
Miss Vickie’s is going full carbs-on-carbs with its latest collaboration: the Canadian kettle-chip giant teamed up with Pizzeria Badiali, Toronto’s most-hyped pizza parlour for four years strong, on a vodka sauce flavour.
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Crispy potatoes dusted with tomato tang and cheesy fat—it’s the consolation prize for when you round the corner at Argyle and Dovercourt to see the weekend line snaking into oblivion. It’s not the real thing, of course, but it’s better than nothing. And the chips would probably be really nice dunked in the pizzeria’s house dipping sauce, a creamy garlic mayo with peperonicini.

Toronto Life reached out to Badiali for comment, but co-owner and pizzaiolo Ryan Baddeley told us that he’s under contract with the chip company to keep his lips sealed until further notice.
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The new flavour is part of a cross-Canada series of chef-y collaborations with Italian restaurants that includes peperoncini-and-focaccia chips from Montreal’s Nora Gray and cacio e pepe ones from Vancouver’s Ask for Luigi. Pizza, pasta, focaccia—basically the carb canon, now conveniently engineered into a crunchy bite-size form found in the snack aisle.
The only catch: you’ll need a Costco membership (or to know someone with one) to try them as they roll out to the wholesale chain this fall.
Very important correction! A representative for Miss Vickie’s reached out to let us know that while some flavours will be available at certain Costco locations, the Spicy Vodka Pizza flavour will not be. However, this flavour—and the full collaboration series—will be launching at retailers across the country on October 6.
Caroline Aksich, a National Magazine Award recipient, is an ex-Montrealer who writes about Toronto’s ever-evolving food scene, real estate and culture for Toronto Life, Fodor’s, Designlines, Canadian Business, Glory Media and Post City. Her work ranges from features on octopus-hunting in the Adriatic to celebrity profiles.