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Amazed

 I just ate way too many nachos. I put some chopped up garlic sausage, perogies, cheese and onion on them. Bangarang. Sooooooo, I'm dipping back into the phone notes for tonight's chip review. Without further adieu let me take you back to July 6, 2021 when I had some Great Value Hot Chicken..Nashville-Style!! flavoured potato chips. Did you know these chips are free from artificial flavours and colours and are inspired by Nashville (I find it weird how meat flavoured chips can be free from artificial flavours). These Great Value chips are ridged..mid sized ridges to be exact..with a light crunch. The flavour, well the flavour has a little bit of charcoal and tastes like bbq'd chicken. There's a dash of brown sugar sweetness here and there. The heat is dry and mid ranged that builds the deeper you get into the bag. Hot chicken is a very apt description. Good spicy chip, Great Value once again lives up to their name.

I couldn't think of a band from Nashville so I did a little bitta googling. Apparently Lonestar is from Nashville..I remember Amazed being played at Jr. High dances, that's something. The song's pretty meh to bleh, but parts of the melody are still retrievable from my memory, so I guess they accomplished their goal? Kings of Leon are a band that I was told are good and appear to be from Nashville, I want to say that my buddy who was into the talented rock musician scene in Brandon (I'm not sure how to describe it, it's people who actively took music education/lessons and such) had good words to say about Kings of Leon (or am I thinking of Mumford & Sons? [I don't know, Little Lion Man's a tight song {It was like 10+ years ago that my buddy gave me a positive review of either Kings of Leon or Mumford & Sons, it apparently didn't stick}]). Where was I going with all of this? Oh, yeah, Great Value Hot Chicken Nashville-Style chips are pretty good..and I'm apparently relatively indifferent at best to Nashville based bands. If you're reading this and think there's a Nashville band that I should hear either comment on the blog or hit me up on Instagram with a recommendation.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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