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Just Like Honey

A (month?) ago I was listening to the Anxious and Angry podcast (great pod [from Ryan Young {off with their heads}] if you don't already listen) and he played Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Up to that point for some reason (I guess due to the Chain in their name) I had associated Jesus and Mary Chain with Alice in Chains..you know, meh rock (grunge). Suffice to say when I heard Just like Honey I was pleasantly surprised, it was beautifully mellow uk 80's pop rock. So I got to the Googles and found a stream of the full album that Just like Honey was on, Psychocandy. All around a great album of hypnotic rock that splits it's time between distorted guitar (with the gain at 10) that at times can be quite abrasive and clean mellow reverbed out guitar. Both of which go perfectly with the somewhat monotone (reverby) vocals. I'm pretty happy that Ryan introduced me to a band that would have (most likely) went unnoticed by me FOREVER. (I picked up their 21 Singles cd shortly after hearing Just like Honey..they toy around with other sounds that I'm not super into but I can respect what they were trying to do.)

This past week I was still catching up on last year's Do Us a Flavour chips. It was finally time for me to crack open the absolutely meh sounding PEI Scalloped Potatoes from Lays. When I saw these bags on the Do Us a Flavour standees last spring I thought, "Wow, those sound absolutely MEH! Way to go Lays!! GoodBYE BOX!!!!". I assumed that they'd taste somewhere between Au Gratin chips and Old Dutch's Cheddar and Sour Cream. When I cracked the bag and took a whiff I didn't get much of an impression. Not very aromatic with a slight orange tint to the chips. I popped one in my mouth and was actually surprised. These chips weren't the cheddar that I figured they would be, the actually tasted like onion soup sour cream dip. An exciting flavour? Na. They'd be a good chip to take over to your vanilla friends house. I guess PEI Scalloped Potatoes is alright..if you like saxophones. (They were probably the best Do Us a Flavour of 2016..but that's not saying much)

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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