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Calbee Shiawase Butter Chips
Brand: Calbee
Price: 213 yen
Place of purchase: 7-11
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The description
This product is a packet of Calbee Shiawase butter chips, which apparently have 450% the amount of butter as the regular Shiawase butter chips. They were priced at 213 yen including tax.
The good
I can add this to the list of potato chip flavors we don't have back home -- butter flavor! This product is a more buttery version of Calbee's regular Shiawase butter chips (apparently 450% more butter flavor) and you can definitely smell the butter aroma the minute you open the bag. It's definitely not just butter you taste, though -- there are notes of honey and parsley, too, so it's an interesting sweet yet salty combo. Overall, I liked it! The price was right around where I would have expected it to be, so no issues there.
The not so good
It probably goes without saying for a potato chip that packs in the butter flavor, but these were very high calorie. The whole bag is 522 calories (definitely a full meal's calories for many people!) so I recommend portioning some out of the bag rather than eating them from the bag. They weren't my favorite potato chip flavor ever, but they were better than I expected them to be. Overall I'd rate them 3 out of 5 stars, and while they were not bad I don't think I'd go out of my way to purchase them again.
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