Is This Canadian Chip Collab Better Than Miss Vickie's?
Photo illustration by Aimee Nishitoba.
If you've been following our series of taste tests for the best pantry staples and grocery store snacks, you'll know that if it's in the chip category, and if it's Canadian, we're likely going to cover it. So when we heard that East Coast chipmaker Covered Bridge had recently partnered with St. Louis Bar & Grill, a Canadian sports bar chain that specializes in chicken wings, we scrambled to get a couple of bags into the office. Inspired by two popular St. Louis menu items—hot honey wings and dill garlic dipping sauce—these russet potato-based chips impressed our taste testers, with a clear winner that might just give our usual office favourite a run for its money. Read on for more.
St. Louis Hot and Honey Wings Chips
"This is a great kettle chip with a sweet BBQ flavour—but it's really just a good BBQ chip," wrote one editor, which most other tasters agree with. The crunch and texture was on par with our favourite standard kettle chips, but lacking in the kind of spicy kick you'd expect from hot honey. Still: delicious!
St. Louis Garlic Dill Sauce Chips
This is where things really took off, flavour- and votes-wise. Almost everyone who tasted this herby, creamy flavour was an immediate and enthusiastic fan. "This is a clear winner," write multiple editors. "Super refreshing and very unique. Better than Miss Vickie's, even." This is not a phrase we've heard at the Chatelaine offices possibly ever, and it came up multiple times during this taste test. If you can get your hands on a bag of these chips—they'll be rolling out in select grocery retailers in Eastern Canada, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, or in bulk amounts online—we'd recommend it!
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Chantal Braganza is a writer and editor living in Toronto. She is deputy editor, food at Chatelaine, a cookbook nerd, lover of vintage dish ware, and currently training for yoga teacher certification. Her first book, Story of Your Mother, is out with Strange Light Press.
