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Fairytale of New York

It's been a thick cut fall/winter so far but I've somehow managed to not try or write about Covered Bridge's (first?) foray into the thick cut game with their East Coast Lifestyle Thick Cut Sea Salt (they've released [I think] a couple flavours since, but I believe this is the first). Made in Atlantic Canada with white potatoes. White potatoes, Covered Bridge, say what? They smell like oil, don't look extremely thick cut. Appear to be kettle cooked. First chip tastes like a standard kettle cooked plain chip. The salt flavour is relatively minimal...lets see what the back of the bag says..yup, 9% per 50g, these are light on salt. Good mid weight crunch, possibly slightly lighter than mid weight. I don't mess with plain/salt/sea salt chips on their own very often. I was hoping these would be proper thick cut, but I honestly wouldn't have been able to tell you that they would be labeled thick cut in a blind taste test. I'm missing the dark russet. Good chips, but they're not top of the pile, just decent chips. I am quite surprised by this.

At my work holiday party a week ago we had karaoke. I opened the night with Fairytale of New York. You know, one of the greatest christmas songs ever. During one of the instrumental breaks I asked if anyone recognized the song...crickets. The demo was like 30-60 years old with some people who were actively involved in the local music scene. I couldn't believe that nobody was familiar with Fairytale of New York. What the what.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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