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My Brain Hurts

 Can one, or better yet should one, separate the art from the artist. What if the artist appeared to be okay when the art initially came out however as they aged became a taint. I'm not quite sure. If you own an album, or piece of art, that you purchased without knowledge of  the creator having significant faults should you still be able to hold onto that piece of art and let it represent what it did when it was originally purchased, or should new knowledge allow that art to be tainted. The discussion around the art definitely has to change.

Lets say that there's a band and one of the people in the band is a chud, however the other members seem to be okay. Is the chuddiness enough to taint even the most significantly beautiful pieces of art. There's an almost infinite number of examples, and depending on your morals some are good and some are bad. There are some, like the Warped Tour pedo bands that it's like, yeah you should have been able to read between the lines. Then there's bands like Screeching Weasel, Ben Weasel is a dick, that's been known for a long time. Some people make excuses that he's against the grain and super punk, but at the end of the day he's a troll at best. But My Brain Hurts is still a fantastic album and Science of Myth is a damn near perfect song. The sentiment of Science of Myth, the lyrics, the music on their own are unbeatable, and they were written by Ben Weasel, but like, there's just the taint of it all. 

Anyway, Pringles "chips" are trash. I mean the actual "chip" the base of their product is so terrible that it drags down their, typically pretty decent and interesting flavours. With that statement out of the way. On top of the terrible base, they don't even provide nutritional information in a standard 50g format. Like, what self respecting chip company provides nutritional information in a 28g format, definitely a "chip" company.

Limited Time Only! Honey Mustard Pringles. Medium crunch. Nice spicy almost horseradishey mustard bite with a honey sweetness. Taste like packets of honey mustard that you eat at fast food restaurants. The coverage is a little light. Flavour would bang on some kettle cooked chips with a heavier dose. Not quite heavy enough coverage for me to recommend purchasing a tube of Pringles. BB Aug 1, 2022, so maybe their limited time has expired. I only hope that some actual chip brands read this and get more into mustard flavoured chips...honey, yellow, spicy, whatever dude, just make with the mustard.

Pringles Groovz Tangy Southern BBQ. Way too light on the seasoning. Mesquite BBQ with a mild jalap style kick near the end and a bit of (brown sugary?) sweetness. Not enough flavour coverage for me to elaborate on these any further. This is the first time I've had Groovz, didn't seem to add to the crunch or flavour of the actual chips. Hard pass.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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