It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Friday evening. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met your friends at the pub or caf\u00c3\u00a9. Some of you are sipping drinks, others nibbling an early dinner. Then the waitron brings a bowl of chips, and everyone dips in. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Good Day, the last clear sunshine fading, a little fat and salt sets off your cold drinks and perks you up for running around more later. If the weather is ghastly, their comfort-food crispness is very welcome. Sometimes, you’d better enjoy them, because they’re the only food option at a bar.<\/p>\n
The more expensive a bowl of chips is, freakishly, the smaller it tends to be. Chips are dished out by the bushel for $5 at lots of fine places. Many places charge $7. Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6okay\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6if that’s the deal, I want skins on, flaky sea salt, and aioli on the side. And the hand-cut freshly made potato chips at The Library bar are $8 for a small, frustrating handful.<\/p>\n
Some might say that “well, you should only have a small handful of chips anyway!” But in Wellington, any uphill walk home will scorch away those kilojoules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Friday evening. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met your friends at the pub or caf\u00c3\u00a9. Some of you are sipping drinks, others nibbling an early dinner. Then the waitron brings a bowl of chips, and everyone dips in. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Good Day, the last clear sunshine fading, a little fat and salt sets off your cold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iawl-likes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}