Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Crispy Puzzles

This is probably just me, but...

Wouldn't it be fantastic if the contents of every single bag of crisps were made out of a single potato? Not only would they be a tasty, nutritious snack, but they'd also double as a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle. You'd be able to see whether you had enough willpower to try and tame the tricky task before you succumbed to supping on the salty snack.

For a bigger bag of crisps, simply use a bigger potato. And because every potato is unique, with different curves, eyes and heft, every puzzle would also be a different challenge. A new challenge every day in fact, or if you're like me, a new challenge every hour of every day!

This would not work so well for maize based crisps. Can't imagine the technology that would be needed to reconstruct a whole maize (whatever that looks like) from a bag of Monster Munch. Whole kinds of violations of the second law of themodynamics there.

No need to stop at bags of crisps though. What about if every portion of fries at MacDonalds were made from a single potato? How cool! Who'd need a happy meal then? Your meal would be the toy. Mac Employee: "Do you wanna super-size that, sir?". Me: "Sure thing - I'm on an extended lunch, let's make my toy hard!".

Or what about if every bag of pork scratchings were made from a single swine? You could call it a pig-saw! -*ahem*-

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