This news article beats all. A Flower Mound woman apparently found a tortilla chip that she believes looks like the state of Texas, but who cares?
There've been people that see the Virgin Mary in snack chips, grilled cheese sandwiches, tree bark, and a host of other things, some of which even ended up on Ebay, and I can understand the fascination in those items to some degree. At least they could be viewed in some way as miraculous, religious artifacts. But a chip shaped like Texas? And if you look at the picture in the article, it doesn't even resemble Texas all that much.
The woman that noticed this treasure, says that she was preparing a snack for herself and her husband when found this anomaly. She's been keeping it in a Ziploc bag to show friends and neighbors, but now she's ready to move to the next level. She assured reporters, however, that while she did not have any plans to sell the chip on Ebay, she wasn't sure how long the chip would last if she framed it. Framed it!
I find myself wondering how this ever made it into the news. I think the most likely scenario is that the woman called the news station to report her find, and I can only imagine how that conversation went:
Reporter: This is NBC 5, how may I help you?
Woman: You are not going to believe what I found in my house.
Reporter: Try me. I've been doing this for a while. Well, at least two weeks since I graduated from that correspondence school anyway. In that time I've heard just about everything, though.
Woman: There's a special chip at my house.
Reporter: Is it a computer chip? Like some new technology.
Woman: No. It's much more special than that.
Reporter: Really. Is it alien technology?
Woman: No. It's not technology at all. Are you listening to me? It's a chip.
Reporter: [incredulous] Like a potato chip? A snack?
Woman: Well, that's the thing. I was making a snack of tortilla chips for my husband and I when I noticed one that was oddly shaped.
Reporter: You noticed an oddly shaped tortilla chip? I'm gonna need more than that for a story.
Woman: It's not just oddly shaped. It's shaped like Texas.
Reporter: Did you buy the Texas shaped tortilla chips? They're on sale at Tom Thumb this week.
Woman: No. That's what makes it so special. It was in a regular bag.
Reporter: Okay. I'm intrigued. Go on.
Woman: Well, like I said, I was making a snack when I noticed this chip shaped like Texas. I've never seen food that looked like something before, so it seems kind of odd to eat.
Reporter: Hmm…most of my food looks like…well, food, but I guess if I wasn't used to that it would seem odd to me, too. Before I can determine if this is newsworthy, though, I'm gonna need a little more information. Did you bite the chip into the shape of Texas? Because if you did, then that would just be silly and not worth reporting at all.
Woman: Oh, heaven's no. I couldn't bring myself to take a bite of Texas. It just came out of the bag just like this.
Reporter: So, let me get this straight, you found a chip that you think looks like Texas, you didn't bite or break it into that shape, and you aren't sneaking snacks from a bag of Texas-shaped tortilla chips. Is that correct?
Woman: You got it. Can I get on TV? I've been waiting for a tornado to come through all my life so I could tell the world that it sounded just like a train, but I've given up that. Can't this be on the news instead?
By now we all know that she got her wish and this extraordinary event was reported both in print and on the news. I wonder why I never thought of this angle for fame? I like those tortilla strips and you wouldn't believe how many those I've seen that were shaped like Nebraska. I've missed the boat.
