I have, and they’re surprisingly good. I actually thought Bugles went out of business a long time ago (they always seemed like a “90s food” to me, like Surge or Squeez-its) until my wife brought the caramel ones home from the grocery store recently. I avoided them for a week until the rest of the snacks were gone and then tried them out of desperation and like I said, surprisingly good! (“Surprising” mostly in the sense that I expected them to be terrible, but still. They’re pretty good.)
I could’ve written this almost word for word.
I was surprised to find Bugles on sale at one supermarket in Toronto. I bought some and realized for the first time in 50 years that they taste like salted popcorn, which I love!
Haven’t tried the caramel variety yet, but I assume they taste like … caramel popcorn, which I also love.
I liked Bugles and still do, but they’re not my preferred snack, and are usually more expensive than other options.
I remember both of those, though I haven’t thought about them in years!
I really liked Whistles; the cheese flavor was more like the powder you get in KD. I used to use that to make cheese toast, yum! :o
Bugles blow.
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A dollar store is your friend. Where all brands from yesteryear live on.
We found these on a recent trip to our local Dollar Tree. In my opinion, not even worth the $1 for the trip down memory lane. I guess my tastebuds have developed since childhood. Then again, this lousy nutritional food is exactly what my mother bought for us as developing children.
Bugles are one of those foods that I love, but I never actually buy. Partly its health reasons but partly it’s just habit. Bugles are things that other people bring to my house for parties, reminding me that I should buy some for myself. 
They used to sell the KD cheese powder by itself but seem to have discontinued it. You can get other brands of cheese powder though.
Amen to this! I always loved the baked ones. I will eat the regular ones, though they are greasy. Both of the sweet varieties (PB&C, Caramel) are good. I do miss the baked ones though, and not sure how to ask for them.
Another snack that I had when I was a kid and only able to find very limited is Tom’s Nacho Rings. Those are still delicious. Tom’s does have a nacho version of the Bugles as well, though not as good as the Nacho Rings (at least to me).
Toronto-area Dollaramas usually have single-serving bags of Bugles. I often buy the nacho cheese flavour for a snack.
Bugles are a regular summer item for me. I use them to scoop up tuna salad for lunch when it’s too hot to work at it. Don’t eat them much otherwise.
Happy 54th year, Bugles!
About eight months ago I bought a smallish bag of Bugles —they were on a special sale — along with a tub of supermarket French onion dip. And ate them together.
I am…SO ashamed.
Mainly because I ate them at noon along with a glass of iced gin.
55th year, actually. I was going to criticize the thread title till I saw it was zombified. On vacation in 1965 (55 years ago) we stopped at Uncle Fester’s grocery in small-town Oregon, a test-market for Bugles. Maybe they weren’t released in the wild till later but I can date that pretty distinctly because L.A.'s Watts Riots filled the news.
Yes, Whistles were the best. Like being punched in the brain with a wheel of cheesy love.
And then there were Pizza Spins, which I think we had a couple times but I don’t remember very well.
Sounds even better than an afternoon of wanton sex! 
I remember those. They actually did taste kinda like pizza. Not bad at all! :o
My my. When I was a student in the late 90s, my then girlfriend - now wife - had a summer job with Golden Wonder (a classic UK crisp brand, now absorbed into the Walker’s empire) and used to bring back bin-bags full of freebies to uni. These included the new, experimental, maybe/maybe-not Bugles.
Seems they weren’t that new - in the grand scheme - after all.