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"I have an indelible memory from childhood of my great-uncle, who was a self-professed health nut after suffering three successive heart attacks in 4 years, taking me to his favorite, crunchy health food depot in Southern California. He offered to buy me a bag of &amp;quot;chips&amp;quot;, which as a child ever hungry for salty, greasy snacks, I eagerly accepted his offer. What he handed me seemed like a cruel joke, at the time. Instead of a cylindrical tower of Pringles, or a pillowy bag of oily Ruffles, what I got were baked carrot chips. My sense of puzzlement and disillusionment were profound, by ten-year old standards. Isn&amp;#039;t a chip just a chip? The short answer is no, a chip isn&amp;#039;t just a chip... not anymore at least. The snack chip market has evolved well beyond the pedestrian corn or potato chip and has moved to recruit virtually any raw material (preferably edible) to join the ranks of the crispy chip snacks. This includes such food items as taro, sweet potato, quinoa, parsnip, and carrots, some of with better results than others. The newest addition to the chip aisle is something called Humbles (an ill-advised and truly unfortunate name for a snack), which is essentially a baked hummus chip.    Now, one of my all-time favorite snacks is a corn tortilla chip dipped in hummus (salty, nutritious, and highly addictive). So, the idea of hummus chips were, needless to say, somewhat intriguing in that &amp;quot;all rolled up in one&amp;quot; kind of way. The fact that they were baked normally would be viewed as a red flag by this reviewer, as baked chips are almost always less flavorful than their fried counterpart, but thankfully there are favorable exceptions to this rule.  So as I had mentioned, these Humbles are indeed made from hummus (chickpeas and sesame seeds) which make them infinitely healthier (four grams of protein per serving, no cholesterol, etc) than your run of the mill fried potato chips. However, if you are looking for a distinct hummus flavor in a chip, you might have to keep looking. While crispy and light, these baked chips tasted less like hummus and more like a vehicle for all of the salt, sugar, garlic powder, and natural flavorings that had aggressively hijacked the chip. The roasted red pepper variety I sampled was so over the top in belligerent flavor, that I felt the immediate need to brush my teeth after consuming a handful. This was regrettable, considering a chip not only made from hummus but one that remained true to the wholesome goodness of hummus would be a welcome alternative to the chip market. Maybe next time? This experience, however disappointing, inspired some unrealized chip fantasies of my own (avocado chips anyone?). Considering just about anything could be made in chip form these days, I thought some of our more snack-savvy readers would have some high concept chips ideas of their own? Feel free to share some of your more flavorful and outlandish ideas. Humbles are available in Roasted Red Pepper, Sesame Garlic, and Olive Oil, Lemon &amp;amp;amp; Feta varieties and sold at select Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Kroeger markets.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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