Ok, I suppose this is my first official POTATOE chip factor rating. Today at work I ate Smiths thinly cut sour cream and onion. The first thing I noticed before I had even one bite was the colour of the packet, that baby blue, why did they choose that colour? Sour cream is not that colour, onion is not that colour, the whole thing intrigues me, and annoys me a little. I would make the bag red with green shallot tops sticking up from the bottom of the picture and a label dobbing sour cream on the shallots.

Now the taste of the sour cream and onion crisps is high in the shour cream department and low in the onion department, whereas the other way 'round would be mofe suited to my palate. Nonetheless I do like eating these chips. Flavourwsie they are like Luigi to Mario.... always in the backdrop and... boring and lacking edge. I'm not a big fan of the thinly cut crisp movement, and would love to return to the glory days of the crinkle cut.... sigh. Anywhodaloo for these chips I give a chip factor of 3.

For my first potatoe chip review I will actually review Arnott's Barbeque Shapes which are not a potatoe chip at all. This will be the first of many "chips" to go under the factor, which is a score out of five. Alright let's go.
Arnott's are an old time favourite of most people I know, the hexagonal shape of the snack already has most snacks beat, with the hexagon being one of the coolest shapes around. They also help the biscuit fly through the air more easilier when you are using them as ninja stars. This is something you will be doing because the hexagonal biscuit biggest problem is it's lack of flavour, there is never eough of those red and green flakes and they need more salt. I held one of the snacks up to my eye because I don't have a microscope and I found only 25 tiny salt crystals.... not enough.
Everyone knows the joke about the barbeque shapes not tasting like anything like a barbeque or anything you could ever cook on one. Barbeque shapes don't even taste like barbeque sauce.
Because of Arnott's lack of ability to appropriately name their snack and the fact that their snack has no real flavour to name, the Shape of all shapes recieves a chip factor of 2.