RBR Tailgating: Homemade BBQ Potato Chips

When I was a kid, my sister liked sour cream and onion flavored chips and hated BBQ ones. I was the opposite; loved BBQ and hated sour cream and onion. We’ve both come along since then and are equal opportunity chip devourers, but in those incunabular days of my culinary awareness a very irrational and lasting impression was made. BBQ is for boys and sour cream and onion is for girls.

Forty or so years later and I still think “chick chips” when I see a guy in a hot dog joint or wherever eating from a bag of sour cream and onion chips. I’m not judging. I get sour cream and onion myself on occasion. But the thought is there. Those are for girls.

Going back to when I was a kid, my mother smoked…