Happiness is a Snack Chip

Recently, Potato and Rice went shopping for...adult beverages. While in the store, Potato had an epiphany of sorts. Potato and Rice call these moments "impulse buys". Potato places a bag of snack chips into the basket. Potato and Rice pay for their purchases, and head home.



Whenever there is a purchase of food or food related items, Rice unpacks and usually shoos Potato out of the way. This is Potato's way of helping best, by the way. So, Rice unpacks the beverages and places the bag of chips on the counter. Rice well knows that once she leaves the kitchen, it is Potato's signal that he once again can come into the kitchen without incurring Rice's "shoo shoo"-ing. Potato finds the bag of chips and settles down on the couch.



Rice, of course, is oh so curious about what exactly did Potato "impulse buy". It appears to be a bag of potato chips, salt and vinegar flavor. Potato takes a chip and chews on it thoughtfully. Rice watches the expression go from "curious" to "interesting" to "better have another to make sure" Potato seems to like the chips well enough, so Rice goes ahead and tries one. These are not potato chips at all. They, are in fact, PopChips. According to the package, they are neither baked or fried, but subjected to heat and pressure which causes the chips to "pop". Sort of a cross between a Pringles chip and popcorn. They are pretty good, by the way.



So, Rice starts reading the ingredients. Of course, the first ingredient is potatoes. But, down the list is rice flour. Apparently, the rice flour is used in the seasoning somehow. This leads to the following exchange :



Rice : Hey Potato! These chips are just like real life!



Potato : What? (incredulous look)



Rice : See, the RICE flour is part of the seasoning.

Therefore, you would just be plain and boring

Potato if you didn't have some spice in your life!



Potato : Oh Yeah? That also means that POTATO

is your backbone, your reason for being!



Now, who knew that snack chips were so prophetic?