Simple pleasures that can bring a smile to one’s face at the toughest of times. Today, it was the fact that – for the first time in more than 15 years, from what I’ve seen – Ruffles is selling Au Gratin chips again. Seriously.
I remember being 13, curled up on Tanya’s couch on rainy days, watching Eric Stoltz and Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind Of Wonderful while eating O’Grady’s Au Gratin, distributed by Frito Lay. Those were good days, and those were good chips that just seemed to disappear, leading me to think I must have imagined them.
Yet today, doing the bi-weekly order at Metro, lo and behold there were the Ruffles of my youth, before I began misspending it.
It’s the little things.
Old Dutch has been selling them (rippled!) for over a year. One of the best chips on the market, by far.
I don’t remember food so much.
I remember running out of cigarettes and smoking a friend’s Export A out of desperation “the morning after the night before”. I still remember the harshness of the smoke and the dizzy hit of nicotine that made it worthwhile.
Yeah, it happened more than once. But maybe not as often as you munched on your favourite chips. Who knows? Who was counting back then?
Where does someone who lives in Kansas get some Old Dutch Chips???????
I moved back to the States in 71 from Alberta and I have been missing them ever since. Salt and Vinegar are the preferred flavour.
Wendy, hang tough my friend. I am still paying attention.
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