So Junk Food Nation, I found this outside my apartment building earlier this week:

WTF

A full mailbox, uprooted from the BOLTS that once held it in place on the ground, bent and battered. What the heck happened? It WAS the day after the election, so my first thought was maybe a person angry with the result took it out on this mailbox … except bending metal is kinda hard.  Car crash? Driver tried to shortcut using the sidewalk? What do YOU guys think?

Today’s junk food: New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips!

New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips: The Money Shot

New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips were found at my local Giant Food, and I was intrigued by this idea of gourmet chips. Weldon Fizell is the owner / chef at the Regatta restaurant on Cape Cod.  Pairing his flavors with Cape Cod Chips makes sense – though I am curious how this all goes down.  Who approaches who? Does the chip company look around for a local chef, or does he reach out?

LIGHTHOUSES!

Cape Cod Chips recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.  The last time I visited Cape Cod, Maine, or rather any coastline, people kept telling me that I HAD to see/visit their lighthouse.  Go see the lighthouse!  You have to check out the lighthouse!  Newsflash: a lighthouse is…exactly what you think it is.  Once you go in one and climb to the top, the view is definitely nice.  But….once you’ve seen one…yeah.  Can we do something else?

Feta, huh?

Chef Fizell is behind this flavor of Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips. Is it really a chef’s recipe when it’s basically two ingredients?

Sounds delish!

New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips has to be the longest name for a chip I’ve seen yet.  Doesn’t really just roll off the tongue, either.  I do like crostini, however, and feta and rosemary sounds like a winning combo…

140 cal per serving

Cheddar cheese???

It is a LITTLE concerning to me that these New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips have feta as the second to last ingredient and cheddar listed before the feta.

Nice  and crispy

Still, these New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips looked great – light, crispy, and smelled savory.  Unlike Kettle Brand Chips, these seemed to be cut a LITTLE thinner – they were actually pretty delicate.

Rosemary flecks?

I munched on a few of these New Cape Cod Chef’s Recipe Feta & Rosemary Kettle Cooked Potato Chips, and I have to say – not bad.  Nothing mind blowing, but flavor wise, it did the job.  As I expected, the crunch was good – despite the thin cut, the crinkling and folding of the potato slices produced enough layers where the crunch was still satisfying.

Flavor-wise, there was good potato taste.  Rosemary taste REALLY stood out – there was no mistaking the presence of that herb.  And I LOVE rosemary, so that was a plus.  The feta flavor? It was there….but REALLY subtle.  VERY light…I think the cheddar was added just to pump the taste of cheese up, generally.  I could taste a generally creaminess with the chip, but only if I REALLY thought about it (literally closer my eyes and licking the chip) could I imagine that feta taste was there.  There were moments, but it wasn’t like I ate the chip and it screamed FETAAAAAA!

All in all, how was it? It was fine. Just fine.  Would I eat it again? Sure, why not? Was it memorable.  Gotta say no.  Just a good well constructed chip – nothing more, nothing less.

PURCHASED AT: Giant Food

COST: $3.50 on sale (ouch)

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy