Now That's A Potato Chip

Look at em. I bet you're drooling already. Potato chips on a stick, what a marvelous idea. These would be a hit in the USA for fair and festival food. I broke out in a huge grin when I spied these stick-o-chips across the parque in Oaxaca city. At first I was a bit confused about the seasonings for the chips. The stand was also featuring jicama dipped in a variety of artificially colored and flavored sugar toppings. I thought for a second that I could have watermelon flavored potato chips. It turns out that good old fashion ketchup, salt, lime and tobacco were my topping options, but now I am getting ahead of myself. Let me first break down the way this chips work, which is so utterly cool, I kept ooohhhing and aaaahhhhing. Take a whole potato... peel it....stick it on an apparatus that spins it while slicing it into a super thin continuous coil.... stick the whole (not yet separated) potato on a stick....seperate the layers... deep fry...season and serve.




I don't want you to miss this. Did you see what I said? ONE CONTINUOUS PIECE OF POTATO. A spiral of chip that goes round and round the stick. To be accurate it should be called a potato CHIP, not CHIPS. There is no break in the chip, it just goes around and around from tippity top, to golden-browned bottom. Now I must be honest, it's a great thing to look at, but it's a pain to eat. First consider that there is ketchup dripping off the chips, all over the place. Every time you tilt the stick to get a bite, the ketchup comes sliding off onto either you or the floor. Now take a minute to recall the texture and natural state of a potato chip. They are crispy little buggers. Now picture yourself eating them off a stick. They do what chips are good at, they crumble. About 64% of the chips make it into your mouth, while the other 36% is food for pigeons. In the end, the loss of chip is a good thing. They are greasy and would give you a ragging belly ache anyways. If there are any entrepreneurs out there, I am giving you this idea for your next fortune, free of charge. Open the first United States potato chip stand, I'll even give you a name: Stick-o-Chip , Spud Spirals or Potato Popsciles. If you get rich, buy me lunch sometime.