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 What do you get when you mix Josh Martinez and Sleep together? A cross border juggernaut known as The Chicharones. There's nothing funny or clever about that question or answer, it's a fact. Josh Martinez and Sleep both spit clever tongue twisting raps that at times hang around the fringes of chopper territory. Melodic rapping leading into sing song deliveries. Somehow choppy and smooth simultaneously, they both hit the syllables hard. Their last release was 2012's Swine Flew which was a banger. The beats pulled from all over the musical spectrum including rock, new wave, electro, country, etc. There is a ton of humor on the album, but it wasn't all jokes. SunMay is absolutely heart wrenching. Even though they haven't put out an album in over a decade at this point, I believe they're still collaborating. J Mar moved from Vancouver down to Oregon and they're now selling edibles, or something like that. 

Apparently Inessence (by Rubio) is a chip brand..apparently made in Spain. If I didn't have a bag of Ham flavoured potato crisps "premium flavour" in front of me I wouldn't believe me either. "The most intense and delicious flavour of spanish traditional ham". Well, they smell like ham. The chips are somewhat thicker than your typical Lays which leads to a dense crunch. They're a little on the oily side. There's a distinct ham flavour but I don't find them to be overly salty (though they are 16% per 50g, so it's on the low side but by taste I was thinking they'd be closer to 12%). I'm not a huge fan of simulated meat flavours but these don't taste overly simulated. Better than a lot of ham/bacon based flavours that I've had. If you're into the ham/bacon flavour spectrum you'll probably like these. At first the actual chips felt a little sterile/off to my mouth. Maybe it's just a mix of the thicker cut with the oil that they use (mix of sunflower and olive). I'm not their demo, but as far as chips that are a flavour that I'm not all that into, these aren't bad.

Stay hydrated,

Marc

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