A friend of mine went to Prince Edward Island and brought me back a bag of PEI Potato Bag Chips.
Potato Bag Chips come in a nice little mock potato bag, complete with webbing on the bag so you can see the chips, just like with real potatoes.
I didn’t check the ingredients but they taste very natural, like the chips of my childhood. Ooh, I sense a wave of nostalgia coming on.
They remind me of the chips we were never allowed to have when I was a kid. Fiesta chips. They were delivered to your house by a guy in a truck. The Chip Man was just like the Milk Man, offering home delivery. The chips were delivered in a metal can. Not big enough to call it a bin, but a large metal can.
Milk we got delivered, but chips? No.
We were never allowed to have Fiesta chips, no matter how much we longed for them. My mother was appalled at the idea of chips delivered to your home because a) they were not healthy, and b) it was an extravagance and a waste of money. So I would watch the Fiesta truck go around the neighbourhood, dropping off cans of chips to other lucky households but never to ours.
If I had followed my mom on the straight and narrow non-chip path I might be a lot slimmer and healthier (and richer?) today. She had the right idea, but alas, I have gone in the opposite direction. A chip rebellion rooted in my childhood, perhaps?
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mmmm...we had Fiesta chips. I just love the idea of having that round brightly-coloured drum of deliciousness in the house.
I was also thrilled by our rare visits to the Pop Shoppe...(imagine, a store dedicated solely to soft drinks!)
JAW fan
Actually, didn't Fiesta deliver soft drinks as well? I vaguely remember having soft drinks delivered to the house...Obviously, my mom knew a good thing when she saw it!
JAW Fan
There was a Pop Shoppe in my home town - it was in a laundromat. Regardless, the idea of home delivery of soft drinks that were NOT AVAILABLE in stores was so thrilling.
And I knew kids who got Fiesta chips AND soft drinks, so JAW is right that they did both.
We never got Pop Shoppe drinks, though. My father had a deal with the guy who delivered coke to the machine where he worked and would sell him cases at cost.
Ahhh - kids drinking caffeine and sugar from an early age. Those were the days.
I knew it!!! Everybody had Fiesta chips except me. What a miserable childhood I had. Where did my mother get her crazy ideas about proper nutrition?
I didn't realize they also delivered soft drinks! Now I feel doubly deprived.
I don't think we ever went to Pop Shoppe. (Which should come as a surprise to no one.)
Yes, but you got to thrill to the Regatta every summer. You should link folks that come here to your other blog where you dissect the goings on in the powerboat racing world.
That blog is still under construction.
And how surprising is it that in 35 years of living in Regatta-ville, or going there regularly, I never went to the Regatta. Even when my dad got free passes.
We hated the Regatta. Powerboats are noisy and they disturbed the idyllic calm of our fair town. If I recall correctly, we'd hear the rrrrrrr of the boats, and my father would immediately start complaining about the "goddamned Regates".
We had a version of your Fiesta chips here that were called Charles Chips. Of course, we called them Charlie Chips because we were on friendly, very familiar terms with them. They also were delivered and came in a tan and dark brown tin, one of which found itself a new vocation as a Lincoln Log receptacle in our basement rec room. We didn't get them delivered but my Aunt Lory did, and on magical Saturday nights, if the correct planets were aligned and the wind was right and none of the six of us were in trouble for something, we might get a handful or two of those delicious chips. But we never got the Spanish peanuts that arrived with the chips as those were strictly for the adults. We also had a version of your pop store which was called Pick-a-Pop. You got to fill an empty crate with 24 little glass bottles of pop of all different colors and flavors! My favorite was red cream soda. And I remember thinking that my brother was the biggest moron for wasting all his choices on grape pop. I think I felt most loved when we got to go to Pick-a-Pop. What a warped thing that is.
L.P.
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