tonight we're having..

Volcano Takis

back in the day when i was still in uni and living with tom, we walked by a store that seemed to have nothing but really colorful snacks and drinks imported from all over. that was my first time trying takis. i've always seen them on the internet and was really curious. they had a bunch of flavours but were stupid expensive so i bought two to put at the table for the magic night we were gonna have later that night. i don't remember the exact flavours but one was bright red and one was a deep blue

okay, after a little bit of googling it turns out i've bought the fuego and blue heat. according to the takis wikipedia, fuego is chilli and lime flavour and apparently the spiciest one they offer, and there's two blue heats listed: one (just) a hot chilli flavour and the other, fuego azul, the normal fuego but topped with a "mystery spice powder"

they both tasted like a chem lab, and i mean the bad way not the chubby way. the powder was everywhere and so bright and artificial looking. THE BLUE ONE TASTED LIKE MINT. LIKE TOOTHPASTE. it was a whole ordeal. i have not had takis since

today i went out with some friends and my girlfriend to have pho and got home kind of late. a lot of stores were closed and there was a massive strorm too anyway so we weren't up to wandering about to find something. eventually we stopped by a 24/7 corner store nearby and looked for something. it was small and generic and i didn't want to get anything that'd make too boring a review or that i'm too well accustomed with, like a twix or something. so here we are, takis

i didn't have any high hopes for these. i don't really enjoy corn chips like nachos (takis are basically rolled up nachos). this combined with the previous experience (weirdly, in spite of how powerfully artificial and chemical they tasted, you could still, completely spearately from everything, get a strong taste of corn chip; how bizarre) really set my expectations low. but hey they actually smell kind of good when you open the bag!

wow. what a surprise. they're actually pretty good! my girlfriend absolutely loved them, i enjoyed them quite a bit too. besides smelling cheesy, they tasted cheesy! like actual cheese honestly, i really like that. i feel like cheese powder on chiplikes just kind of tastes like its own thing, but tastes like some real hard cheese? how bizarre, how bizarre!

the orange powder residue is still kinda getting everywhere, but it's not bad! not to review in the context of the first takis but with those i felt the need to wipe and wash my hands intensely everytime i even hovered the bag, these are fine, slightly over normal chip

overall a solid experience, i have thoughts about why, to which i'll get in a moment, but i enjoyed it. in situations where chiplikes are called for these will be at the top of the list of considerations (i'm not a chip guy (ᴗ_ ᴗ。))

final rating - [░░░▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▓████-----] : 15/20

right, ok

what i think happened here is that the takis i brought from the bright store in the uk with almost exclusively imported snacks and drinks were US imported corn syrup slop (derogatory). what we ate tonight was likely adjusted for EU food regulations and whatnot (i mean there's red 40 in the US ones lmao), which made them, y'know, not so artificial to an almost caricaturistic degree