Maybe I Should Have Studied a Little Harder?

Everyone knows you're not supposed to go to the grocery store hungry, but I did, and I made a few impulse purchases. I generally try to stay away from junk food (unless it's chocolate, which is heart healthy, right?) but in the salty snacks aisle I had a moment of weakness and grabbed a bag of potato chips. The bag advertised that these particular chips were the reduced salt variety, so I put them in my shopping cart feeling not too guilty. I mean, sure, they were packed full of fat, but less sodium is a good thing! Later, while checking email, I was idly snacking on my chips when I realized that my lips were starting to tingle from the saltiness. I was kind of surprised--if this is what a reduced-salt chip tastes like, how crazy salty is the full-salt version? And then I looked at the bag again, and realized my error. It was labeled "Hav Salt." In Norwegian, "halv" means "half" but "hav" means "sea." I wasn't eating "Half Salt" potato chips, I was eating "Sea Salt" potato chips, hence all the brine! Oops! Now I'm feeling quite stupid (and I'm retaining all kinds of fluid!) so I think I'll back away from the bag of chips. I think I'll also back away from the computer--my puffy, sodium filled fingers are making all kinds of typos anyway!