They’re tangy. You’ll probably like them. The tang made me realize vinegar was good on things.
It’ll make you aware of why early Anglos though catsup was spicy, and why early Americans thought the same about ketchup. Back when Answers.com was a thing, there was a LONG entry on the history of that condiment, and arguments by all sorts of world powers (even the culinary historians wouldn’t take French claims seriously though, it comes down to us commercial Yanks and the her Royal Majesty’s Merchant Marine) for having “discovered it” and three Asian locations for having created it.
yeah, it’s crazy. i had old style ketchup at a bar one time, that did english style chips. total game changer. so i looked into even older recipes of ketchup. used to be made with berries, and mushrooms, and whatever. makes me think there was a time when it was just salty jam, maybe like marmite, or what have you. so i made a batch of mushroom ketchup. it was great. not worth the trouble, and tomato ketchup is cheap, plentiful and easy by comparison, but that was my story. my story about the ketchup rabbit hole. haha
hm…. i WANNA like this one, cause i see where you’re going with the cheese, and the gravy being like sauce…. i just don’t see fries being like the bread. you might be onto something though.
but i might be the only canadian who thinks poutine is gross, so don’t listen to me.
Enemy at the Gates had some intrepid female snipers avoiding other snipers … and this trick is a very real one, though this world is less bleak than the Eastern Front, much less this part of it.
Also, all corn chips, whether the Fritos variety or full on Doritos or restaurant style are full on chips … though they taste like crackers. In the 1800s through the early 1930, chips were ANYTHING flash fried in oil and were quintessential rich people food. Here they’d eat it at the tech tree when reaming out a contractor or subordinate. It took unnatural caloric fats to make them last long enough to become vulgar. Anyhow, by that measure, anything that isn’t Pringle’s like air crisped is a friggin’ chip. Here I shall stand upon history, and here I shall die if need be, like Jan Hus suffering for THE Truth! And with chips, I needn’t have that Diet of Worms thing, which frankly sounds gross.
You know what’s not gross? Catsup flavoured chips. There are SOME things Canada just does better.
yeah, i gotta say, if you’re reading this, and you’ve never had ketchup chips, run out right now, and get you some ketchup chips. you can say whatever about wherever, but the US not having ketchup chips is an odd failing.
I imagine that in the (near) future small drones can be deployed to give the sniper an accurate view of the target’s position behind cover, through the scope.
Many, so many, moons ago I used the old starlight scopes. Big, heavy things. Yes, they made pitch black look like funky daylight. Years later I used a cheap night scope. It was only useful under full moonlight, or if the little illuminator was on. It just wasn’t especially effective.
i imagine by the time drones get that good, we’ll not need boots on the ground at all. it would be nice to think that there’s a future without open combat at all, but i’ll settle for one where only robots get destroyed. then again, the more likely scenario is one where drone operators remain safe, and only civilians are in jeopardy. the future is gonna be weird i think.
I’ve always wanted to try ketchup chips! I need to order some of those!
if you can get a bag, go for it. they’re different. a great blend of salt and red.
They’re tangy. You’ll probably like them. The tang made me realize vinegar was good on things.
It’ll make you aware of why early Anglos though catsup was spicy, and why early Americans thought the same about ketchup. Back when Answers.com was a thing, there was a LONG entry on the history of that condiment, and arguments by all sorts of world powers (even the culinary historians wouldn’t take French claims seriously though, it comes down to us commercial Yanks and the her Royal Majesty’s Merchant Marine) for having “discovered it” and three Asian locations for having created it.
yeah, it’s crazy. i had old style ketchup at a bar one time, that did english style chips. total game changer. so i looked into even older recipes of ketchup. used to be made with berries, and mushrooms, and whatever. makes me think there was a time when it was just salty jam, maybe like marmite, or what have you. so i made a batch of mushroom ketchup. it was great. not worth the trouble, and tomato ketchup is cheap, plentiful and easy by comparison, but that was my story. my story about the ketchup rabbit hole. haha
Counter hot take: Poutine is Canadian pizza.
hm…. i WANNA like this one, cause i see where you’re going with the cheese, and the gravy being like sauce…. i just don’t see fries being like the bread. you might be onto something though.
but i might be the only canadian who thinks poutine is gross, so don’t listen to me.
Enemy at the Gates had some intrepid female snipers avoiding other snipers … and this trick is a very real one, though this world is less bleak than the Eastern Front, much less this part of it.
Also, all corn chips, whether the Fritos variety or full on Doritos or restaurant style are full on chips … though they taste like crackers. In the 1800s through the early 1930, chips were ANYTHING flash fried in oil and were quintessential rich people food. Here they’d eat it at the tech tree when reaming out a contractor or subordinate. It took unnatural caloric fats to make them last long enough to become vulgar. Anyhow, by that measure, anything that isn’t Pringle’s like air crisped is a friggin’ chip. Here I shall stand upon history, and here I shall die if need be, like Jan Hus suffering for THE Truth! And with chips, I needn’t have that Diet of Worms thing, which frankly sounds gross.
You know what’s not gross? Catsup flavoured chips. There are SOME things Canada just does better.
yeah, i gotta say, if you’re reading this, and you’ve never had ketchup chips, run out right now, and get you some ketchup chips. you can say whatever about wherever, but the US not having ketchup chips is an odd failing.
Run, rabbit, run!
I imagine that in the (near) future small drones can be deployed to give the sniper an accurate view of the target’s position behind cover, through the scope.
Many, so many, moons ago I used the old starlight scopes. Big, heavy things. Yes, they made pitch black look like funky daylight. Years later I used a cheap night scope. It was only useful under full moonlight, or if the little illuminator was on. It just wasn’t especially effective.
i imagine by the time drones get that good, we’ll not need boots on the ground at all. it would be nice to think that there’s a future without open combat at all, but i’ll settle for one where only robots get destroyed. then again, the more likely scenario is one where drone operators remain safe, and only civilians are in jeopardy. the future is gonna be weird i think.