What is the Finest Celebration Snack of All Time? This.

PHOTO BY David Williams

The opposite day, my buddy Lucy threw a celebration. She’s an epic host, and after I walked into her bustling front room, I noticed an overflowing cheese and charcuterie board. However then my eyes zeroed in on one thing else.

RUFFLES AND FRENCH ONION DIP.

My coronary heart skipped a beat. The combo was a beloved staple of my Midwest childhood, however then I moved to New York after faculty and by no means actually noticed it once more. However right here it was, in all its glory. I headed proper over to take a chew.

“We at all times make a double batch,” Lucy advised me this morning. “We put a number of bowls across the room so we don’t have a site visitors drawback.”

All you need to do, after all, is a) combine Lipton’s Onion Soup & Dip Combine right into a bowl of bitter cream; and a couple of) open a bag of Ruffles. It’s low cost and old-school and wildly crowd-pleasing.

Listed here are Lucy’s professional suggestions:
* You can’t use mild bitter cream, and also you want a inflexible potato chip to bear the load of the dip. It’s the identical as how totally different pasta shapes maintain sauce higher.
* You recognize what’s additionally good? Salt and pepper ruffled chips. That’s zhuzhes them up slightly.
* We put out carrot and celery sticks, too, however folks solely go for these when we’re all the way down to the crumbs of the chips.
* Pigs in blankets are the opposite factor the place it doesn’t matter what different fancy meals you place out. However French onion dip nonetheless goes essentially the most shortly.

Since Lucy’s celebration, I’ve noticed it once more: at a children’ birthday after which at an Oscars viewing celebration. Is the snack coming again on the scene? Or did it by no means actually go away?

Would you strive it? Or perhaps you’ve it on a regular basis?! The humorous factor is, I discussed Ruffles with onion dip on a CoJ workforce name, and nobody knew what I used to be speaking about. (“Do you imply ranch?” they requested.) I felt just like the man within the film Yesterday, the place no one’s heard of The Beatles.

P.S. Three strategic starters for a cocktail party, and don’t neglect about tater tots!

(Images and gif by David Williams for Cup of Jo.)