Kudos to Slate for unearthing a heretofore undiscovered type of snob
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@jalefkowit That's a low-key burn on the times. "You have no idea how bad things were -- I mean, *Cool* *Ranch* *Doritos* were considered revolutionary!"
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
You, a fool, absentmindedly toss a bag of chips into your cart from the sterilized shelf of a harshly lit supermarket. But I go into the wilderness to find the True Chip. Only I know the secret places in which it dwells. For I am Chingachgook of the Chip Country
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@wordshaper @jalefkowit
In Amsterdam it's called Cool American because they have no concept of Ranch as a flavor -
Chris Jolly Holcombreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit As a chip connoisseur myself, who enjoys the brands in question, I can assure absolutely no one was rapt with interest over these regional brands.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Chris Jolly Holcomb last edited by
@ReverendMoose Yeah. I mean, my Ohio hometown has its own beloved local brand of chips. It just never occurred to me to make that a load-bearing element of my personality
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@RnDanger
...but a cool American...?!
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to [email protected] last edited by
@priryo @RnDanger @wordshaper They named it after me
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
(way to go Jason, there’s nothing the TikTok kids like more than Fenimore Cooper references)
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
Obligatory:
“Conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation.”
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit they’re better than the average US potato chip, but the flavors seem to lean salt / vinegar / just acidic in general, so probably why it’s not for me. I love the crisps in the UK / Aus / NZ. Just potato and some savory flavor. Over here I live on Asian potato chips which have more agreeable flavors for me. Walkers sometimes if I can find them
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CM Harringtonreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit they’re not wrong.
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe I think we all remember where we were the day Cool Ranch dropped
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CM Harringtonreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
@jalefkowit I generally don’t like to think about the BCR era. (Before Cool Ranch)
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@jalefkowit I am this kind of snob. I thought I was a well-traveled snob with all of the weird flavors I have experienced in Asia, but a recent trip to Spain opened and entirely new chip window.
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@jstogdill But have you been to… PENNSYLVANIA
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@jalefkowit I *live* in Pennsylvania
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