Scrambled eggs and potato chips, by Hal Brown

 Scrambled eggs with cheddar potato chips  

Yesterday I wrote about politics here, today I have returned to food as a blogging subject. Here's the background of this story. I decided to go to Fred Meyer's first thing this morning because there are few customers in the super-store at 7:00 AM. 

In fact, there were many more people stocking the shelves than people shopping. At least a dozen staff said hello or good morning to me.

As I was finishing up shopping I got to feeling queasy and realized I'd neglected to have breakfast. I grabbed a small bag of cheddar potato chips to eat on the 10 minute drive home.

There was only one check-out lane open but I was the only one using it. 

I ate a few chips to stave off hunger on the short ride home and then decided to crumble up the remaining chips, most of the bag, and scrambled them with eggs.

There is precedent for combining eggs with both cheese and potatoes. For example, eggs with hash brown potatoes is a diner breakfast staple. I've fried up left-over potatoes of various kinds with cheese and eggs before with a tasty result. 

In fact, a half-eaten giant baked loaded restaurant potato with green beans can be doctored up to make a delicious and nutritious treat like this:

Why then wouldn't it make sense to use cheddar potato chips and eggs to make another yummy breakfast meal?

How did it taste? I rate the concoction as somewhere between disgusting and barely edible. Next time munch the chips separately and make the eggs with anything but chips.

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