As I’ve mentioned before, whenever I travel I
particularly enjoy visiting the supermarket because I always see products we don’t
have back home. When I move overseas it always
takes me a while to get used to shopping because they don’t organize their
stores the same way, or they use different names for certain products, or I can’t
find that one thing I’m looking for. Or
I spent a lot of time looking at products I’ve never seen before.
As per usual, today’s trip to the grocery store took
over two hours and I only purchased 31 items.
Part of the reason for the prolonged trip is that I had to look at
EVERYTHING. As I was wandering down the
potato chip aisle I saw something which made me go:
I don’t eat potato chips often because I don’t really eat sandwiches. But I think of potato chips as a side dish to either lunch food (like a sandwich) or bar-be-que food. But the point is, you normally eat potato chips WITH some sort of meat. Well here, it appears potato chips are intended to emulate meat. Let me give you an example. Normally you might eat potato chips with a burger. But, it seems a little redundant to have burger flavoured potato chips AND a burger:
Hungry for a hot dog? Should you eat a hot dog potato chips AND a hot dog?:
Or maybe you should pair your hot dog with chicken potato chips?:
But, would that be a faux pas because they aren’t complementary proteins? I don’t know the answer!
Then again, you know how whenever you eat a meat no one is familiar with, like crocodile, and someone asks you what it tastes like, the answer always seems to be, “tastes just like chicken?” By the way, in case you are curious, crocodile kind of does taste like chicken. But now, that saying applies to potato chips too I suppose. “Chicken potato chips? What’s that taste like?” “As a matter of fact, it tastes just like chicken… and potato chips.” The truth of the matter is; we will never know what they taste like because I did not buy any of the meaty potato chips. Maybe next time.
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