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Smoke Daddy Chicago

During the low-to-no carb diet craze no matter how huge my list of "can have's" was I yearned for all the carb-heavy, ultra delicious, never nutritious items in the snack aisle. The salty & crunchy, sweet and chewy, ooey-gooey snack aisle. After dropping 25lbs of the way-more-than 25lbs I was aiming to lose, I talked myself into believing I DESERVED a treat. I know...i know..I was taking a flying leap off of the wagon, but the justifications i came up with on that day, and in that moment, were indisputable. They were also admittedly completely irrational, but indisputable none the less. Anyway, I didnt want to be completely bad, and I knew that my pre-diet favorites were off limits; so I slowly walked down the snack aisle checking the nutrition facts of nearly every item. Everything was LOADED with carbs. Some of these things were in the triple digits with carbs!!! Those were an automatic NO.So I started to look for the items with the lowest double digits. The problem with most of those is that they also had the lowest serving size. Yeah, cheezeballs are only 11 carbs...but thats just for 1oz.What a joke. And then I saw the bags of pork skins. It never dawned on me that pork could be a snack, but it was, and even in varietys. They had plain, bar-b-q, salt & sour, even spicy; sounds like my potato chip friends. I thought to myself, this can't be good. I pick up the bag, turn it over, and saw the number zero. I thought it was a misprint, so I checked other bags, other flavors, my calorie king book in my purse. OMG, a snack with zero carbs. OMG they're probably gonna be gross. I bought a bag, and a bag of something I knew I liked, just in case. I opened it, sniffed a little, popped one in my mouth, and....i swear i heard the angels sing. Don't get me wrong, its not bacon. Nothing can measure up to the fabulousness that is bacon. Bacon, like cheese, makes everything better. But when I was struggling , and on the verge of commiting diet suicide, pork skins made it better. Just FYI don't stuff too many in your mouth at once, and always have something around to drink when you're eating them.