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It's not hard to make an acceptable plain salted potato chip. From my experiences, chip salt is chip salt. They might say sea salt, they might say lightly salted..original, etc. at the end of the day they're just an inoffensive salted snack. For that reason it's rare for me to write about them very often on here. That said, this past week I cracked open a bag of Covered Bridge Sea Salt kettle cooked potato chips. When I took a whiff they smelt like salted potato chips. I tossed one in my mouth and initially they tasted to be on the lighter salted side of plain salted chips. As with all covered bridge chips, the crunch is a fantastic kettle cooked (not too crunchy, not too weak) and the chips are on the dry side of the kettle cooked grease spectrum. Covered Bridge always brings their A game and the sea salt chips aren't an exception with just the right percentage being well cooked brown chips and enough skin to add some real flavour to the chips. Now comes the real test of a 'plain' chip; did they hold up to dipping. Shit yeah, the chips are flat enough that you can dip without having to get your hand dirty and rigid enough to hold up to a nice thick dip (in my case Phili' Dill Pickle dip). If you're gonna go plain go Covered Bridge...(I'd like to put these up against a bag of  Burts sea salt chips [that'd be a true battle of potato chip champions]).

When was the last time that you listened to Third Eye Blind? Maybe you wrote them off as a one hit wonder [which would make you very VERY wrong]..maybe you remember their subsequent hits. Either way their self titled debut is one hell of an album. The lyrics are on point and the music is catchy as hell. It was radio friendly without being weak. There's a few misfires on the b-side album (it could have probably been 11 or 12 songs and been stronger overall [or maybe if they switched up the track listing and didn't so heavily overload the A-side with bangers it would have evened out the album]) but for a mega selling album that's pretty damn good. Do yourself a favour and give Third Eye Blind a spin (it went platinum for a very good reason), you won't regret it.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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