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There's a need for somebody... anybody... to eat Pickled Onion Monster Munch
in our household, because we have a bit of an oversupply. In order to reliably
get both of the other flavours that people like (Roast Beef and Flamin' Hot,
respectively), we end up buying multipacks that also contain Pickled Onion
flavour, and these unwanted extras pile up in the snack cupboard until we
happen to have a houseguest that we can palm them off onto.
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My entire life, I've claimed not to like pickled onion flavour crisps. As a
kid, I would only eat salt & vinegar and ready salted flavours, eventually
expanding my palate into "meaty" flavours like chicken and roast beef
(although never, absolutely never, prawn cocktail). Later, I'd come to also
enjoy cheese & onion and variants thereof, and it's from this that I realise
that I'm probably being somewhat irrational.
Because if you think about it: if you want to make a "pickled onion" flavour
crisp, what flavouring ingredients would you use? It turns out that most crisp
manufacturers use a particular mixture of (a) the ingredient that makes salt &
vinegar crisps taste "vinegary" and (b) the ingredient that makes cheese &
onion crisps taste "onioney". So in summary:
* I like pickled onions.
* I like salt & vinegar crisps, which include an ingredient to make them taste
vinegary.
* I like cheese & onion crisps, which include an ingredient to make them taste
onioney.
* Therefore, I ought to like pickled onion crisps, which use two ingredients I
like to try to emulate a food I like.
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Maybe that deliberate and conscious thought process is all I need? Maybe
that's it, and just having gone through the reasoning, I will now like pickled
onion crisps!
Conveniently, I have a cupboard in my kitchen containing approximately one
billion packets of Pickled Onion Monster Munch. So let's try it out.
The first time I've tried a pickled onion flavour crisp in almost 30 years,
captured on camera for your amusement.
It turns out they're okay!
They're not going to dethrone either of the other two flavours of Monster
Munch that we routinely restock on, but at least now I'm in a position where I
can do something about our oversupply.
And all it took was stopping to think rationally about it. If only everything
were so simple.
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