Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips & Sunday Sports Roundup: Ray Allen, Bryce Harper, and Wimbledon
Junk Food Nation, let’s do a little sports talk, shall we?
1) One Friday, former Celtic Ray Allen turned down a lucrative offer with his team to join the reigning champion Miami Heat. Boston fans everywhere are understandably upset, because Allen had been part of the crew that brought the Celtics their own championship, and now he is joining their rivals. Feels turn-coat-ish – joining the archrival. Hints of Johnny Damon? If Allen had joined any other team – the Knicks, the Bulls, etc…it wouldn’t feel so hurtful. Especially since it was a free agency choice, and he took less money. The thing that really stings for Boston fans is that this is an acknowledgement by Allen that Miami is a better place to win than Boston…and that inference by action would burn ANY team. This is not Nomar getting traded to the Dodgers where people still cheered him when he came back. No, Ray Allen made this choice, and he’s going to get booed loudly when he returns to Boston.
2) Bryce Harper is an All-Star! Well, as an injury replacement. He is 19 years old, and is now the youngest All-Star position player in history, and the third youngest overall after pitchers Dwight Gooden and Bob Feller. Not bad for the local DC hero. I said to a buddy of mine that when Bryce Harper (19) and Mike Trout (20) came up on the same day to the majors that we were looking at the NL and AL Rookies of the Year. Now both are All-Stars in their first year, and Trout might very well be the AL ROY and AL MVP in the same year, which hasn’t happened since Ichiro came on the scene. Cool.
3) I wanted to write a little bit about Wimbledon, as the Men’s Final started this morning 900am EST between Federer and Andy Murray. I was worried my post would come out after the game was over…until I remembered that tennis matches go for like six hours. Even as I type they are only about to begin the third set….and it’s over two hours in. And people talk about soccer matches being too long! Anyways, all I wanted to say was that I think its amazing that no British man has won Wimbledon – a British event – since 1936. Really?? No one over 76 years, thousands of tennis players from the UK, NO ONE has cracked Wimbledon since?? Good luck, Murray – bring honor to your country!
Today’s junk food: Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips!
Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips: The Money Shot
Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips were nabbed at the Fancy Food Show, and according to all investigation, are not even on the market yet. Not in stores. Junk Food Guy exclusive here!
I reviewed the whole line of Simply 7 Chips back on my birthday several months ago. Simply 7 makes Lentil and Hummus Chips…this new Pom line must be their new expansion.
Made from pom seeds?
Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips are ostensibly made from pomegranate seeds. Chips made from pom seeds?? Really? Simply 7 is breaking some ground here – I’ve heard of lentil chips, hummus chips, bean chips….but pom seed chips? Wowza.
Nothing on the back
PS: I said ostensibly before because this was a sample bag. There were no ingredients for me to read, no caloric counts, nothin’.
Inside out baggies?
Interestingly, when I opened the bag of Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips, the INSIDE of the bag was a lentil chip bag from one of its other products! How funny 🙂
Pinkish hue
Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips were the same format as the others in the company line – a light, crunchy, airy chip that crunched nicely and dissolved in the mouth sort of like how Pringles do after they are wet with saliva. But the taste?
Rippled sea shell colored
Wavy wavy wavy
Simply 7 Sea Salt Pomegranate Chips were a bit strange to me. A savory chip, the combo of sea salt and very SLIGHT fruity flavor made these sort of savory-sweet – like a kettle corn or sweet potato chip.
When I crunched, the fruity “air” that filled my mouth was unusual. The “dough” of the chip was slightly sweet, and the mouth was left with a odd oily aftertaste. After a few chips I realized what taste/flavor it mimicked. It was either (1) the weird fruity aftertaste you get in your mouth after eating one of those pre-packaged blueberry mini-muffins packs you can get from Entemann’s or Tasty Kake, or (2) the weird aftertaste you get in your mouth after eating a Dunkin’ Donuts strawberry frosting donut. The aftertaste felt/tasted exactly like one of those two sensations.
Would I eat these again? Probably not. I can appreciate Simply 7’s innovation, but I’ll stick to one of their delicious Lentil Chip line instead.
PURCHASED AT: Free at the Fancy Food Show
COST: not in stores yet!
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Discuss - 9 Comments
I’m so over the pomegranate movement – beyond the actual fruit and the juice, I don’t think the other products are necessary. I’m using this eco-crunchy pomegranate shampoo right now, and my hair just smells like Flinstones vitamins after. It’s annoying.
The mixture of savory and fruity is weird to me too, but that’s never been a favorite combo of mine. I’ve never liked fruit with cottage cheese, for example – cottage cheese always felt better paired with bacon bits or Doritos.
I couldn’t of put the ray Allen thing any better myself. It’s exactly like Johnny Damon going to the yankees. That chip sounds kind of weird. It looks like it should tast like strawberry.
@Will: It’s IMO probably worse with Allen just because even though the Damon thing stung, one player moving in baseball from one team to another doesn’t guarantee a World Series. But in basketball, one player CAN make a difference. So Allen leaving for the Heat not only was a slap in the face, but it also probably does make the Miami Heat A LOT better. Grrr
I thought the whole thing with Ray Allen in boston was that he can’t stand Rondo (and vice versa). If that’s true, wouldn’t you want out if you had the chance but wouldn’t you also want to play on a team that was likely to go up against the celtics in the playoffs?
@Kahnfucius: Your scenario presumes that sticking it to the Celtics is REALLY IMPORTANT. So if that’s true, then what does that say about Ray Allen?
To teach rondo who really got game?
I’m calling BS on this. There’s no way they made chips out of pomegranate seeds, which are basically 100% fiber. The eventual ingredient list will probably say that it uses rice, potato, or soybean as a chip material base, at the very least.
@Chris: HAHA, yeah, maybe. I guess we’ll see when they are released in the coming months!
@kahnfucius, very clever movie drop. Right now rondo is a better all around player.