May 23
Welcome to politically correct chips
Cats: slack woman|See today’s Herald column here.
Flax seed and multigrain. Spinach, tomato and potato. Trans fat free.
Big bold cheese flavour. Chips of a less hurried time.
Huh?
Walk down the chip aisle of a grocery store these days and you’d think you were in a health food store.
People, they’re chips. Chips are a tasty, salty, unhealthy vice. They are not health food.
Marketing chips as health food will make people eat more. People do not need to be eating more chips. It’s a scam.
Down with politically correct chips.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:58 am
Tortilla chips are merely a vessel for transporting cheese, salsa and sour cream, makes no never mind what flavour….
“Potato” chips are in the vegetable food group you crazy girl –of course they’re good for you!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am
I don’t think the Brits are following the PC crips route.
Steak and potato flavour?
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
hah! Chips are dead to me. I’m a cookie gal.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Wait…I should amend that to say that the Old Dutch Sea Salt and Hint of Lime spoon chips are good…Spoons, can you believe it?!
As YAM says, it’s all about chips just being a transportation device for the goo…
And Allison, steak and potato? Delish. In Spain they have Jamon Serrano flavour…also quite excellent…
Wait, now it looks like I’m a chip freak! I’m not! I’m really not!
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
I’ll admit to being a bit of a Baked Lays junkie.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Doritos are laced with crack and that’s why I can’t have more than one bag in the house…or so says my widening waistline.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I actually tried buying into the “get your fibre from a multigrain flaxseed zero transfat chip” a couple of times, but they really aren’t worth the effort. I don’t eat chips very often, so when I do, gimme the sour cream and onion and let me pig out.
(Some of those exotic veggie ones actually sound delish but I’ll bet they taste like crap.)
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Chips, what are you all on about? I get my chips deep fried with battered fish…. Oh crisps sorry!?!?! We now have crisps made from dried, yes i said dried, not fried or baked but dried apple, and on the bag it says only 50kal per packet mmmmmmmm!
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I say we need both chips AND cookies. I don’t want to choose between them.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I say let the chips fall where they may.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I say let the chips fall where they may. Geez, it’s like you have a chip on your shoulder about this healthy snack thing.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:12 am
YAM, yes chips are the vessel
Allison, no British crisps are thin and greasy. They don’t pretend they are healthy. That’s what I call honest chips.
Espanya, old dutch sea salt with a hint of lime - my mouth’s a watering.
Espanaya2, do they have pulpo flavour in espanya?
May 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Patrick, Backed LAys, that sounds like something that would go on in a frat house
WP, doritos laced with crack, hmmmm, is that what inspires that wild imagination of yours?
Barbara, aside from the fact that marketing chips as healthy is fraudulent, half the time they taste like sawdust
May 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Rowan! Rowan! Welcome back! I wondered where you’d gone? And yes, I spent seven years adjusting my language from chips to crisps and then I move back to NAmerica and have to re-adjust
Megan, I bet you’ve used cookies to scoop out salsa
Chance 1, believe it or not, I had that in my column but took it out to shorten it.
Chance2, having the chip on my should - that I did keep in my column - it was my kicker at the bottom. Great punsters think alike
May 25th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Actually, I DO need to eat more chips. Like, now.
May 25th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Agreed. Chips should be enjoyed for what they are–a tasty junk food, to be eaten in moderation, or by the sack when depressed or drunk. Certainly not a health food.
May 25th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Ohhhhh but I do love those root vegetable chips — they are MIGHTY tasty!
May 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Jacy, I’ll get some turnip and squash chips in for your visit this summer