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Stephen A. Smith Says Draymond Green Is ‘Expecting’ This To Be His Last Season With The Warriors

Draymond Green is currently taking time away from the Warriors after video of him rocking Jordan Poole with a punch at practice went viral.

The reported reason for the altercation was Green feeling that Poole was rubbing his impending extension in Green’s face, as the veteran is not expected to land a new contract from the Warriors before he hits free agency this summer (unless he chooses to pick up his player option for 2023-24). The irony in that is the punch makes it even more difficult for the Warriors to commit to Green on another long-term contract, considering he punched a guy they’re about to make part of their core.

Green has stated that he wants to be with the Warriors for life, but also understands how rare that is. The Warriors, meanwhile, have youngsters behind Green they just drafted that they might feel can slide into his (very large) shoes on the defensive end and at least somewhat replace him and keep them at a contender level in the future. Whether that’s true remains to be seen, but despite another championship banner going up next Tuesday in the Chase Center, the feeling seems to be trending towards Green and the Warriors parting ways sooner than later.

On Monday, Stephen A. Smith asserted just that in no uncertain terms, noting that his understanding is that Poole and Andrew Wiggins are the “priorities” for the Warriors, while Green is “expecting” this to be his final season in the Bay.

Smith notes that Green’s preference would be to join the Lakers, but financially that is a very difficult thing to have happen unless he’s willing to forego a big contract on his next deal to join his friend LeBron James. However, Smith also points out that all of this can still work to the Warriors benefit this season, because Green now has to show that he’s worth a longterm lucrative deal from someone next offseason. That means being a DPOY candidate (again) while also avoiding some of the Draymond being Draymond moments, as he’s exhausted about all of his goodwill in that regard with his practice punch of Poole.

Green’s free agency market is truly fascinating to think about, as there’s no doubt of his ability and impact on winning, but he’s also done so in a situation that’s been built around him defensively — and with an offensive star that can mask his deficiencies on that end with their two-man game taking advantage of opponents sagging off of him. It’s hard to imagine Green anywhere other than the Warriors, because he’s such a unique player who doesn’t fit into the traditional mold of a big that you see on most any other team. As such, it’s hard to know how other teams will value him on the market and how much they’ll want to pay him at 33 years old next summer.

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When Is ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Coming Out?

Nintendo finally unleashed the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie and fans went absolutely nuts for Jack Black as Bowser. As for Chris Pratt as Mario, well, not so much. But that little mushroom bump aside, Nintendo fans are stoked for the long-awaited movie from Illumination, the powerhouse creators behind the Despicable Me and Minions movies. Fortunately, there’s not too long of a wait for Mario’s first animated adventure. (We’d say it his first movie, but anyone who was around in the ’90s knows that’s not the case.)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will hit theaters on April 7, 2023. Along with Black and Pratt, the film will be packing one hell of a cast when its release date comes around. Check out this line-up:

Charlie Day as Luigi.
Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach.
Keegan Michael-Key as Toad.
Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.
Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong.
Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek.
Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike.

Despite the controversy around his casting, Pratt has remained upbeat about the project and revealed he’s a lifelong fan of the classic Nintendo character. Here’s what he said in an Instagram video shortly after his Mario role was announced in September 2021:

“It just dawned on me right now. The quarter I stole out of the wishing well to play Super Mario Bros. has come true that I get to be the voice of Mario. But I clearly stole someone else’s wish, so just waiting for that row of karma dominoes to come crashing down on me. But for now, it’s-a me, Mario.”

The Super Mario Bros. Movie smashes into theaters on April 7, 2023.

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Azealia Banks Slammed Kanye For His Recent Comments About Lizzo: ‘He Has An Entire McDonald’s Commercial’

Once again, Azealia Banks has something to say; this time, her message is directed at Kanye West.

West recently appeared on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight to offer his thoughts on many things, most notably on how there has been a “demonic” promotion of obesity by the media and alleged that it will lead to the “genocide of the Black race.”

“When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots … on Instagram, they attack her losing weight because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy,” he said. “It’s demonic.”

Banks responded to West’s comments, defending the “About Damn Time” singer, in a recent Instagram story post: “He can’t be trying to lollipop off the four-year-old discussion about Lizzo’s health and weight when he has an entire McDonald’s commercial,” she wrote, referencing Ye’s 2022 Super Bowl commercial for the fast food chain restaurant.

During a recent concert in Toronto on Friday, Lizzo herself offered a response.

“I feel like everybody in America got my motherf*cking name in their motherf*ucking mouth for no motherf*cking reason,” she told the crowd.“I’m minding my fat Black beautiful business,” she added before asking the audience, “Can I stay here? Who can I marry for that dual citizenship?”

On the other hand, Banks has also had critical comments about Lizzo and her weight in the past. In 2019, she wrote in an Instagram story, “I hate you, fat Lizzo,” she said. “I f*cking hate you, girl.”

Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Kaley Cuoco Being ‘Bored’ Led To A ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Decision That ‘Bit Me In The Ass’

Starring in a little-seen indie movie led to the “worst decision” of Kaley Cuoco’s time on The Big Bang Theory. In an excerpt from The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series, an oral history of the hit CBS sitcom, the Harley Quinn star discussed Penny’s pixie-cut makeover in season eight. “I just f*cking cut my hair off and didn’t tell anyone. I did it for an independent film called Burning Bodhi, and basically showed up to our Big Bang wrap party with short hair,” she said.

The Big Bang Theory co-creator Chuck Lorre was startled by Cuoco’s new look (“Had she come to me, I would have told her how the ratings dropped on Dharma & Greg when Jenna Elfman did the same thing, and they dropped on Felicity as well,” he said), but she was “bored and sick” of Penny’s entire look after 150-plus episodes of it.

“What’s funny is I thought by cutting my hair, I would spend less time in the hair and makeup chair, even though I loved the hair and makeup team. And then in my attempt to spend less time on my hair, that decision bit me in the ass and it took way longer to do my short hair. I was like, ‘This is the worst decision! What was I thinking?!’ I thought I was cutting off all this time, because I hated going in and getting ready. That’s why I was wearing my hair up so much in season six and seven. So then I cut it and it ended up being more work because it wasn’t easy to style.”

Cuoco didn’t love the extra fuss over her pixie cut, but “I had fun with it, and I did like it. I’m sure it was being negatively talked about all over the place, but I didn’t pay as much attention to what people were saying on social media then,” she said, adding, “Whatever, there’s always going to be haters.” Lots of them.

The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series comes out on October 11.

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Craft Beer Experts Shout Out The Best Brown Ales To Drink In October

Like many beer styles, the brown ale can trace its origins to England. Specifically, to the 1700s. But, also like many beer styles, it’s been updated and changed over the centuries by brewers all over the world, especially in the United States.

A great beer for fall, traditionally brown ales are known for their dark brown appearance and a more-malts-than-hops flavor profile. Depending on the brown ale, they can also feature flavors like chocolate, caramel, and toffee.

All in all, brown ales are a great, highly underrated choice for fall drinking and brewers agree. That’s why we asked a few well-known craft brewers and experts to tell us their picks for the best brown ales to drink this fall. They didn’t disappoint with classic English brown ales flavored brown ales, and even coffee-filled autumnal monsters.

Keep reading to see all of their epic, seasonal picks!

Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown

Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown
Samuel Smith’s

Matthew Steinberg, head brewer and co-founder of Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts

ABV: 5%

Average Price: $11.50 for a four-pack

Why This Beer?

Samuel Smith Nutbrown Ale is a brown ale I look forward to every fall. Although, I have been known to enjoy it throughout the year. I learned about this beer in 1990 at a Grateful Dead show in Albany and from that point on, I always craved the best beers around. It’s bold but still offers a medium-dry finish while covering your palate with rich malt.

Love this beer and always will.

Newcastle

Newcastle
Newcastle

Nick Nock, founding head brewer at SweetWater Brewing Company in Atlanta

ABV: 4.7%

Average Price: $10 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

I love Newcastle even though it is a brewer’s sin to have a quality beer in a clear bottle, especially from across the pond.

I was in Amsterdam, and this bartender turned me on to a splash of Kahlua at the bottom of a pint glass and topped it off with Newcastle. Delicious, absolutely delicious. Too much Kahlua will kill it, so it has to be the lucky amount.

608 Riverside Brown

608 Riverside Brown
608

Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin

ABV: 5%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Hands down Riverside Brown by 608 Brewing Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin is my go-to brown ale for the fall. It has a light nutty dryness but is balanced with slight Ovaltine and caramel sweetness that makes this a really easy brown ale to drink.

Surly Bender

Surly Bender
Surly

James Bruner, director of production at The Bruery in Placentia, California

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Still one of my favorite American brown ales of all time is Bender, the first-ever beer made by Surly Brewing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It has medium roast coffee, cocoa, and caramel from the malt base, with fruity English yeast esters and a touch of floral hops to round it out.

Bender reminds me of my early days in the craft beer industry when people were still excited about beers like brown ales and porters.

Birdsong Lazy Bird Brown

Lazy Dog Birdsong Brown
Birdsong

Zach Fowle, advanced cicerone and head of marketing at Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. in Phoenix, Arizona

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $9.99 for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans

Why This Beer?

It’s made year-round, but Birdsong Lazy Bird Brown Ale tastes best when the leaves start to turn. It’s smooth and roasty, with notes of dry unsalted cashews accented by baked bread, chocolate-covered raisins, and just a hint of orange peel. These drop off at the swallow, replaced mostly with a burnt toast bitterness that’s at a perfect level.

It’s substantial where it needs to be and ephemeral where it doesn’t.

Big Sky Moose Drool

Big Sky Moose Drool
Big Sky

Dan Schmelzer, head brewer at Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California

ABV: 5.2%

Average Price: $9.50 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

Big Sky Brewing’s Moose Drool was the first brown ale I tried a couple of decades ago when I was first exploring craft beer, and it remains my favorite brown ale after all these years. With enough flavor from the specialty malts to keep it interesting but not cloying, yet balanced with some classic earthy hops to provide just enough bitterness to create a medium-dry finish that leaves you wanting another.

Brooklyn Brown Ale

Brooklyn Brown Ale
Brooklyn

Morgan O’Sullivan, co-owner at FlyteCo Tower in Denver

ABV: 5.6%

Average Price: $11.99 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

The Brooklyn Brown Ale by Brooklyn Brewery is medium-bodied, and creamy, with hints of oats and bread. There’s a reason it’s one of the most popular brown ales on the market. It’s definitely a great fall beer that you’ll want to keep stocked in your fridge every year.

Abita Turbodog

Abita Turbodog
Abita

Fal Allen, head brewer at Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in Booneville, California

ABV: 5.6%

Average Price: $9.50 for a six-pack

Why This Beer?

The little-known and often overlooked Sierra Nevada Brown Ale is one of the best out there. It does not get wide distribution but is worth seeking out when available. It is a traditional English-style brown ale that uses an English Fuggle hop derivative and Styrian Goldings. It has a pleasant spicy hop note that balances nicely with roasty bready flavors in the beer. It not sweet and yet had a pleasing balance with a hint of sweetness.

Sadly, this beer is currently on hiatus. If you need one that is currently in production, grab Abita Turbodog. This English-style brown ale is known for its rich, chocolate, and caramel flavors.

Wood Kettle Brother Bear

Wood Kettle Brother Bear
Wood Kettle

Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing Co in Rochester, New York

ABV: 4.7%

Average Price: Limited Availability

Why This Beer?

Brother Bear from Wood Kettle Brewing. This brown ale is a great example of a true brown ale. It won big last year at the NYSBA competition. It has all the dark malt characteristics with a great light body.

Surly Coffee Bender

Surly Coffee Bender
Surly

Rob Day, vice president of marketing for Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts

ABV: 5.5%

Average Price: $9.50 for a four-pack

Why This Beer?

I’m going to cheat a bit on this one and go with Surly Coffee Bender. Brown ales by nature are a very simplistic style that I haven’t found my favorite pure version of yet. However, Coffee Bender sets a straightforward brown ale base and lets the Guatemalan coffee shine. It’s got a full body and a full range of flavors.

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Steve Lacy’s ‘Bad Habits’ Holds Off Kim Petras And Sam Smith’s ‘Unholy’ To Reclaim The Hot 100’s Top Spot

Last week, Compton crooner Steve Lacy managed to overtake Harry Styles to take the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Lacy’s surprise hit, “Bad Habit,” dethroned Styles’ record-breaking hitAs It Was,” with Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ “Unholy” coming in third place. This week, though “Unholy” rose one position to take second place and leave “As It Was” in third, Lacy fended off the two pop stars to hold onto the top spot for the second week in a row.

Considering that “Bad Habit” has been labeled an R&B/Soul song, the feat is even more impressive as the genre hasn’t traditionally been all that successful in the history of Hot 100 chart. Even more impressively, the song’s narrative is explicitly queer, which makes it something of an outlier within the R&B genre. The track’s success was largely driven by TikTok, soundtracking thousands of videos on the platform and spiking the sort of curiosity that drives engagement on traditional DSPs.

According to Billboard.com, “Bad Habits” pulled in 20.6 million streams and 2,000 downloads in the past week, as well as 41.5 million radio airplay audience impressions, a 7% increase from the week before. The album on which it appears, Gemini Rights, was Lacy’s first top 10, peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.

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Voice recordings of people who were enslaved offer incredible first-person accounts of U.S. history

This article originally appeared on 03.09.20


When we think about the era of American slavery, many of us tend to think of it as the far distant past. While slavery doesn’t exist as a formal institution today, there are people living who knew formerly enslaved black Americans first-hand. In the wide arc of history, the legal enslavement of people on U.S. soil is a recent occurrence—so recent, in fact, that we have voice recordings of interviews with people who lived it.


Many of us have read written accounts of enslavement, from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography to some of the 2,300 first-person accounts housed in the Library of Congress. But how many of us have heard the actual voices of people who were enslaved telling their own stories?

ABC News’ Nightline with Ted Koppel aired a segment in 1999 in which we can hear the first-person accounts of people who had been enslaved taken from interviews conducted in the 1930s and 40s (also housed in the Library of Congress). They include the voice of a man named Fountain Hughes, who was born into slavery in 1848 and whose grandfather had “belonged to” Thomas Jefferson.

As Koppel says in the segment, “The results of these digitally enhanced recordings are arresting, almost unbelievable. The idea of hearing the voices of actual slaves from the plantations of the Old South is as powerful—as startling, really—as if you could hear Abraham Lincoln or Robert E. Lee speak.”

Indeed, hearing formerly enslaved people share their experiences of being bought and sold like cattle, sleeping on bare pallets, and witnessing whippings for insubordination is a heartbreaking reminder of how close we are to this ugly chapter of our history. The segment is well worth ten minutes to watch:


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Service dog flunks out of training school in spectacular fashion

This article originally appeared on 02.26.20


Double H Canine Academy in Louisville, Kentucky is a place where dog owners can take their rambunctious pets and have them turned into respectable members of the family.

However, as you can tell in this hilarious video, not all dogs are meant to follow orders.

Ladies and gentleman, meet Ryker.


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As you can see below, Ryker is living his life to the fullest. While he may never be the world’s greatest service dog, he continues to provide an invaluable testament to being true to one’s self.

RYKER “The Purpose Driven Dog”🐕……..

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Every Single Flavor Of Kettle Chips, Ranked

On most days, I’m a Lay’s guy. I’ll take some Lay’s Classics with a fresh squeeze of lime over any flavor Pringle, Frito, Flamin’ Hot whatever the f*ck, Cheeto, tortilla chip, or Dorito. Lay’s are, as far as I’m concerned, the next best side snack to french fries. But some days, when I feel like going a little wild, I’ll grab a bag of Kettle Brand chips and crunch on them ’til my mouth is raw.

Kettle Brand and Lay’s couldn’t be more different. Lay’s are light and crispy, almost paper thin, but Kettle Brand delivers the texture. Kettle chips have more bite, they’re more satisfying, and because they’re much thicker and crunchier, they tend to hold flavors much better than the lighter potato chips out there. The brand also has a tendency to favor premium ingredients, making each flavor an experience in and of itself, unlike say, Doritos, which has too many flavors that taste totally redundant (I know, I’ve ranked them all).

What makes Kettle chips special more than anything is that they are fried in a hot kettle of oil and that makes all the difference. Instead of simply being crispy, this results in an almost caramelized quality that makes the flavors come across as richer, deeper, and more complex. It’s an upmarket chip, not always great for dipping but often excellent on its own.

To help you find the Kettle chips worthy of your pantry space, we decided to rank every single flavor we could get our hands on. Here is the verdict!

15. Unsalted

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Why? Light salt I can understand, but totally naked kettle-fried potato chips?

These taste like nothing and anyone who tells you they’re in the least bit enjoyable is lying to you. There is the slightest hint of sweetness, but mostly it tastes like you’re eating stale dried potato.

The Bottom Line:

Skip this flavor unless you literally can’t have anything else. Like if you have gout or something. And even then, there has got to be something better to snack on.

14. Truffle Oil and Sea Salt

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

The “and sea salt”’ of this flavor might as well not exist because all you’re going to taste here is that truffle oil. It has strong savory umami notes, but I think this chip is a little too overwhelming to rank any higher for me. With the right sort of dip I can see this tasting really rich and delicious, but on its own, it’s just too much and hovers a bit too close to tasting rotten.

The Bottom Line:

It should taste great with the right dip, but on its own, it’s way too overwhelming unless you’re in love with that truffle oil flavor.

13. Sour Cream & Onion

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Sour Cream & Onion is a staple flavor of potato chips, and while these are delicious, I don’t think this flavor translates that well to the kettle chip form. The caramelized sweetness that comes with the batch-cooked kettle fried process clashes with the tangy flavor profile of this combination of sour cream and onion. It’s not as sharp and intense as this flavor typically is, it’s a lot more subtle which may or may not be what you want.

The Bottom Line:

We want more of a tangy bite, this misses the mark a bit.

12. Sea Salt

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

As I mentioned in the lede, I love Lay’s Classic, which is one of the simplest potato chips on the market. You’d think that would mean I have a preference for simple potato chips, but where I’ve ranked Kettle’s similar Sea Salt flavor proves that that isn’t really the case. This flavor is just fine, it’s salty, slightly sweet, and has a nice thick texture but Kettle Brand makes a lot of different variations on Sea Salt, all of which are much more enjoyable to eat than this one.

The Bottom Line:

It’s simple, salty, and sweet, but Kettle offers a few flavors that add a single ingredient or two and better utilize sea salt.

11. Honey Dijon

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Don’t let Honey Dijon landing near the bottom of this list read as a bad thing — we’ve now reached Kettle Brand’s first truly great flavor of this ranking. The Honey Dijon is incredibly tasty, with sweet honey notes on the nose and a flavor profile that brings you through all sorts of nuanced earthy flavors.

The chip starts off sweet before settling into an earthier bitterness, snapping into a floral-backed tang, and a lingering sweet aftertaste. It’s a journey of flavors that never gets boring.

The Bottom Line:

Sweet, tangy, earthy, and then sweet again. Honey Dijon offers shifting flavors that are a joy to taste.

10. Dill Pickle

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Dill Pickle feels a little redundant, it relies heavily on vinegar and garlic, two ingredients that show up in so many different Kettle flavors. But while Dill Pickle feels repetitive, it’s also a little too delicious to rank any lower. The initial flavor is mostly indebted to spicy garlic and tangy vinegar, but there is an earthy pickle-backed bitterness at the end that makes this chip incredibly addicting.

Like the Truffle Oil flavor, this one needs a dip to truly shine, but it’s delicious enough on its own that even without a dip, it’s still pretty damn good.

The Bottom Line:

They mostly taste like garlic and vinegar, but if you like pickles the aftertaste here is really going to satisfy you in a way the other flavors won’t.

9. Sea Salt & Vinegar

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

The Seal Salt flavor was bland and boring but the Sea Salt & Vinegar adds that one extra ingredient that makes this flavor really work. There is so much to offer here, it’s sweet and salty, with a savory finish that soaks into the tongue and the perfect thick texture.

There is something so satisfying about the way this flavor works with the crunch of the chip, it tastes like it should be Kettle Brand’s default flavor, like they could just call it “Kettle Brand Classic.” It’s the foundation that some of the higher-ranked flavors are built from.

The Bottom Line:

If you’ve never tried Kettle Brand and you want to know what it’s all about, start here.

8. New York Cheddar

New York
Kettle Brand

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

New York Cheddar is f*cking awesome. This is truly one of the best-tasting cheddar flavored chips you’re going to find on the market. It doesn’t taste overly cheesy, salty, or artificial — like Cheddar Ruffles or Cheetos. Instead, you get a nice sharp kick, a little sweetness, and a mix of the natural nutty qualities of cheddar, and a bit of sour cream tang.

The Bottom Line:

The best cheddar-flavored chips on the market, no contest.

7. Backyard BBQ

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

This was a tough one to rank because Kettle Brand makes three different BBQ-flavored chips, and they’re all pretty delicious. Backyard BBQ is my least favorite of the three. This chip hits you with an initial sweetness that turns smokey and leaves a subtle burn of garlic and onion flavors at the aftertaste.

It’s incredibly fragrant, and it lends itself well to the thick texture of this crunchy chip.

The Bottom Line:

Truly a smokey and savory delight. One of the best BBQ potato chips on the market, but far from Kettle Brand’s best.

6. Salt & Pepper

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Look, I know Salt & Pepper is ranked way too high on this list, but I don’t care, it’s my ranking, and I f*cking love this flavor. It’s my go-to! It might seem simple, but it should actually be called “Salt, Pepper, & Onion” because this flavor has a distinct sharp onion flavor at the finish that makes it incredibly savory and addictive.

The initial salt and pepper flavors are really nice too, big flakes of black pepper dot every chip, offering fragrant and earthy peppercorn notes that help to elevate this chip very close to being as good as a fresh piping hot order of well-seasoned French fries.

The Bottom Line:

The only potato chip flavor that could stand in as a substitute for an order of fries. Eat it with a burger and you’ll be amazed at how little you miss the French fries.

5. Bourbon BBQ

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Far smokier than the Backyard BBQ, the Bourbon BBQ hits you with that same initial sweetness but features a tangier flavor with more pronounced smokey notes. I’m getting a bit of paprika here with some rich dark sweetness that sort of approximates bourbon, but not exactly.

The Bottom Line:

Sweeter and smokier than the Backyard BBQ.

4. Pepperoncini

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Here is the thing about the Kettle Brand Pepperoncini, it doesn’t taste anything like actual pepperoncini chili peppers. It doesn’t have that bright spicy sweetness, but, don’t let that bother you because name aside, this flavor is delicious. It’s very vegetal, with a green bell pepper-esque flavor that starts sweet, shifts into tangy territory, and ends with a garlicky aftertaste.

The Bottom Line:

The Pepperoncini doesn’t exactly taste like pepperoncini, but it’s still deliciously vegetal and fresh tasting, and who could hate that?

3. Farmstead Ranch

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Like the New York Cheddar, Kettle Brands absolutely nails ranch-flavored chips, no contest. In a ranking of ranch chips, I’m positive Farmstead Ranch would come up on top. This chip has a healthy dusting of dried ranch powder all over each chip, offering a satisfying buttermilk-indebted flavor.

It has a nice balance of salty, garlicky, and sweet flavors that taste akin to dipping your chip into actual ranch dressing. Yes, it’s that good!

The Bottom Line:

Hands down one of the best ranch-flavored chips you’ll ever eat. It tastes remarkably natural and will satisfy if a bottle of real ranch isn’t handy.

2. Korean BBQ

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

I have to give it to Kettle Brand, they somehow made three different BBQ flavors that all taste distinctively different, but their best is easily the Korean BBQ. Unlike the Backyard and Bourbon BBQ, this Korean BBQ puts less emphasis on smokey flavors and ups the sweetness to a considerable degree.

The resulting flavor is a perfect blend between dark molasses sweetness and savory sweet onion with the slightest hint of smokey notes on the backend.

The Bottom Line:

Kettle Brand’s best BBQ flavor and easily one of the best BBQ chips on the market.

1. Jalapeño

Kettle Brand
Dane Rivera

Price: $3.19

Tasting Notes:

Here it is, Kettle Brand’s best flavor by a mile. Spicy chips are all the rage — just look at the success of Flamin’ Hot! — but while those chips deliver the heat, they tend to lack in flavor, coming across as grossly artificial. These jalapeño chips take an opposite approach, offering a more subtle and natural take on spice.

It’s not hot enough to burn your tongue or make you sweat, but what this flavor lacks in heat, it makes up for in taste. At first, you’ll be hit with an initial sweetness followed by some bright vegetal notes with a strong hint of garlic. After the first couple of chips, you’re going to wonder where the heat is but after about four or five the spice starts to accumulate in the back of the throat, growing hotter and hotter with each chip. That makes eating these chips incredibly addicting — as you start to chase the heat you’ll likely find yourself pouring yourself another serving whether you’re hungry or not.

If that’s not the sign of a truly great chip, I don’t know what is.

The Bottom Line:

A natural approach to spicy chips, Kettle Brand’s Jalapeño is the most elevated and complex spicy chip you’ll ever eat. Your move, Flamin’ Hot.

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Rising Argentine Stars Trueno And Tiago PZK Team Up For Their ‘Hood’ Remix Video

Two of Argentina’s rising stars have teamed up for a new collaboration. On Friday (October 7), Trueno released the music video for his “Hood” remix featuring Tiago PZK.

In the past year, Trueno has emerged as a revelation in the Latin rap scene. Back in May, Gorillaz brought him out as a special guest during the band’s Quilmes Rock concert, with Trueno performing a new freestyle rap over “Clint Eastwood.” Last month, he was featured in NPR’s Tiny Desk spin-off El Tiny for Latinx Heritage Month.

Meanwhile, Tiago PZK has also become an artist on the rise from Argentina. Though he was a part of the country’s Latin trap wave, he has since embraced other genres like R&B and alternative influences on his album Portales, which was released in July. Tiago PZK scored one of the biggest hits of the year with the “Entre Nosotros” remix featuring fellow Argentine acts Lit Killah, María Becerra, and Nicki Nicole. Their collaboration has amassed over 170 million streams on Spotify.

The “Hood” remix marks the second collaboration between Trueno and Tiago PZK. The song was first released on Trueno’s breakthrough album Bien O Mal in May. Tiago PZK’s soulful voice sound at home on Trueno’s heartfelt ballad. Its perfectly rounded out by Trueno’s chill rap flow. The two artists trade verses about returning home and finding out how life has changed since they left. Trueno and Tiago PZK bring the nostalgia of the remix to life in the video as they sing together in front of a rising sun.

Trueno is nominated for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song for “Dance Crip” at the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards. In November, Tiago PZK’s Portales Tour will visit venues in Brooklyn and LA.

Tiago PZK is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.