Pico de Gallo-flavored potato chips
March 18th, 2016
Big Food, it knows I'm trying to quit it.
Requiring Red Bull ™ to live for the moment, thanks to the advent of Daylight Stealing Time, I stopped in to the Speedway about fifty feet from where I work in order to acquire some. I know, that doesn't exactly jibe with the whole 'quitting Big Food' thing, but at least I'm drinking the sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) free variant of the stuff. Which I documented here somewhat recently.
I'll be dropping the Red Bull soon enough, but for now I'm focusing on eating less processed food. This is much easier with the family having scooted on back to Omaha, as they invariably fill up our fridge with who-knows-what made who-knows-how over in who-knows-where. But I'm in the process of dialing back my processed food intake once more, is what I'm trying to say. Sheesh, rough crowd.
Anyway. So I wandered over to the area where all the beverages are stockpiled, which is opposite the chip aisle. After fetching a can or two or thirty of Red Bull, I turned around and prepared to leave, at which point I was greeted with the sight of these. There was a whole stack of the things sitting there on the shelf, speaking to the back of my reptile brain that I should buy them all.
In case you weren't aware, after previous ramblings on the subject, I have a problem with Pico de Gallo. The problem is that I love the stuff, and usually can't get enough of it when I partake. Heck, it's one of the few foods I've worked on to perfect in a kitchen, which is staggering in and of itself, considering how horrible I generally am in the kitchen. Denny Can't Cook ®.
Having this Pico Problem, I couldn't help but jump at the chance to try these chips when they came out last year, and strangely enough they didn't suck. Sure, it wasn't like the bite you get from fresh onions and lime and what-have-you, but unlike just about every other seasoning that the Lays ™ people have concocted over the last couple of decades, their Pico flavoring is actually quite good.
Me and Brenda were able to enjoy a few bags of these back in ought 15, at least before they were replaced on the shelves, by horrible things like 'gyro', or 'biscuits and gravy', or even 'SOS'. Well, I haven't actually seen chips coated with SOS, but I'm sure they're coming soon. Lays has harvested all of history for any idea to spice up their potato chips, including Magic Masala, which they don't sell in America.
Sigh. The point is that, though they completely vanished off the shelves of local stores last year, the Pico de Gallo potato chips are apparently back - just in time for me to be trying to not eat so many potato chips, among other overprocessed things. Thus, as you can see this bag sitting on my work cart, you know that I have caved in and bought a bag. Or two bags. Or, uh, all of the bags.
Well, okay, only two. One for now, and one for later. But still. Curse you, Lays!