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When I Come Around

Lay's Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Popper Flavored Duet. I'm not sure if you can still purchase them, but you could in the States this past spring. I finally cracked them a couple weeks ago. First whiff, fake bacon flavoured chips. Initial taste, cream cheese with a hint of "bacon" (you know, that sort of unsettling bacon flavour seasoning). The jalap flavour is a little uneven throughout the bag ranging from a mild to medium mild heat. Not your typical jalapeno flavour but..I don't know, they're almost a smokey? heat. The further I got into the bag I found that I was left with a mild chili pepper heat wrapped in cream cheese and a sprinkling of bacon. I'm not a fan of bacon flavoured snacks in general..so if that was cut out of the flavour and it was just cream cheese stuffed jalapenos that'd be tight but as it stands they're pretty decent.

So my laptop is running really slow and glitchy right now, but just before I started writing about the aforementioned bacon jalap Lay's I downloaded my digital copy of Gilman Street's Ripoff and got it playing on WMP. WMP is now frozen but for some reason it's still playing the songs. What is Gilman Street's Ripoff you ask, well it's a Dookie cover album (Green Day) by current 924 Gilman Street bands. All of the bands put their own twist on the songs with the covers ranging from fairly faithful to the original sound to completely tweaked and almost unrecognizable (Gnarboots take on When I Come Around). All around, it's a great comp if you want to revisit an classic album from a new perspective.

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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