Welcome to Baltimore

[erika]

Sadly, I am on the wrong side of 200. You want one of my fries? I SAID ONE!

Oh, I should have added that I'm incredibly short...

 

(sarah you're gonna love those chips!)

[chrisfoll577]

Those fries look ridiculously good. Are they seasoned or something? They look seasoned and also golden and delicious.

strangely enough i don't remember boardwalk fries being seasoned.  i think what's so great about them is that they're made fresh with the skin still on, and deep fried in peanut oil, and it's almost a sin to put ketchup on them.  we used to have a franchise at a mall up here in boston when i was a kid.

[erika]

the proper way to eat boardwalk fries is with apple cider vinegar and maybe a little old bay. i stick with just the vinegar.

look: other people are more obsessed with this food than i am! people paint pictures of the aforementioned treats:

http://www.adcockstudio.com/prints.asp

[Sarah]

My delivery of Utz delicacies has arrived!  I'm very excited.  Now I can offset all the healthy antioxidants in the histamine-rich foods I love with a lot of salt and saturated fat. 

Balance is everything, after all.

Review to follow.

[John Junk]

Don't forget the essential palette(sp?) cleanser: beer!

[Sarah]

Damn, I'm plumb out!  But since I favor milk with my chips, and I have almost three gallons, I should make out okay even so.

[John Junk]

since I favor milk with my chips,

Wait, WHUUUUUUUUUUUUUT?

[chrisfoll577]

But since I favor milk with my chips.

Must be a Maine thing.

[Sarah]

I think it's a Sarah thing.

Partial review:  The whole grain sticks are good but don't have that particular taste I'm looking for in a pretzel.  The specials, however, come near to what I want and may become my pretzel of choice.  Chipwise, I've only tasted the plain variety yet.  Perfectly good but not overwhelming enough to persuade me to get them all the time.

I'm delaying sampling the Carolina BBQ and onion and garlic chips because I want very much for them to be wonderful, and as long as I haven't tasted them yet the possibility still remains. 

[Sarah]

Utz review the second:

Last two varieties sampled.  The Carolina BBQ chips are indeed very good, vinegary and hot.  I'm curious to see how the regular BBQ variety compares.  The onion-and-garlic chips are not exactly what I'd hoped for (I have unrealistic desires here, since I want something that matches a flavor from my childhood), but they're still better than the other alternative (Wise).  I also had another couple of plain chips for comparison's sake and today found them delectable.  The whole grain sticks, however, remain disappointing.  And the big winners are the specials, which I'll definitely buy again.

I now feel ever so slightly sick, not that I ate masses of any of these this afternoon--just enough to make me long for some nice, grease-free fruit.  And all I have is grapes.  Damn.
 
And here endeth the disquisition.

[John Junk]

Yay I'm glad sarah ate the carolina bbq.  I envy her.  I think I might order some. 

As for me, I wanna use this opportunity to give a shout out to the Baltimore bands I know or have met that are full of nice people making crazy music:

wzt hearts!
pony tail!
double dagger!
abiku!
Lexie Mountain Boys!!

There are a million more (dan deacon, cex, spank rock, etc.) but those are bands that I can verify have nice people in them.

Big Shout out to MONITOR RECORDS AND HOSS.

[knifegirl]

Utz review the second:

Are these on the agenda?

[Sarah]

Someday, perhaps, for the bag alone.

I just made my sister a gift of the same selection I bought for myself, in return for all the produce she's given me from her garden so far this summer.  An appropriate trade, I thought.

[erika]

I was walking through Mt. Vernon a few weeks ago on a beautiful day, and I turned to admire this really cool billboard (Utz Girl + Natty Boh guy) from afar, and was immediately stopped in my tracks. I felt sick instantly.

I saw something like 8 shrouded bodies arranged around this park bench. As we got closer we saw that it was an art exhibit from MICA called "Too Many of Us".

The juxtoposition of the "bodies" against the pretty urban backdrop was really stunning. Pics:

[LostInReno]

If I would of stumbled upon that I would of freaked at first that sounds crazy. But interesting