WTF Is With This Kale Chip Craze?

My kryptonite is tortilla chips. I love those freaking things. I could probably down two baskets of them by myself before my dinner comes at any given Mexican restaurant - even the ones that have the food come out the second the waiter puts in your order. They're probably 68% of what brought me to Weight Watchers (the other 32% would be my gigantic babies).

That being said, tonight I thought I'd try making kale chips. People keep raving about how awesome they are and what a great chip substitute they are. Kale is a garnish, people! It's basically thick, bitter lettuce. But, I figured I'd give it a shot, because I have my WW weigh in tomorrow and I'm two weeks away from hitting my lifetime status there. Plus, kale is supposed to be cray cray good for you, so bonus, I can gorge on this whole bunch of leafy green nutrition for essentially no calories, and not waste today's spin class on nighttime munchies. Score!

So I researched a few recipes, they all seem the same. Kale, EVOO, salt. Bake. Eat.

The recipes say bake until edges are browned, but not burned. So you have a window of about five seconds from browned edges to burnt pieces of leafy shit. Lucky for me, I got them out in time. I took a bite... Patooey! Maybe this one is overdone... Let me try a non browned edge one... Patoooooooey! Still disgusting. I could douse these things in salsa or hot sauce and I'd still find them disgusting.

I literally chewed these bitter flaky pieces of garbage until I had to spit them out. I thought.. Hey, maybe I made these wrong. Nope. Kale is just that gross to me. Right up there with Brussels sprouts. Barf.

For all of you people who encouraged me to try kale chips as a substitute for chips: YOU ARE DEAD TO ME.