Must Tastes: 20 Wild & Weird Potato Chip Flavors

Looking to add flavor to your life? Spicy barbecue, zesty lime, and cheesy parmesan chips are so yesterday. Today's potato chip flavors are more complicated infusions like Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese and Chesapeake Crab.  Some modern chips may even replace lunch for those on the go, like Tuna Fish potato chips.  See if you can find one or two that might satisfy your cravings... or just your curiosity.

Who knows more about making chips than the British?  It may not be a coincidence that some of the most daring chip flavors are made by British companies.  Walkers, for example, is so innovative that it accepts challenges from the public for new flavors.

 1.  Walkers Cajun Squirrel Potato Chips

The Cajun Squirrel was a Walkers flavor competition winner and, lo and behold, Walkers went and made them. I've no idea what these taste like, and I'm not sure I'm adventurous enough to even try one.

Walkers Cajun Squirrel Potato Chips

2.  Walkers Lamb & Mint Potato Chips

Walkers Lamb & Mint Potato Chips

3. Calbee Seaweed & Salt Potato Chips

If you're into Japanese, you can bet that Calbee has chips to your taste.  Lays also hasa similar Nori Flavored Chip.

Calbee Seaweed & Salt Potato Chips

4.  Walkers Roast Chicken Potato Chips

 Who doesn't like Roast Chicken?

Walkers Roast Chicken Potato Chips

Feel like a drink about now?  Well, here are a few Chip Shots (for you drinking golfers).

5. Kettle Maple Bacon Potato Chips

From Kettle, this chip is a classic breakfast combination, potato chips now available in maple and bacon. 

Kettle Maple Bacon Potato Chips

6.  Walkers Steak & Onion Potato Chips

(Glad they passed on the Liver & Onion flavor.) A six-pack of the Steak & Onion chips is available in the U.S. from Amazon.com.

Walkers Steak & Onion Potato Chips

7.  Route 11 Chesapeake Crab Potato Chips

Route 11 is in the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia.  And the company named after Route 11 is busy every day making hand-made potato chips in many flavors.  From the land that knows there's nothing better than a Chesapeake Bay crab and the chips are now at Amazon's grocery. 

Route 11 Chesapeake Crab Potato Chips

8. Tasto Tuna Salad Potato Chips

 Tasto Tuna Salad Potato Chips

9.   Walkers Prawn Cocktail Potato Chips

Absolute bliss (I have tasted these).  Fortunately, for those in the U.S. the Prawn Cocktail Chips are available at Amazon.com.

Walkers Prawn Cocktail Potato Chips

10. O'Malleys County Mayo Ham

O'Malleys County Mayo Ham

11. Route 11 Dill Pickle Potato Chips

These chips are now available on Amazon with an interesting blend of sour.

Route 11 Dill Pickle Potato Chips

12. Lay's Salmon Cream Cheese Potato Chips

Another twist on the classic combination of smoke salmon and cream cheese. But instead of on a nice tasted bagel, you get it on a fried potato chip. 

Salmon Cream Chees Potato Chips

13. Calbee BBQ Corn Potato Chips

You don't even need to love Japanese to appreciate the flavor of barbecued corn!

Calbee BBQ Corn Potato Chips

14. Tayto Fusion Sweet Chili & Red Pepper Potato Chips

 Tayto Fusion Sweet Chili & Red Pepper Potato Chips

15. Walkers Crispy Duck & Hoisin Potato Chips

Walkers Crispy Duck & Hoisin Potato Chips

16. Golden Wonder Sausage & Tomato Flavour Potato Chips

 Golden Wonder Sausage & Tomato Flavour Potato Chips

17.  Calbee Korean Cuttlefish Potato Chips

Calbee Korean Cuttlefish Potato Chips

18. Herr's Heinz Ketchup Flavored Potato Chips

Get Herr's here! 

Herr's Heinz Ketchup Flavored Potato Chips

19. Wise Smokin' Grill Hamburger & Fixins Potato Chips

 Wise Smokin' Grill Hamburger & Fixins Potato Chips

 20. Walkers Chili & Chocolate Potato Chips

Walkers Chili & Chocolate Potato Chips

Most of the new Walker chip flavors must be ordered from British companies, but many of Walkers chips, or "crisps" like Smokey Bacon Crisps are also sold on Amazon.com. Britishcornershop, which ships internationally, sells several of the British potato chips featured above.

^{Originally published March 2010 and revised August 2015.}