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 Old Dutch Ridgies has put out some interesting flavours. This past April I stepped into one of their more standard(ish) flavours (if you're Canadian)..Ridgies Extra Ketchup. As with all Ridgies, Old Dutch brings you the Ruffles style mini ridges on their chips. The flavour is slightly sweet with some fairly tart tomato. The crunch, well, the crunch is medium. There's something all dressed to these chips but I can't quite put my finger on it. I'd say that the 'extra' in this bag is the vinegar portion of the ketchup seasoning, which if you've read any of my vinegar based flavour reviews you'll know that I'm down with that. I dig these.

I went to my first show since Feb(?) 2020 a couple weeks ago. I had the joy of catching Clipwing, MakeWar, Brendan Kelly (solo), and A Wilhelm Scream at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg. Here's a few of my observations:

- Clipwing is a great band, I've seen them open a lot of shows in Winnipeg and they do it well. Opening sucks but they have the music and energy to nail it. 

- I never really took notice that MakeWar was a trio. They tweak their songs live a bit which makes it interesting. They have a controlled looseness that was really fun. I'm not sure if it's just the sound mix that night or what, but No Mas live absolutely slays. I'm not sure if the bass just got buried a bit on the album, or if the bass player throws a bitta spice into playing it live, but dang. MakeWar is such a great band.

- Brendan Kelly is a performer. His mix of crowd work/baiting, sense of humor and when he plays his songs being absolutely on point is a rarity (at least for the bands/musicians that I've seen).

- A Wilhelm Scream melt faces. Holy technical batman. Nuno Pereira is a ball of energy and positivity. Everyone with a guitar (yes, that includes Bass), absolutely shreds, it's mind blowing how Brian J. Robinson shreds bass. I'm not quite sure how Nicholas Pasquale Angelini's hands/arms didn't melt off while they were moving at the speed of light.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

ps. Instagram asked the age of saltybag204, then got upset that I said it was 7 and removed the account because it was 'too young' to use instagram. I'll get something going on instagram again soon (as that's the only social media account that I post on regularly associated with this blog)

pps. I haven't quite been hitting the bi-weekly posting on here the past few months, that'll probably get back on track. If you're a longtime reader (if those exist) THANK YOU, keep checking back as this blog won't die. If you're new to the blog, THANK YOU for checking out my rambling, tell others and come back to read again.

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