Corn Chips: A Salty Celebration with Extra Sass

Happy National Corn Chip Day! Or, as I like to call it, the day we celebrate the snack that delights us just enough to keep us from completely losing our minds. Corn chips are… fine. They’re crunchy. They hold toppings. Sometimes they even have flavor—if you’re lucky. But let’s not pretend they don’t have their flaws.

Take the classic plain chip. Too salty. Too sharp. Too brittle. I mean, how is it that a snack designed to hold cheese and salsa collapses under a single dollop of anything? And flavored corn chips? Cool Ranch and spicy lime might be trendy, but let’s face it—half the time, they taste like someone spilled seasoning in a cardboard factory.

And don’t even get me started on the crumbs. Nothing says “snack time is over” quite like that sad pile of broken chips at the bottom of the bag. These are the shards of tortilla dreams—too tiny to scoop salsa, too stubborn to just pour out into your mouth without choking.

But we keep coming back to corn chips, don’t we? Because despite their faults, they’re the foundation of nachos. Without them, we’d just have a bowl of melted cheese and toppings. And while that sounds delightful in theory, it’s not exactly the easiest snack to eat without public shame. Corn chips are annoying, yes, but they’re also essential.

Why the rant, you ask? Why all the sass? Oh, didn’t I mention? It’s also Curmudgeons Day. Yep, the perfect excuse to channel your inner grump and vent about the little annoyances in life—like corn chips that don’t hold their weight or that one lime-flavored chip that burns your tongue for no reason. So here’s to celebrating salty snacks and even saltier attitudes.

Now, excuse me while I grumble my way through an entire bag of chips.

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