the good, the bad and the…yucky.
Today I was thinking of all the foods I hated as a child and now, as an adult, love. A few that come to mind: Onions, anything spicy, cheeseburgers, brussel sprouts, strawberries… the list goes on. There are probably foods that I loved then that I hate now, but nothing is coming to mind presently.
There is one food, though, that I hated then and still hate to this day. Not for lack of trying, either, because I’ve periodically given this particular food a new chance with the same result. The food? Conn’s potato chips. They totally suck. Does no one else realize this? I remember thinking as a teenager that this company would be out of business in a matter of weeks because the chips suck so badly. They are kind of soft (isn’t it a prerequisite of a chip to be crunchy?) with a weird aftertaste like the oil they fried them in wasn’t hot enough and instead was soaked up into the chip. Ugh. Purely disgusting. It’s completely baffling to me that I can still find them in the grocery store. Who is buying these??
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November 13th, 2007 at 12:20 am
Conn’s: the chips you eat when absolutely no other food is lying around within a 10 mile radius. And even then, you wonder why your grandparents bought this damn bag.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I hate Conn’s too. I remember they had this commercial where the old dude, who I assume is the owner, was being pulled in a red wagon by his fugly grandkid while trying to eat his nasty potato chips. He never actually got one in his mouth though. It always drove me nuts.