Well I feel like something had been taken away from me.
I happen to LIKE potato chips. I don't eat them because I think they are healthy for me. Nor do I care one way or the other. I eat them because I like the way they TASTE. When the wife and I moved down from Maryland to Florida, I was pretty distraught because Utz potato chips were nowhere to be found down here. Lays were close, and over time I became acclimated to them and lost the yearning for Utz potato chips. But I have to admit that every September when we would do the Mid Atlantic Show in Maryland, we did stock up on Utz and smuggled them back across the border.
So not that long ago, we got our usual bag of Lays potato chips when we went to the grocery store, and for lunch that day upon opening the bag, noticed that the chips were mostly brown in color. I figured maybe we just got a bad bag of them (yeah, they got smart and made the bags so you can't see the GOOD ones any longer). I ate a few of them, and yuck, not at all what they should have been. My wife noticed the printing on the bag saying that these were cooked in sunflower oil, something to do with trans fat content or something. So the next trip to the grocery store, we got another bag, and upon opening it, found those same browned chips in it as well.
Well rats...... So I have tried EVERY other brand of potato chips available in the area, and only Wise are even tolerable. Heck, I was already griping about buying those bags that were only half filled with the product, and the other half merely air, but at least I could EAT that half of bag!
So then I hear about some ban in New York or something to eliminate ALL trans fats in foods. There is even a website dedicated to this pursuit (
http://www.bantransfats.com/). Shades of
Demolition Man!! It sounds just like that make believe society that made everything that some bureaucrat determined to be unhealthy, illegal. I mean what will happen if everything I like to eat becomes illegal? So what if I live to be 125 years old if I am miserable with taste deprivation cravings during all that time? Surely salt is going to be on the chopping block shortly. As will red meat. And what about those starchy smashed potatoes I like? What are our meals going to become? A bowl of pills with filtered and sterilized water to wash them down with? Thanks, but
NO THANKS!
But tell you what, if those SOBs start messing with steamed blue crabs, they are going to have a war on their hands!
The potato chip conspiracy.....
Next, it will be Fritos and tortillas chips. Go figure.
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