Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/11/apparently-prison-has-the-best.html
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I spent a wekend in jail in 1979 ( civil disobedience) and what I remember were hollow french fries. It was on a plate with mystery meat and gravy.
I wouldn’t have eaten that meat anyway, but that made me stop eating animals. It did take a few months to.slowly do so.
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The potato chips are available from the manufacturer’s site. I had already looked up the ingredients, to see if I could figure out what was so special about them. A LOT of the usual seasoning suspects…I seem to recall that MSG was the second ingredient after potatoes, but there were many other ingredients too, about half of which have long Latin names.
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Next up: Florida man robs The Whole Shabang warehouse, sells stolen chips in prison while serving life sentence.
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Just got through with a nine year bid for first offense non violent drug bust.
the real deal holyfield are the whole shebangs peanuts. similar idea, they blast them with everything, but they’re way better than the chips. anything from moon lodge is “aight”
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I’ve never been to jail, and never had the chips. While I don’t doubt the genuine appreciation that many have for these chips, is it maybe possible that the love is based on them being a treat in an otherwise pretty crappy experience, and that the chips on the outside would be just OK?
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People on the outside buy the chips because they want to, not because they have to. That’s a pretty good indication that it’s not merely the deprivation causing the appreciation.
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Not necessarily. Fads aren’t necessarily synonymous with quality.
It would certainly explain former prisoners wanting tyem on the outside, which may set a wider trend.
I was only in for tthree nights, and I certainly felt cut off from things.
Maybe a clearer picture as when I was in the hospital and rehab last year for a total of six months. A vegetarian, institutional food and restricted diet meant I at very little. When I couid, the first thing I had was potato chips and soda.
Veggie Straws?
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People trying the chips:
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well I believe in impulse buying over the Internet, so I’m in for a dozen.
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“I won’t eat a corn chip out of a bag no more. Ya see, I used to make ‘em, had a hair net and everything. You ain’t tasted nuthin’ 'til you’ve tasted a corn chip right off the line.”
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I have to wonder if these are just the basic All Dressed formula that Canadian’s enjoy and Americans have only recurrently started becoming aware of. The description of ‘salt and vinegar with some sort of kick’ certainly makes me think there’s a close relationship.
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Lucky.
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UPDATE! The chips arrived today. The flavor is similar to barbecue in a lot of ways, but with more of a vinegar-y taste than I’m used to. I had a few, but the brood crushed a bag and they all said they liked them a lot.
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