Tried Lay News Today

is a regular series where we try the latest off-beat food and beverage offerings. It might appear to our readers that we harbor a strong dislike for Lay’s chips and we need to state that this is not the case. If it seems like this series is becoming a repeated berating of this global potato chip brand, it’s only because of the seemingly endless horror show of novel ‘Asian’ flavors. READ MORE: The 2021 springtime desecration is a cherry-blossom fermented rice flavor. The packaging depi...

Peggy Ngai, Marketing 1/5 “No. Thank you.” Ryan Gandolfo, Editor 1.3/5 “That’s probably the sweetest chip I’ve ever tasted. Absolutely disgusting. I’ll give it an extra 0.3 because it’s edible.” Rakini Bergundy, Intern 1/5 “It feels like I licked the wall inside the seventh-best milk tea shop in Guangzhou.”  Wyle Yuan, Interpretive Dancer 2/5 “Umm, that’s weird. It’s like a biscuit. I would not buy this kind of Lay’s.”  Joshua Cawthorpe, Former Senior Lagos Co...