Sunday, March 11, 2018

URCP 002 - The Famous Hexagon Potato

The most famous brand in snacks today is Piattos, and its most famous variant, Cheese. But what I have with me right now is the 40-gram Roadhouse Barbecue variant.


Piattos is a fabricated potato snack food. Not because it's fabricated, it doesn't mean that it's not potato. It is still made out of potato, it's just that the potato is turned into dough first, then sheeted, cut into hexagons, fried, and then seasoned. URC does not grow hexagonal shaped potatoes. Although that sounds like a good idea.

Piattos comes in three sizes; 40g, 80g, and on rare occasions in the Philippies, 220g. And it has these variants; Cheese, Roadhouse Barbecue, Sour Cream and Onion, Nacho Pizza, Roast Beef, and soon a new one. I'm not telling what.

As far as this Piattos that I'm currently snacking on right now, it's a has quite a hard crunch to it. Unlike the thin crisp that it should have. The Roadhouse Barbecue flavor is on the spicy side which it should be. If this is freshly made, I'm pretty sure you cough a bit when you eat it. The chips are not evenly coated with the flavoring. There are some chips that are super coated, some that are partially coated. This is obvious because the flavoring is somewhat dark red. This is not so obvious with the cheese flavor since the potato chips and the flavoring are almost of the same shade.

Although Piattos is not my favorite snack, It is still good and is still the more preferred snack brand in the Philippines. Overall, I'm pretty sure the fans of this brand don't mind the uneven coating of the chips.

Palatability rating: 0.60

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