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Chip Bits

1) Most delicious chip i've tasted in years: "Dirty" Potato Chips Roasted Garlic & Herb flavor. According to the website, it's guaranteed to keep the vampires away! Great toasty garlic flavor, not overpowering but very pronounced. Amazing crunch factor too.

2) I just tried some of the new Terra Chips Mediterranean flavor. Back in high school, used to eat Terra Chips whenever i possibly could - they were so different than Ruffles and Pringles and i loved all the different chips except the sweet potato ones. The Mediterranean ones are essentially regular Terra Chips but with a light coating of garlic, olive oil and herb flavored powder. Very good, but after eating half the bag i realized i just wanted to eat the taro chips. Good thing they apparently make bags of only taro chips, plain and spiced.

3) I'm not so into the Kettle Chips Jalapeno with Tequila and Lime flavor. They sounded great but in actuality i thought the lime tasted artificial and that they were too sweet. Texture-wise, the chips were great but flavor-wise, let's just say i won't buy them again. Ditto for the Spicy Thai flavor. When i sampled them at the Fancy Food Show i finished my tiny cupful and thought they were quite hot and tasty, but when P passed on her bag i thought they were much too sweet and powdery in a larger quantity.

4) This isn't about chips, it's about a food commercial that is not "so good." Those ultra-annoying Yoplait yogurt commercials, specifically the one about Chocolate Mousse Style yogurt, make me want to ban tv forever. You know the one: two friends (one black, one white) are at the spa and oogling over yogurt with lines such as, "It's like zen wrapped in karma dipped in chocolate, good." There is just so much wrong with that sentence i can't even start. I can assure you no one of Asian descent wrote that line.

5) The french fries and vegan club sandwich at Quantum Leap are 2 thumbs up. We used to eat brunch there often many years ago but it fell out of rotation for some reason. I recently had lunch at the new location and will definitely go again soon. The vegan club was sky-high, filled with fake ham, fried tofu and a Gardenburger-like patty, with lettuce, tomato and sauce. The fries were very crisp and yummy. be liked his Ranch fake chicken wrap; so did i - and i hate wraps! Also of note: during weekend brunch they offer real maple syrup, and the sesame salt seasoning on the tables is tasty!

posted by beXn @ 12:36 PM