Just so everyone knows, this is my first time reviewing anything ever :] I am confident that I will eventually get good at this, practice always makes perfect.
I first heard about Ruffles Ultimate Smokehouse Bacon Dip on the Internet. I'm 100% sure it was on someones blog but I haven't a clue who's it was. Like a lot of people I am automatically attracted to anything and everything containing bacon and this dip was no exception. I knew I wanted to try it but I was not so intrigued as to go out of my way to buy it. Then... all of a sudden.... one day I was in Wal-Mart looking at one of those clearance shelves (you know the ones where they put tons of random crap and mark the price down with hopes that someone will buy it), and BAMO! I saw a jar of this stuff! I got so exited and even more exited when I saw that everything that was on clearance was an additional 50% off at the register, so I got this baby for just $1.50, can you say super shopping score?!?!
When I first tried this dip out, I was not intending to write a review on it, because that was actually a few days before I started this blog. My initial thoughts were that I thought the jar that I had purchased was expired because it looked weird upon opening it. I wish I would have taken a picture, but the best way I could describe it: it looked much thicker then other dips, almost aerated. And it was pulled away from the sides of the jar at the top creating a hollow ring which honestly looked off to me. This jar was not expired all though it was old, it had dust on it and the expiration date was only two months away. I suppose that is why it was on the super clearance rack! :P I did still taste it and I ate the whole portion that I had put on my plate, but the next day I was sure to hop on over to FGFB to take a look at their pictures and see if their dip looked the same as mine (just to make sure it really hadn't gone bad). Sure enough the texture in their pictures matched what I had at my house perfectly so I am now sure it was not bad, but rather just had an odd texture.
This dip looks very chunky. It is white, and you can actually see the chunks of bacon in it along with some other stuff, looks to me like peppercorns maybe? I'm not really sure though, there are also some strands that resemble onion. Once you get it out of the jar it actually looks quite yummy and appealing.
Sorry about the crappy cell pics with no macro (I know shame on me) I still haven't gotten batteries for my camera yet.
It does smell like bacon, but honestly I think it smells closer to Slim Jims lol. But I think that Ruffles did a pretty good job with the bacon scent here because it is very close.
The first thing I taste is the tangyness. It reminds me of a sour cream and onion flavored dip. The base is definitely nice and creamy not thin at all. Once you hit the bacon chunks it completely transforms the taste, the flavor gets less tangy and more smokey. I think the bacon taste similar to tiny chucks of beef jerky, rather than bacon. I do not think that if I tasted this blind folded that I would be able to tell that it was a bacon flavored dip, but never the less, it still does taste yummy.
Look how giant the chunks of bacon are!
I tried this dip out with corn tortilla chips and it worked quite well. The flavors went nice together, I am curios to see how it would taste with the Ruffles Ultimates chips that it has been advertised to go with. I think that if eaten with a flavored chip it would probably enhance the bacon dip and make it even more yummy.
So thick that it won't even slide off the chip when held upright :O
The first time I tried this, I was not a fan. By go around #2 I do say it has definitely grown on me. I am glad I bought it and I may even buy it again.
I would rate Ruffles Ultimate Smokehouse Bacon Dip a 3/5.
Pros: New and interesting turn to old dips, super chunky, big pieces of bacon, nice scent
Cons: odd texture, cant really tell its bacon flavored
I generally love bacon dips. I haven't tried this one though!
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Tried this myself just tonight and it's so disgusting. I can't place the flavor as it really does not taste like sour cream (it's actually made from tapioca and sour cream powder). It is very thick, but not in a good way. It does look like it went bad in the jar when you open it, and that nasty consistency follows through as you dig down into it. I love dips, all kinds of dips, and this was the first one to turn my tummy as I was eating it. Just pure grossness.
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