Monday, March 9, 2009

Have some corn chips...


I don't know if it was this way for you growing up, but in my day, the kid with the best snacks was the one whose house you wanted to go to. My mom didn't believe in spending money on snacks like Twinkies (too many preservatives), Cheetos (yellow grease all over your clothes), or fish sticks (who would eat something from a box that you could just as easily go catch yourself?). We would come crawling into the kitchen with our friends, begging mom for something sickly that would make our heads swim in a fit of sugar. Without fail, she would say, "Have some corn chips." I don't know what it was about corn chips but for some reason, they were the solution to our every hunger need. I am convinced that if the world was made of corn chips, the phrase, "There are starving children in China," would not exist.

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