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Ingredients:
Garlic Onion Dip Mix-Garlic powder, onion flakes, onion powder, sea salt, and other spices.
Chipotle Dip Mix-Chipotle flakes, garlic powder, Paprika, sea salt MSG (monosodium Glutamate), and other spices.
Here in Wisconsin (state motto: “Hey America, Come Smell Our Dairy Air!â€) its fall, which means all things vital to the survival of our fair people is stopped. Yes, it is that time of year when reasonable men and women lose their minds so they can worship at the altar of Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers. I’m being serious here, Wisconsinites lose their minds. Sample every-day conversation: Person A-“So did you here that Congress is going to outlaw the use of vowels when used in reference to driving laws?â€. Person B-“But did you see Farve in the fourth quarter?? Is he God or what???â€.
What sucks for me is that I’m a bartender, and I deal with idiots like that every Sunday. What doesn’t suck is the best way to shut them up is with food, and Big Dawg Fire Department makes it easy with these two dip mixes. All you do is mix the mix with two cups sour cream, stir, refrigerate overnight, and then tell everybody the next day you made it from scratch. And this stuff is good. The Garlic-Onion tastes strong on the garlic, which helps keep the Packer-heads out of your personal space, and I love when people use sea salt. Sea salt brings out the natural flavor of other foods, like regular salt, but doesn’t have that overly salty flavor itself. A bit of warning: the garlic-onion flavor will linger for a while (read: hours).
Chipotle Dip Mix
The Chipotle dip mix was surprisingly strong on heat. When you consider that sour cream is so dairy fat heavy, you would think that the heat would be stifled, but it is detectable, and really takes a drunken football fan by force. The flavor was there, with the sea salt doing its job again, and unlike its Garlic-Onion counterpart didn’t linger. And I was putting the chipotle dip on everything from chips and pretzels to fresh veggies and cheese&crackers. So unlike Packer fans, this dip can multi-task (ha!).
Garlic Onion Dip Mix
Overall these are both fun things to have in your pantry, and at $3.00 a pop, affordable, too. So let’s go to the scoreboard for my Five Point Scale-
Appearance: Touchdown! Good graphics with fire-fighting facts on the back of the label.
Taste: Touchdown! Makes sour cream taste palpable again.
Heat: Field goal (for Chipotle only). Its detectable for seasoned vets, killer for rookies.
Over-all: Touchdown! These dips are ones for the books. Easy to make, easy to use, easy to acquire. Get some.
So until next time, treat every meal like it was your last. And to all you Packer fans out there remember: I’m from Wisconsin, too, and I’m only ribbing you and your un-dying fanaticism for our home state team. I wish you all and your team well, and always remember: the Bears beat the Pack. Go Bears!
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Posted by: Louie - Categories: Uncategorized
Permalink: Review: Big Dawg’s Garlic-Onion Dip Mix and Chipotle Dip Mix
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OMG this is sooooooooo up my alley! Definitely gettin some of this!
MMMM DIP………
That looks so GOOD!!! I have to get me some!
As for football, I don’t really have a team I cheer on. I just love busting Garry’s chops as his losers…uh I mean team, Jets, always seem to lose no matter what!!! Now that is some dip eatign fun times!!!! HA HA HA
:-O
i got some of the garlic onion with my prototype chunkin the duece and i still havent made it yet, it smells really good through the package though. i keep buying sour cream & cream cheese to make it, (i usually mix them) but never make it. some people mix mayo also.
Louie, great review and bar commentary! Been there, but must add that when you shut up drunks with food, you are likely to find it sprayed all over the front steps of your establishment at the end of the night.
Cheers! SM
kristi on 10/25/2007 at 8:25 am said:
OMG this is sooooooooo up my alley! Definitely gettin some of this!
Got some 
Also ate all they had prepared of it at JJ’s show *and* took some home
‘Sample every-day conversation: Person A-“So did you here that Congress is going to outlaw the use of vowels when used in reference to driving laws?â€. Person B-“But did you see Farve in the fourth quarter?? Is he God or what???â€.’
Actually it’s like this most every place else, not just Wisconsin. Just change the name of the player and the name of the team.. lol
See now I submitted a review on the Chipotle Dix mix and I found the garlic in that one to be really strong! Although I used cream cheese and ended up mixing up a disaster! I don’t believe it was a fault of the product, perhaps just how I used it improperly?!? lol Still not sure.
Thanks for the words Louie, glad the gang enjoyed. We like to use the Chipotle as a seasoning also, like in hamburger meat for burgers or as a steak rub.
Lars we tried straight cream cheese and noted probably the same result you are talking. Works a little better with 1/2 sour cream and 1/2 cream cheese. Some try it with mayo…but I am definitely not a mayo person.
I just got the 6 pack of dips and I am excited about trying it with 1/2 mayo, 1/2 sour cream. I never used to use mayo in my dips until I tried one awesome dip that changed my mind forever. Woof Woof 
YOU GO BIG DAWG !!!!!!!…….These mixes look great
Big Dawg on 10/25/2007 at 9:28 pm said:
Thanks for the words Louie, glad the gang enjoyed. We like to use the Chipotle as a seasoning also, like in hamburger meat for burgers or as a steak rub.
Lars we tried straight cream cheese and noted probably the same result you are talking. Works a little better with 1/2 sour cream and 1/2 cream cheese. Some try it with mayo…but I am definitely not a mayo person.
Yeah see now I did the cream cheese thing because I’m not a big sour cream fan. lol
Looks like I’m going to be emptying my pockets at the Big Dawg booth!!!
Bought the garlic-onion at JJ’s…amongst lots of other things. It is awesome!! Just mixed some up yesterday…had it today with some vege’s. But then I had a bag of Snyder’s garlic bread bites pretzels…oh boy!! Dipping those in this is great!! So now I’ve found my favorite vege and pretzel dip!!
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These would both be something my wife would like to try. She’s really into the dip mixes.