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Red Hot Riplets - The Best Hot Potato Chips in the World?

Posted by: Scott Roberts   |   Category: food
Updated on January 19, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Red Hot Riplets Medium-Sized Bag Without a doubt the best spicy potato chips I've ever eaten are Red Hot Riplets, made by the Old Vienna company of St. Louis. They're certainly the hottest chip I've tasted, far surpassing even Blair's Death Rain Habanero Chips. On the back of a bag of these babies it states that these "flavor of America's heartland," which includes "Dakota 'chipping' potatoes" and real "St. Louis Style Hot Sauce" (whatever that is…I mean, the St. Louis, MO area has it's share of chileheads and fans of fiery cuisine, but we're not exactly known as a Mecca of hot sauce). In a "ballpark" estimation of the chips' heat, I'd compare them to a sauce in the range of 50,000 – 100,000 scoville units; a nice burn for most folks but not hot enough to have you running for a fire extinguisher.

But they're more than about heat – they have a slightly sweet flavor with a hint of BBQ sauce. This combination makes them a truly addictive snack. Remember Lay's old slogan "Betcha can't eat just one"? Well, an appropriate tagline for Red Hot Riplets ought to be "betcha can't eat just one BAG". For those who like their munchies with a little kick, these are almost like heroin in chip form.

Red Hot Riplets in Bowl Like the name infers, these are ridged chips with a hearty thickness to them and a beautiful orange-red seasoning. Red Hot Riplets are fried in liquid vegetable oils and because of the cut of the chip are thankfully not overly greasy out of the bag.

Unfortunately for a lot of you reading this, Red Hot Riplets are only available in stores the St. Louis metro area. If you're ever passing through the Gateway City, be sure to stop at a supermarket or convenience store and pick up a bag or two. You may also wish to try contacting Old Vienna at their website and see if they can ship some of these to you by mail. I promise you, it's worth the effort to get your hands on some of these.

Red Hot Riplets in Grocery Store Racks





     Comments

Comment Ray Reeves
2008-02-06 16:28:09
Dear Vienna(Hot Ripplets)Potato Chip Corporation: Hello and to your corporation and staff; I have been trying for years to order your snacks since moving here to Orlando,FL. There's nothing compare to your line of Hot Ripplets and Cheese Snaps; please help me or assist me in ordering your products. Ray
Comment nick1987
2008-02-24 11:11:36
Ray, it looks like you can contact the company at http://oldviennallc.com/contact.htm
Comment t marsh
2008-03-15 10:38:21
awesome, awesome chips. i guess you can call them old school but the taste remains. the old vienna red hot riplets rock but i always liked their barb-q chips too.
Comment tmarsh
2008-03-15 10:44:12
my bad, not the barb-q, the cheesy chips, does anyone remember the kas barb-q chips?
Comment RedBirdsRule
2008-03-17 13:43:08
No arguement here...Red Hot Riplets rule...Old Vienna could make a fortune by distributing these chips nation wide!!
Comment j.dunbar
2008-03-25 15:05:22
tmarsh, remember the old KAS chips. But the ones I really remember were the old Ozark BBQ chips. They were the BEST!!! They had the picture of the hillbilly on the bag and they had a delicious, almost sweet barbeque taste similar to the Red Hot Riplets....without the intense heat of course. I live in South County, MO and I haven't been able to find them in years.
Comment Tyler Van Der Haar
2008-03-27 13:29:38
Damn right they are the best. Im scarfin a bag of Red Hots right now while writing this.
Comment TMARSH
2008-04-06 18:41:32
hey j. dunbar, i'm over here in valley park and i ain't seen them in forever either. they rank right up there with the old hostess cakes "chocodiles" that you cant get around here anymore. i had a real hankerin for some last year so i ordered some off of ebay, they still make them on the west coast. a friend of mine also found some in the mountains in arizona and sent me some back here.
Comment superfly
2008-04-10 22:20:12
what the hell my lifelong favorite red hot riplet has had a makeover the bag I purchased 4-6-08 not the same!!! someone please explain
Comment Marcus
2008-04-14 15:36:54
Check out the MySpace page for these chips. LOL.

http://www.myspace.com/rippletts


Comment blessed
2008-04-28 22:48:56
i am very disappointed with the change in the chips. the original redhot riplets did not have all this barbeque flavor in them. i to am old skool so please help me to purchase the original redhot riplets, because the flavor has change. there's to much of the barbeque flavor HELP ME TO FIND THE ORIGINALS
Comment OriginalRedHot Lover
2008-05-02 02:56:02
As a lifelong St. Louisian, I became "addicted" to these chips. Even when I moved away for a while, I used to dream about grabbing a bag or two when I passed through the "Gateway City." However, recently Old Vienna has changed the chip from a thicker wide ridged chip to a thinner ridged chip. Furthermore, they have changed the distinct flavor to a more mundane barbeque flavor. I thought I was the only one who noticed the change! I plan to email Old Vienna to complain about this change. I hope the rest of you "original" Red Hot Riplet lovers will do the same! If anyone knows where I can find some of the original Red Hot Riples, please email the store location to me. Thanks.
Comment TPW
2008-05-02 15:03:00
When did the flavor of Red Hot Riplets change? Just recently, as in the past few months? I'd be pissed if it did.>:(

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