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 I enjoy tracing out band family trees in my head. It's crazy how you can trace Blink 182 back to Slapstick (who's the root of quite the family tree [extended family and all]). Recently I had my phone on random and a Banner Pilot song came on, it's probably been a year+ since I've listened to them....and they still bang. This took me back to the root of Banner Pilot, Rivethead. The tree that grew from Rivethead has provided me with a few in my top 20 all time albums. Even just taking a few of the first generation bands that they went on to form (Banner Pilot, Dear Landlord, House Boat, Gateway District) that is quite a hefty lineup. Then there's the bands that former members of Rivethead contributed to (Off With Their Heads, Slow Death), or Rivethead Cousins (The Manix, The Soviettes). I'm not quite sure the point that I'm making in all of this, I just sort of wanted to bring light to Rivethead's Cheap Wine Of Youth EP and the undisputably great music that followed as the members branched off. Man Minneapolis (Twin Cities) has produced a wild amount of amazing music. 

So, I cracked open a bag of Taro root Chinese Lay's tonight. A friend from work had gifted me a bag a month or so ago (thanks Andrew). They seemed interesting, but for some reason I thought they'd be really earthy like sweet potato and approached them with mild apprehension, I didn't think they'd be terrible, but not terribly good either. Well, let me tell you, these are super thin (almost paper thin) chips that have a nice crunch for their thickness which gives way to a nice starchy semi paste after a few crunches in your mouth. There's a sweetness, mixed with an almost (faint) rosemary type flavour (at least I think that's it, I'm not a real herby person, so I could be off)..either way, it's a unique flavour that's somewhat flowery but not overpowering. You can taste the salt, but they have relatively low sodium content 16%/50g) than your typical chips. Fats/saturated fats are off the chain though (equivalent of 37% and 43% respectively per typical 50g). Luckily this bag is only 60g. These chips are light and starchy with a flavour that is quite unique.  

I originally planned on also writing about some Food Should Taste Good Brand Cheddar Tortilla Chips, but I'll leave that to another night.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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