Please tell me this is a spoof

[shewhomust]

In the Guardian (where else?), taste testing home made posh crisps. I can't decide which is my favourite quotation from the article:

1. Their size and fragility mean they’re not as filling as a real crisp, but they could work well as a crisp amuse-bouche before proper crisps are served.


2. Because the idea of healthy crisps appeals to everyone.


3. In terms of taste it’s right up there with the radish.

What do you think?

Comments

[helenraven]

That's very good. The baking tray with the radish slices was very pretty. If that was available as a print, I'd hang it on my wall.

Beetroot crisps are not wizened slivers. They are full-bodied beauties.

[shewhomust]

She compares the radishes to rose petals, which looks abour right. I wouldn't want to live with that image myself (it's a bit delicate and pink) but I see the appeal.

I'm with you on the beetroot, though - and I note that if you put out a bowl of vegetable crisps, beetroot is always the first to vanish (its colour makes this very obvious). Whereas crisping parsnip seems to accentuate its scented soap qualities.

Someone, in other words, has very odd tastes. Unless the whole thing is a spoof.

[cmcmck]

Uncertain.

Grauniad readers (and journos) do have a terrible tendency to take themselves way too seriously!

[shewhomust]

Since I've made it pretty clear that I'm a long-time Grauniad reader (going back to the days when it was sent down the wire from Manchester, and earned that nickname!) what can I say? Guilty as charged!

[cmcmck]

I used to be until they decided that being transphobic and employing Julie Bindel was hip......

[anef]

Life's too short! but if anyone were to make me some radish crisps I would happily try them.

[shewhomust]

This is, in my opinion, both the best and the worst thing about crisps, that if they are there I will eat them!