What Would You Do For Ketchup Potato Chips?

[Iron Woode]

Why, drive 9 hours to get to Canada, that's what.

Father and son make nine-hour road trip from Virginia to Canada - for ketchup chips

Only-in-Canada flavour enticed the pair, who posted about it on the Facebook page for their ride, 'Gertrude the Jeep'

nationalpost.com

How far would you go for your favourite potato chips? A father and son living in Virginia made a road trip of more than nine hours across several states to buy a load of ketchup-flavoured Lay’s from the only place they could – Canada.

Last weekend, Jim’s No Frills in Niagara Falls, Ont., posted photos on its Facebook page of the hungry father and son posing with a family-sized bag of Lay’s in the son’s hand, and a shopping cart full of 40 more bags in front of them. (They left one in the store for someone else to enjoy.)

Also posted: An image of the shopping cart behind their car, a rugged old Jeep bearing a Virginia license with the motto: “Virginia is for lovers.” Ketchup lovers, no doubt.

Since then, the man, Rich Lieberman, and his son have been besieged with (polite) requests for media interviews with the CBC, CTV and others.

“Last week Jacob and I went viral in Canada for driving there just to stock up on his Ketchup potato chips (and a father son road trip),” the man posted on his own Facebook page for “Gertrude the Jeep.” He added: “It’s always fun doing an interview while cleaning an aquarium.”

Ketchup chips are hardly the only delicacy unavailable south of the border. Smarties, Swiss Chalet sauce, Coffee Crisp, Kinder Surprise Eggs and authentic Montreal bagels all require an international journey for Americans to enjoy. Though Lieberman said the chips were only for his son, telling the CBC: “I have no interest in trying them.” His loss.

 

[sandorski]

No Salt and Vinegar?

 

[Charmonium]

pasta with marinara for Canucks.

edit: they should have just gone to the distributor and bought by the case. I used to do that for things that were "shelf stable" and saved about 50%

 

[quikah]

I would just buy them on Amazon, but if they had fun doing the roadtrip, more power to them.

 

[sdifox]

Hats off to a loving father.

 

[nakedfrog]

I suppose I would eat some if I were really hungry and there was no other food available.

 

[Captante]

Buy them if the only other choice was sour cream & onion?

*(maybe... I might just do without chips!)

 

[KMFJD]

I do like Ketchup chips (Lays though, every other one i have tried tastes terrible), probably my fav of all the flavored chips, dill pickle/bbq/sour cream&onion just behind, i am really trying to cut down on my potato chip addiction

 

[Oyeve]

I like their dill pickle chips.

 

[HomerJS]

I would just buy them on Amazon, but if they had fun doing the roadtrip, more power to them.

Ketchup or Catsup potato chips? Eeesh!!! However father and son bonding is priceless

 

[GodisanAtheist]

 

[WelshBloke]

Worcestershire Sauce>Prawn cocktail>Tomato sauce crisps!

 

[nakedfrog]

Worcestershire Sauce>Prawn cocktail>Tomato sauce crisps!

The first one definitely sounds intriguing.

 

[WelshBloke]

The first one definitely sounds intriguing.

UK crisp aisles in supermarkets are ridiculous.

There'll be another aisle next to this with crackers in bags and nuts.

 

[nakedfrog]

UK crisp aisles in supermarkets are ridiculous.

There'll be another aisle next to this with crackers in bags and nuts.

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That doesn't really seem particularly ridiculous to me, looks a bit like the standard chip aisle in a larger grocery store here

 

[WelshBloke]

That doesn't really seem particularly ridiculous to me, looks a bit like the standard chip aisle in a larger grocery store here

That's a lot of shelf for salty fried potato slices!

 

[nakedfrog]

That's a lot of shelf for salty fried potato slices!

Oh hai, we're America, we're a bunch of tubby wankers!

 

[sdifox]

UK crisp aisles in supermarkets are ridiculous.

There'll be another aisle next to this with crackers in bags and nuts.

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What else have you guys got to look forward to?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I wanna drive back to New Zealand and get some chicken chips

 

[nakedfrog]

I wanna drive back to New Zealand and get some chicken chips

You can just take your bitchin' Camaro.

 

[WelshBloke]

I wanna drive back to New Zealand and get some chicken chips

Those are penguin flavour!

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Those are penguin flavour!

Tastes like Maruchan ramen if it was a chip

 

[GodisanAtheist]

In Freedomia the rule has always been to work around the edges of a grocery store cause that's where they keep all the actual healthy prominently unprocessed shit.

If you spend more time in the aisles than the edge of the store you've probably got a hellish diet.

Are grocers in socialist countries like Europe and the rest of the world that is not America similarly arranged?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I saw that the other day, so the US actually doesn't have ketchup chips at all?! That seems so weird to me. Normally they have stuff we don't.

I'm sure this was more about the trip than just the chips though, they probably just wanted to do a long road trip and figured they may as well have a purpose for it.

 

[WelshBloke]

In Freedomia the rule has always been to work around the edges of a grocery store cause that's where they keep all the actual healthy prominently unprocessed shit.

If you spend more time in the aisles than the edge of the store you've probably got a hellish diet.

Are grocers in socialist countries like Europe and the rest of the world that is not America similarly arranged?

Typically you'll enter a UK supermarket into the fresh fruit and vegetable section, then get guided into the chilled goods (meat and fresh wet fish). Tins and crisps and staples (pasta, rice etc) in the middle, booze and soft drinks at the end.