Posted on 05/13/2025 2:36:02 PM PDT by appeal2
Before Doritos became dusted crack. Before Reese’s turned peanut butter into a dopamine drip. Before seed oils and soda trained your body to crave like a junkie…
There was one humble snack that changed everything: The Barbecue Potato Chip. This wasn’t just a flavor. It was a formula. A gateway drug to lifelong food addiction. And no one saw it coming—until now.
The Granddaddy of Biohacked Food
Let’s make a bold claim: The barbecue chip was the first truly biohacked food. And it set the blueprint for modern edible addiction...
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I immediately thought “Johhny Depth”
Want a good Egg Muffin?
Leave off the “Mc” part and make your own. Start with a Thomas’s muffin; truly the best on the market.
As soon as you go past plain corn chips, which have three ingredients, corn, oil, and salt, the other 17 or so ingredients are bad for you.
Some are preservatives while some are designed to “call you back” to eat more.
I always had Hellman's mayo as a kid. It was good. As an adult when I tasted Duke's mayo I lost my addiction to Hellmans. Some of those addictions are not permanent.
Wow! Same here! Grew up with Hellman’s, but I’ve been a Duke’s girl ever since it became available here.
Agree. Those old addictions are not permanent.
My aunt sold the cans of Charles Chips (Barbecue) decades ago. In the ‘60s, I think. I don’t think you could buy them in stores. They were delicious.
I noticed when I gave a cat kitty-treats, she began eating mechanically, almost blindly, mouth open and closed in a zombie like manner. I think they put a chemical that stimulates chewing/eating. The cats pounce on it and the public thinks the cat likes it. The cat in question couldn’t seem to resist a chemical cue.
If such a chemical is available for cats and other mammals, might they put it in people food?
Every potato product is a gift from Heaven.
Pringles. Yum.
Frito Pie. Yum.
Charles’ Chips (BBQ)were delivered in suburban Orlando in the early 60s in a gallon sized tin can.
As a kid grow up in St. Louis, Missouri, my favorite barbecue chips were called old Vienna and I can still taste them today. You can’t buy them today they stop selling them around 1990., but they were very addictive.
Every potato is a gift from Heaven.
Mankind, unfortunately, finds ways to screw them up.
Appreciate the feedback, folks. And yes—this is only the beginning.
BBQ chips are okay. Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos, OTOH, are meth in a bag.
There is nothing I like about barbecue potato chips. To me it is just as bad as barbecue flavored pop corn. Yech!
Cheetos are my weakness. How can anything that tastes so good be so bad for you? 😉
The history of the potato and its weaponization in America is a very difficult time line to follow. Sour Cream and Onion represent the culmination of big food’s engineering and biohacking initiative.
Come man, white cheddar popcorn is delicious, but only from white corn, no gmo’s.
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