You got to give those smart guys at the snack companies
credit. They’re always thinking.
Maybe the king of snacks is the once humble
potato chip (or crisps, depending on your location) which has been around since
the mid nineteenth century. Don’t know
if you notice these things as I do, but there is an astonishing number of
people who make them. Gourmet, plain,
wavy, baked (bad, bad), brown russets, thick cut, kettle cooked, the styles are
endless. And on top of that is the
flavors. Almost anything you can think of
is made by somebody. As testimony, one
of my recent favorites is the “Dill Pickle” flavor by the Lay’s people. Sounds bad, tastes good. Speaking of Lay’s they recently (months ago)
launched a “win a million bucks” campaign, asking consumers to submit ideas for
a flavor. When we were in Giant the
other day, I spied a bag that announced the winner.
A Karen Weber – Mendham got the $1M, and will spend it on “college and
braces for the kids.. then maybe some shoes for me”. How cute.
Still a million is a million. All
because she came up with the suggestion of “Cheesy Garlic Bread”. Naturally we had to get a bag, and since they
were having a special of two for one we got another newcomer, Chicken and Waffles (!!)..
Cheesy Garlic Bread I can fathom, but how they came up with
the Chicken and Waffles baffles me. I
think I am reasonably up on food culture, and for the life of me I don’t think I
know of any traditional link between the two.
Since the picture shows fried chicken, I would guess that maybe it would
be from the “south”. Waffle houses began
in the south, so there is maybe a link somehow there. I have never eaten in one, but anyway.
As for the taste test, the Cheesy weren’t too bad and in
fact MFO really liked them. On the other hand (or mouth) the Waffle variety are (IMHO) really BAD!.
The waffle flavor comes through big time, but neither of us could get
any hint of chicken. And like their
namesake, they were quite sweet. The
ones in the picture are from that bag. The
color is sort of off putting.. no more bags for us. yuck.
And yes, dear readers, I know that potato chips are not the
best for you.. but they pair well (ha ha) with certain items…
Technology marches on
I think I mentioned that I have acquired a new tablet/laptop
since the hard drive in this cumbersome laptop appears to be on its last
legs. The new Lenovo weighs but a fraction of this
beast and I thought it would be my travel preference to handle the wonderful
pictures I take while on the journey.
Accordingly I loaded the photo processing software on it with some help
from a more savvy friend, and after the requisite amount of hassle it
installed. Well, in messing around with
it, I found a curiosity that a certain amount of existing files would not
load correctly. Don’t need to go into
the details here, but began to try to troubleshoot. Finally I threw up my hands and tried to get
on an Adobe site to ask a question. I
got in an endless loop of “need to register” and finally quit in
frustration.
Yesterday with the help of “get
a human”, I finally got a phone number and called up. Eventually, after a series of “for….press one,
two, five, etc.” I was told an agent would be with me in 3 to 4 minutes. After 30 of them, a person did come on the
line. It was apparent that I was dealing with an “off shore” facility and then
after proving who I was and a series of “excuse me? Could you repeat that?” exchanges, I explained
what my problem was. The person I was
speaking with (not necessarily communicating) finally said I had to talk to
somebody in the photography department..
Gee, you think?
After another
pause I was speaking to Sangeeta. And
although I am sounding snarky, she spent the better part of two hours sharing
my desktop, changing this, changing that, she was really nice and patient with
me. During the lulls waiting for the
electrons to move, I found out that yes, she was in India, it was two o’clock
in the morning there, and she works from five thirty pm to about three five
days a week. She likes it, and agreed it
was a bit hard on the social life. I
opted not to ask her age. Anyway, she
did everything she knew how (I think she did know LIghtroom) and in the end was
unable to fix the problem. She said it
would have to be passed up the line, and I will get a call within the next 48
hours with the solution. I am
hopeful. Adobe seems to be a pretty
considerate company, and I have to thank Sangeeta for her efforts.
At one point because she was browsing through my catalog,
she remarked that “you have a lot of pictures of food!”, which engendered a
short conversation about being a food blogger, etc. We never did get to considering being
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