Eating Chips With a Spoon

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Let me just say

Chips are my favorite food

You can have your juicy steak dinner

Or your 1-inch thick hamburger with the works

Or your big plate of cheesy lasagna

I’ll just have

Crispy

Fried

Potato slices

Thank you very much

But not just any chips

No, your basic generic potato chips are not for me

(Unless there’s nothing else in the house)

It’s got to be kettle-style chips

Or bbq flavor chips

Or better yet — bbq flavor kettle chips!

Now when you’re a chip lover

There’s a dilemma when all the big chips are gone

And there’s all those crumbs at the bottom of the bag

What to do??

Sometimes there’s a lot of crumbs at the bottom — sometimes there’s an inch or two of salty, savory, fried goodness hiding down there. And you know that’s where all the tasty bbq dust ends up right??

So you can’t just throw them away with the bag

No, no, no!

You’ve got to have a method for getting them out:

There’s the ‘Scoop & Drop Method’. This is kind of like the arcade game ‘The Claw’. It’s where you stick your fingers in the bag and try to grab as many of the little morsels as you can. Then you try to get them into your mouth by tipping your head back and maneuvering your hand to the general vicinity above your mouth and drop the load. For me, this method usually results in chip bits stuck to my neck, down my shirt and into my bra.

Then there’s the ‘Magnet Method’. Think Chimpanzees sticking a twig into an ant hole and pulling it out full of the tasty little guys just ready to be licked off. So for this one, you have to lick your fingers and stick them into the bag and try to get all the little goodies to stick to your fingers like a magnet. Then drag them out and lick them off. And repeat. Over and over and over. Clearly I don’t have the patience of a Chimpanzee…

So many techniques…

I tried them all

But a long time ago I discovered the perfect way to get every last smidgen of chip crumbs out of the bag and into my mouth.

You see, I had a bag of chips that had been smashed by a rogue watermelon in an unfortunate grocery bag mishap on the ride home from the store and I ended up with a whole bag of chip bits

Mr. Redoux said, ’Well you can’t eat those now they’re all just crumbs’

To which I replied sweetly, ‘watch me’

And I grabbed a spoon

Not just a dainty little teaspoon, mind you

I got a soup spoon

And I ate my chip particles with my spoon (with a side of sandwich)

And they were D E L I S H