Frito Lay Headquarters

Time: 60:36
Distance: ~8 miles

Who remembers this scene from one of Jerry Bruckheimer's greatest hits? It comes from the 1997 TNT or TBS monthly special Con Air just after the cons take control of the plane thus starting Cameron Poe's nightmare travel home.

["Sweet Home Alabama" plays in background]
Garland Greene: Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

Meagan and I defined irony this morning when we ran two big loops around the Frito Lay headquarters in Frisco, Texas. Everyone's favorite manufacturer of delicious picnic treats, junk food and salted crunchy snacks has an amazing two plus mile walking/running route around their campus. Think Nike's wood chip trail in Beaverton, Oregon that winds around the Alberto Salazar, Lance Armstrong and Jerry Rice buildings, only that makes sense. This trail was most enjoyable and took us to tennis courts, a pond, and open fields. We could also see their celebrity buildings named after John Candy, Mama Cass and Chris Farley.

I guess you have to pretend to be a supporter of fitness and healthy living when you produce Fritos The Original Brand Corn Chips which have 30 grams of fat, 480 calories and 510mg of sodium in a 3oz. serving. And this is a product that is made of simply corn, corn oil, and salt with no preservatives. B-Mac would say "NOM NOM NOM," and I couldn't agree more. Those little fun crisps are delicious. I wish I had a bag now. Anyway, I'm probably going to get a letter from the company asking me to take this post down and I won't do it!

Unless they send me a Frito Pie.