supermarket shelves. When will they be available for me to try?

  14. SimonFoodFavourites
    December 8, 2009 at 2:54 pm #

    kebab was definitely my fav. i reckon it will win. all the others i didn’t really like as much and some just didn’t smell right :-)
    .-= SimonFoodFavourites´s last blog ..Funny Coopers SIFF Ads: Martin Place, Sydney (16 Oct 2009) =-.

  15. JOANNE of PERTH
    December 9, 2009 at 7:47 pm #

    The voting has closed already, and these new flavours are yet to be available in WA! I’ve been to a dozen stores that sell potato chips, and none of them have the new flavours! They might as well not even exist! They all get my stamp of disapproval!

    • Leigh
      December 9, 2009 at 7:53 pm #

      Wow, that is pretty slack Joanne, that they were not available to you in Perth. I wonder if any other states missed out.

      What ever flavour wins, I can’t see it lasting long.

  16. angry jack
    December 14, 2009 at 3:30 pm #

    they are all crap
    although i haven’t tasted buttered popcorn i don’t want to
    this is pathetic
    im here stuffing my face with smiths’ chicken and what does it taste like…. mmm salt
    the next successful flavour will probably be cow
    why can’t we smartass australians think of any decent flavours? or is it just stupid smiths executives picking meals they had for dinner last week
    instead of using friggin artificial shit to make more shit why don’t they actually use ingredients relevant to the flavours?
    you could just as well say its false advertising if you ask me
    i’v ran out of chips now so i’ll stop

  17. SydTeen
    June 30, 2010 at 1:04 am #

    So i just bought this flavour toda. I thought id give something new a go. And im sitting here waiting for the 4.30 world cup game and decided to munch on a snack. I ate 1 chip. They are just the worst things i have ever tasted! It doesnt taste like Caesar Salad AT ALL! I taste a weird rotten mix of peanuts?? They’re not going to be on the shelf for long!

  18. Slightly confused
    August 19, 2010 at 8:44 pm #

    Does anyone know what the heck happened? I looked on the site, and that other site just for the competition, but there’s absolutely nothing about it anymore. ONTOP of this, they’ve stopped selling the chips completely and it was like no one won anything. I feel a little let down at the moment…

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