4 October 2012
When I was but a boy I discovered the secrets of salt. Yes, I was that pioneer. For I discovered that it could be used as a condiment on chips and then later on, to my pleasure, I discovered it could also be used as a condiment on battered fish but that story can wait.
If it wasn't for me you wouldn't have ready salted crisps. The little blue bag it comes packaged in though was not my idea. No, that came form a Tibetan monk named Charles who I met when I was touring the Great Barrier Reef, some way off Australia's coast, which is in the sea somewhere. We were both in a boat at the time, which was very fortunate given the circumstances.
I noticed that Charles was not enjoying his potato crisps, they were deprived of flavour he stated. When his back was turned I took it upon myself to sprinkle some salt in his plain flavoured crisps. His next mouthful of potato came as a shock to him. Being a monk with a superior intellect he quickly realised what I had done. We had a discussion about crisps on the back of this occurrence and also contemplated the benefits of salt in general. It was a riveting conversation. Afterwards, he came up with THE idea. He said "There should be a blue bag with salt in it so a consumer could pour their own" I replied "Yes, I agree". It was a very fine idea.
So I went to a crisp factory and said to a crisp factory worker "Hey, crisp factory worker. Put some salt in a blue bag, a small blue bag, and put it in bags of plain flavoured crisps because a Tibetan monk said there should be a blue bag with salt in it so the consumer could pour his own salt onto the crisps". The crisp factory man seemed to like the idea. I guessed this because he said "OK". Over the next few months the crisps were rolled out across the nation. The rest as they say is history.
Charles never saw the fruition of this idea. He didn't die or anything, he lost his sight due to glaucoma.
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