hot'n spicy barbecue chips! mmmm.....
ok, so, if you’ve talked with me recently, you know i’ve been home for the last 3 weeks sick with pneumonia and pleurisy. i’ve been bored outta my mind, and i’ve spent a good amount of time on the internet. i’ve also cleaned out my entire room and closet and some other stuff around the house, but that’s besides the point.
basically, i’ve had A LOT of time on my hands. i’m finishing up my 3rd or 4th week of being home and i’m SOOO sick of it!
well… the following story made marlene and rita laugh -at- me, but i don’t care! i love chips! =)
anyways, there was this new flavor of chips i saw in stater bros in october - the flavor was hot & spicy barbecue! yum!
well, i was looking for it later and couldn’t find it, and after going to several stater bros. and several other stores i realized that no one was carrying them anymore. well, given the amount of time i had on my hands, i finally made it over to the lay’s website to see if they still created the chip, and they do! and according to their website, this chip had been sold in the past month in the stater bros. across the street from my house!
what?!??! how had i missed it? so i decided to let my fingers do the walking and i dialed the stater bros. “excuse me, do you know if you happen to have lay’s hot’n spicy barbecue chips for sale? the website says you have it but i just want to know if it’s on the shelf before i go there.” the lady informed me that they don’t have it on their shelves but i can call the district office to see if they plan on shipping in more of that flavor.
so i called the stater brothers warehouse - “excuse me, i was wondering if you plan on carrying lay’s hot’n spicy barbecue chips, and at which store can i buy them?” well, the guy in charge of the ordering the chips told me that as soon as they got some in stock, he’d send some over to the store near my house (apparently it’s store #55) and that he’d have the manager call me to let me know when they put it on the shelves. i laughed at myself thinking that they were gonna make a phone call to me to let me know when “my chips” had arrived, but still, it was a better option than me driving around to every store hoping to find them there.
well, it’s a good thing i didn’t waste any time driving around because i got a phone call from frito lay a few days later. apparently they don’t carry that flavor in our distribution warehouse (which covers all of southern california and a bit more). i guess it didn’t do so well in their test run so they’re keeping it in the other markets that enjoyed it. i was disappointed but realizing that the chip was still out there, even if it was far far away out there, and not in southern california, i asked him several more questions: “can i order it straight from another warehouse?” nope, they don’t ship, especially over the rockies, because the bags might pop. “which markets do sell this chip?” he didn’t know, he could only tell me which flavors his distribution center carries. there were several other questions but basically, no, these chips are no longer available to me. not in any way possible. darn it.
he then thanked me for being a loyal customer and offered to send me some chips as a thank you from frito-lay. i ended up ordering ruffles kc masterpiece barbecue because those ones always cost twice the price as the lays barbecue. after giving him my address, he told me he’d send a whole box over!
whoa!!! whole box of chips for me!! and free!! well… at the price of my dignity, because i’d participated in this mad goose chase all over a flavor of chips. apparently i’m the only person i know who would do something as absurd as that =) but like i said, i have a lot of time on my hands. and it was better than driving to every single store in the area to see if they had the chip. and i got a whole box -free-!
oh, who am i trying to convince. it doesn’t matter cuz i LOVE free things and i LOVE chips, so i’m happy happy =)
coolio, right?
Wow, that was such a typical Kimi story. Now my wife wants to try it ‘cause she loves consume chips
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=j0HEZel0Aq4Posted by Daryl on 03/14 at 05:44 PMconsume = consome
Posted by Daryl on 03/14 at 05:45 PMwow - a third person saying that that’s typical me! whatever will my readers think!! **blush**
hahahha… and i would love to share some with mrs. villalobos - when are you two coming back to visit? =) =) =)
Posted by kimi =) on 03/15 at 12:47 AM
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