Monday, September 20, 2010

Bad chips.

Kettle chips are on special at Coles now, and I haven't bought chips in ages and after a busy weekend I wanted to relax with some Doctor Who on DVD with my favourite flavour potato chip, sweet chilli. I like the flavour of the Thins, which are cheaper, but they are so light they melt in the mouth and I like the thicker, crunchier bite of the kettle chips. Red rock deli is nice, but I feel has too many folded and deformed chips and are not as sweet as thins. I like my chilli sweet. My ultimate guide, though, is the special price.

So I picked up a bag of chips on special and opened them and started eating and YUCK! so wrong! Like plain chips (which I despise, they are just salty oil to me) but hot! Plain and hot! I didn't know that there was a flavour called chilli which isn't sweet. pah.

So because I refuse to throw them out, and waste $3.50, and I refuse to eat chips I don't enjoy, here are my possible uses.
  1. Buy some proper sweet chilli chips and eat both of them in pairs: 1 of each at a time, to disguise the taste of the chilli ones.
  2. Put them in sandwiches with salad. Chip sandwiches. Add some crunch and spice.
  3. See how they taste with the pasta veggie chicken pesto thing I cooked on the weekend. The contrasting texture and flavour.
You only learn by bitter experience.

6 comments:

  1. You only learn by "bitter" experience? Dont you mean spicy??? haha

    I think the folded chips are the BEST! I always eat them first, and whole (as per that primary school game everyone used to play with folded chips...anyone?). I love Red Rock Deli precisely because they have so many folded chips!

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  2. Plain Kettle chips are my favourite! Salty oily yum! I should jelssie my theory that those who like plain chips also like vanilla ice-cream. Actually, I like a lot of plain foods.

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  3. Good one H!

    What about the chips that are all folded together and stuck in a clump so that you have to bite bits off? It's so ungainly.

    Yes, I am the other sort. The tastier the better. And mixing contrasting tastes and temperatures and textures. Plain or vanilla is just a waste of calories :)

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  4. Oh, and THERE is one other thing, Hayley: I am not the sort of person who eats the best bits first. I save the best bits.

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  5. Hmmmm Jess, I am also a save-the-best-for-last kind of girl. But if there is a bowl of chips for communal eating, I'll go for the folded ones first and then eat the boring flat ones last, if I'm still wanting chips :)

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