One of my favorite bar/restaurants has a kale chips thing on the bar menu, and it’s actually pretty good. I’ve had it a few times when I felt like having something different.
As for seaweed… if you don’ like seaweed salad (as done in a Japanese restaurant), I don’t know what to say. I had some jus a few days ago, and it was absolutely delicious.
The biggest drawback to kale chips is that they ain’t worth shit for dipping into something that would overpower the ick.
Agreement: carob is a gentle and pleasant flavor.
I’d never even heard of kale chips before today; I’ve definitely gotta find some and try 'em. But where do I find 'em? I’ve never seen them in all my life of shopping. Do I need to go to a specialty store?
WAG: Whole Foods.
Given the choice between baked potato chips and kale, I’d go without 9 times out of 10 and the tenth, I’d choose kale.
Go buy some kale and make 'em yourself. It’s quick, easy, and an order of magnitude tastier.
Would that 10th case be due to drunkeness or perhaps some sort of “munchies”?
Yeah baked potato chips aren’t great, but at least they’re made of foodstuffs.
A cow-orker recently proudly passed around a bag of kale chips that were allegedly flavored with some sort of cheese.
I ate one and almost vomited. I don’t mean fake gaggy hawking trying-to-be-funny-or-dramatic shenanigans.
I mean I almost vomited.
Never again.
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Yup. If you need the steps, they are:
I have a nephew. He and his wife are full fledged vegans and force this upon their kids. No chips for their 2 kids except kale chips, other veggie chips, and some seaweed shit chips they also promote. Its all yuck to me.
I actually feel sorry for those two kids.
They haven’t figured out yet that potatoes are vegetables?
Meat and potatoes. It’s a slippery slope!
Even easier: Buy bag of potato chips. Tear bag open. Stick hand in bag. Pull out handful of chips. Put chips in mouth. Chew.
I am all for enjoying vegetables in their own right.* Making pseudo-versions of tasty snacks is lame, though.
I just haven’t gotten on board with kale yet, except for growing it as an ornamental in the garden.
And speaking of flamboyant vegetables, I grew purple brussels sprouts last year (quite good though the sprouts were small), and am growing red okra this year. Okra fritters…mmmm.
*I even eat the decorative parsley at restaurants. 
**just make sure your kale chips are non-GMO - those genetically engineered kale chips are nasty.
Good God! A recipe I might actually be able to follow! (I can just barely boil water!)
(I had to Google what “moderate” is: answer seems to be 350. I haven’t actually used my oven in more than five years.)
My next stupid question: does this process work with other veggies? Like, really thin flat bits of carrot, or flat leaves of lettuce, or even thin apple slices?
Ugh, my dad LOVES kale. He’s always cooking it up for himself. I’m sure if given the chance, he’d be all over kale chips. gag
I actually like Baked Lays – not as a potato chip substitute, but just for themselves. Only problem is they’re so fucking expensive.
(BTW, am I the only one who thinks the folded chips are the best ones?)
Exactly. And as for making kale chips for myself, beside the already stated four preparation steps, there would be:
Rinsing and drying the baking sheet, because it’s dusty from non-use.
Preheating the oven, which includes painfully kneeling down on the floor to make sure the burners are going, and a lot of squinting at the thermometer, checking for it to reach the correct temperature.
Juggling hot baking sheets.
Washing awkwardly sized baking sheet manually in the sink afterwards because there’s no automatic dishwasher.
Cleaning up all the water spillage because of awkwardly sized baking sheet sprays water everywhere.
Cleaning up the kitchen counter of oil and vinegar bottles, shreded kale, garlic chunks, etc.
Throwing away kale chips because nobody likes them.
I’ll stick with Ruffles, thank you.
I’ll get back to you on that; there are mighty, mighty few foods I do not like!
why are “they” pushing kale so hard???
I admit, though, I like the Pringles vegetable chips, or crisps, or what ever you call them. I have the super Italian cheese flavor and the Mighty Margherita pizza flavor that are quite tasty.