Junk Food Nation, last night was a marathon Nosh Show recording session with the guys from Nerd Lunch. You’re in for a treat on Monday.

TODAY’S TURKEY HILL FREE COUPON WINNER:

Great turnout yesterday, JFNation – 29 comments!  And today’s random winner is: COLBY H.(colbyh______001@______). Congrats, Colby! Email me your contact info to Junkfoodguy@junkfoodguy.com and I’ll get the free coupon in the mail to you!

TODAY’S WAY TO WIN A FREE 1.5 QT OF TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM:

For today’s way to win, it’s BACK to Facebook.  This time, you’ll have to COMMENT to win, and it will be very similar to yesterday’s contest. Here’s how it will go down – I’ll be sending out a Turkey Hill Facebook Post on my Facebook page @ exactly 4:30pm EST. You don’t have to LIKE, but if you want to win, you’ll have to COMMENT.  Instructions for the comment:

1) Tell me who your favorite player, ANY COUNTRY, in the World Cup is / has been,

2) Tell me your favorite Turkey Hill All-Natural ice cream flavor or flavor you’d most like to try (there’s a list RIGHT HERE), and

3) Hashtag it #TRKAmbassador

EXAMPLE COMMENT: “Lionel Messi, Salted Caramel #TRKAmbassador” or  “Tim Howard, Mango #TRKAmbassador”

See? Very simple!

QUESTION OF THE DAY: What is Your Summer Drink of Choice?

Junk Food Nation, it’s summer and it’s getting hot.  While I like a lot of beer, and prefer dark porters, it is NOT what I choose to drink when it’s 94 and sweltering out.  I tend to go for whatever light beer, in an aluminum bottle, I can find that is ICE COLD.

But I know some out there prefer slushy margaritas, iced down martinis, maybe Blue Moon with orange slice, etc.  So today I’m just curious – what’s YOUR summer drink of choice?  Let me know in the comments below.

TODAY’S JUNK FOOD: New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips!

You know, when I saw these New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips in the store, I wanted to avoid.  Avoid avoid avoid for a lot of reason, but mainly because it seemed like another re-packing of the same exact chips they had before!  These chips. I mean, Aren’t those the same thing?  So you put them on them on a thicker wavy chip….OOOOOOOOOOO SO DIFFERENT.  Pffft.

New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips are “inspired by” Buffalo Wild Wings…but the logo is right on the bag.  I’m pretty sure they are partnering together, no? What is this “inspired by” BS? I’ve eaten at BW3s a lot, and I like them, but their wings aren’t that different tasting than anywhere else.

That picture IS great though, isn’t it?  I want a GIGANTIC potato chip to serve a wing on.

Sure…

The ingredients for these New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips DID make me smile though – once I saw the presence of chicken fat, chicken broth, and chicken powder, I thought “Ok…they’re gonna make an effort here.  Good.”  Maybe these, because of the attempts at mimicking the chicken flavor/feel, will actually be successful like the Lay’s Buffalo Wing with Ranch STAX or Walkers’ chicken flavored chips generally.

Opening these New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips, these are reminiscent of the Ruffles Ultimate line.  When I placed my nose up to the bag and smelled, I could smell the faint aroma of hot wing sauce.

I munched on some of these New Ruffles Deep Ridged Buffalo Wild Wings Classic Hot Wings Potato Chips, and I must admit, I liked them. They are among some of the better hot wing chips I’ve had, and I liked these better than the previous Molten Hot Wing chips.

The flavor I immediately tasted was, of course, of hot wing sauce.  It was tangy, spicy and had a decent cayenne and vinegar flavor. Key point: it was also NOT SALTY, which I appreciated.  Sometimes hot wing chips are sunk because the addition of waaaay too much salt kills the experience.  Not here.

Add on top of that flavor a good representation of chicken taste.  When I smacked my tongue and lips are chewing and swallowing, I definitely got the reminiscent flavor of chicken.  Not a chicken bouillon flavor either… and actually chicken fat taste. It fit with the hot wing sauce flavor really well and, due to the crispness of the chip, sort of gave the eating experience of eating the crispy skin of the outside of a chicken wing.

Maybe I’m giving this chip too much credit.  But all in all, these were actually pretty good.  Better than I expected. I will be buying these again.

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy