I really really want greasy crunchy chips right now. No I am not a junk food fiend, not anymore, but I used to be. Then when I turned 40, I stopped, luckily my taste bud changed. What was the daily staple of my life for the first 40 years was no more. I was done with sweets and greasy chips. But I really crave it now when I can't have it, and I am too proud to ask my husband to get me chips. And you definitely CANNOT ask your kids to fetch you chips. They'll be like, "but mom, you ask us to not eat those so why are you eating them?" I mean I sneak eat a few here and there when I have cravings, I just don't tell them!
I scrounged through the bag of leftover snacks from the flight.. only beef jerky and these darn old mulberries left. I relished those turtle chips at 2am a few nights ago. Too bad I only brought one small ziploc bag of it when my nieces refused to finish them bc of the chemical content. There's no way I can ask my husband to buy them at 7/11. He's got his hands full working and taking care of the kids for the past 7 weeks while I was gone. He's NOT gonna want to pick up turtle chips for me. He didn't even ask for my cravings when I was pregnant so what would make him happy to get me turtle chips when I've already had the babies, and forced him to babysit them for 7 weeks!
But I really want those turtle chips... If you haven't had them, you don't know what you are missing. Just don't look at the ingredients list before you take the first bite. After you have the first one, you can read it and see how bad it really is, but you won't care. I sure didn't even though I always care about what goes into mine and my family's stomach.
I first saw these on our ski trip to Niseko, Japan a year ago, but this summer, I found the Korean version at H Mart. I got my nieces hooked on them too. They seemed extremely grateful and resentful at the same time when they bit into these.
Out of desperation, I dig into my airplane snack bag to see if there are any bad, bad as in unhealthy but I don't care, crunchy chips knowing I won't find any. If you have flown with me, you know what I'm talking about. The infamous airplane snack bag. I literally carry a whole bag full of meals and snacks on flights. I still have that post war mentality when it comes to food stock up which was inherited from my mom, who really lived through a war. Let me tell you though, it's saved my friends and family on a few occasions. Notably, when we were stuck outside the LA airport due to a bomb scare for several hours and nobody could enter the airport for food... my snack bag came in super handy.
Inside the bag, I only found beef jerky, leftover nuts and mulberries. No I want something bad, something really junky. These are too healthy. When i dug further into the side pocket I find these. I have no idea what these are, where they came from and when they were given... but they can't be that old because I bought this black bag only like 6 months ago. I gave myself the permission to dive in since it's the only bad junk food i can find in my room.
It's got a bit of weird bubbly discoloring, but I bite into it. Gross. It's too sweet and it tastes like plastic. Geeze, how and why the heck do my kids eat this stuff??!! Well, at least my bad junk food craving has been satisfied. I still want those turtle chips, I will need to text my hubby for the Japanese version that's sold in HK because that craving has not dissipated.
2 hours after I wrote this blog, I dug into these leftover mulberries. Yes those leftover mulberries look sad, but they are actually quite yum. Tonight, I better ask Thea to bring me some healthy snacks... and a ziploc bag of chips. No two ziploc bags to last me a week. Darn, now I am regretting leaving the bag of Takis outside the door for Thea to take... Those are gross too, but they would have satisfied my bad junk food craving, and the family would never have found out that I had consumed what I labeled as the "worst junkiest junk"!
If you never had Takis, keep it that way. It's really bad, not just bad but super spicy in a bad way... not in the good yummy fermented kimchi that's actually good for you way. And it turns your tongue orange! But for some reason, Thea and her friends love them. Takis or mulberries anyone?
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