Tales of the Salty Bag

Lets get this out of the way Bad Operation slaps hard. A while back I wrote about a record order from Bad Time Records, I mentioned Bad Operation but I wrote words about Joystick and Best of the Worst. Well, let me get to words about the record that made me place the order with BTR in the first place. Bad Operation's S/T 2020 release 's sound is is definitely rooted in 2tone (even on the back of the album the bottom left corner states "New Tone 2020"..which couldn't be any more accurate [I guess I could have shortened these words to, "Bad Operation's 2020 self titled album is New Tone. Go buy it, listen to it, consume it"]) but Bad Operation is way more than a 2tone tribute. Dominic Minix has so much soul to his vocal delivery it weighs on you in the most welcomed way. I knew that this band was from New Orleans, however I would like to think that if I didn't know that...I would have known from listening to this band, I want to say there's a ...

 When I saw that Takis made kettle cooked potato chips I took notice, but had no real expectations. There's been a bag of Takis Kettlez Typhoon Jalapeno..Hot, Spicy Jalapeno (just the name/spelling is somewhat of a turnoff) sitting in the salty cellar for a minute. I finally got around to trying my first flavour of Takis take on kettle cooked potato chips this past week. The bag has a 'tear here' note, well Takis, I'll pass on your bag opening suggestion. So I cracked the bag open standard style (pulling the 2 sides apart) and took a whiff that presented me with what I noted as spicy. These chips have a good solid crunch. They're a thicker cut chip that makes me think that they may not have been cooked quite as long as a 'standard' kettle cooked chip, but still a solid crunch due to the thickness. The flavour is aggressively spicy. There's cheddar in the mix..or some sort of cheesy saltiness. Jalapeno heat..like, fresh jalaps..hotter than standard jalape...