You've probably popped a top or two with your friends. This potato crisp snack debuted in and is sold in over countries. Lay's Classic Potato Chips are crispy and have enough salty goodness—but not too much—to keep you coming back for more. Perhaps you have fond memories of munching on this staple salty snack at school basketball or football games?
Betty Crocker is an iconic brand for a reason—the brand makes so many iconic snacks and baking mixes. For a special snack for one, try one of the label's Mug Treats, which give you all the deliciousness of cake, minus the baking process. Jif's peanut butter won our peanut butter taste test , and Jif is the only peanut butter brand to make the top 25 on YouGov's rankings. Whether you prefer smooth or crunchy peanut butter, Jif is the ultimate classic. Peanut is dead , but his memory lives on in the iconic Planters snacks.
Try one of the trail mix options, or go with a classic like dry-roasted peanuts. The original nacho cheese-flavored Doritos are delicious in their own right.
But the cool ranch variety may as well fall in a league of their own. They're that iconic. Whether you're a fan of the peanut butter or the cheese versions, Ritz crackers will never let you down. The perfect amount of salt, the buttery taste—pair the plain ones with Jif and you're good to go.
The makers of so many iconic baking products, Pillsbury dominates the markets of boxed mixes and refrigerated cookie dough. Anything the little doughboy touches is guaranteed to be good.
Creme slathered between two chocolate cookies is perhaps one of the most satisfying food items to dunk in a cold glass of milk. If you grew up in the 90s, of the best corner store treats you could have was Bubbletape.
The gum, which rolled out of its opening and snapped off like measuring tape was meant to be played with. Cross-brand collaborations include a Juicy Fruit-Starburst hybrid gum that include standalone flavors like Strawberry and Watermelon. Like Fruit Gushers and Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Rollups is another treat that aimed to make snacking fun for a new generation of kids. This is the first candy on our list that has both mint and chocolate.
Also developed by the Topps Company, who found a healthy market for novelty snacks, the Push Pop was another lollipop that found its popularity due to the fact that you could push it up before use and down to stash it away. The peanut butter flavor is slightly a bit sweeter than normal, and lingers on the palette for a time before it fades. Jolly Ranchers is a fruity snack known for its sweet-to-sour flavor.
They are much more known for their Gummi es variety, which comes in flavors like cherry , watermelon , green apple , strawberry , and orange. Airheads are a sour tough-to-chew candy that dates back to the 80s. The second candy on our list with a chocolate and mint pairing is Andes Chocolate Mints ;. Since then the company has produced its signature chewy, log-shaped confections with a taffy-like texture. Of course, Starbursts and Skittles are sort of neck and neck when it comes to the best of the best of fruit candies.
Spoon University compiled a list of all of the original Skittles flavors , ranked by taste. Check it out! While these may not be traditional store goodies, Poptarts should be counted among one of the greatest inventions ever; 2nd only to whoever first sold them individually. How many flavors have you tried?
The gelatin-based fruit snack has been in circulation since and has spawned into several lines , including Happy Cola and Gold Bears Which includes raspberry, orange, lemon, strawberry, and pineapple. But in addition to Easter snacks, the British confectionary has made several delectable candies , including Caramello A milk chocolate bar oozing with a caramel center and even a Caramel Spread that is part-Nutella, part-Peanut Butter.
Developed by Nestle, Nerds are a super bite-sized snack that is good as soon as you pop them in your mouth. But each one contains a lot of flavor - and quickly turns to a tart sourness in flavors that include Wild Cherry and Watermelon, Wildberry and Peach, Strawberry and Grape, and more.
Developed by Nabisco Chips Ahoy! Got some extra time on your hands? All of these snacks include a fruit or a vegetable. For more nutrition information, call to speak with a registered dietitian, or visit www. Skip to main content. Nutrition Series. Last Updated:. March Download PDF:. For a foodstuff that was created to repress America's sex drives, graham crackers sure are delightful, even if no one has ever successfully consumed an entire box without shattering several of them accidentally.
Bet Old Man Graham never thought hundreds of thousands of these would be consumed in front of seductively flickering campfires by people who… ate too many goddamn s'mores to have any sex.
Hot damn, it worked after all! Fact: I have a huge collection of Pez dispensers currently in the care of my goddaughter, who has no idea why her godfather is such a dork, or why adults would want to partake in a candy that's served from the gaping hole in Yoda's neck. Indeed, Pez walks the line between snack and novelty, but there's a certain nostalgic blast that comes with dumping a whole sleeve of vaguely chemically cherry candy rectangles in your mouth. It spans generations. Or at least it tries to when you force it upon an unsuspecting teenage relative who is obliged to roll her eyes and agree that it's delicious.
I'm still perplexed, saddened, and frankly hurt by Planters' discontinuation of its cheese balls, which were incredible, but the good people at Utz make the best remaining approximation. Purchase one of the comically large tubs at Costco and your entire family will be able to enjoy them for… not nearly as long as you'd think. My mom reliably keeps a bag of these in a "secret" spot in the cabinet. She probably wonders why that bag is significantly lighter whenever I happen to have been over.
Actually, she has probably figured it out. Have you ever had the ones with the peanut butter inside? Watch your back, Reese's. Pie is my favorite food. So it would stand to reason that a delicious hand pie filled with preserves or pudding, the low-key standout of the Hostess family would tower above the competition. And yet this gas-station rhombus of regret has a weird aftertaste that makes me feel like I brushed my teeth before eating it, which I most assuredly did not.
Added to that, these suckers pack more saturated fat than a White Castle Crave Case. Not really, but still… if I'm gonna play Russian roulette with my left ventricle, I'd rather do it with something that leaves me full rather than shaking with elevated blood sugar and the hunger for more.
Keebler's iconic sandwich cookie is particularly convenient for those who want a sandwich cookie that separates easily for unobstructed access to the filling. They're also particularly convenient for those who want to pretend they're crazed giants gobbling up helpless, delectable little elves by the handful.
If you have children who are among the latter, don't sound the alarm bells quite yet, but maybe keep an eye on them? I'm not a fan of Fridays to begin with, so this is a little odd, especially since it has a whole line of snacks modeled after its endless apps selection, among them "mozz sticks" that taste like some sort of accident occurred at the Cheetos factory.
But these potato skins… good Lord. For those of us who still malign the death of the Keebler Tato Skin RIP, you elven beauty , here's the only chance to get that nostalgia blast. That's not a high bar to hit. But hey, when you're the only legit potato skin on the market, you go big or you go to Applebee's. It tastes neither like chicken nor biscuits.
It's more like somebody spilled a ramen seasoning packet on a bunch of Club Crackers. And, well, it's kind of glorious once you get past the fact that you're eating greasy chicken ish -flavored granny crackers. Starts talking in old-man voice In my day, when you were down to your last remnants of change from the money mom gave you for the snack bar at the pool, you could always score a few Swedish Fish for a nickel.
It wasn't as glorious as having a cardboard boat full of soon-to-be-soggy nachos, but it wasn't half bad, either. Have you ever carefully eaten the colorful exterior away from a particularly large Nerd to get a look at the inside?
It looks like tiny fragments of old-timey rock candy. The first time I made this discovery I pondered my relationship to the previous generations for whom a bit of crystallized sugar on a stick was the height of luxury. Then I snapped out of it and went back to chugging those little cherry- and grape-flavored goblins like a madman.
Have you tried those double-dipped ones with the lemonade and wild cherry? Progress tastes good. In the realm of licorice, Twizzlers gets points for variety. But variety can be a mixed bag, especially when you get to the Nibs and Bites, which literally come in bags and often taste like said bags were left open on a counter until the candy inside went from soft to the consistency of a butterscotch that's been on your grandma's counter for a couple years.
On the flip side, the Pull 'N' Peels are the best damn rope licorice on the market, with no respect to the 3ft ropes you see in novelty shops. Still, all mass-produced licorice should be judged on its ability to effectively double as a straw in a movie theater, and while Twizzlers Twists work, you often walk away with strained cheek muscles from sucking too hard, and the thickness of the licorice tends to make it rock-hard when it meets an icy beverage.
While drinking soda through Twizzlers is the diabetic equivalent of trying to drink a Big Gulp with a crimped coffee stirrer, Red Vines are like taking it down with a beer bong. They also stay softer and impart more fake strawberry flavor into your mouth. It's a slight advantage, but in a call this close, it's an important one.
Mounds bars are highly divisive because your mileage will vary significantly depending on how you feel about coconut. I myself love me some coconut, so I like to have Mounds in the candy bar rotation. As a bonus, the fact that there appears to be actual evidence of plant matter still in tact when consuming one means I'm able to convince myself that I'm making a relatively nutritionally virtuous choice even though deep down I know my health did not factor into my decision to take a delightfully sugary trip to coconut town.
They're salty! They're delicious when layered with cheese or dips. They have fun little herbal flavors. Despite these qualities, they're somehow not the first thing I'm reaching for. Or the third. Or, if this list is any indication, the 70th. But check in with me in, like, 30 years, because they are delightful when paired with a game of bridge, I hear.
And they make you poop a little more regularly! Nutter Butters are the closest constantly available approximation of the Do-Si-Do, a peanut butter sandwich cookie that is perpetually underappreciated in the Girl Scout Cookie canon.
However, underappreciated does not equal "best. How come Oreos get to do all the playing around with flavors? Throw some jelly on these bad boys and blow some minds!
The shapes make these suckers ideal for any kind of dip — thick chips for seven-layer. Scoops for chili. Flat chips for salsa. Rolled for the salsa at the bottom of the jar. If we were giving out points for dippability, Tostitos would reign supreme. But we're not. So bonus points for being salty and reliable in a pinch, and offering a hint-o-lime flavor that's like the LaCroix of the snack world it's an essence! But taken alone, they are but an empty vessel in need of a certain highly processed je ne sais quoi.
At some point during my childhood the good people at Hostess realized that America needed access to brownies in the kind of bite-sized, snackable form that would lend itself to having bags full of them populating America's lunchboxes. Frankly, said realization was long overdue. You'll also see large non-branded tubs of these suckers at many a local grocer.
However you're getting your fix, if you're eating brownies by the handful, you're living right. Always a sneaky-strong vending machine play. I don't know who Amos was Googles. Well hot damn, he was a Los Angeles talent agent who borrowed money from Marvin Gaye to launch his cookie business, which became an instant sensation.
And Wally Amos is still kicking at age 80! And he was in an episode of Taxi?! And he was in an episode of The Office?! And he was on Shark Tank?! I honestly feel ashamed for not knowing any of this.
I always just assumed Famous Amos was cooked up in some corporate boardroom because it rhymed. Maybe this should be higher? Also: best actual chocolate chips of any store-bought cookie. When "Macho Man" Randy Savage went to the big Royal Rumble in the sky, so did a lot of the appeal of these strange, pepperoni-ish meat byproducts that have become as synonymous with gas stations as condom machines and the potential to be robbed.
They're salty and meaty and scratch a certain snack itch, sure, but how many people do you know who actively crave one of these? Trick question: You never actually knew Randy Savage, liar. But if you miss him, snap into one and you might know what it was like to taste his sweat as he dropped from the top rope onto your face. Fruit Roll-Ups have gone through way too many permutations since their introduction in Betty Crocker, you sly devil!
My Roll-Up-consuming heydey definitely came before SpongeBob got involved. But the fundamentals really haven't changed: Peel it off the cellophane and delicately savor each pectin-packing… oh, who are you kidding, just crumple the damn thing up and devour it. Anyone who actually takes the time to extract the "fun" shapes from a Fruit Roll-Up is not to be trusted. The evolutionary Fruit Roll-Up. It takes longer to unroll. It still often ends up being crumpled into a ball and devoured in a single go.
Also the actual edible part has a slightly softer, more gentle texture than its forefather. Between this and Bubble Tape the '90s were a real heydey for introducing snacks that would be at home in the packing section of a hardware store. An underrated movie snack if ever there was one, and a candy that's often overshadowed by the crushing, tooth-yanking disappointment of a Milk Dud. Pro tip: Put a handful in your mouth, chomp once, then take a quick swig of milk.
Instant milkshake. Also: Why don't more movie theaters serve milk? There it sits at the bottom of the candy bar section, gathering dust. Seriously, when was the last time you had one of these caramel-y, rich-puffed, chocolate-laden beasts? Because before the Take Five more on that later! Somehow, it tastes even better when left to become stale and hard due to the ravages of time.
Which is great, because that thing's probably been sitting on the shelf for half a decade. This is the only way I was able to stomach three servings of fruit in one day as a kid. Don't believe me?
Ask my very rich childhood dentist. And while there are some who claim that the banana is the weakest of the fake-fruit basket, there are entire vending machines dedicated to the little yellow bastards. Do you see any vending machines offering a handful of lime Runts? Debate over. Banana Runts win. Maybe I was just a boring kid, but these were definitely more of a go-to than Oreos.
But they also come in a bag and you can cram them into your mouth like Cookie Monster, which you definitely should do. Gotta do something to make these deliciously boring cookies more fun! These beauties are unequivocally the most important pretzel-related snacking innovation to come around in the last 15 years.
While they have the structural integrity to function as an ideal dipping candidate, they certainly don't require any help, having minimized the dull pretzel interior in favor of a maximum-impact crispy exterior that I'm speaking about so breathlessly you'd think I'm on the take from them.
Which I'm not. My opinons are not for sale. But for real, try the Buffalo. Have you ever dipped them in ranch? These aren't necessarily my favorite work Little Debbie's ever done she's a big girl now, she can take it , but they have enough devotion that I'll undoubtedly receive some pointed messages from Zebra Cake truthers.
Though, to be clear, NO actual zebra. I don't need PETA on my back, too. The visible multigrain flecks help me convince myself I'm making a healthy decision! I can't really comment on any flavor of SunChips other than Harvest Cheddar, but I don't think that's necessary.
But damn, Harvest Cheddar SunChips are some quality cheese snackin'. I've never been to a Cheddar harvest. In fact, I'm not sure that's a real thing. If it is, I want to go. One day, a genius at Frito-Lay decided to take the most important vegetable on the Thanksgiving table -- the fried onions on top of the green bean casserole -- and create a fake version using cornstarch, onion flavoring, and a little moxie.
And holy shit are they fantastic. Not the Flamin' Hot ones or the Steakhouse version, mind you. Because Funyuns, like Thanksgiving, are best when you don't stray from tradition.
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