Let Them Eat Peasants–Global Snaxx Review and Sunday Evening Open Thread

DonT is off tonight. So if you’re sick of me as a sub for Sharky, too, now you get to be sick of me as a sub for DonT as well.

As has been noted occasionally around the clubhouse, I have been on the road a bit in 2025.  Ok, a lot.  Ok, so much so that I think I may have been away from home more than at home so far this year, and I’m tracking my days in a certain country so I don’t have to pay taxes there.  :sigh:
HOWEVER, that affords me the ability to steal Litre’s bit come across new and exciting things, including snaxx!

Recently, I was in France and popped down to Orleans in the Loire Valley for a day. Sidenote: apparently it is not pronounced like New Orleans or the band Orleans nor do they like it when you call it Old Orleans.  Also, no gators.  But I digress.

Whilst in Orleans I picked up a bag of chips crisps thinly sliced fried potatoes that had a picture of cheese on them and some words I don’t know.

Let’s pop that into google translate, shall we (I don’t know why I didn’t think to do that before I purchased these, perhaps because I’m an idiot.

Peasant Flavor. And then you have to search to find out that Ossau Iraty is a cheese.  So sundried tomatoes and cheese.  If I had to guess what peasants taste like….that’s probably not what I would come up with. Does the back of the bag teach us anything else?

Just some patriotic stuff about French agriculture. Liberté,Égalité, Potaté.

Ok, let’s eat a peasant chip.

No obvious signs of entrails.  Not even a light dusting.

First bite was…pretty plain. Like there’s a hint of cheese but I don’t get much sundried tomato. Maybe something resembling a tomato sauce but that might even be a reach. Google (fine wikipedia) tells me ossau iraty is a French-basque sheep’s milk cheese, and I can buy that. But this is underwhelming. It’s kinda dry, slightly cheesy, and fine.  Which I guess makes it like Maurice Chevalier.

Well, as always, you never know what you’re going to get with global snaxx, but it’s always worth trying them. I shan’t be going back for more peasant flavor chips the next time I’m in France, unless they take out the pitchforks, put heads on pikes, and make these taste sweet like bloodlust, revolution, and/or cake.

Speaking of needing to put heads on pikes, let’s talk for a minute about what’s happening in our nation’s capitol and the place I call home.

First the obvious: there is no crime emergency in Washington, DC, and the deployment of the national guard and federal agents to “takeover” the city in the name of making it safer is one of the most egregious lies the lyingest President we’ve ever had has ever uttered. This is a combination of distraction from the fact the President is in the Epstein files and an intimidation tactic of the grossest order. Unfortunately, it’s working. It is fucking dispiriting knowing this is all bullshit and feeling powerless since most of the country doesn’t seem to care. Last week, I changed plans to avoid dealing with federal officers setting up checkpoints in neighborhoods I’ve safely gone out in for decades. When I went to footy practice, I drove past a fucking MRAP. This is government waste of the highest order, on top of the dehumanizing and, yes, fascist behavior we have accepted as normal in the second Trump term.

And what was the alleged precipitating event for this? A DOGE staffer nicknamed “Big Balls” got beaten up in an attempted carjacking. Or if you believe some rumors, he was soliciting a minor for sex and she beat the shit out of him. Either way, this is all Trumped up bullshit. So a healthy FUCK YOU to Donald Trump and his minions, and if any of your friends or family thinks DC is a warzone and Trump is right about this, tell them they can suck my taint.

We all may need a palate cleanser after that so….what’s happening in the wide world of sports?

What’s on tonight?

Los Búfalos contra Los Osos, 7pm DFO time on FOX (So I guess this is a preseason game open thread woot woot, go laundry!)

Mariners @ Mets, 6pm DFO time on ESPN

Mercury @ Storm, 5pm DFO time

Dream @ Valkyries, 730pm DFO time on NBAtv

There’s also MLS action but that’s not my bag so figure it out yourself.

Alright I now declare this thread open!