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Remember life before the barbecued potato chip when obesity was exception, not the rule, like it is today?
1 posted on 05/13/2025 2:36:02 PM PDT by appeal2
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To: appeal2

I never liked barbecue potato chips 🍟.


2 posted on 05/13/2025 2:39:02 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Remember when people were responsible for what they ate and knew how to eat responsibly rather blaming “big food” for forcing them to become fat?


3 posted on 05/13/2025 2:45:02 PM PDT by mbrfl
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I could eat a whole bagful - probably have. Now I don’t let stuff like that come into the house.


5 posted on 05/13/2025 2:47:05 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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McDonald’s formulated that sweet ketchup and targeted children because they knew taste buds are set by your fifth year. Loved Micky D’s and that sweet ketchup as a tot? Then you always will, was their reasoning. Hooked for life.


6 posted on 05/13/2025 2:49:31 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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IMHO the best part of a bag of BBQ chips is the fresh odor when you open the bag. If it was a single serving bag, as a kid I’d stick my nose in and take a deep hit on it.

Loved the smell, but the taste didn’t measure up.


11 posted on 05/13/2025 2:59:43 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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Lay's potato chips and Cheez-its and Oreo cookies are delicious and wonderful.

But because I fight weight gain and *ahem* I am an ADULT that does not want to be fat I CHOOSE not to buy them.

I am as lazy and gluttonous as they come ... but if I can say no anyone can. Food addiction is yet another euphemism for catering to desires masquerading as a medical condition.

12 posted on 05/13/2025 3:08:02 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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I never understood why people like Pringles chips. They are nothing but salted cardboard.


14 posted on 05/13/2025 3:15:29 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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After the Barbecue chip morphed into the Sour Cream and Onion chip the earth’s magnetic field reversed.


23 posted on 05/13/2025 3:30:57 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: appeal2

So Charles Chips ruined the world. I KNEW IT!


24 posted on 05/13/2025 3:31:32 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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What am I missing? I remember liking barbecue chips as a kid, but I don’t seem to remember ever dying or becoming addicted to them.


27 posted on 05/13/2025 3:47:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Had a neighbor who was lead engineer on adding bench seating at a major D1 football stadium. Don’t quote my numbers but I remember him saying they had to add 5-8” of real estate per bench seat to accommodate today’s obesity. The ones built in the 1930s were considerably smaller and caused fights during cold games due to people wearing winter clothing.


37 posted on 05/13/2025 4:32:35 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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Gave up potato chips a few years ago as I always felt sick after eating them. Every once in a while I will try one, and it is easy to stop at one. Real corn chips though (corn, oil, water and salt) with homemade salsa is a different thing. Funny I eat a lot of them with no weight gain or Ill effects.


39 posted on 05/13/2025 4:35:57 PM PDT by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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Many T2 sufferers never had a clue until their pancreas was damaged beyond repair.


40 posted on 05/13/2025 4:43:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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I immediately thought “Johhny Depth”


41 posted on 05/13/2025 5:08:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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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.


46 posted on 05/13/2025 6:44:30 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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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?


47 posted on 05/13/2025 6:45:14 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Charles’ Chips (BBQ)were delivered in suburban Orlando in the early 60s in a gallon sized tin can.


51 posted on 05/13/2025 6:51:56 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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BBQ chips are okay. Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos, OTOH, are meth in a bag.


55 posted on 05/13/2025 7:45:40 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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There is nothing I like about barbecue potato chips. To me it is just as bad as barbecue flavored pop corn. Yech!


56 posted on 05/14/2025 12:06:54 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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Cheetos are my weakness. How can anything that tastes so good be so bad for you? 😉


57 posted on 05/14/2025 7:41:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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