I'm not feeling all that great right now so I'm going to hold off on posting about chips that I'm excited about. Time to dip into the back of the salty cellar and see what I retrieve...
Great Value Kettle Cooked Burnin' Hot Potato Chips. They apparently have no cholesterol (isn't that surprising [these must be health chips, amiright?!?]). They also give you nutrition facts on 28g (1oz) rather than the pretty typical 50g. Why am I pointing that out? Because right under the popping no cholesterol label on the front it says "See Nutrition Information for Total Fat Content" (which is 10% per 28g..or about 18 chips [with sodium at 7% per 18..that's actually not to bad]). Now that I'm through trying to figure out what health means. They smell like chips, some might say..potato chips. The crunch is mid-weight, some might say average. The flavour is burnin' hot, some might say that the name is actually pretty accurate. There's a bit of oil in the aftertaste of the chips..from the crunch I'd say that these may be cooked slightly less than your typical kettle cooked (miss vickies, dutch crunch, etc.) which allowed the oil to seep into them slightly more. The heat is a 7..7.5/10 on the heat scale with jalapeno being a 5. They're on the upper edges of hot pepper heat hinting at chemical heat but not quite crossing that boundary. They get the forehead sweats going after a few chips but overall they're manageable, after consuming I'd say that the 28g nutrition information actually makes sense because that's probably the point where they go from a somewhat enjoyable snack to a feat of strength. They're not death rain, but they're death rain's younger cousin that's not throwing windmills in the pit but they're in there with their studded bracelet.
When some of my friends have decided to shed themselves of their physical music collections I've ended up inheriting them. A handful of years ago when one of said friends left me a stack of CD's, one of which was As I Lay Dying's An Ocean Between US. Before that day and since then I don't believe I've listened to As I Lay Dying (I've always written them off as a mid 2000s Victory Records type metalcore band [I like some of that stuff but for the most part it all bleeds together]). I'm about 4 songs in and my assumption is pretty accurate, they sound like a mid 2000s VR metalcore band, melodic chorus' and all. There's some nice shredding, rapid fire drums, chugging and yell-screamed vocals..and a healthy thrash influence throughout the album which is welcomed. It's a fine album, there's nothing too chodey, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend purchasing it, there's far better metal out there (if they avoided the weak singing choruses I think the album would have benefited immensely). I didn't have the attention span tonight to try to decipher the lyrics by ear and I don't feel like looking them up (I'll just assume they're dark and brooding).
(I figured I'd google the band to see if they were indeed a Victory band..and they're not, Metal Blade is the label they've called home for most of their career. While I was on their wiki page I noticed that Tim Lambesis is the driving force behind the band and I briefly recalled As I Lay Dying having to go on hiatus for a handful of years due to him trying to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife..and reading further down Tim's wiki, it turns out he also enjoyed roids. So yeah, throw up the horns.)
Stay hydrated,
marc
Great Value Kettle Cooked Burnin' Hot Potato Chips. They apparently have no cholesterol (isn't that surprising [these must be health chips, amiright?!?]). They also give you nutrition facts on 28g (1oz) rather than the pretty typical 50g. Why am I pointing that out? Because right under the popping no cholesterol label on the front it says "See Nutrition Information for Total Fat Content" (which is 10% per 28g..or about 18 chips [with sodium at 7% per 18..that's actually not to bad]). Now that I'm through trying to figure out what health means. They smell like chips, some might say..potato chips. The crunch is mid-weight, some might say average. The flavour is burnin' hot, some might say that the name is actually pretty accurate. There's a bit of oil in the aftertaste of the chips..from the crunch I'd say that these may be cooked slightly less than your typical kettle cooked (miss vickies, dutch crunch, etc.) which allowed the oil to seep into them slightly more. The heat is a 7..7.5/10 on the heat scale with jalapeno being a 5. They're on the upper edges of hot pepper heat hinting at chemical heat but not quite crossing that boundary. They get the forehead sweats going after a few chips but overall they're manageable, after consuming I'd say that the 28g nutrition information actually makes sense because that's probably the point where they go from a somewhat enjoyable snack to a feat of strength. They're not death rain, but they're death rain's younger cousin that's not throwing windmills in the pit but they're in there with their studded bracelet.
When some of my friends have decided to shed themselves of their physical music collections I've ended up inheriting them. A handful of years ago when one of said friends left me a stack of CD's, one of which was As I Lay Dying's An Ocean Between US. Before that day and since then I don't believe I've listened to As I Lay Dying (I've always written them off as a mid 2000s Victory Records type metalcore band [I like some of that stuff but for the most part it all bleeds together]). I'm about 4 songs in and my assumption is pretty accurate, they sound like a mid 2000s VR metalcore band, melodic chorus' and all. There's some nice shredding, rapid fire drums, chugging and yell-screamed vocals..and a healthy thrash influence throughout the album which is welcomed. It's a fine album, there's nothing too chodey, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend purchasing it, there's far better metal out there (if they avoided the weak singing choruses I think the album would have benefited immensely). I didn't have the attention span tonight to try to decipher the lyrics by ear and I don't feel like looking them up (I'll just assume they're dark and brooding).
(I figured I'd google the band to see if they were indeed a Victory band..and they're not, Metal Blade is the label they've called home for most of their career. While I was on their wiki page I noticed that Tim Lambesis is the driving force behind the band and I briefly recalled As I Lay Dying having to go on hiatus for a handful of years due to him trying to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife..and reading further down Tim's wiki, it turns out he also enjoyed roids. So yeah, throw up the horns.)
Stay hydrated,
marc
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