Tales of the Salty Bag

 So the Salty Bag's international correspondent sent in a whole wack of notes/reviews/what have you. Without further ado: Various Mayonesa (mayo) flavoured chips were all over Ecuador , Sometimes powdered flavour and sometimes an actual sachet of mayo to throw in the bag (Yupi Rizadas). Neither good nor bad, salty and fatty as expected, I preferred the (Tostitos) Pizzerolas (sabor a pizza).  I didn't find a lot of chip variety where I was wandering around in Spain but the (Ruffles sabor a Jamon) ham flavour made sense, they were salty. The UAE had these (Lay's) French Cheese chips. I don't know how you expect to distill all the cheese in France into a chip but these were forgettable (not like French cheese which is amazing) and perhaps an apt metaphor.  The Sun Chips (not the North American Sun Chips brand) Mix Masala chips from Sri Lanka weren't actually Lankan. I think they were imports. I wanted them to be more spicy.  The Maldives had a fair amount of chips, th...

I kept sleeping on the Bad Operation LP. A while ago I signed up for the notification when a new pressing was available from Bad Time Records. The first notification came in and I guess I waited a bit too long to order, so no dice. Finally a month or so ago the 3rd pressing came up for order so I got me a beautiful cotton candy. That is however not what I'm writing about today, when I got the first notification (yet after I went and saw the 2nd pressing was already sold out) I went through the Bad Time bandcamp to figure out what albums I was going to order with Bad Operation. I only sampled a few songs from each band because I like the surprise of a new band and through that sampling I decided that I'd order Kill Lincoln, The Best of the Worst, and Joystick!'s newest albums. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago when my order from Bad Time came in. I was pretty excited to listen to the lot because I only had a vague guess as to what they would sounds like..and let me tell you...