ketchup chips, eh?
Happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north! One year ago today I was celebrating Canada Day on Granville Island in Vancouver, British Columbia. When I drove south across the border that evening, I brought a few small, red, FREE souvenirs with me, including a Canadian flag, a flag lapel pin (who wears those?), and a temporary tattoo of a Canadian maple leaf on my upper arm.
Two weeks ago I took a week-long intensive course as part of a summer institute at the seminary I attend. One of the other participants was a woman from Ontario named Barb. As a Canadian, Barb knows something that this American didn’t. What Barb knows is that Frito-Lay has been keeping secrets from We The People of the United States of America.
Frito-Lay makes a perfectly delicious potato chip that it has decided NOT to sell in the States. Americans certainly aren’t on the verge of a snack food shortage, but now that I’ve been introduced to Lay’s Ketchup Chips, I’m convinced that the snack aisle needs one more option. Ketchup chips taste similar to barbecue chips… um, except the flavor is ketchup. See, this is why my career as a restaurant reviewer never took off.
I’m not a potato chip connoisseur (I kept adding letters to that word ’til it finally looked right!), so it’s entirely possible that ketchup chips are already being sold in the U.S. by other companies, and I’m just unaware of it. But I never had any ’til I ate some from the bag Barb smuggled across the border. Actually, it’s legal. And she brought FOUR bags. Smart woman!
Anybody traveling to Canada soon?
