My little Sunday

Sunday was interesting, which is good, because Saturday was dull. Saturday, I rummaged through my clothes and found 4 full trash bags of clothes that I no longer wear, do no longer fit me or that I never really wore in the first place. It freed up a lot of closet space.

On Sunday, I went to Erwinna, PA with some bike shop buddies to ride something called the Covered Bridges Metric. [63 mile rides are called "Metric" Centuries because they're a hundred kilometers.] It wasn't the ride so much as it was the temperature that almost made me decide not to go. I don't like to ride in anything colder than 50 degrees, and our ride-time temperature was a sparkling 39 degrees, so the part that controls common sense was wondering what the other part was thinking. But since I had kinda promised to go, I figured I'd use that. I wore lots of layers and tried not to think about how cold it was.

It didn't stay 39 for long, and as the sun came up it got more into the 50-degree range. We wound up doing the 50-mile loop (that's still a lot of kilometers) mostly because we didn't want to do 51. Fifty miles is plenty, and I had such a good day that I didn't want to screw it up with an extra 13 miles. Quit while you're ahead. Plus, as it was it took 3 hours plus food stops to do the thing, and that's long enough on a bicycle in hilly northeastern Pennsylvania. Some of the hills are challenging, but the downhills are fun, too. I got up to 42mph (that's 62.5K) going downhill on one of them. That's a blast!

When I got home, I had to reward myself for such a splendid effort. My choice? Pringles Select Szechuan Barbecue potato chips. It says Rice Crisps on the package, and that's another problem. WTF is a rice crisp? They put the "rice crisp" thing at the bottom because they want us to think they're chips.

A more horrible snack food was never invented. They call it a "unique taste escape". I was looking for a unique way to escape the taste. Pringles makes some good chips, but I think this one falls more in the category of Food as Torture than Food as Snack. The biggest issue now is that I have a mostly uneaten bag of chips that I have to throw in the trash.

And what is it with all the exotic chip flavors? Pringles has four of them and those Herr's Kettle Chips come in some chemically-induced flavors that really have no place in a potato chip. There's a Cheesesteak flavor. Wouldn't I just eat a cheesesteak if I wanted one? It's harder to find regular potato chips than it is some of these odd ones.

Perhaps the bigger question is, why would I buy Szechuan Barbecue chips - excuse me - rice crisps in the first place?

That's questionable judgment.