Sensible Portions make me angry at the world. If ever there was a product specifically designed for mommy bloggers and bored housewives in the Hamptons, this is it. It's homogenized to the point of freakishness and infantilizes the consumer to a degree that would embarrass most adult babies.
Sensible Portions. The name alone implies that you, the buyer, does not know how to take care of yourself and needs to rely on the cradled hands of packaged goods to guide you on your way to a more sensible lifestyle. This particularly annoying product touts "vegetable chips" with three different kinds of real veggies. Hold the phone!
That being said, the vegetables look and taste like Styrofoam packing peanuts. They start crisp but then attain a certain strange chewiness that sticks in the teeth. We could distinguish no individual vegetable from these, their only underlying characteristic being the color of each chip, mild greens, reds, and off-white. I'm not saying to load the chips with food coloring, per se, but I am rather convinced that everything is so mildly colored to either match with the Mark Hampton living room or to dissuade you from eating at all. They're so bland looking and unpalatable.
Chip segregation.And really, that's all they are. Bland and dry and by no means resemblant to actual vegetables. The packaging and marketing is sterile and unapproachable, hence our minimal photography. They're not worth your time or your heartbreak.
I hate when companies produce this "faux veggie" shit. Those things are little more than potato flour with just enough vegetable pulp blended in to add the vomitous colors.
ReplyDeleteFrito-Lay should introduce a product like this one. They can call them "Rainbow Munchos." At least it would be honest, because everyone already knows that Munchos are made from prechewed potatoes, while assholes like "Sensible Portions" are trying to masquerade their junkfood as being healthy.
It's unfortunate that you didn't like the chips. I've never tried the chips but I enjoy the straw form of the chips myself, and heartily reccomend them. I've never felt like the straws felt like packing peanuts and have been able to discern the different vegetables.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I agree with Dave in that it's not really a health food. It's a good snack though, I feel. And the lack of an oily mouth-feel makes me FEEL better about eating them at least :)
i like it
ReplyDeleteGlad you don't like them because that means more for me! I like them! As I see it, anything in a bag that is crispy, crunchy and slightly salty is not supposed to take the place of eating real vegetables! It's a freakin snack! At least when I eat more than my "sensible portion" of these veggie chips I feel a little better than if I was eating regular potato chips, Fritos, or Cheetos.
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