Last updated: 1 July, 2024 @ 16:16
Now, it’s pretty clear that I’m a passionate seafood lover. However, I also have a bit of a crisp problem too – any brand, any flavour, any time – it doesn’t matter to me.
So, when in Bangkok I discovered baked cuttlefish crisps it seemed like my great passions had collided – a dreamy, seafood, crisp-like snack that would make your Walkers Salt & Vinegars, or pickled onion Monster Munch obsolete. As it turns out, I was wrong.
Some weeks on from sampling that first tentative bite of the baked cuttlefish crisps, I’m convinced I can still taste them.
‘Like an umami apocalypse’
They were bad. Actually, they were more than bad.
The crisps were like an umami apocalypse for the taste buds.
The little thin wafer-like brittle slithers packed enough salty, savoury power to grit a thousand motorways.
The aroma wasn’t any better – unless of course you’re a fan of the scent of 100 budgie cages.
If at first you don’t succeed…
Foolishly, I tried another. Perhaps I’d previously hit upon a rogue bad one, much like that green-tinged crisp occasionally found in an otherwise pristine pack of ready salteds.
Alas, the second crisp took all the saliva from my mouth and with it any hope of changing my mind.
The only green tinted thing on display at that stage was my face.
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