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This what I'm NOT snacking on. This morning, I was in one of the local government owned department stores in town. It is notoriously expensive, but they have a few things no one else has. I needed some ground ginger powder and it is one of only two places which regularly have it - and it is, by far, the nearest.

While there, I noticed these.

"Ooh!" I thought. "I'll have some of those."

Then I noticed the price. 38.80 元 a pack! That is $5.62 USD / £4.62 GBP. A similarly sized packet of Lay's costs around 4元 and Asian brands such as Oishi, from the Philippines, around 3元. The Tyrrells may be better but at 10 times the price, they'd have to be majestic. Which I doubt. They are just fried potato slices!

So I went with the Lay's.

This what I'm NOT snacking on. This morning, I was in one of the local government owned department stores in town. It is notoriously expensive, but they have a few things no one else has. I needed some ground ginger powder and it is one of only two places which regularly have it - and it is, by far, the nearest.

While there, I noticed these.

"Ooh!" I thought. "I'll have some of those."

Then I noticed the price. 38.80 元 a pack! That is $5.62 USD / £4.62 GBP. A similarly sized packet of Lay's costs around 4元 and Asian brands such as Oishi, from the Philippines, around 3元. The Tyrrells may better but at 10 times the price, they'd have to be majestic. Which I doubt. They are just fried potato slices!

So I went with the Lay's.

This what I'm NOT snacking on. This morning, I was in one of the local government owned department stores in town. It is notoriously expensive, but they have a few things no one else has. I needed some ground ginger powder and it is one of only two places which regularly have it - and it is, by far, the nearest.

While there, I noticed these.

"Ooh!" I thought. "I'll have some of those."

Then I noticed the price. 38.80 元 a pack! That is $5.62 USD / £4.62 GBP. A similarly sized packet of Lay's costs around 4元 and Asian brands such as Oishi, from the Philippines, around 3元. The Tyrrells may better but at 10 times the price, they'd have to be majestic. Which I doubt. They are just fried potato slices!

So I went with the Lay's.