Day 2 #100DaysOfThoseDays

Today is National Tortilla Chip Day.

Are they a love hate thing? I can take them or leave them. My husband calls them cardboard crisps. He’ll only eat them as nachos and even at that, only if he’s in the mood.

Tortilla chips are not a patch on the crisps I ate when I was a child. Tayto salt and vinegar, and King cheese and onion.

It was King or Tayto and no in-between! Families were divided and friendships ruined beyond repair over the argument of which was the tastiest crisp. I was in the King camp back in those days, but I’m a 100% Tayto girl right now.

I remember getting King crisps in St Anne’s Park during the summer festival. I spent the whole week gathering up enough money to buy a bottle of Cream Soda and a bag of King cheese and onion. I looked forward to that more than the activities in the park.

Thinking back to those days, we had cheese and onion or salt and vinegar, and that’s all we needed. We had no notions back then you see… until Mr Smokey Bacon and Ms Prawn Cocktail rode into town. That’s when things started to get messy. Flavours like beef and onion, and roast chicken decided to join the taste-bud party. We were fine the way we were. Look at us now. Giant-sized bags of every flavour under the sun. Salt aged ham hock flavour, and bacon and cabbage flavour! Really?

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