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Sun Chips Go Christmas!

The Advent Calendar is now up to date -- yes, it would be nice to have it ready at the start of each day rather than the end of each day, but this is what happens when Advent Calendar entries grow to a hundred times their original size. I will now celebrate the completion of this giant sized entry with a bag of Christmas-flavored Sun Chips.


I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted these, but my eyes never lying. Sun Chips is celebrating the holidays with limited edition packages of "Cinnamon Crunch" flavored snacks, which come in cinnamony foil bags with big cinnamony bow graphics on 'em.

Only Sun Chips could successfully pull this off, because...well, could you do cinnamon potato chips? Cinnamon cheese puffs? Nope. Sun Chips can get away with it because nobody really knows what a Sun Chip is to begin with. A company can throw around the term "multigrain" all they want -- all we take from that is "moderately healthy," and it requires a good five minutes of thought to even come up with a reasonable theory on what "multigrain" actually tastes like. Within that, if Sun Chips wants to throw cinnamon all over itself, we've got no basis to complain. We can't say that cinnamon "doesn't go" with Sun Chips BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT SUN CHIPS ARE!

I say this mostly because my heart tells me that it is both wrong and criminal to make cinnamon-flavored chips, and yet, I grab a handful of these and totally spite myself by being pleased. I'm confident that these are about as good as cinnamon-flavored chips could possibly be.


Looking to compare its flavor to some other flavor, the best I can come up with is this: Picture eating a bunch of Cinnamon Toast Crunch mashed together with fifteen tablespoons of salt. Actually, that sounds kinda gross. These really aren't gross. Weird? Yes. Gross? No. Once you get past your culturally influenced reservations about cinnamon-flavored chips, they're rather pleasant, definitely festive, and arrive in bags so reflective that you can nearly watch yourself eating in them.

Posted by Matt on 12/19/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 84 comments

Invader Norbert: Hey now, that’s my future wife you’re talkin’ about! hahaha

Matt: You better not be opening those Amazon gifts before Christmas! That’s against the rules!

Chestnuts roasted by Special K @ 12/20/2006 3:25 AM

Muppet Baby….technology today is so wonderful, though. My daughter-in-law had her laptop here a few weeks ago and needed to get online to check something for her office. Rather than use my computer, she was able to tap into somebody else’s internet service…not sure what she did, but she was sitting on the family room couch and announced, “Ah hah! Wireless connection detected!” and voila – she was in.

Old E – my 16 year old daughter must have picked up on all the CinnaBon vibes tonight, because when she came home from shopping at the mall, she surprised me with a CinnaBon (with extra icing). Such a good girl.

Matt – Good gawd, man. I’m not nearly ready for Christmas and you say that Christmas Eve is Sunday?? I still have shopping to do! Cleaning to do!!! Wrapping! Cooking! Dang. You’re right, it IS time to watch ‘A Christmas Story’.

Chestnuts roasted by Trish @ 12/20/2006 4:00 AM

i’d like to see cinnamon funyuns. then we’ll see what flavor doesnt go with what chip.

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymous @ 12/22/2006 7:51 PM

“i’d like to see cinnamon funyuns. then we’ll see what flavor doesnt go with what chip.”

Would those be caled “Cinnam-yuns”? I pray those never become reality. The very idea of them causes the fabric of this mortal plane to tremble toward oblivion. Not to mention the ass breath you’d have. BLEEEHHHHH!!!! >;P

I say HELL NO to that!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Sarge @ 12/29/2006 1:22 PM

I just had these tonight and I LOVE THEM!!!
Oh I hope they keep these around for a long time to come !!!

Chestnuts roasted by cutedame @ 12/30/2006 4:22 AM

I had these chips and they rock. They might even go with an icing dip. If you can do it with pizza, why not chips?

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 01/02/2007 12:42 PM

I prefer Harvest Cheddar, Garden Salsa, and French Onion Sun Chips. I saw a trashy family opening unpurchased bags of the Cinnamon chips in Target about a week or so before Christmas. They probably threw the bag on the floor or refused to pay for it. When I worked at the video store several years ago, this guy came in, put a video on the counter, picked up a box of Sno-Caps, and proceeded to open it and eat them before I could ring it up! the guy said nastily, “Well, I’m hungry! can’t I eat these now?!” I told him I needed to ring it up. I think he was trying to get out of paying cause he acted like he did have to buy them!!!! Asshole!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/10/2007 6:00 PM

OMG! I so wish i saw those in the store, soo are they still in stores! I need to have some! Im obsest with Sun Chips, and i can see most people here are too, soo go to my fanlisting for Sun Chips! http://x-silentmurder.piczo.com/?preview=y&g=15973721&cr=2&rfm=y#1 :P sign up please!

Chestnuts roasted by Zach @ 02/04/2007 9:50 PM

I have a good feeling that these taste like churros!

Chestnuts roasted by Farmer Waltz @ 12/19/2009 1:45 AM

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