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How Long You Wanna Live, Anyway?

When I was a kid there only seemed to be 2 kettle cooked chip brands;. Dutch Crunch and Miss Vickie's. Miss Vickie's always seemed expensive and were a treat, for the longest time MV's Sea Salt & Vinegar were my jam (they're still pretty good). Then I either started looking around..or the market flooded and there were Kettle Cooked chips everywhere. Either way, Miss Vickie's eh? A while back I cracked a bag of MV's Balsamic Vinegar & Sweet Onion. When I took a whiff there wasn't really anything to write home about. The chips are Standard Miss Vickie's, nice kettle cooked chip weight and crunch without being overly greasy. When chip met maw my taste-buds were initially treated with some tangy vinegar flavour (it's present but not aggressive)..soon the vinegar tang becomes sweet letting it's balsamic roots shine through. Initially it wasn't until after swallowing that the onion became present with the aftertaste being similar to sour cream & onion. The further into the bag that one ventures the stronger the onion flavour becomes. MV's Balsamic Vinegar & Sweet Onion is a welcome change of pace and an okay twist on the standard salt & vinegar flavour but they won't become a regular in my rotation. These chips came to me as part of the mythical salty box of 2015. Took me a minute to get around to eating them eh?

You know what's weird, Brian Setzer's career. Growing up in the 90's I knew of him as the leader/namesake of the swing revival band The Brian Setzer Orchestra. As I got older I came to know him as the front man for the Stray Cats, a rockabilly revival band. That's about the extent that I know of him but I find it funny that his most recognized musical outputs are decades removed from their genre's prime. I like that. This past RSD I picked up a used copy of Rant N' Rave, it doesn't get daily rotation but I sure do enjoy spinning it every once in a while. I should look deeper into Mr. Setzer's history.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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