Originally Posted by
Transpacificflyer
I appreciate that a small number of customers do not like the Miss Vickies product, but there are some aspects which justify the continued use;
- Miss Vickie's, an operating unit of Pepsico manufactures its products in Canada and is often cited as one of the best potato chips available in the market. Personal preferences, I know, but still a popular product in the Canadian market.
- The reduced fat chips are popular with consumers because it gives the false sense of healthy eating as the bag says 40% fewer calories than the regular chips. We all know that these things are bad for us. (Says the fat guy who can easily eat 2 bags) In plain language, I believe that more people like the product than dislike them. And yes, they can be carboardish like, but that is because they are not as soaked in cooking oil as regular chips are. If you want a more soluble chip, bring a little bottle of corn oil and empty it into your potato chip bag and you will have the product you seek.
- Pringles are not a potato chip. Despite the heavy advertising, consumers have an aversion to the product, especially now in a time of "natural" foods.
Air Canada should continue with the Miss Vickies product. I see that the pepsico Lays products are featured in the Asian lounges of TG and BR, but alas they are far greasier than the less oil infused versions of Miss Vickies.
And no, Pepsico, does not give anything away for free. Pepsico does offer bulk purchase incentives and will bundle products much as one sees with consumer items such as toothpaste or mouthwash when a small bottle or tube is included with a larger volume item.
Honestly, it's a snack basket, not a trip to the 7-11. The airline can only stock a few of the most popular items and to date the Canadian market favourite Miss Vickies was one of them. Let us not succumb to the brutal savagery of attacking the innocent, and delicate Miss Vickie, but instead recognize her as a reflection of the journey we are taking with Air Canada, soaring like a delicate puff above the wispy clouds.
Your potato chip will lift you above it all, so sit back and enjoy the flight as your Air Canada crew takes you there in style with the "gourmet" snack basket..........
You took my complaint and went in an entirely different direction with it. Let me be clear.
- I have no problem with Miss Vickie's chips in general. Their salt and vinegar chips are my favourite salt and vinegar chips. There's a new parmesan and roasted garlic flavour that sounds good. Sour cream and onion is nice. My objection is to the stale cardboard reduced-fat regular flavour chips. Are they less greasy? Sure. Do some people like the illusion that it's a healthier product? Possibly. But if that's the case, why do products like that not sell more? The vast majority of chips at the store aren't reduced fat varieties or any other healthy-ish option. So, if you want to stick with Miss Vickie's, I'm fine with that, just give us a flavour that doesn't suck.
- A big part of my problem is that the chips never change. It has been those same terrible chips forever. I would like to, every once in a while, have the pleasure of eating something different. I'm not asking for AC to stock 25 varieties of chips. Stick with one, but make it one that isn't terrible and change it from time to time.
- I think Pringles are an upgrade, but I never said Pringles absolutely should be the replacement. Any one of many other flavours of Miss Vickie's, Lays, Kettle Chips, Pringles, Doritos, etc would be an upgrade over what we have now.
Also, while I seem to have run in to a vocal minority here, I have talked with many SDs about this in the past few months. To synthesize those various conversations, they say the chips often get eaten because it seems like people like to have something to snack on, but they get frequent complaints about the chips not being good, especially from frequent flyers who are sick and tired of them.
Sadly, I've heard from a couple of people that Miss Vickie's Stale Cardboard continues to be served, so it seems my experience was a one-time catering snafu.
Originally Posted by
Queen B
Personally I vote for Hardbite chips! Canadian made and really yummy
Originally Posted by
RangerNS
Not that I fly up front very often (and almost never far enough to get the snack basket). But like the MLL, its going to only ever be fake or mid-scale fancy.
See above. I'm not asking for anything fancy. Just something that doesn't suck.
Again, AA and DL manage this.
Originally Posted by
canadiancow
They also get better rum, vodka, scotch, and whisky.
I didn't even realize they had Glenlivet in the back until you posted this. Maybe I need to hang out more in Y!