Incognito

Posted by Cheryl on Feb 14 2009 | 6. Eat on Saturday

Quite cunning…disguising oneself as another holiday.

It was the reduced-price packaging that threw me off the trail.


They looked so festive…and if I listened carefully, I thought I heard tiny voices singing Christmas carols.


But as I stared at the holly-berry-red and tannenbaum-ever-green nuggets, a pattern started to emerge.


‘Why, these aren’t Christmas chips!’ I exclaimed, ‘They’re St. Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day chips!’


Leave it to dearly departed saints to craft such shrewd subterfuge.

But they didn’t get the better of me—St. Valentine’s chips went into a chocolatey cookie dough recipe.


Now who has the last laugh…!

12 comments

12 Responses to “Incognito”

  1. # Holly

    Oh Brother!!! Good use of the chips though!

    14 Feb 2009 at 6:55 am

  2. # Bridget

    For now – St. Patrick! :-)

    14 Feb 2009 at 9:06 am

  3. # Mary

    Very clever!

    14 Feb 2009 at 9:13 am

  4. # kristina

    What an absolutely brilliant idea. I’m sure I never would have thought of it. And now you’re all prepared for St Patrick’s Day too! K x

    14 Feb 2009 at 9:36 am

  5. # Happy Yarns

    You…..hehehehe!!!!

    14 Feb 2009 at 2:04 pm

  6. # sisiggy

    I confess to wrapping my husband’s Valentine gift in red Christmas paper. This is why I only buy solid color paper. It’s nice for the winter holidays to color-coordinate.

    14 Feb 2009 at 3:16 pm

  7. # Bt

    No one gets anything over on you.

    14 Feb 2009 at 6:12 pm

  8. # Tanya

    lol, very clever! so green ones will be baked next month?

    14 Feb 2009 at 8:16 pm

  9. # jackie

    nice!

    15 Feb 2009 at 2:58 am

  10. # Caroline

    How funny…and delicious! I complain that I want nothing to do with the commercialism of holidays, BUT the discount of the those chips was definitely a sign that you were supposed to buy them and bake with them in honor of the two saints.

    I love your use of alliteration in this post….I am an English teacher, after all.

    15 Feb 2009 at 12:25 pm

  11. # Jo

    They have to get up pretty early in the morning to get one past you….. :o )

    15 Feb 2009 at 10:06 pm

  12. # queenie

    yum! dreaming of lovely chocolatey-chippy chocolate cookies with wee ice cream balls. . . . and strawberry slices. . . . drizzled all over with melted chocolate. . . .

    Whatever the holiday!

    That said, I am duly impressed with your discovery of the shrewd – indeed sly – subterfuge. To have left the Valentine’s red hiding in plain sight amongst the green would clearly doom the cookies to looking like stale Christmas hold-overs. Good eye! Great catch. . . .

    16 Feb 2009 at 9:34 am

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