catching up

"It's 8:00 pm. I should really eat something that isn't kick of lime chips or ice cream," is a sentence I said out loud in my kitchen and which kind of sums up my day. What really tells you how the day went is that, after saying it, I looked at the real food in my fridge and seriously considered eating dark chocolate espresso trail mix.

But I didn't.

I made a cheeseburger -- with gorgonzola -- instead. And that was the healthy supper option (not counting the raw veggies in the fridge, but they needed washing and peeling and cutting and so forth).

I have mentioned that I have a peoblem with the moldy cheeses like gorgonzola, bleu, stilton, feta? They exacerbate my allergies. (Guess what my fave cheeses are. No, go on, give it a go.)

But what's this about "kick of lime chips" you as. One: I thought your local store hardly ever had them in stock. And two: it's hint of lime.

Which ties nicely into that post I didn't actually post, mostly because I never finished writing it. I started it a few weeks ago when everything more strenuous than breathing just wore me out and just getting out of bed every day was a tremendous accomplishment -- which unfortunately left me too exhausted to do much of anything when I was up. I started several posts dueing those weeks. I forgot about them until I realized the kick of lime post still languished in the draft folder -- and it wasn't alone.

So let me present "A Salty Conspiracy."

A comic prelude

coworker: I'm investigating what you made for lunch.

me: <clearly eating peanut butter sandwich> Peanut butter on toast. I also had the last of my roasted veggies.

coworker: Huh. We were debating. I smelled soup. Soup with lots of cheese. Someone else said she smelled pizza.

me: <still chewing peanut butter> Nope, no cheese. Potatoes, squash, carrots, and green beans. And all-natural peanut butter on sourdough toast.

coworker: Obviously none of us have any kind of sense of smell.

And now our feature presentation

If you are not familiar with my quest for hint of lime tortilla chips, or you would like to refresh you memory, click here. <Note: I will add the actual link later when I'm on an actual computer because it's too complicated to do on my phone. Meaning, it's probably very simple just very different from the desktop way and I just haven't figured it out yet.>

Everyone up to speed? Good.

The price of these are oh-so-rare chips keeps climbing, too. I don't even want to hear the official excuse. Shortage of raw materials, i.e. totally 100% fake flavorings, probably due to supply chain disruptions of chemicals from China. Or maybe from someplace else but being sold to China instead. Whatever.

And after months of toying with us, the poor consumers, offering special sale prices but limiting supply of hint of lime chips then meeting demand and raising the price, after all of that Kroger suddenly has a kick of lime store brand chip. At a ridiculously low price .<Note: The base price has already gone up since I started this post about a month ago.>

So. The store stocks hint maybe once per week and refuses to restock when the shelves are bare. While maintaining the pretense of a sale price. Interest is already high (no one wants the d^mned sriracha avocado flavor). The store feeds that interest (and me, I mean us) by putting out a few more bags, just enough that we don't forget hint and move on altogether.

Suddenly the hint shelves ate overflowing. Sriracha avocado fiasco is already forgotten. Just in time for the summer sale price to end and the base price to jump up to a truly crazy amount for a bag of chips.

And the store brand of tortilla chips now includes a kick flavor, initially at about 1/4 of the price of name brand but now closer to 1/3 of the price. But still waaaaaaay cheaper. And it's actually a pretty tasty chip.

I dunno. It just all seems too coincidental. The timing all just lines up too neatly. Throw in chip recipe clues hidden within a super famous much studied Renaissance painting and a secret order of Vatican combat monks and you have the next mega-hit suspense intrigue thriller.

p.s. Next time I'm bored and playing sudoku and solitaire on my phone I'll go through the other draft posts. I suspect I didn't get beyond a title (which you have to have to save whether as a post or a draft) and maybe a sentence or two. I'll salvage what I can -- assumingI can even figure out what I meant to write about.

p.p.s. As a great man often says, "D'oh." It's full moon or almost full moon. Cold (overnight low of 29F) but amazingly clear. I meant to drive down to Cumberland Falls for moonbow. It takes about two hours to drive down and moonrise was about four hours ago, so yeah, I completely missed it.