The Perils of Snacking

You know the feeling of a snack session gone wrong. Defeat, unsatisfied frustration, irritation. It's happened to everyone. A common peril of snacking is the old chip and dip folly. This lame situation arises when the crisp is just too thin or crumbly to hold the dipping goodness. As you excitedly scoop the chip, getting a nice heap of the tasty mostels, *snap*. It's like stepping onto a loose board and falling into an abyss of snacking sadness. You try again - SNAP SNAP. Then again - SNAAAAAP. "Oh snap, no it did NOT just do that again," you say to yourself. Pretty soon you're pinching a bundle of broken pieces, looking like a crack addict with a dirty spoon as you go back again - trying to get at least a little dip only to find your fingers plunge into the bowl of goodness (whatever it may be). UGH. Then you end up looking like a ferocious heathen with dip all over your fingers - shoveling a pile of defective snacks into your mouth. Wow life is rough my friend. What we have there, is a failure of snacking.

The lesson: always make sure your chip is thick and sturdy enough to hold the delicious dip you have selected.




Peril Number 2: Picking a flavor that you thought would be delicious, and it turns out to be garbage. We've all done it. Gone out of our safe zone, tested the limits, living on the edge - and ended up with a failure of nastiness. But not to worry, you will recover my friend. As a dedicated and serious snacker I always encourage a little walking on the line. The key to limiting these gross encounters is going with something that is familiar. Example: I live in Asia and there are an amazing amount of new, never-heard-of-before flavors of Pringles out there. Grilled shrimp is certainly NOT a flavor that is worth the risk. I have deduced that on my very own, without subjecting my toungue to the shock. Rumor has it that I am in fact right (yuck). Shell fish flavored chips = bad news. Period. Also beware of crab. I'm sure you get the point. The seaweed is okay, I have ventured to try it. Though it tastes a bit like sucking on a vegetable stock cube. I enjoy snacking on dried seaweed, Japanese style, so I figured it wasn't to far fetched.



The Lesson: Take risks, but work within your taste bud limits people. If you hate onion you will likely not enjoy onion ring chips. Note: you're truly missing out on a delicious snack though. Those are one of my favs.



Peril Number 3: No bang for your buck. For instance - that bag of Fritos that you thought would fulfill your salty cravings. You anxiously tear it open only to find a dissapointment of sparse crisps. Not even enough to have a decent handful! If you buy your chips in bulk packages - this has likely happened. The companies spend more on packaging that on the tasties inside. It is packed full of air lies my friend. The lesson: always check your exact grams to ensure happy, and long snacking.

BEWARE OF THE BULK BUY! = Lots of plastic and no snack :-(