The highest and most noble use for potatoes

Every expat I know has a dietary vice they imported from their home country. It’s invariably something that is a.) bad for you, and b.) hard to obtain outside of its country of origin. Those two factors combine to make it far more desirable than it would be if you could walk down to the local grocery store and see it readily available at all times.

For me, it’s these:

These, my friends, are objectively the very best potato chips in the world–FunnyFrisch-brand Chipsfrisch Ungarisch.

I bring them back in bulk when I am in Germany, and I barter with German friends and relatives, exchanging a box of FunnyFrisch for whatever items they want to get from the U.S. but can’t readily get in Germany. (My brother, for example, has a thing for Chips Ahoy cookies with Reese’s bits…don’t ask me why.) But with the costs of parcel mail between Germany and the U.S., it’s thing that happens once or twice a year at most because the postage is usually far more expensive than the contents of the box.

There are online grocery stores that sell these on Amazon if you’re dying to put my claim of “best chips in the world” to the test, but they’re stupid expensive when bought that way, to the tune of $8-10 for a single 150g bag, so I only use that channel in life-threatening potato chip emergencies. It’s probably a good thing they are that expensive via the ‘zon, though, because otherwise I’d have them on auto-refill, which wouldn’t be good for my middle-aged waistline.