The Ultimate Decision
I was heading home from work today with the dream of a turkey sandwich dancing through my head. I stop a new (to me) neighborhood grocery store to get the meat, and some bagels… oh, and I need chips too.
Disaster…. I stand there in the chips and salty snacks aisle fearing the decision that lays before me. My choices are mass-produced regular crap chips, or reduced fat Krunchers (Kettle style). That’s it! No regular kettle chips at all. Now, you know I absolutely DESPISE reduced fat anything, and especially chips, so what do I do?
That’s right. I just bought reduced fat chips for like the first time in my entire life…. And then, I ate them. I ate the fricken crap out of them. These Krunchers don’t taste like total crap, they are not completely foreign tasting and devoid of any actual potato and oil flavor… these chips are pretty good. Pretty good in reduced fat language is excellent. The back of the bag says they use a hot air method of frying. The ingredients list, only shows Potatoes, and Corn Oil. I find this terribly amusing on a number of levels. One of which, is because of my dad. Why my dad? Well, for as long as I remember he has been telling me an idea for a potato chip and french fry fryer that uses ultra hot oil (and some other methods that I will not divulge here) to fry foods. His idea would leave the foods crisp, browned and flavorful, but with less residual oils. Reducing the overall fat (and calorie) content.
Well dad, I’m afraid you may have been beaten to the punch. These chips are good.