Writer's Block: Snacks, don't fail me now

[mdlbear]

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Chocolate. The darker the better (up to 75-80% or so).

Sometimes potato chips -- they're high in potassium and seem to be particularly easy on my stomach.

Comments

[itskoi.livejournal.com]

Baked potato chips or the traditional fried?

[mdlbear]

Baked -- I think they're what the Brits call "crisps".

The French-fried ones are good, too, but I can't buy them in bags and keep them around for days -- they're only good fresh out of the frier.

[itskoi.livejournal.com]

Eeeew. Yeah I think you're right about the 'Crisps' part. They were trying to sell baked ones here as 'Dorito Crisps' etc. I haven't really found a baked one that I could stand.

Luckily I can't tell the taste difference if I have a bag of the bad for me kind. ;-)

[mdlbear]

Hmm. Now that you mention it, fried. I was thinking "French fries" vs "potato chips". The baked ones _are_ awful. And the "reduced salt" ones reduce not only the sodium but the potassium, so they're useless. I'll take low-fat, though.

The best ones are kettle-fried from Yukon Gold potatoes.

Potatoes, as it turns out, have 8x as much potassium as bananas (which I don't like) and 4x as much as prunes (which I do, because dried fruit is yummy).

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, chocolate. I'm very very fond of Trader Joe's 72% dark belgian, in the small bars. They seem to be the best quality (for *my* palate, anyway) (and props to me for not using "palette", eh?) and I love the fact that a few small squares will suffice, melted slowly in my mouth.

Mmmm. Chocolate!

[mdlbear]

Mmmmmm. Yes, TJ's has some good chocolate.