chips, tortilla chips

If there is one huge benefit to living in the South West it's fresh tortilla chips.  Go to any Mexican food place (not always hole-in-the-walls or "fast food" places) and you are greeted with some hot chips and salsa (and when they are fresh they are the best things on earth).

SO, in Arizona we knew which chips we liked and which were nasty (stale tortilla chips are no bueno!) but now we've left planet earth and landed in la-la land with very few "local" products that we know are any good.  Well, it was tortilla chip time and I saw "Homeboy Tortilla Chips."  How could you not be interested in a product like that?

Now I've heard of such gimmiky products as Rap Snacks, which are hip hop themed chips, but I got the feeling that they wouldn't actually taste very good.  I don't know, I just don't associate hip hop and delicious food, but I guess...

But my suspicions were put to sleep when I was listening to the radio and lo and behold the head of the Homeboy Industries was doing an interview!  Turns out the "Homeboys" are "at-risk and formerly gang -involved youth" and Homeboy Industries is an organization that helps them "become positive and contributing members of society" and their chips are really good!  They are so good I'd still get them even if it wasn't for a good cause.

Needless to say I'm sure our $1 or so bag of chips didn't make a huge impact on anyone, but they were so tasty we might go though a bag or two a  month.  Who knows, by the end of the year we could have contributed a whole $10!

We are such philanthropists.