we wanted to find out all the differences

between Lay's chips in the US and in India.

This is "Food Wars."

Here are all the Lay's chips you'll find in India

that you won't find in the US.

And here are all the Lay's chips in the US

you can't find in India.

Oh, my good God. Yeah!

To begin things, I'm going to go with the one

I hate the most, Spanish tomato tango.

Yeah, I just never really liked this flavor.

It's just too heavy on the tomato side.

No. Oh, man, that aftertaste is horrible.

I have nothing nice to say about this flavor.

Also, just to note, our standard Lay's chips

come in the ridge style.

We do also sell the flat style,

but that's more of a special variety of Lay's.

Next, it's West Indies hot and sweet chili,

formerly Caribbean hot and sweet chili.

That's what I'm talking about.

Get out of here!

And now for the maharaja of Indian Lay's,

magic masala.

If you haven't heard of this,

you must be living under a rock,

because this is the little emperor of chips.

Commonly known as blue Lay's.

Look at this chip, dude!

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

It's already so spicy.

The reason this chip has become so popular in India

is because they have actually managed to capture

the masala of India so well.

And masala, if you're wondering, is, like, ground-up spices

that are added to every single dish we eat here.

This is truly magic.

I want to know what they're like.

Joe got himself something.

Oh, man.

And the chip bags in India are, like, much harder to open.

Oh, man! You guys got them locked up tight.

Got a rip! OK.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Damn, these are good!

Not too spicy.

Great flavor.

We have so many flavors.

I couldn't get them all for this shoot.

I mean, I'll just start right here.

Barbecue. This is the classic chip.

I think this is more popular than the classic, to be honest.

The US has, I would say,

at least 10 different variations of barbecue, possibly more.

So to have just, like, standard barbecue is

pretty bold move by Lay's.

Salt and vinegar.

[dreamy harp tune]

Love salt and vinegar so much.

I love it so much.

Top chip. Top chip right here.

Love salt and vinegar.

Cheddar and sour cream.

Ha ha ha, limón.

Another favorite. Oh, man.

It seems like lime-flavored chips would be weird,

or citrusy chips, but ...

so good.

And these are, like, really limey.

All the superfans watching know I do not like pickles.

No.

Let's kick it up a notch.

Flamin' Hot dill pickle.

And the Flamin' Hot, that font,

that implies that's Flamin' Hot Cheetos, right?

Mm. Better.

Still not that good.

Last in this group is a chili limón.

Yeah.

These are coming home with me.

Other flavors in this category

that I couldn't get at the time of filming,

cheddar jalapeño and sweet Southern heat barbecue.

I was totally able to buy them online.

I get a thing in the mail two days ago

saying the post office is holding them ransom

and wants 5 more dollars for postage for me to pick it up.

Not happening.

I will not be intimidated by the United States post office.

You keep the chips, all right?

Also what I couldn't get at the time of filming

was honey barbecue, Chesapeake Bay crab spice,

adobadas, which is a different spicy chip

which is actually very good.

I was bummed I couldn't get those.

And the Doritos Cool Ranch Lay's, unfortunately.

Let's now talk about two exclusive flavors

that are in both countries, but slightly different.

We have the sizzlin' hot Lay's

and the American-style cream and onion.

It was previously known as American sour cream and onion.

It's great. No fuss.

One of my favorite flavors.

It's been there for, like, over two decades, I feel,

in India, and there's a reason for that.

Ours is just regular sour cream and onion.

And I also got American-style sour cream and onion

from India.

And then,

one after the other.

The flavor on these are much stronger.

And it even says, "Now with more flavor."

This is more flavor?

I gotta say, I like these India ones better.

Up next, we have sizzlin' hot.

This is a flavor I've actually never had.

I'm very excited to see how it stacks

compared to magic masala, which is already pretty spicy.

Whoa.

Yo, look at this chip.

It's literally red.

Not really -- oh.

Nice.

It's not as much a direct heat as the magic masala.

Hey, this is a nice flavor.

In the US, we have Flamin' Hot flavor.

Now, let me explain.

This is Flamin' Hot kettle chips.

Couldn't get the regular Flamin' Hot.

We'll get into kettle chips later.

It's, like, regular spice.

It has a heat to it without being too specific.

I think they use these red chilies right here.

It packs a nice punch

without being too overwhelming with the flavor.

They're, like, the perfect amount of heat

without getting too overwhelming, so.

OK, so we don't only have ridge-style chips,

we also have some flat ones.

In fact, they're called wafer style,

which I think is pretty much your classic style of Lay's.

The first flavor is salt with pepper.

Not salt and pepper.

Don't you dare say that.

It's very nice. I should buy these more often.

I've never tried these before. Very good job.

OK, on to the next wafer-style chip.

We have sun-dried chili.

Mm! I love sun-dried anything.

Beam that sun ray onto any vegetable. I will eat it.

Oh, damn.

This is really good.

They smashed it with this one.

Got a proper kick as well.

Ooh!

It's really yum.

And one of the most beautiful sights you'll see in India

is people sun-drying their own chilies on their roofs,

porches, wherever.

Biryanis, curries, they all use sun-dried chili.

And this chip's packet really has nailed this flavor.

Maybe my favorite, kettle cooked.

We already saw the Flamin' Hot kettle cooked.

These are thicker chip.

They transport a lot better, obviously.

There are not as many broken.

It's got more of, like, a potato taste to it, a potato snap.

It's like ...

I love kettle chips.

Sea salt, cracked pepper.

These are so good.

Mm. Yeah!

It's like ...

booyah!

[grunts]

Sea salt and vinegar.

This ain't your pond salt.

This ain't your lake salt.

This certainly is not your fjord salt.

Why is salt and vinegar so good?

Attention, everyone,

my favorite kettle chip is about to be eaten by me.

The jalapeño kettle chips.

I'm not going to talk about Miss Vickie's

because this isn't a Miss Vickie's video.

And I hate to say it.

These might be better.

They've got the jalapeño flavor in there.

It's not too spicy,

so you can really chow down on these.

Moving on, unfortunately,

to something that I kind of can't stand,

are baked. Wah-wah.

You can get them in original

and you can get them in barbecue.

Like eating cardboard.

Lay's has something called the Better for You series.

So we have these, and then lightly salted barbecue,

lightly salted wavy.

I mean, I want the salt, but, like, how much ... ?

This is what paper tastes like.

We got simply sea salt thick cut.

And you can also get the simply barbecue thick cut.

They have something called layers, which are these guys.

Bite-size layers, crispy layers, tasty layers.

You can get them in three cheese, sour cream and onion.

I've never seen these before in my entire life.

Oh, the bag stinks!

Oh, these are really bad.

These are terrible.

Whoa, these are real chemically tasting.

Oh, my God, these taste like they were poisoned.

And now for our next range of exclusive chips,

we have Lay's Maxx.

That's Maxx with two X's.

Why the two X's? That's like saying it's more better.

I have not seen or tasted these before.

Starting with macho chili flavor.

It is kind of ridged, but I would say it's more wavy.

I wouldn't say it's super spicy.

I kind of like that this one doesn't leave

that burning sensation in your throat.

It's really nice.

Yeah. I don't know about the branding,

but I really like this flavor.

Next flavor, peppery cheddar.

Whoa. All sorts of stuff happening here.

There's, like, some mint to it.

Oh, you know what this tastes like?

This tastes like malai tikka, like chicken malai tikka

dipped in pudina chutney.

This is very unique.

Our next flavor is sizzling barbecue.

Oh, the reason this is called Lay's Maxx,

it's because it has max crunch, max flavor,

and max taste.

And I can wholeheartedly say both of these have delivered.

Mm. It even smells strongly of barbecue, so.

These work. They're great.

More fun chip styles.

I think we can call these the India style,

but we also call them the wavy style.

They are wavy, hence the name.

And you can get them in original, reduced fat,

honey barbecue, ranch,

and you can also get them in salt and pepper,

lightly salted,

fat, low fat, if I didn't say that already.

The waves are, like, wider.

You guys have, like, really condensed waves.

Lay's apparently wanted to answer the age-old question,

how can we copy something popular

and make it much, much worse?

And Stax were invented.

You guys know what Pringles are, right?

Of course you do. Well.

[chip pieces rattling] Hear that?

"We'll put them in a tube. They won't break as easily."

Right? [chip pieces rattling]

Holy f---.

Look at this.

Then what was the point of putting it in this tube?