In which I am banal
Tue, Jul. 12th, 2005 12:24 amPotato chips! I have a sudden longing for potato chips.
To explain, we went to Target, and
fannishly got some yummy parmesan cheese potato chips. I got to eat the rest that she didn't want. A little too salty, but still pretty good.
I usually don't eat potato chips, not because of any sort of self-restraint, but mostly because I always forget to buy them at the supermarket. Hrm, I guess it is a bit of self-restraint -- I usually try not to buy much junk food at all because I know I'll just sit here and munch on it even when I'm not hungry. Plus, I can scavenge some for free at work ;). Also, I am a picky potato chip eater. And I'm actually much more of a dessert person myself -- my dad and my sister are the two chip people in the family, while me and my mom are the ones with the sweet tooth. Because, mmmmm, dessert. And it's rather odd, but I rarely get salt cravings. Right now it's mostly fruit and juice cravings, probably because of the weather (too hot for chocolate), but other times it's a chocolate or baked goodies craving. So I usually don't get chips.
But now I am sort of hankering. I actually don't like most chips because I feel like the manufacturers put way too much flavoring on them, so that those last few bites are so salty you can't even taste the potato! I like the potato-y taste of chips, so this makes me sad. I mean, the powdery fake sour cream and onion or barbeque powder or cheez powder (so far from real cheese that I refuse to give it the -se). I don't like flavor that is in powder form. It seems slightly suspect. Although I will make an exception for Cheetos, just for the expiration-date line from Buffy and because of the way the bright, completely unnatural orange cheeze powder crusts on your fingers after you've eaten a few.
My favorite chips are usually just the plain, lightly salted ones, especially Pringles Original. I can eat an ungodly amount of those in one sitting, so much so that my lips start to crack from all the salt I've ingested. Ok, that sounds vaguely gross, but they are so good! I cannot stop! And they have such nice, biteable shapes! And they are crispy and still taste like potato!
And Baked Lays. I like those too. Whoever thought of baking these things was a genius. I am probably a chip heretic, because I don't like the normal texture of Lays. Too flimsy! Not satisfyingly crunchy enough! And... *whispers* I don't like Doritos. This feels like heresy to me, because back in Taiwan in middle school, we weren't able to get lots of American snack food, and everyone always wanted Doritos. Except... I never really liked them. I like tortilla chips, but not with the coat of cheezness. Mmmm, tortilla chips in tzatziki sauce..... mmmmm, hummus....
Er. Right then. The only rule I usually make to the light-salt-only-on-chips rule seems to be for salt and vinegar. Because. Well. Because! Salt and vinegar! Particularly when the vinegar is so strong that sniffing at the bag of chips makes your head snap back at the whoosh! I can eat so many of those. Although despite my general liking for Pringles, Pringles' salt and vinegar chips aren't nearly vinegary enough, so one must go for properly kettle-cooked ones. Actually, I have no idea what that whole kettle-cooking thing is about.
The other sort of chips that I absolutely adore to bits are the Terra Chips made of yam and cassava and taro and all sorts of other yummy root vegetables. Deep-fried root vegetables are just the best thing on earth. Mmmm. Come to think of it, there's a little pearl milk tea place here that makes taro french fries, of a sort, and they are the best thing ever. And someone told me they have sweet potato fries in the South, which makes a trip there absolutely necessary. Not that I wouldn't go anyway, because barbeque and grits and mac and cheese and mmmmmm, but sweet potato fries! Why do they not have them here?
I think there should be some sort of Food Tour of the US, or Food Tour of the World, or Food Tour of Assorted Countries, at the very least. I would so join.
To explain, we went to Target, and
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I usually don't eat potato chips, not because of any sort of self-restraint, but mostly because I always forget to buy them at the supermarket. Hrm, I guess it is a bit of self-restraint -- I usually try not to buy much junk food at all because I know I'll just sit here and munch on it even when I'm not hungry. Plus, I can scavenge some for free at work ;). Also, I am a picky potato chip eater. And I'm actually much more of a dessert person myself -- my dad and my sister are the two chip people in the family, while me and my mom are the ones with the sweet tooth. Because, mmmmm, dessert. And it's rather odd, but I rarely get salt cravings. Right now it's mostly fruit and juice cravings, probably because of the weather (too hot for chocolate), but other times it's a chocolate or baked goodies craving. So I usually don't get chips.
But now I am sort of hankering. I actually don't like most chips because I feel like the manufacturers put way too much flavoring on them, so that those last few bites are so salty you can't even taste the potato! I like the potato-y taste of chips, so this makes me sad. I mean, the powdery fake sour cream and onion or barbeque powder or cheez powder (so far from real cheese that I refuse to give it the -se). I don't like flavor that is in powder form. It seems slightly suspect. Although I will make an exception for Cheetos, just for the expiration-date line from Buffy and because of the way the bright, completely unnatural orange cheeze powder crusts on your fingers after you've eaten a few.
My favorite chips are usually just the plain, lightly salted ones, especially Pringles Original. I can eat an ungodly amount of those in one sitting, so much so that my lips start to crack from all the salt I've ingested. Ok, that sounds vaguely gross, but they are so good! I cannot stop! And they have such nice, biteable shapes! And they are crispy and still taste like potato!
And Baked Lays. I like those too. Whoever thought of baking these things was a genius. I am probably a chip heretic, because I don't like the normal texture of Lays. Too flimsy! Not satisfyingly crunchy enough! And... *whispers* I don't like Doritos. This feels like heresy to me, because back in Taiwan in middle school, we weren't able to get lots of American snack food, and everyone always wanted Doritos. Except... I never really liked them. I like tortilla chips, but not with the coat of cheezness. Mmmm, tortilla chips in tzatziki sauce..... mmmmm, hummus....
Er. Right then. The only rule I usually make to the light-salt-only-on-chips rule seems to be for salt and vinegar. Because. Well. Because! Salt and vinegar! Particularly when the vinegar is so strong that sniffing at the bag of chips makes your head snap back at the whoosh! I can eat so many of those. Although despite my general liking for Pringles, Pringles' salt and vinegar chips aren't nearly vinegary enough, so one must go for properly kettle-cooked ones. Actually, I have no idea what that whole kettle-cooking thing is about.
The other sort of chips that I absolutely adore to bits are the Terra Chips made of yam and cassava and taro and all sorts of other yummy root vegetables. Deep-fried root vegetables are just the best thing on earth. Mmmm. Come to think of it, there's a little pearl milk tea place here that makes taro french fries, of a sort, and they are the best thing ever. And someone told me they have sweet potato fries in the South, which makes a trip there absolutely necessary. Not that I wouldn't go anyway, because barbeque and grits and mac and cheese and mmmmmm, but sweet potato fries! Why do they not have them here?
I think there should be some sort of Food Tour of the US, or Food Tour of the World, or Food Tour of Assorted Countries, at the very least. I would so join.
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