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 Paqui gives you a heat rating on the back of their tortilla chip bags. The ratings are Not Hot, Kinda Hot, Hot, Super Hot, and Freakin' Hot. Tonight I pulled a bag of Fiery Chile Limon out of the salty cellar..they're rated super hot and honestly, I'm not super jazzed about consuming these. I think they'll lean too far towards feat of strength chip territory. With that said, I was going to reach out to my metal connection for a heavy recommendation...but I decided to check out a band that he had posted on his IG story recently, Cancer..specifically Cancer's Death Shall Rise album. Death Shall Rise is a 1991 release from this British death band. The music is undulating between mid and fast to lightning tempo...all the time super heavy while leaving lots space in the songs for banging. The vocals are weird, you can make most of the words out fairly easily. At first the singers voice had me scratching my chin but 10 minutes in I'm down, I'd say he's definitely proto cookie monster..but maybe that's just death. The shifts in tempo are enough to fully keep my attention. Internal Decay finishes off this album perfectly. Heavy and super enjoyable.

Halfway through writing the above paragraph I decided to finally pop a Fiery Chile Limon chip into my maw. I contemplated sour creaming it right away but then decided that would be an injustice to the chip for my first taste. I'm actually quite happy that I chose to consume the chips naked because they've actually quite enjoyable. My thoughts of my mouth being ravaged by these chips was not cool, I have learned tonight that I shouldn't just judge a chip bag by it's cover...err, name and heat rating. The limon is very present on these chips, I believe it's there for 2 reason; to helps open up your tongue to let the heat in easier, and because lemon (and lime) slaps. The seasoning is somewhat powdery with the aforementioned lemon, accompanied by a very pleasant mid-hot to hot chili flavour, and I do mean flavour, it's just just a faceless heat (I think the label of super hot is a little misleading, halfway through this 155g bag my forehead is sweating, however, I haven't required any sour cream or water). The chips are a bit odd, they appear to be slightly thicker than your standard tortilla chip, however when you crunch into them their an airy mid weight crunch, quite enjoyable as well. The corn is there, but it's in the background and mixes perfectly with the seasoning. These chips bang, I'm sorry for starting this post off with a less than optimistic outlook for this bag of chips.

 Stay hydrated,

MARC

ps. I really wanted to title this blog after track 2 of Death Shall Rise, but it just felt a little too click baitish.

pps. I let youtube keep rolling after Death Shall Rise. I think I'm going to have to check out more Entombed. 

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