Berlin Les Frenchips Goût Finement Salé

Finely salted crispy snacks from Belin. Very finely cut, very very fine and sadly extremely brakeable, but tasty nonetheless.

Back in November 2016 the reluctant taste testers, the Chef and I tried the roast chicken version of this extremely crispy snack. And we really rather liked it. And so it proved with this packet of maxi craquantes very fine biscuitty crispy snacks. I'm not sure how to describe this oh so thin snack.

The thin-ness makes them feel a bit posh, which is nice. But because they are so thin they do break very easily. And of course I bought this packet in France so it's travelled some way in the Chef's car. He stores crisps in the well of the boot (trunk for you USA- English speaking crisp fans) where the spare tyre used to live. It's a place where they are less likely to get squashed than anywhere else in the car, it's also quite cool so a good spot for any chocolate to travel. But we don't pack our crips professionally so accidents can happen. Of course accidents do happen on the way home from the supermarket.

Slight Red-Haired Bristolian wanted to register how much she enjoyed this snack. I don't think any of the taste testers didn't like it but she was the biggest fan. Apparently there are 4 more Frenchip flavours to try. So watch this space.

Belin Les Frenchips Goût Poulet Rôti

Cuites au four & maxi craquantes says the packet. And maxi craquantes is right. These very fine roast chicken flavour crispy snacks are extremely craquantes - very crunchy indeed. Very crispy really because they are so fine is seems better to say crispy than crunchy. It's a fine distinction I know, but there you are.

And the flavour? Interesting... it seems that the reluctant taste testers who knew they were trying a roast chicken flavour crispy snack picked the flavour with no trouble at all and agreed it was really chickeny. Those who weren't told didn't get the flavour. Obviously I knew because I bought the packet so I found it odd that those who didn't know did not pick this flavour which had seemed so obvious to me.

Well, again, I guess there you are.

Trés trés nouveau says the packet. Not just new, but very very new. Amazing!

And apart from the name "Frenchips"... friendships? ..... what did the reluctant taste testers think?

Delicious. Pity the extreme thinness of the crispy snack leaves us with so very many breakages but the taste and the crunch is just great. Everyone loved it.

Yes, a great shame so many of the very fine crispy snack (almost but not quite biscuitty) thins were broken. This could be because the packet was bought in France, driven to Switzerland and then driven home to London. But I suspect not. I think it's because the fineness makes them very brittle. But that does not affect the excellent taste.

There are other flavours which I hope to discover next time the Chef & I are in France.