On Christmas, we arrived for dinner at K n' K's. Does Christmas dinner ever run on time? Not in any household I've ever been to or held at my own home. So of course, there are the snacks. As if we need to nibble on something before we stuff ourselves silly. But, we do. In my family it was carrots, celery with cream cheese sprinkled with paprika, ranch dressing, chips, and boxes and boxes of See's candy sitting everywhere. Well, low and behold the bowl of potato chips. Actually, not one but two. Not just potato chips, but Ruffles with ridges. Plain and Cheese with Sour Cream. Ugh. I swear they know my name....I can still hear them calling me today. Egads. But, I digress.
Proudly, I managed to only eat a few. Really, I didn't want to ruin my dinner. Besides, salt and my tummy have not been on good terms lately. So I managed to avoid more than one small helping, that day at least.
The next day, we stayed in for the day. Don'tcha know I could hear those damn things calling me. Seducing me into thinking I wanted them. Oh, to actually get dressed and head off to the lovely 711 or our local weirdo vortex (aka The Local Safeway). But, no I would not! I said to myself, "No, you will not bust into this pj wearing, snow falling heavenly day just to go out for a bag of chips you don't even need to eat! You will not cave. You. Will. Stay. Right. Here." And I did.
But....the next day. We swung by Trader Joe's. One of the most wonderful places on earth to shop for groceries, if you happen to actually like shopping for groceries. The crunchy isle. Crackers. Popcorn. CHIPS. Of course, no Ruffles but that's okay. There are other chips, more healthy, or not so healthy if you choose. Well, I thought what the heck, and instead of picking up a regular bag of Kettle Chips I choose another one. That's right, I guilted myself into the new...(drum roll, da da da) Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, white cheddar. The main banner across the bag said "Reduced Guilt." Ya know why??? Because you will eat a few and throw out the rest of the bag. No guilt induced since you didn't eat them! That's right, they have an after taste. A badddddddddd after taste. I am not usually a picky "diet" food eater, but these are gross. I highly recommend you don't try them, that is unless you want to dip them into a big vat of dip!
I still have that bag of Ruffles in the back burners of my mind. Damn, damn, damn.
1 comment:
Ditto on those Kettle Chips. Bleah. They're hard as rocks!
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