2025 April Fools' Day Joke Round-up

This year's April Fools' Day saw many pranks from various fast-food and snack brands, so I put together a list for your entertainment. Here's BrandEating's 2025 April Fools' Day joke round-up:

Frito-Lay Brings Back Lay's Crispy Taco and Adds Kettle Cooked Flamin' Hot Limon Potato Chips

Frito-Lay brings back Lay's Crispy Taco and adds new Lay's Kettle Cooked Flamin' Hot Limon potato chips for a limited time.

Lay's Cheddar Mac & Cheese-Flavored Potato Chips Return Exclusively at Sam's Club

Lay's Cheddar Bacon Mac & Cheese-flavored potato chips are back for a limited time but only at Sam's Club.

Lay's Reveals 2017 "Do Us A Flavor" Potato Chip Contest Finalists

Lay's has revealed the three finalists to the 2017 "Do Us a Flavor" contest, which has fans suggest new potato chip flavors for a chance to see their idea on the shelves (and win $1 million bucks while they're at it).

New Lay's Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Popper-Flavored Potato Chips are Exclusive to Walmart

New Lay's Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Popper-flavored potato chips have arrived and can be found exclusively at Walmart.

New Firework Oreo Cookies Roll Out Into Stores

Nabisco looks towards the summer with the introduction of new, limited-time Firework Oreo cookies. The brand is also soliciting fans to submit their own ideas for future Oreo flavors in the very first "My Oreo Creation Contest" with $500,000 up for grabs.

Lay's Brings Back Three Limited-Time Flavors Including Chicken and Waffles

If you missed Smoked Gouda, & Chive, Chicken & Waffles, or Truffles Fries flavors of Lay's potato chips, you'll be happy to know that the brand is bringing them back for a limited time in stores starting tomorrow, October 3, 2016.

Biscuits & Gravy Chips Crowned Lay's 2015 "Do Us A Flavor" Winner

Southern Biscuits and Gravy-flavored chips are this year's Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" crowd-sourced contest winner.

Review: Lay's - Wavy West Coast Truffle Fries Potato Chips

Lay's Wavy West Coast Truffle Fries Potato Chips feature the brand's thick-cut wavy potato chips with a seasoning that purportedly tastes like restaurant truffle fries.

Review: Lay's - New York Reuben Potato Chips

Lay's New York Reuben Potato Chips feature the brand's classic potato chip with a Reuben sandwich seasoning.

Review: Lay's - Kettle Cooked Greektown Gyro Potato Chips

Lay's Kettle Cooked Greektown Gyro Potato Chips supposedly combine the taste of the Greek pita sandwich with the hearty crunch of kettle-style potato chips.

Review: Lay's - Southern Biscuits and Gravy Potato Chips

Lay's Southern Biscuits and Gravy Potato Chips feature the brand's classic potato chips dusted with a seasoning that supposedly tastes like the classic Southern comfort dish.

Lay's Announces 2015 "Do Us A Flavor" Finalists

Lay's announces the four finalists for their annual crowd-sourced "Do Us A Flavor" contest, which fans submit ideas for potato chips flavors.

Frito-Lay Kicks Off 3rd "Do Us A Flavor" Contest

For the third year, Frito-Lay is inviting fans to submit their ideas for potato chips flavors in the 2015 Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" contest for a chance to see their flavor on shelves and win a $1 million grand prize.

In addition to coming up with a flavor and chip pairing, this year, Lay's is going with a "Tastes of America" theme and asking participants to include the location that inspired the flavor (like say Philadelphia for a Cheesesteak flavor or New York for a pastrami flavor).

Wasabi Ginger is 2014's Lay's Do Us a Flavor Winner

The votes are in, and Lay's Kettle Cooked Wasabi Ginger-flavored chips is this year's winner of the Lay's Do Us a Flavor contest. That means it will remain in stores and that Meneko Spigner McBeth, who submitted the winning flavor, will be pocketing the greater of a $1 million grand prize or 1% of the flavor's sales through July 1, 2015.

Review: Lay's Wavy Mango Salsa Potato Chips

Lay's Wavy Mango Salsa-flavored potato chips are one of this year's "Do Us A Flavor" finalists (there are four in all) and features their wide-ridged (i.e. "wavy") potato chips with a dusting of mango salsa flavoring.

I picked these up at $1.49 for a 2 and 7/8-oz bag.

Review: Lay's Cheddar Bacon Mac & Cheese Potato Chips

Lay's Cheddar Bacon Mac & Cheese Potato Chips purport to meld their classic potato chips with the flavor of bacon mac & cheese.

I picked up a 2-and-7/8-oz bag for $1.49.

Review: Lay's - Wasabi Ginger Kettle Cooked Chips

Lay's Wasabi Ginger-flavored Kettle Cooked potato chips are one of the finalist for this year's Do Us A Flavor contest.

A 2-and-7/8-oz bag was $1.49.

Review: Lay's Cappuccino-Flavored Potato Chips

Lay's Cappuccino-Flavored Potato Chip is the result of their second annual Do Us A Flavor contest. According to the bag, the chips contain zero caffeine, but includes natural coffee flavor (which isn't necessarily from coffee).

A 9.5-oz bag was $2.50 on sale.

Around the World: Lay's Canada 2014 "Do Us A Flavor" Finalists Include Cinnamon Bun

Like the US, Canada gets its own set of 2014 Lay's "Do Us A Flavor" finalists, and while Cappuccino is our "I-don't-think-this-should-be-a-chip" flavor, Canada's analog is the equally head-scratching Cinnamon Bun Lay's Original potato chips.