I don't eat potato chips much. Rather, I don't allow myself to eat potato chips much, because an
open bag will inevitably become an empty bag in the course of a single 30 minute sitting. Trust me,
that is not an exaggeration.
But when I saw this bag of Tim's cascade-style potato chips at the grocery store, I ignored my inner Jenny Craig and just bought them. Besides, with a club card, they were half price.
The chips are flavored with wasabi, and though wasabi flavored snacks are something I have been eating for years (especially those Japanese little deep-fried peas), seeing it on a non-Asian snack was new (though I have seen wasabi-flavored Funyuns before).
At first, the chips had only a faint flavor of wasabi, and an oddly bitter sensation on my tongue. I ate a few more, and decided I didn't like them all that much, but I couldn't stop eating them. By no means was I wolfing them down, but I continued to eat them. There has got to be some yet-to-be-discovered chemical in wasabi that makes people crazy - I mean what else can explain why people want to feel a burn so high and deep in their head that they cry, and why else would I keep eating these chips until *ahem* the bag is empty?
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