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First Evolve, Then Destroy

Winners is the weirdest place. I always just think of it as a cheap place to find cloths, but it's also a bangin' place to find weird/import/off brand chips. A couple months ago I picked up a bag of Burts British Hand Cooked Potato Chips (it's kind of weird that they're not referred to as crisps as Burts is a UK company) Vintage Cheddar and Spring Onion Flavour. I've talked about Burts previously on this here blog but it's been a minute and they're not very common in my area of the prairies. When I peeled the metalized polypropylene apart and took a whiff they faintly smelt like sour cream and onion. I popped a few in my mouth and masticated. They have a fairly strong sweet (green?) onion flavour (very similar to a lot of sour cream and onion chip flavours). There's a presence of cheddar flavour..but I'd say it's more in the background. The onion is the frontman in this band. The chips themselves are pretty good. Skins are left on, they're in the kettle cooked family (not sure if that's what "hand cooked" means in UK terms..but that's what it seems to be) and towards the thick cut side of chips (even though they aren't billed as "thick cut" [there's a softness to the crunch due to the thickness but it's not a stale soft]). It's sort of like if you took a big bag of sour cream and onion chips and mixed them with a small bag of old dutch cheddar and sour cream then proceeded to consume handfuls of the mix. Pretty good if you're into onion based chip flavours.

I'm listening to After the Fall's Recollection (2000-2010) [came out last year on Bird Attack] at this moment (This is the After the Fall from Albany, NY). For the first 13 years of the bands tenure I had no clue that they existed, then they released Unkind on Paper + Plastick. Album was killer, one of my favourites of 2013. After the Fall is a hardcore punk band that has leaned more towards melodic hardcore as they've gotten older. The vocals are mostly shouted, with melody, and the odd harmony. Tempo is up to say the least. Recollection is a 17 song LP that plays at 45rpm which may hint as to what their sound is like, haha. Music is on the tech side of hxc punk. Just some enjoyable music. Dedication (their 2015 album) is one of the more bluntly personal albums that I've heard, good shit but I haven't spent much time with it. So..sour cream and onion eh, welp.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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