One of my favorite snacks is plain Ruffles potato chips with a bit of dip. It can’t be just any dip, but it must be Heluva Good! French Onion dip. This dip is legendary.
Originally from Upstate New York, there’s just something very delightful about Heluva Good! French Onion dip, though I also very much enjoy their bacon horseradish dip. When combined with Ruffles, I’m in snacky heaven. As a quick sidebar, it’s not a well known fact, but I can not roll my Rs. I have never mastered the art of rolling my Rs in such a way, and my sister often teased me when we were kids, because she could do this nifty thing with ease and every time I ate my favorite chips she would incessantly roll her Rs, exclaiming “Ruffles have ridges” all over the house.
As I typed that paragraph I just tried to roll my Rs again and had absolutely no success in the endeavor.
I have mentioned before that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. Back when I was young (and my sister was exclaiming “Ruffles have ridges!” every five seconds), after Thanksgiving dinner and the football games at Grandpa and Grandma Country’s house, Dad and I would do the chores and the other cousins would follow along with the merriment, as they did not see feeding the cattle on a daily basis as we did. My extent of the chores at the time was taking a couple of scoops of grain and putting it in the troughs, but I still did that part. Anyways, after the chores was done, we’d have leftover turkey on homemade bread. I’d load up my plate with Ruffles and Heluva Good! French Onion dip, and then put a healthy amount of salt on the turkey and mayonnaise sandwich. It was sheer culinary delight. Earl was kind enough to indulge my enjoyment of this activity this past Thanksgiving. The only difference is we had Best Foods Mayonnaise instead of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, because after all, we live west of the Rockies.
Small wonder I take blood pressure medicine 50 years later. It’s probably because I’m still trying to roll my Rs.
