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I’ve always favoured savoury over sweet, and there’s something about Simba chips that gets me grooving writes Cape {town} Etc’s Micayla Vellai. I still remember my dismay after the All Gold Tomato Sauce flavour was voted out last year.

This comes after fans were asked to vote to ‘save’ either the Salt & Vinegar, Tomato Sauce or Cheese & Onion flavour as part of the ‘Choose Me or Lose Me’ campaign. My heart took a hard knock after having to bid farewell to the ‘red packet’. To say that I’m still hopeful it might return somehow, someday, is no understatement.

But now there’s a new flavour worth exploring, and locals are weighing in. Simba Zinger Wings flavour, born out of the idea of the much-loved KFC zinger wings. But is it overrated or is it worth the hype?

KFC first hinted at this idea last year, and the post garnered much attention online.

Ever since this vision has now been realised, people have been speaking out about it. And needless to say, the reactions have not been all that spicy.

One person tweeted that the new Zinger Wings flavour reminds her of how the Mexican Chilli flavour used to be while another said “Can we be honest and say that the zinger wings simba chips are overrated.”

On the other hand, a local stood in favour of the flavour and said “Zinger wings [flavoured] Simba chips might turn out to be a fav”. 

Picture: @MarlinECAS / Twitter

Another person made some bold statements and even gave the Tomato Sauce flavour a shout out: “Bathong Simba zinger wings flavour? No zinger wings there, they just mixed Mexican chilli with biltong flavour. And what… did y’all do to my tomato flavour?? I need it nowwww, those were my fave.”

“@SimbaChipsSA & @kfcsa you missed a trick here. Doesn’t taste like a Zinger at all. Tastes like the normal simba mexican chilli chips, what a disappointment,” is what another Twitter user said.

Others are still in search of it “Has anybody found those KFC zinger wings flavoured Simba Chips, or was it all an elaborate ruse?” he asked.

So you do think these crispy chips are worth all the attention it’s getting?

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The tribe has spoken, Simba ‘All Gold Tomato Sauce’ flavour has been voted out

Picture: KFC / Facebook 

 

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