I'm such a JERK

Guess who's back??

So much has happened since the last post!  There's a lot to get out there, so I hope everyone's ready.  I'm going to try and capture it all in chronological order, but sometimes my excitement gets the best of me so the timeline might fly out the window.  First things first, however, we need to talk about Jerk chips.

As usual, I got beat to the punch on this one by other blogging chip enthusiasts out there on the Inter-Web, but I'm still going to share my view with you all.  You can't find these chips just anywhere, so I want to make sure that if you see these on a random shelf in a random bodega or grocery store you can say, "Oh... these are the chips that Fat Mike told me about!"

I present to you, Dr. Dread's Famous Kettle Cooked Jamaican Jerk Chips:

 These things are AMAZING.  Purchase online here.   I was given them as a gift Thankfully, I have great people in my life who appreciate and contribute to my enthusiasm for finding new and exciting flavors in snack food that's out there these days. #thanksamy.  To be honest, I didn't entirely know what to expect.  I'm a big fan of jerk flavor, and I didn't know if the chip would cut it.  How do you pack all of that big flavor and various spicing onto a chip?  Seems like a tall or, but the doctor is in and knows what he'd doing.  I was pretty impressed.  I couldn't put them down.  If I had to offer a criticism, a chip isn't necessarily the best vessel for all that spice, so there isn't consistency throughout, but there's a good smoke and nice bit of hot spice that accompanies each bite as you move through the bag.  I HIGHLY recommend a nice beer pairing with these.  However, I'll warn you that if you do you might just down the whole thing.  Even something as modest as the "King of Beers" compliments the spicy and unique flavor of these chips and makes for an enjoyable eating experience.

There is one side effect:

Do you remember those old Pringles commercials from the 80s and 90s?  They would emphasize that Pringles would spare you from the "greasy" leftovers of eating bagged chips.  Dr Dread puts those greasy chips to shame.  Even if you exercise surgical precision going into the bag to grab a specifically positioned chip to eat, you're gonna come out of there with SOME spice accompaniment on the fingers or hands.  It's unavoidable.

I'm a finger licker, myself. I love the cakey, orange leftovers from a good bag of Cheetos, and of course I cherish my Doritos dust (as all of the regular readers should know).  These, however, leave an excessive amount of cleanup.  My theory, is that it only makes committing to taking down the entire bag in one sitting that much easier.  After all, do you want to have a few, clean up, put them down, crave a couple more, have a few, and then clean up again?? Of course not.  Open, eat, rinse off... done.  Throw the bag in the garbage, smile to yourself, bathe in that feeling of accomplishment, and say, "Thanks Fat Mike. That was awesome".