Market Deli Pita Chips Roasted Garlic with Mediterranean Herbs

I've tried pita chips before and found them rather hard. And I find these rather hard too. So perhaps pita chips are not for me.

I also find that pita chips break rather easily so quite ¾ of the packet is made up of broken chips. You notice more than in a packet of ordinary crisps because pita chips are supposed to be square. Squarish. Which mostly they aren't.

If this is a regular feature of pita chips (I've only tried 2 packets) it's rather disappointing.

The aroma is definitely Mediterranean herbs (so far so good), the tasted is more roasted garlic but once you've eaten all the flavour dust the basic taste is kind of dull; you get right back to basic pita chip.

The taste is OK but I'm not that impressed.

Walkers tell us their Market Deli crisps and pita chips are made with the finest ingredients. Real ingredients for an authentic taste. Hmmn. I'm not really convinced here.

Maybe they would be better when dipped in a spicy salsa and shared with friends (as recommended on the back of the packet).

Lay's Oven Mediterranean Herbs

I think these Dutch crisps were brought to Switzerland from the Netherlands by the Chef's daughter and son-in-law, and then driven to the UK from Switzerland by the Chef. What a lot of travelling for a packet of crisps.

And what do we think?

Well.... I wasn't mad keen myself but the reluctant taste testers liked them a lot better than better than I did.

For some reason I don't really have much enthusiasm for hexagonal crisps. I really prefer potato shaped crisps. Call me picky... well, I expect you will, but I'm not mad for this strange man made shape.

These crisps smell very nice; it's like opening a jar of herbs from your spice rack. And the narrowly ridged crisps have quite a good crunch and quite a lot of flavour dust. But I'm not terribly impressed by the flavour. Although, of the herbs listed; parsley, basil, thyme and rosemary, I think it's the thyme that shines through.

I must repeat that the reluctant taste testers like them a lot more than I did. So it's just me.