I love munching on chips. It’s one of the activities I usually do whenever I’m multi-tasking (working/e-mailing/writing notes/thinking/eating). Sometimes I eat nuts, sometimes I eat potato chips and sometimes I eat fruits. These past few days though, I have been trying out something new.
It is called Texas Wild Very Hot Chips and it’s from the makers of popular brands such as Rebisco cracker sandwiches, ChocoMucho, ChocoTopps, Fudgee Bar and Dingdong Nuts. Republic Biscuit Corporation (Rebisco) is one of the pioneers in the biscuit industry. They now carry a wide variety of snack food items ranging from nuts, cakes, chocolate bars, candies and chips.
I particularly find Texas Wild Very Hot Chips interesting. It has something to do with how they market the product. They put in the very sexy Daiana Menezes in a poster modelling the chips with a caption, “Are you HOT enough?“.
I remember meeting the pretty & kind actress in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World last 2011. Considering she’s one of the hottest women in the Philippines, does that make the Texas Wild Very Hot Chips hot too?
Well, the Texas Wild Very Hot Chips was made definitely for the adventurous ones!
The packaging might look simple but it obviously has an appeal for people who craves for spicy food.
I’ve eaten a couple of packs already and I must say that Texas Wild Very Hot Chips is strong in taste. It was indeed very spicy (more than usually actually).
What makes this snack unique is that the spicy flavour was blended with cheese. There is no need for us to find melted cheese or barbeque sauce to dip the chips with. Texas Wild Very Hot Chips was loaded with flavours and yes, it was definitely hot!
Here’s a trivia:
The hotness of chili is not caused by seeds but by the compound called Capsaicin found in the white membrane that attaches the seed to the pod.
Drinking beer is the more effective way of cooling your mouth than drinking water. Capsaicin, the substance responsible for the burning effect of chili is not water soluble. It is soluble in fat and alcohol.
I believed that beer is the best drink to go with the spicy chips. However, I just hate the taste of alcohol. I made a bit of an adjustment by drinking malunggay juice with it. I know it doesn’t make my whole snack healthy but at least, there’s a healthy component in it, hahaha!
Now, on to munching!
It’s 2017 and I keep on remembering this snack packaged inside a black pack with pictures of chilli peppers. This memory comes way back to high school, the year was 2012.
I remember buying these at Ministop or 7-eleven before riding a jeepney on my way back home. Bored and since smart phones weren’t ubiquitous back then, I would always read the trivia text placed at the back of the black-wrapped chips while munching it the whole way. As I do that routinely, the word that stuck with me most from the trivia was ‘Capsaicin’.
Now, while eating some spicy ramen, I encountered the term ‘capsaicin’ again and began remembering this certain chip. Spending some good minutes Googling it with keywords such as ‘7 eleven ph picture 2012’, ‘chili chips Philippines’, and even ‘Oishi old products chili pepper’ (I discovered just now that the chip was actually made by Rebisco), I failed to find this mysterious entity from the past…. until I googled “capsaicin chips ‘Philippines’. The name was ‘TEXAS WILD!’ It felt like the ending scene of Kimi no Nawa as I rediscovered the name. Oh, Rochelle Sy Chua, you’re a blessing for writing an article about this! This brings back so many memories. But now the painful reality dawns – where to buy one?