Tucker Carlson could arguably be running a comedy show (to rival Gutfeld!), if what he was doing (spreading endless vaccine misinformation) wasn’t so dangerous. When Tucker obsesses on something, man, he really digs in, as was the case when he couldn’t stop talking about Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s swollen testicles. And then there was that time that he went nuts over Don Lemon’s cookie jar, which the Fox News host labeled as some “white supremacist QAnon” piece of regalia.
Tucker really spread the heebie jeebies on Tuesday night after Joe Biden coughed into his hand and then shook other people’s hands. Granted, this was a gross thing to do, even outside of a pandemic. Someone should tell Biden to get a handle on any hygienic gaffes, but somehow, Tucker managed to make the situation even grosser than it already was. First, here’s the cough (and subsequent hand shaking) in action.
And here’s Tucker’s response, which has him describing the situation as such: “Joe Biden breathing on strangers, coughing up phlegm and smearing it on people with his hands. That’s the real hacking scandal. It wasn’t the Russians. It was Joe Biden’s lungs.” Uh, enjoy this clip, too.
Tucker Carlson points out how a maskless Biden is breathing all over people at a Terry McAuliffe campaign “superspreader” event pic.twitter.com/QsgdFr5cg5
Mediaite has even more of the segment, should you desire to hear Tucker go on and on about Biden’s “gaping maw completely uncovered, spewing hot corona breath, panting like an obscene phone caller on innocent passers-by.” Welcome to the newest Tucker obsession, y’all.
Hopefully you were paying attention when Hana Vu roared onto the scene with 2018’s How Many Times Have You Driven By EP on Luminelle Recordings. Songs like “Shallow” showed not only a budding songwriter at 18, but a vocal force who could channel longing and absurdities through a lingering contralto. Since then, Vu has signed with Ghostly and has been recording her upcoming album in her home city of Los Angeles, with co-producer Jackson Phillips of Day Wave.
Public Storage comes out on November 5th via Ghostly and the last of four singles, “Gutter,” is out today, as is an instantly enveloping live performance video. Vu’s soaring vocals leave a lasting mark on the grunge-inflected tune with Phillips playing a gazy guitar hook. There’s just something so fierce about Vu’s delivery that calls to mind recent breakthrough acts like Snail Mail or Soccer Mommy, but with the speakers turned up an extra notch.
When speaking of the album, Vu said in a statement, “I am not religious, but when writing these songs I imagined a sort of desolate character crying out to an ultimately punitive force for something more.” That plea is certainly palpable from the singer on “Gutter” and has been a hallmark of her work since that first EP.
Find the studio and live versions of “Gutter” above and check out the album art and tracklist for Public Storage below.
This summer, Olivia Rodrigo made a trip to the White House in an effort to encourage COVID-19 vaccination among young people. While there, she made a video with Dr. Fauci and she also got to spend some time with President Joe Biden. She spoke about her visit with Biden on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night and revealed that he gave her an unexpected gift: a shoehorn. (For our younger readers, a shoehorn is a spoon-like tool used to help get tight-fitting shoes on.)
Kimmel brought up Rodrigo’s White House visit and showed a photo of her and the president posing while wearing sunglasses. Kimmel jokingly asked if Rodrigo brought her own sunglasses or if those were given to her, and Rodrigo responded, “He gave them to me, actually. He gave me a few gifts: He gave me those, he gave me some M&Ms, and he also gave me a shoehorn, which was strange.”
The host asked in disbelief, “Did he really give you a shoehorn?” Rodrigo responded, “Really. It had the presidential emblem on it. I’m serious, it’s at my house!” Kimmel laughed and joked, “Well, if you ever thought Joe Biden was too old to be president… now we know he is. He’s giving out shoehorns. He’s giving out shoehorns!”
His curiosity wasn’t satisfied yet, though, so he asked if Rodrigo feigned interest in the gift when she received it. She said, “I didn’t see it when he gave it to me. It was in a bag and I opened it and was like, ‘Oh, that’s so cool!’”
The Santa Fe County district attorney is investigating the fatal shooting on the set of the Western movie set Rust and criminal charges are not being ruled out. “It’s probably weeks, if not months, of follow-up investigation that we’re going to need to get to the point of charging,” district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told the New York Times. One person who is unlikely to face a criminal indictment is Alec Baldwin, who fired the prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
“How complicated, as a legal question, does this become if charges are brought and who they’re brought against?” host Anderson Cooper asked CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin during Tuesday’s episode of Anderson Cooper 360. “It’s a very complicated situation,” he replied. “A lot of it has to do, will have to do with state of mind, which is always difficult for prosecutors to show. What did these various people know about the status of this gun at this point? And again, I just want to say at this point, Alec Baldwin looks like, frankly, the least likely person to have any sort of criminal liability, because it’s very hard for me to imagine that he could be expected to know that this was a gun that could have inflicted real harm. Unless evidence comes to show that he had reason to know that, I think he would be criminally in the clear.”
As for the rest of the crew, including the assistant director who reportedly handed Baldwin the gun with “live rounds,” Toobin told Cooper that the first thing the prosecutor will want to know is “who had custody of this gun? Who had access to ammunition? Was there any actual live ammunition on the premises? And who controlled it? And who put it into this gun if, in fact, that’s what happened? Certainly, following the evidence related to the weapon itself will be central to what the investigators have to do.”
The first teaser trailer for Lightyear, which is not about Buzz Lightyear but it is the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on, is here.
The film is directed by Angus MacLane, who told Entertainment Weekly to not think of Lightyear as being set in the world of Toy Story. “Another way to get at it, it’s a straightforward sci-fi action film about the Buzz Lightyear character,” he said. “In the Toy Story universe, it would be like a movie that maybe Andy would have seen, that would have made him want a Buzz Lightyear figure. The movie doesn’t end and then you see Andy eating popcorn. This is its own thing… This is standalone. It’s the Buzz Lightyear movie. It’s that character but as the space ranger, not as the toy.”
Lightyear looks like it has more in common with First Man than Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, but human Buzz will have a laser and rocket legs, MacLane teased, “and you’d probably want to make sure that at some point he had a recognizable antagonist.” Lightyear doubles as an origin story of how Zurg got his purple ensemble.
Lightyear, featuring Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz, hits theaters next summer.
Move over, “alternative facts”—“conspiracy facts” are here! On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to the mask mandate protestors, a.k.a. “pandummies,” who have taken their wild grumblings about the dangers of face mask-wearing from social media to the streets. According to Kimmel, they’re been “popping up at public hearings and school board meetings to complain about mask-wearing and share their conspiracy theories.”
So Kimmel decided to pay tribute to their inanity by cobbling together a best-of video, which he titled “Clown Hall,” in which a seemingly never-ending stream of batsh*t anti-vaxxers spew their bizarre facts about COVID and… E.T.? Here’s just a taste of some of the totally logical arguments made against wearing a thin piece of fabric across your face that could very well save your life.
“If God wanted us to cover our mouth and nose, he would have designed us that way.” (Note: This woman had to read that sentence from her iPhone—just to make sure she got the wording just right.)
“We are designed to breathe oxygen, not our own body waste.”
“Maybe the reason we have people in the hospital is all this mask wearing! Did we ever think of that?! DID WE EVER THINK OF THAT?!” (Those exclamation points aren’t even coming close to communicating the urgency of this woman’s message.)
“I know you guys think that’s a conspiracy theory, but it’s not. It’s a conspiracy fact.”
“If you wore that diaper on your face, if he farted right now, could you smell it?”
“God forbid my son got it and died. That would be hard—that would be so hard. But that was my choice.” (Does this constitute premeditated murder?)
“E.T.! E.T. came down, they quarantined the whole house. They had hazmat suits on. What do you have, short-term memory loss? ‘Cause I think you do.”
“Take one of these spoons and put it on your vaccination spot. Guess what? It’s going to stick to you! Guess what else? You take a black light flashlight and shine it on your veins, and you’re now going to glow in the blacklight because guess what? You’re no longer human.”
And our personal favorite: “YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN WILL BE SUFFOCATED!”
You can watch the full presentation above, beginning around the 6:10 mark. Sound most definitely on!
Lauren Boebert can’t help herself when it comes to making references that only make her look silly. She recently botched an Office Space reference while attempting to draw a parallel between Tylenol and COVID vaccinations. And when it comes to her denial of involvement in plotting the January 6 insurrection, she decided to attempt to channel a super-mega-successful pop star: Ariana Grande.
It’s a lot to process, but it all began when Rolling Stone published an explosive report that quoted Republican organizers who named several lawmakers, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Boebert, who helped to plot the siege on the Capitol. The Rifle Republican issued a “carefully worded statement” (which is the term that was used and roasted on Twitter), in which she denied giving a tunnel tour as reported. She insisted that she’d visited the Capitol with family and ended with a flourish: “Thank you, next.”
“Once again, the media is acting as a messaging tool for the radical left,” Boebert declared. “The left falsely accused me of giving a reconnaissance tour. In reality, I was visiting the Capitol with my family.” She added that Rolling Stone only “[used] anonymous sources and shoddy reporting to attack me. Thank you, next.”
Never mind that Boebert tweeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the insurrection, and that she tweeted, “Today is 1776.” She quoted Ariana’s “Thank U, Next.” It’s time to really stop the presses, and this didn’t totally go unnoticed.
In the six days since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins heartbreakingly—and needlessly—lost her life on the set of the New Mexico-set Western Rust when a live bullet from a prop gun was accidentally discharged by Alec Baldwin, we’ve been learning more and more about the circumstances surrounding this seemingly avoidable tragedy. Through on-set investigations and interviews with people involved in the production, what has emerged is a picture of a set that, even before Hutchins’ death, was in disarray. Just hours before the fatal shooting, the Los Angeles Times reported that several members of the camera crew walked off the project over working conditions that included “long, long commutes and waiting for their paychecks.”
One of the key players in the incident is Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old with little experience who was ultimately hired as the set’s armorer and put in charge of the cache of weapons. (Shortly before Gutierrez-Reed was hired, a prop master with more than 30 years of experience turned down a job on the movie due to what he described as “massive red flags.”)
According to her IMDb profile, Gutierrez-Reed had only ever worked on two films before—and one of those gigs was as a costume assistant. The other was as head armorer on Brett Donowho’s The Old Way, in which Nicolas Cage plays an aging gunslinger whose past is catching up with him. But The Wrap is reporting that Gutierrez-Reed—who is the daughter of noted weapons expert Thell Reed, who has served as a gun coach and/or armorer on several major productions, including L.A. Confidential, Miami Vice, and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood—“was the subject of numerous complaints” while working on The Old Way, and reportedly even had a dust-up with Cage directly.
Stu Brumbaugh, who served as key grip on the Cage Western The Old Way this summer, told The Wrap that Gutierrez-Reed upset both Cage and other crew members on the Montana production by failing to follow basic gun safety protocols like announcing the arrival and usage of weapons onto the set.
After firing a gun near the cast and crew for a second time in three days without warning, Brumbaugh said that Cage yelled at her, “Make an announcement, you just blew my f—ing eardrums out!” before walking off set in a rage. “I told the AD, ‘She needs to be let go,’” Brumbaugh, adding, ‘After the second round I was pissed off. We were moving too fast. She’s a rookie.’”
While an unnamed producer on The Old Way dismissed the story of Cage’s outburst or that it was suggested that Gutierrez-Reed be fired to The Wrap, Brumbaugh and another members of the production claimed that the young armorer’s inexperience “put the cast and crew in several unnecessary and dangerous situations,” noting that she had “walked onto the set with live rounds of blanks and no public announcement to the cast and crew, breaking established safety protocols,” that “she tucked pistols under her armpits and carried rifles in each hand that were ready to be used in a scene [and] firearms were aimed at people,” and that “she twice fired guns on the set without giving any warning to the cast and crew, as required.”
On the set of Rust, the shot that killed Hutchins allegedly wasn’t the first time a gun was accidentally discharged.
Just one month ago, The Wrap reported that Gutierrez-Reed was a guest on the “Voices of the West” podcast, where she discussed her job and described her role on The Old Way as a “really badass way” to kick off her career. While she admitted that she learned part of her craft from her father, she mostly claimed to being self-taught in tasks like loading blanks into a weapon.
“The best part about my job,” Gutierrez-Reed said, “is just showing people who are normally kind of freaked out by guns how safe they can be and how they’re not really problematic unless put in the wrong hands.”
It’s kind of funny how Kit Harington is afraid of screwing up and revealing something he’s not supposed to in regards to the future of his character, Dane Whitman, as the MCU moves forward. After all, this is someone who made it through eight seasons of Game of Throneswithout accidentally giving anything away he shouldn’t have. To the point the only thing he can think of where he was blamed for something was the infamous Starbucks cup that could be seen during the show’s fourth episode of its final season. Which he swears he had nothing to do with.
A good guess around the secrecy involving Harington’s character is probably not who Dane Whitman later becomes – in the comics Dane Whitman is the Black Night and that isn’t really a secret – but probably more to curb expectations about his character in Chloé Zhao’s Eternals. Because he plays an important role in the film’s first act, but that’s about it, and he’s not yet a superhero in this movie. He’s literally just a professor named Dane Whitman who happens to be dating an immortal being, and one of the Eternals, named Sersi, played by Gemma Chan. (Also, though spelled differently, it is kind of funny Harington is in two major franchises with a major character who has that name.)
Ahead, Harington explains why he was a master of giving vague Game of Thrones interviews but is very self-conscious about being the new person in the MCU who might spoil something. Also, he explains how and why he wound up being in the Friends reunion … and, frankly, he’s not really sure why either.
What are the odds you would be in two major world-renowned franchises where you’re dealing with a main character named Sersi?
I know. I think it is just genuinely a coincidence though, isn’t it?
And it’s spelled differently.
Yeah. It’s one of those strange things, it’s a coincidence in so much as that name is a historical name that, obviously, George Martin culled. And so did Jack Kirby. Good name.
So, ”accidentally revealing spoilers” wise, do feel a little less nervous than when you did press for Game of Thrones?
Do I feel more nervous about spoilers on this?
It has to be less, right? Game of Thrones seemed intense.
No, I think I’m more.
More?
Because I knew the rules.
Ah, okay.
Remember, I was doing that for eight years. So I was a bit of a master when it came to not spoiling things.
I see.
Whereas I’m new to this world. And I might go wander in and spoil something. I’m finding my feet about how I don’t say something that I’m not meant to say in this world. You know what I mean? So actually I’m on less terra firma here than I was before.
Interesting. Because I feel like with TV interviews are, “We want to know what happens later on in the season,” as opposed to Eternals, which I’ve seen, and I too don’t want to spoil it for people reading this. So I feel that’s a difference?
Yeah. True. But I think within this, there’s an expectation that there’s going to be further movies, and further things down the line for all the characters. So you just have to stay in the present with the movie you’re in, I guess.
And you’re here to say, “Eternals is the last one. No more Marvel movies.” That would be big news.
[Laughs] Yeah. Yeah.
So you mentioned you were the master, before, of not spoiling things. You never screwed up?
I was pretty good. I think I prided myself.
I don’t remember you screwing up. I believe you.
I got blamed for leaving a coffee cup on a shot once, which wasn’t me.
Well, she [Sophie Turner] blamed me for that. And I swear it wasn’t! Other than that, as far as spoilers, no, I didn’t. I’m pretty good! I’m pretty sure I didn’t mess anything up.
Now with Dane Whitman, in this movie you’re playing kind of a nice and normal fellow, as opposed to all these people with superpowers. For now, that has to be appealing?
It was. With a movie like this, you’re not given the script necessarily before you come in. You’re told various pieces of information. And enough to get you excited about the character that you’re playing, and potentials surrounding that character. But I didn’t really know before seeing the script what kind of a person he was. Now, it was nice playing someone who represented humanity. He was just a nice guy. He was pretty chill. And he sort of just rolled along with everything that was happening, because I feel it sets him in an interesting place, if that makes sense.
So how does this work? Does Marvel come to you? Do you go to Marvel? Who expresses the first interest?
I had a chat with Kevin Feige a year before. Nate Moore, the producer, called me. Not about Eternals, just generally about their new phase four, and would I be interested if the right thing came along? And, obviously, I said I was because I’m a big MCU fan. And I had a meeting with Chloe, and I asked some questions about who this character is, and what plans they might have for him, et cetera. And based on that information, I was like, yeah, I’d love to come on board. You know what I mean? Look at the cast! It’s a pretty incredible cast of characters.
And working with the person who just won Best Director.
And at the time, she hadn’t.
Okay true…
But it was very clear at the time that, awards are awards only, but I was meeting someone who’s a pretty special director.
So for this character down the line, on your resume do you put, “Also have experience using a sword”?
I assume I don’t have to put it on my resume!
By the way, that was a joke on Friends — Joey Tribbiani makes that joke about playing a doctor. I was about to ask if you watched Friends, but just remembered you are in the Friends reunion.
Yes! That was a moment of pre-pandemic madness for me. Like, “Do you want to be part of the Friends reunion?” I was like, “Yeah. Why am I part of the Friends reunion?”
Wait, so that’s how it happened? “Do you want to be part of the Friends reunion?” “I wasn’t on it, but okay.”
Yeah, now it kind of follows me around. Everyone’s like, “I saw you in the Friends reunion!” I was like, “Yeah, I don’t know why I did that.”
At least you got to talk about the “piv-ot” scene. That’s a good scene.
That is a good scene. It is.
So, Dane Whitman. People probably know who he becomes and who he is a little bit, but not as much as other characters. I feel like that’s got to be nice in a way? Where you can kind of do what you want?
It definitely felt, on me – and I’m feeling it even during the press for it, and being around the other guys – the pressure is not on me in this movie. And that’s nice. I got to have a bit of freedom with this character that could do pretty much what I wanted with. And I spoke to Chloe and she’s like, “Just play it very close to you.” And you look at my character breakdown on the information given out about this, it’s a “human who works at the natural history museum.” There’s not much to go on.
To be fair, they could still go to the Wikipedia page if they don’t know and see a lot more of about what this guy did in the comics.
Like what may or may not, for any certainty. So, yeah, I took this for various reasons, but for the potential of where he might go, it’s exciting.
I was going to say there’s probably not going to be anyone who’s like, “This isn’t my Dane Whitman.” But there will be one person. There will be one person who makes it their mission in life to say you’re not their Dane Whitman.
I promise you there will be more than one person.
I’m guessing one.
There’s always more than one person.
There will be one guy with a hashtag, “#notmyDane.” And that’s it.
[Laughs] “Not my Dane.” Yeah.
I’m only guessing one, because people like you. So I think you’re safe.
The ideal tortilla chip needs to be able to handle a lot of abuse. Tough enough to make it home from the grocer in one piece, get dragged through salsa, and scoop up guacamole. It also needs to be tasty — with that distinct salty-corn flavor combo — but not so flavorful that it counts as a Dorito, forcing you to alter your menu lest it overpower other ingredients. Most of all, it’s got to be hearty enough to work in a nacho. If it can’t manage that, what are we even doing here?
Yes, I’ve thought a lot about the parameters for a good tortilla chip. It’s a subject I’m quite passionate about. And in my years of research I’ve discovered two options for acquiring the perfect tortilla chip for your dipping pleasure:
Buy the type that comes in a large unmarked plastic bag from your favorite Mexican carniceria.
Buy corn tortillas, cut them up into triangles, let them dry out a little, and fry them in a pot of oil yourself.
If you do one of these two things, you will always enjoy tortilla chips that taste better than anything you might find in mainstream grocers. Every time. Without fail (unless you… like… start a grease fire or something).
Of course, I realize that those aren’t viable options for everyone. And grocery stores have plenty of ready-made choices available on the cheap. These myriad brands are sometimes trash, often solid, and occasionally damn good — which means you need an expert like me to tell you what’s what. So I grabbed as many bags of tortilla chips from local grocery stores as I could and ranked them based on flavor, construction, and dip-ability.
Check my picks below. Then adjust your shopping list accordingly.
10. Whole Foods 365 — Organic Tortilla Chips
Whole Foods
Before I embarked on this journey of ranking grocery store tortilla chips, I knew I’d find a lot of bad bags, but I never imagined I’d find something quite this bad. Not only do these tortilla chips have almost no flavor — seriously they taste like salt and nothing else — they’re the flimsiest chips I’ve ever come across, which sort of makes them useless.
The ingredients include Organic Stone Ground White Corn, but the corn flavor here is way too faint. The chip is pretty much a way for you to eat textured salt.
The Bottom Line:
Easily the worst grocery store tortilla chip I’ve ever tasted. But hey, it’s organic!
Tortilla chips in a non-see-through package are always something you should avoid. There is too much mystery here, in addition to the possibility of your bag being nothing but tortilla shards, it’s way too hard to judge how much of this bag is air.
Let me dispel that mystery for you with regards to this brand — it’s most of the bag.
As for the chips themselves, they’re very thick, which I like, but they have a stale crunch and a flavor that tastes under salted. The bag I got was mostly air, but the chips were in pretty good shape aside from their weak crunch.
The Bottom Line:
They’re not bad, but I can’t ever see a reason why you’d get these. There are too many better options out there for even cheaper prices.
I want to like Tostitos Scoops! for so many reasons. They’ve been constructed into little bowl shapes with dipping in mind, and they even have an exclamation mark in their title, they’re just so much fun, but they absolutely don’t hold up, and the form factor is a real problem.
They taste great, with a subtle white corn flavor that has just a slight hint of salt and the chips feature a dusty texture that absorbs salsa fantastically, but they’re way too thin to handle the weight of anything you’d dip them in, especially a chunky salsa. While the bowl shape seems like a great idea, they actually force you to awkwardly dip them, which increases the likelihood of them breaking.
You’re better off using a spoon and spooning your salsa into the scoop, but that defeats the purpose — these should be easier to scoop, not harder.
The Bottom Line:
We know, they seem like a good idea, but actually, they’re incredibly stupid.
Mission Tortilla Strips feature a corn-forward flavor and are topped off with the perfect amount of sea salt, with a great thickness that holds up to the abuse of the chunkiest salsas, bean dips, and guacamole. Having said all that, the “Strips” form factor is my least favorite.
You just don’t get enough surface area to get a good scoop, and because they’re so long you either have to take big bites, or triple dip just to finish a single chip. When they break into shards they’re almost completely useless.
The Bottom Line:
The worst tortilla chip form factor. For that reason alone they aren’t worth your time.
Tostitos Original Restaurant Style chips remedy the form factor problem I had with the Scoops and offer the same subtle corn and generously salted flavor. For whatever reason, these chips are a bit greasier than the scoopable version, and ultimately a little too thin for my liking, but they’re thick enough to hold up to most dips.
Just don’t try to scoop them, the chip’s build isn’t strong enough to bear a heavy load and you’ll lose your chip in the dip.
The Bottom Line:
A really great flavor, but just a little too thin to be in the top five.
On the Border’s Cafe Style tortilla chips are easily the greasiest tortilla chips we tried for this ranking, but the flavor and build quality is great. The tortilla chips are well salted and feature a white corn flavor with a craggily surface that captures salsa perfectly, retains its crunch no matter how watery the dip, and has the structural support to handle heavy scoops of guacamole or whole beans.
Before you throw them in a digital cart, I’ve come across several bags with an abundance of crumbly chips, so this is definitely one worth examining first-hand before you buy.
The Bottom Line:
They have a great flavor but if greasy tortilla chips aren’t your thing, look elsewhere.
If On the Border is the greasiest tortilla chip, then Santitas is the saltiest, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The build is exceptional, when they aren’t broken in the bag, Santitas chips are large triangles, with a lot of surface area for scooping up salsa and a thickness that can hold up to any sauce and makes for a great base for nachos.
Yes, the salt will feature prominently and cut through your salsa or guacamole — so if you’re working with a heavily salted salsa, these might not be the best choice. But for dips lacking in flavor, Santitas is a quick fix.
The Bottom Line:
These chips are made by Frito Lay and are generally on the cheaper end, don’t let that dissuade you because these are a great tasting option.
Juanita’s has a bit of a cult following and I’ll agree, they’re good, but they’re a far cry from being as good as everyone says they are. Don’t buy into the hype or the look of the bag, these aren’t a dead ringer for Mexican restaurant tortilla chips like people say, they’re not even close — though they do feature a very natural corn-forward flavor that comes off a bit more homemade than a lot of the other brands.
One of the best features of this chip is its crispiness, they provide a nice audible crunch that makes eating them infectious. Even without a dip, a bowl of these is a winner and the sound of you eating them will inspire everyone in the room to go for a taste.
The Bottom Line:
The best crunch with a nice corn-forward flavor. But not the best of the best.
Calidad puts me in a tough spot, I love the flavor a lot, they remind me the most of the type of tortilla chips you’d find at a Mexican restaurant, but the build quality just isn’t there. They’re on the thinner side and they break easily when you use them for scooping. Still, that heavy yellow corn flavor is so undeniably good that it feels wrong to rank them anywhere below second place.
If these were just a little thicker, I could use them for nachos, but as they are they’re perfect for runnier salsas. So long as you aren’t scooping, these are the best tortilla chips you’ll find on the grocery store shelves.
The Bottom Line:
Great flavor but on the thinner side. Don’t use these chips if you’re a heavier scooper, but for simple dipping these are the best-tasting choice.
Mission Tortilla Rounds are not my favorite tasting tortilla chips on the market (see previous entry), they have a very heavy yellow corn flavor that remains prominent no matter how flavorful your dip of choice is, but they are hands down the best tortilla chips on the market.
The round form factor may not look the best for scooping, and the surface of this chip is a lot smoother than we’d like, but these chips are just so damn versatile. They’re thick enough to withstand dipping, scooping, and layers of beans, veggies, and cheese, and I’ve yet to find a bag that contains mostly shards. Hell, even when these are broken into pieces, those strips are still effective vessels for your salsas and dips.
I suggest grabbing a handful, placing them across a ceramic plate, and smothering them in refried beans, freshly grilled fajitas, Monterey Jack and Oaxaca cheese, and your protein of choice. Place that in the oven at 400 degrees for about 10 minutes and top with fresh cilantro, guacamole, and salsa and you’ve got homemade nachos that will rival your favorite taqueria.
The Bottom Line:
Mission Tortilla Rounds are the most versatile tortilla chip you’ll find. The flavor goes heavy on the corn, but the build of the chip can handle the heaviest of scoops, making them a great base for nachos.
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