M&S do exceptional snacking nuts.
ooo! Salt and Pepper Cashews!
Nothing with cheese and onion flavour tastes nice to me. Pork Scratchings rule all.
Edit . As crisps go those Brannigans up there were good
Salt & Vinegar Skips.
absolutely delicious.
1.Original full size Cheddars , washed down with a glass of tomato juice.
2. Decent quality pork pie with pickled onions.
3. As a simple standalone Smiths S+V Chipsticks.
All mood dependent of course.
The humble apple is hard to beat.
well, yes, apples are great. But those salt and vinegar coop crisps are on a different scale
Oooh, in an Irish pub: bacon fries. Must be taken from the cardboard hanging board, otherwise they don't taste right.
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If they send me crisps you an all have one.
The humble apple is hard to beat.
The humble apple is the loneliest fruit. It stays in the relative safety of your bag until you've eaten everything else. Only then does it get the opportunity to shine...which it often fails to do. Don't get me wrong I like apples but c'mon it doesn't satisfy the urge for tasty snacks
those are genuinely mouth bleedingly evil. Basically a chemical weapon. (And I love salt and vinegar crisps). Thought the first pack might have been an anomaly but tried the again months later (there’s a coop lunch stop on one of our rides). Never again.
Right there with you here brother, aside from Nik Naks being grim,
They shouldn't really be classed as food, but more like an edible science experiment gone bad...
Thought the Aldi protein balls I ate yesterday
I'm sorry but no grown adult outside of either the desperate need to survive an arctic night after crashing there or series of tests to evaluate an autoimmune response needs to be eating anything labelled "protien balls"
I’m getting good results from toast with cheese, lidls jerk sauce, and spring onions.
First time logging in to this utter **** website in months just to say EVERYONE IS WRONG!
THE GRRRRRRRRRREATEST SNACK OF ALL TIME IIISSSSSSSSSS…..
Branningans and wasabi peas have nothing on these……
The dust in the bottom of the packet 🤤🥵
Look what you made me do as I happened to pass the Beestonia brewery on my way back from an audax:
Salted jumbo cashews.
My favourite snack of the moment is the ‘blueberry ‘baked’ bar. They do other flavours, but the blueberry is the nicest.
Worse thing to snack on- a piece of celery, horrid.
Salted jumbo cashews.
My favourite snack of the moment is the ‘blueberry ‘Naked’ bar. They do other flavours, but the blueberry is the nicest.
Worse thing to snack on- a piece of celery, horrid.
Where celery excels is when its stuffed.
With salad cream.
Salad Cream makes everything better.
Celery is quite good when you squeeze this stuff all over it
Can't believe no one has mentioned the king of all snacks the mighty Pickled Onion Monster Munch. Running a close second are Pipers Chorizo crisps.
Surely it has to be Aldi Fully Loaded Salt and Vinegar Peanuts.
The S&V is so powerful it'll stick your tongue to the roof of your mouth while making the inside of your nose dissolve.
Chuffin excellent!
I saw these in the the shop last week and being a lover of spicy things I gave them a go. They are quite hot (probably the hottest of the "normal" brands) but not ridiculous. I finished them and liked them so much I had another bag the next day. Where do I claim my prize?What Nice n Spicy NikNaks should always have been
Ah, but I bet you haven't tried
There's a warning on the packet for a reason! If anyone can eat a whole bag in one go I'll send you a prize. 🤯
For savoury I have to go with Brets, le Roi of French crisps, specifically their Espalette pepper and goats cheese variety. Unhelpfully now available at a posh deli up the road from me.
For sweet, mrs Tyred’s brother recently introduced us to a thing M&S sell, called the Big Daddy - a comically large kind of Star Bar thing that’s a bit salty. Like a half kilo of crack. I don’t like being left alone in a room with it. You should see this thing.
Stilton is the best stuffing for celery. If you are that way inclined.
Stilton is the best stuffing for celery. If you are that way inclined.
even better served on a piece of Soreen malt loaf with a smear of salted butter
(the Stilton that is, not the Celery)
Thought the Aldi protein balls I ate yesterday
I'm sorry but no grown adult outside of either the desperate need to survive an arctic night after crashing there or series of tests to evaluate an autoimmune response needs to be eating anything labelled "protien balls"
How about 'Protein Nuggs" ?
Mmmm processed snacks…
I know all that stuff for a couple of quid! That's value!
Pint of Guinness?
Pint of Guinness?
Just one?
Aye - a snack rather than a meal.
I know all that stuff for a couple of quid! That's value!
Let's look at this, shall we.
Firstly, this is the US product, as evidenced by the presence of corn oil (and her accent). The UK product is different and doesn't contain half of that crap.
Secondly, she's chosen one of the worst flavours for additives. I wonder why she chose that one in particular? Sour cream & onion accounts for most of the rest of the stuff going into the top. It shouldn't come as a shock to discover that a cream-flavoured chip contains milk-derived ingredients.
Thirdly, ooh, scary-sounding long words. Pass the Google.
- mono- and diglycerides are E471. It's a widely used emulsifier and is naturally occurring.
- MSG is a flavour enhancer which I'm sure we're all familiar with despite the old "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" scare stories. We're past that now, right? People add it to cooking by choice. In any case, it's not present in Original flavour Pringles if that's a concern.
- sodium caseinate is casein. It's a stabiliser used in milk products like those little pots you get in hotel rooms. I assume this again is specific to sour cream & onion flavour.
- disodium inosinate is E631. It's a flavour enhancer used alongside MSG. No MSG, no E631.
- disodium guanylate is E627. It's a flavour enhancer used alongside MSG. No MSG, no E627.
TL;DR - Original Pringles in the UK contain a natural emulsifier. Well shut the front door, I'm never eating them again. I did laugh at the "natural flavor" though.
Key Ingredient Breakdown (Original):
Base: Dehydrated potatoes, corn flour, wheat flour, rice flour.
Oils: Sunflower oil, rapeseed oil.
Flavor/Texture: Maltodextrin, salt, emulsifier (E471—mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids).
Colour: Annatto norbixin.
Nothing beats these for me (although the Lidl version are very close).
Got a bit of an addiction to these are the moment too, along with the Milk Chocolate Coated Speculoos.
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To whoever was talking about Brannigans crisps, KP discontinued them in 2020. I still mourn the loss of the Smoked Ham & Pickle flavour as they were God-tier.
Worchester Sauce French Fries are the king and I am prepared to die on that hill.
Not read the rest but since it seemed to start as a "one crisp to rule them all" then I agree with this. Apart from the spelling.
If we're delving into the general world of "snacks" then where do you start... I'll tell you where not to start - nuts. They're generally a bit crap, kind of emergency "eat them if they're there" type food. At the age of 46 I've genuinely never, ever, ever bought nuts to snack on ever.
Buy the aforementioned Coleman’s mustard and honey nuts and report back.
Why do you eat all this crap!?
A well made croissant, now we’re talking 😉
I'm currently nibbling Waitrose No.1 Pecorino and Summer Truffle crisps. I know, I know.
I may have a new favourite...
Not sure if they have been mentioned already but following my rediscovery/bulk purchasing of Red Leicester Mini Cheddars (if that is not an oxymoron), this afternoon I found a packet of Red Leicester flavoured Quavers in the cupboard. They were excellent!
Biltong / jerky. Bloody love it. Quite a lot of the big shopping centres have biltong kiosks. Also a South African shop that sells all kinds of meat - wet or dry biltong, biltong sticks. They do a chilli and garlic one that is DELISH!!!
I'm a little surprised at this but tescos finest lightly salted sea salt crisps are (when they're good) bloody amazing. They've got that "sea front chip shop" thing going on with the oil, they're very crunchy without being jagged and deadly, it's just a really good crisp. Wee bit erratic, not every pack tastes the same but at £1.50 for the big bag I'll forgive them that.
But are we getting a bit focused here? There's snacks and there's snacks. I don't think anything crispy or savoury or whatever can match the allround excellent snackyness of a bit of shortbread. I mean it's just butter and sugar in a convenient payload delivery system, what could be finer?
