Junk Food Nation, sorry about that. Another one of those days where real life got in the way of…uh…this junk food blog.

FIRST: TODAY’S TURKEY HILL FREE COUPON WINNER:

December’s month of free ice cream started off with a bang yesterday – SO MANY RTs.  You guys are awesome. Today’s random winner is:

@TheJoshCatlett

Congrats, Josh – email me your contact info to Junkfoodguy@junkfoodguy.com and I’ll get the free coupon in the mail to you!

SECOND: TODAY’S WAY TO WIN A FREE 1.5 QT OF TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM:

As for today’s way to win, we’ll keep it really simple. COMMENT CONTEST! Leave a comment below on this blog post, and I’ll select a random winner from the lot.

THIRD: FAVORITE HOLIDAY SONG?

Nation, now that it’s past Thanksgiving, every city has that one music station whose job it is to play Christmas music and other holiday tunes 24 HOURS A DAY SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. FA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA….you know which station I’m talking about. If it isn’t Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, it’s Do You Want to Build a Snowman from Frozen.  My personal favorite is:

ALL I WANT’S A HOOOOO LA HOOOOOP.

So now’s you chance to tell me – favorite Christmas carol?  Holiday song? Let me know in the comments below. Bonus points if you include a link so I can listen too! (Note: bonus points mean nothing for the Turkey Hill contest 😛 )

FINALLY: Today’s junk food: Limited Edition Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bacon Horseradish Potato Chips!

Limited Edition Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bacon Horseradish Potato Chips were spotted back in June, but I’m only seeing them now. For the uninitiated, these Grandma Utz chips are cooked in LARD.  Like, real lard. Holy smokes. And now you’re adding bacon horseradish flavor on TOP of that??? Yumzers.

Let me ask you a question, Junk Food Nation – is this a thing people do? Have bowls of horseradish sprinkled with bacon bits that you dips potato chips into? If so, I’ve been eating chips all wrong. Should I dip these Limited Edition Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bacon Horseradish Potato Chips into even MORE horseradish?

Amazingly, based on these numbers, each chip only has seven calories.  That’s not so bad, right? If you’re eating lard? You’d expect them to be at least 10, no?

My buddy Joe told me he had a friend who would take these Handcooked Potato Chips and toast them up in the toaster oven to make the lard fat sizzle and really come out. I mean, that sounds amazing. Why aren’t we ALL doing this?  ESPECIALLY with these bacon horseradish chips – sizzling chips that taste like bacon? WIN WIN.

Sidenote: Lard is the second ingredient on this list, and bacon fat is an ADDITIONAL ingredient lower down. I mean, that seems like overkill, no? Delicious overkill?

I opened this bag of Limited Edition Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bacon Horseradish Potato Chips, and immediately smelled the horseradish.  WOOO.  It smelled good – plus, there was a definite porkiness to the aroma. Each chip was light and crispy.  I needed these in my mouth quickly.

I gave the Junk Food Gal some of these Limited Edition Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bacon Horseradish Potato Chips, and as soon as she chewed once she exclaimed OOOO THESE ARE GOOD. So yeah, that’s the review. These were DAMN GOOD.

First, the underlying handcooked chip is just awesome. Light and crispy, it had an awesome porkiness that I could tell came from the lard itself – the typical potato chip “oiliness” definitely had an essence of meatiness.

But then ON TOP of that porkiness was the distinct flavor of bacon. Salty, meaty, simple – there was a distinct smokiness to the flavor of the chip that was clearly from the bacon fat or “natural flavors.” It complimented the STRONG flavor of horseradish perfectly. The horseradish taste was bold and filled my nostrils. It wasn’t acute, like how wasabi pierces my nasal senses, but the horseradish flavor kept renewing itself on my tongue as I chewed.

Everything was well balanced however – I never lost the taste of the potato chip, the porkiness, the smoke, or the horseradish.  REALLY nice potato chips. Time to pop them in the toaster oven to see how these taste when sizzling…

PURCHASED AT: Giant Grocery, Germantown, MD

COST: $3.00 on sale

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Sincerely,

Junk Food Guy