When you stop to think about it, potatoes are a rather unpleasant looking vegetable…

Sure, some of them can be smooth and soft, but most often your average potato is misshapen, loaded with protruding blind eyes, and after a while frankly – a little pungent…

Carrots are fresh, and smooth – at least the ones you buy in cello packs at the grocery store. No wonder rabbits are crazy over them – they’re tast-errific!!

Fresh snow peas are dainty, and demure, covered in little green jackets – they’re the green bananas of the vegetable world. But the potato…

A potato looks like the fat kid that you used to punch in elementary school, just for the heck of it. A potato looks like a morbidly obese raisin on steroids. And that’s when it’s fresh! Once one of those starch bombs has been lying around in your pantry long enough, it’ll start to grow more whiskers than a sea otter! Parts of it will get soft, and start to shrivel, often seeping potato juice – I think maybe those eyes are capable of crying!!

But the stink – man, when those lumbering vegetables start to turn, even the canned goods start to knock on the pantry door, asking for a pardon - hoping to vacate the proximity of a dying potato…

Now potato chips, on the other hand – there’s a delight that doesn’t turn on you. A potato chip can come in a dizzying array of flavours and shapes. A potato chip can transport delicious dip right up to your taste buds. A potato chip, is a noble thing.

Potatoes, not so much…

Chow for now!!