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What do Sprouts Potato Co Kettle Style Chips..Truffle Flavor Number 10, "Sweet Tangy" "Crispy Crunch" chips taste like you ask? Well, I'd say that one of their parents was in the sour cream and onion family while their other parent was in the (mesquite) barbecue family. When you take a whiff of the freshly cracked bag there's no real seasoning fragrance, just chips and oil. How crunchy are they? Well, previous bags of Sprouts that I've had came off as a more airy kettle cooked chip..for some reason this bag comes off as your standard mid weight kettle cooked (I find this odd, maybe my previous tastings of other flavours tainted me and gave me unachievable expectations with regards to actual chip [either way the chips are still good, not too greasy with some crunch]). The seasoning for the most part is on the light side..which is when I taste more of a SC&O than mesquite..but the odd chip is fairly well seasoned and the mesquite barbeque is more at the forefront. I don't believe I've ever had a truffle and I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to taste like...but I would have not guessed these chips. They're a decent bag of chips, nothing to write home about (though apparently sufficient for a blog) but good for a salt fix with inoffensive flavour.

The Slow Death are a fantastic band. Their 2011 debut album Born Ugly, Got Worse is catchy as hell and was one of my favourite albums of 2012 (it kept popping up on peoples top 5 lists in late 2011..early 2012 so I figured I'd check it out and was more than pleasantly surprised [yes it came out in 2011, but it's 2012 to me dammit]). There's something about Jesse Pretty Boy Thorson's delivery/songwriting that lends it a country influenced sound without really sounding like country. Slow Death are a (midwestern..Minneapolis) punk (think pints of beer and gruff vocals) band with rock, country, blues influences. They consistently deliver mid to up tempo bangers. Although Born Ugly is still my favourite (and IMO the catchiest) of their three albums, No Heaven (2013) and 2017's Punishers are nothing to turn your nose up at (they're just slightly darker [the lack of Annie Sparrows vocals on Punishers may have contributed to that.). Outside of Jesse Thorson, band membership hasn't been all that consistent (He's the only consistent member [Annie Sparrows was on the first 2 albums {I'm not sure if I had forgotten or just didn't know, but yet another Mikey Erg contribution on Born Ugly..Zack Gontard was also on that album}]) but since Jesse has been the driving force behind the band the sound has been fairly consistent. (Now that I think about it, due to the band lineup, it's not much of a surprise that Born Ugly's my favourite). Well, go check out The Slow Death and..

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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