So many developments
A lot has happened since my last post about a surprising “Chef’s Signature” flavor.
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That includes my purchase and careful happy hour tasting session of a Devil barbecue chip, retasting the signature salted egg and trying a new signature roasted chili flavor. I also discovered a “Sun Chips” spicy salted egg flavor. Is that right? Is this really a new flavor? Are there still Sun Chips? I recall that’s what these were called 30 years ago. And now Lays has 25th anniversary flavors. Seaweed gochujang, anyone?
Needless to say, that made for a busy March.
I’ve been limiting my time at the store, however. In lieu of leisurely afternoons spent in the Chips and Snacks aisle, I’ve been botanizing, reading, and writing.
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Over the past 15 years I’ve assembled an eclectic (and superb—is there a word that conveys the joint meaning?) grass collection and I added to it this week with some new species and varieties. I found them on a sparsely-populated island in the Andaman Sea. I explored the island for over a week, finding many interesting grasses. Some were growing wild; one formed an oceanfront lawn. The color of unirrigated manilagrass lawns in the Thailand dry season is spectacular, ranging from a dull sandy color, to a neutral yellow, to a bright gold, depending on how the light hits it.
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Of course I supply irrigation to the grasses in my collection during the dry season. So what I see at home are green leaves. But it is fun to see the grasses in the wild, too.
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I haven’t been to the store in a while, so I have great expectations for my next shopping trip. I’ve probably said this before, but it’s an exciting time for potato chip flavors right now.