Ketchup-Flavored Chips

Tales from other places, part five

Jessica Cassyle Carr [ Fri Oct 19 2007 4:59 PM ]

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Mmmmmmmm. Ketchup chips at the IGA Marketplace in Vancouver.

In general, I'm not a huge potato chip-eater. I don't usually buy bags for home consumption, or otherwise. Plus, I'm told that potatoes cooked at a high enough temperature can turn carcinogenic. But occasionally my love of all things potato wills me to make exceptions, which is what happened in Canada. While Canada has many fantastic things to offer, one of the most enviable things about our northern neighbors is their differing food options. And one of those options is ketchup-flavored potato chips. It would seem that a ketchup-loving land such as 'merica would sell these chips, but nope. Just 'anada.
It all started in Victoria when my boyfriend and some friends were playing Settlers of Catan. One player brought a bag for game time snacking. Upon sampling I realized the chips were ketchupy, but the most prominent flavor was that of more sophisticated garam masala (a mix of spices typically featuring cinnamon, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom), as commonly tasted in Indian cuisine. After that moment, knowing I had only two more weeks in Canada, I purchased ketchup chips at every trip to the grocery store.
The moral of the story is this: If ever in a snacky situation, if you are ever in Canada, or happen to run across these chips otherwise, snatch them up! They are worth risking cancer, I promise.

JCC

Ketchup, Dill Pickle, Smokey Bacon, Chili Garlic...

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Do you mind? [ Sat Oct 20 2007 4:24 PM ]

You're being a creep, plus that album has nothing to do with ketchup-flavored chips.
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Once, when I was on the road [ Mon Oct 22 2007 7:51 AM ]

I had some chicken-flavored chips. They made me feel yarfy.
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If your sorry [ Mon Oct 22 2007 8:59 AM ]

then be a gentleman and refrain from posting. nothing about your posts speaks for any intelligence.
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Ketchup chips [ Mon Oct 22 2007 1:43 PM ]

sound disgusting.
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MMMMMonnnnnnnnnEyyyyyy [ Mon Oct 22 2007 2:16 PM ]

Being A proper New Mexican type person. I have never had to nor bothered to, spend one nickel from my family. A proper person makes it on their own. The rug never pulls out from under you and the freedom is sweet.
Why would a ($)NewYorker even bother to read such a haughty rag?
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I fear such history has been lost. [ Mon Oct 22 2007 4:02 PM ]

Nobody remembers their origins now. Still, we can only hope for a future with mirepoix-flavored chips.
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They really should combine [ Mon Oct 22 2007 4:51 PM ]

Catsup chips and salt and pepper chips.
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I'm waiting for them to combine.. [ Mon Oct 22 2007 5:29 PM ]

..the mild subtlety of catsup, with the in-your-face power of ketchup. Flavor a chip with this (maybe call it "ketsup") and you've got a winner.
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The mother of all chips... [ Tue Oct 23 2007 9:22 AM ]

If some scientists were able to figure out how to combine, get this, Catsup chips, salt and pepper chips AND dill chips……it would be like a little picnic in my mouth.
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I think Canada has those very chips... [ Tue Oct 23 2007 11:58 AM ]

They're called "all-dressed" or "assaisonnées croustilles," and they're delicious.
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Mainer to my vein [ Wed Oct 24 2007 9:41 AM ]

Heroin - it was my wife it was my life, but we have since divorced. A cocktail of cinnamon, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, and cardamom - do I see a new lover coming, I'll take that spike to the vein.
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What in the Sam Hill are you people talking about??? [ Sat Oct 27 2007 9:55 PM ]

I thought I occasionally went off on an esoteric safari!!
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I once [ Sat Oct 27 2007 10:43 PM ]

wanted to marry Lou Reed. I imagined him writing a song about me like "Sylvia", except he would cry out "Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-ren". And he would come to adore me more than heroin.
The odds were always stacked against me.
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Remeber the 80's [ Mon Oct 29 2007 6:43 AM ]

I got into Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground in the 80's - damn it has been over twenty years. Food can relate to heroin - food is my new drug. I am not fat; I just enjoy what a gourmet dish can do for you. This makes me wonder since we have crack-whores, do foie gras-whores exist?
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Where do I apply? [ Mon Oct 29 2007 8:31 AM ]

I'll do dirty things for some fatty liver.
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Pour Ducks [ Tue Oct 30 2007 6:43 AM ]

Down my throat!