Tales of the Salty Bag

 Anticipation can go one of two ways. You always hope for your expectations to be met, but quite often you're left with the taste of dirt in your mouth. When I first reached out to get some Slide (Gourmet Potato Chips) I pointed my bat towards the Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar as being the grand slam. Thick cut chips with the prime go to chip seasoning flavour, yes please.  Earlier this year Wasted Wax let on that there was a Quit It! LP in the works that would be out this year. From the onset of that announcement I was stoked. I thoroughly enjoyed River Jacks so I couldn't see why the next project wouldn't be anything shorty of a banger. I was met with a faint vinegar scent when I cracked open the Slide S&V. The crunch is mid to heavy weight which quickly gives way to the buttery texture that I've enjoyed with previous bags of Slide Chips. These beauties are THICK cut. The vinegar, as it smelled, is present but not overly aggressive. You really get the malt flavour ...

 Ruffles teamed up with KFC this summer to put out an Original Recipe Chicken flavour of potato chips. There's some tang to these lil potato circles. Standard Ruffles mini ridges. Bitta sweetness. Are there 11 herbs and spices? I dunno, probably, it tastes like KFC chicken batter. Tastes high in sodium, but it's only 13% per 50g. There's some pepper up in there. Medium crunch. Definitely on the all dressed family tree, just sans vinegar. The kids ate 3/4 of the bag before I got to them..which actually works out really well, 45g is a good quantity, otherwise the herb and spices would take over. It's been a minute since I've had KFC, the chicken cuts the aggressiveness of the herbs and spices a bit more than the potato chips...but on the flip side, these chips are less likely to give me terrible diarrhea, so I'd say it's a wash. If you find a bag they're worth picking up, I just wouldn't bother with a 6 pack. Hey ruffles, if you're going to colab, ...

 What happens when you mix Grumpster, Small Crush, The Moore Family Band and Dog Party? We'll find out when the Doki Doki LP comes out. Based on the first 3 singles I Was Killing It Man , Liar Liar and I Can't Fight This Crazy Anymore it's going to be varied across the punk and pop/rock spectrum. I Can't Fight This Crazy Anymore is the song that has me really excited for the album to come out, it's fronted by Small Crush's Logan Hammon and has that sweet Small Crush 90's influenced danceable alt-rock sound that is just infectious. Wooo yeah! So have another bag of Slide Gourmet Potato Chips in front of me tonight, the flavour du jour is Honey BBQ. I think these are going to be sweet with a mild kick. Not sure how the thick cut butteryness will blend in.  The smell like BBQ with some oil (canola). The flavour is slightly sweet, a bit of honey lemon twang. With this flavour I can taste a bit more of the potato skins. The BBQ is low in the mix, but pops out i...

 I realized today that I didn't put a post up in September. I believe that's the longest that I've went without posting since this here blog started. Well, let me pick up with a new flavour of chips from the company that I left off with, Slide Gourmet Potato Chips, Dill Pickle (edition). This is by far the most natural tasting and unique dill pickle seasoning that I've ever had. The (thick cut) chips range from wicked crunchy to oddly crunchy (like a soft crunch, if that makes sense [the thickness of the chips make it odd, but enjoyable...and almost add a buttery/creamy flavour/texture to the party]). You can taste dill, garlic and when it hits (I believe) a malt vinegar. The garlic is strong with these babies. At 2.5oz (71g) bags, these leave you wanting more, but still satisfied (like, yeah, I could eat a 300g bag in one sitting [and would enjoy the whole thing], but I also don't want to die before I'm 40.) These chips are fantastic. The last time I blogged (w...

Man, Ween makes some odd music. I was trying to remember what band sang Friends, and now I'm listening to La Cucaracha (which is the album Friends is on). Up until tonight I could only name one Ween song, you guessed it, Friends! Which is danceable and weird and triggers a fantastic dopamine rush (at least for me). I want to say it was the song that the friends section of Thanks, Brain! was edited to (might be another snowboard video, but I want to say it was at minimum in a Think Thank video [man, the Think Thank videos were {are? I haven't seen a new one in a while, but it looks like they're still sending it} dope. Thanks, Brain! was my introduction to their fun, inventive, just hype A.F. videos]). So yeah, a friend brought me back a bag of Slide Gourmet Potato Chips , Curry Garlic, from her recent trip to Wisconsin (thanks Top). The back of the bag has a quote "Hands down, the best chips I've ever had.". Well, Mr. Ryan Maurer, lets see if you've truly...

 I was strolling through the co-op chip aisle when I stumbled across a bag of co-op Gold Pure vegan cheese Protein Twists. Plant based (I'm not quite sure how they could be vegan and not plant based [that's sort of a side note though]). I figured I'd grab a bag for my walk home, paid for them and started on my way. For the walk I figured it'd be a good time to throw on the new Pip Skid album ( A Really Nice Day ) to accompany me and my snack.  I opened the bag of protein twists and took a whiff. To be honest, they smell funky, somewhere between a fart and a dirty sock. While Pip's abrasive yet catchy What are you Working On knocked around in my head with it's whiny sardonic hook I apprehensively threw a protein twist into my mouth. *Chomp chomp chomp* good crunch. *Chomp* cheddarish flavour. Pretty good lead into Pip's bouncy (I'm not quite sure if it's country or blues tinged...maybe both?) You're not the Boss of Me (ft. Leonard Sumner). Leonard...

 Gruff melodic punk, what more can you ask for. So about a month and a half (?) ago a friend texted me a picture of Cal & Garys Kettle Cooked Smokin' Sweet BBQ potato chips. "Best Served with Flames" that she found at a Calgary (get it, Cal & Garys) co-op. Co-op chips you say, smokin' sweet BBQ you say..."Made from 100% Canadian Grown Dark Russet Potatoes" you say. I had a pretty good idea what the back of the bag might say. Her and her family were out a couple weeks later and they were nice enough to bring me a couple bags to try. Flip it to the back, Great Grammy Albright would make homemade potato chips on her wood-fired pot belly stove with Grampy Aubrey's potatoes, yep. The Covered Bridge & co-op relationship is strong and we all benefit from it. Kettle cooked dark potato chips with skins abound which provide you with an earthy potato taste. The crunch is quite alright, mid to mid heavy. The BBQ seasoning is on the traditional more smoke...