A while back Andrew Zimmern (Minnesota's famous chef) had twittered about this Kickstarter fundraiser for a guy named Cameron Sheldrake. Cameron is a young entrepreneur that started a company called Off The Cob Sweet Corn Tortilla Chips. His chips are unique in that they are made using real sweet corn, they contain no artificial ingredients, no artificial coloring, they are certified non-GMO, gluten free, and
cholesterol free. When Cameron was looking for backers on Kickstarter I decided to give a little. Now knowing that the company is legit (yes, I do worry about that on Kickstarter) I wish I had given more.
The other day a package arrived for me and when I opened the box and discovered a bag of chips my first thought was "who in the heck would send me chips?" Forgetting about Cameron's Kickstarter Project. When I found the handwritten thank you note it all came back to me.
I was really excited to try the chips but I'll be honest, I didn't expect them to be very good. I've purchased several types of chips at the Natural Food Store and I have always found them to be either too salty, not salty enough, lacking taste or being too hard, etc... but I wanted to know what "sweet" corn chips taste like so I tore open the bag and started eating :-)
I have to report that Cameron's Sweet Corn Chips are the best I've ever eaten. My family and I devoured the entire bag in a matter of minutes, they were sooooooo yummy! Lots of flavor and just the right amount of salt. I'm bummed that we don't carry the chips locally yet but perhaps soon. Luckily, the chips are for sale out east in some Whole Foods Stores (for those of you who live out that way) and they are also sold on Amazon (for those of us who don't live out that way). Now I'm just waiting on my delivery so I can make some guacamole to eat with my chips :D
I am SO getting some of this! We are always on the look out for good, I mean really good, corn chips. :)
You are such a sweetheart for helping this kid out on Kickstarter!
What a great idea to help out a fellow entrepreneur. Those chips sound delicious and being a chip fiend, I could totally go for some right now. And when he does go big time, you can say I remember him when he first started out. ;)
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