# Snack \. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197 "2014-10-02T17:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/21 "2014-10-03T12:05:12Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Cappuccino Lays are pretty horrible. Never met him, but I’m thinking Chad Scott is a dick. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/22 "2014-10-03T12:48:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Never met him, but I’m thinking Chad Scott is a dick. You know, I wasn’t going to vote in their contest this year because I don’t like any of the flavors, but now I have to, just to make that comment on their website. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/23 "2014-10-03T15:41:40Z")
Takis are a popular snack among my daughter’s classmates. She can’t understand why, since neither of us likes them. I’m wondering why kids like spicy snacks so much lately. I subscribe to this thing called Munchbox, that sends a box of snacks from all over the world once a month. This month, among other things, there was a bag of peanut-flavored puffs (like cheese puffs, only with peanut flavor) from Romania, I think. My daughter hated them, and I tried a few before getting tired and leaving them on the coffee table. Even the ants won’t touch them. ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/24 "2014-10-03T16:23:59Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Sometimes you grab a new snack off the store shelf because no matter good those spicy nacho doritos are, eventually you’re sick and tired of them. And that’s how you end up with [Takis](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Spicy-Chili-Lime-Rolled-Corn-Tortilla-Chips-10-oz/28892007). > > We had to throw out the nearly full bag. So sad. I love Takis. They are especially good as a side in a brown bag lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/25 "2014-10-03T16:37:59Z")
Dried cucumber chips from Fresh Market. I thought they would be good. Oh my god they were vomitous. I ate like four and then threw the entire box out - and you don’t get them in small boxes. Nasty! ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/26 "2014-10-03T16:55:40Z")
Funyons ☹ Wasabi peas ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/27 "2014-10-03T18:28:13Z")
Pumpkin spice M&Ms. AFAIK, they’re exclusive to Target, so that makes them pretty easy to avoid. They’re not aggressively bad, but I don’t recommend them. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/28 "2014-10-03T18:44:45Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > That was Mountain Dew flavor, and what I came in here to mention. [My original thread about them.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=469824) I believe these are what **aruvqan** mentions, as well. Ah, Mountain Dew. That makes sense. Blech. BLECH. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/29 "2014-10-03T18:52:23Z")
Back in the day, I _loved_ Sen-Sen, but every one of my friends hated it. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/30 "2014-10-03T20:45:09Z")
Most people don’t eat them alone as snacks, but maybe more often topped with something, but a couple of years ago Nabisco pulled regular Premium saltines off the shelves around here [and replaced them with ROUND ones](http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/for_saltine_enthusiasts_round.html). FAIL! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/31 "2014-10-07T00:42:15Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Pumpkin spice M&Ms. AFAIK, they’re exclusive to Target, so that makes them pretty easy to avoid. They’re not aggressively bad, but I don’t recommend them. I threw out a bag of pumpkin spice Hershey Kisses that I picked up in my post-Hallloween discount chocolate buying expedition last year. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/32 "2014-10-07T01:40:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **jsgoddess** : > > They used to make cheeseburger Doritos, which I thought were heavenly. Then they put out another flavor in the same color bag (the mystery black Doritos bag) and I didn’t pay attention that they were not the divine flavor. They tasted like Doritos with crushed lime Froot Loops on them. I think they were supposed to be margarita flavor. > > I still have nightmares. I had almost exactly the same experience. Well, OK, I didn’t think the cheeseburger ones were quite heavenly, but they were certainly good enough to make a nice change of pace. I like variety in my snacks, so I was also willing to try Mystery Flavor #2. But the Mountain Dew ones-- Ugh! They would have been so overwhelmingly sour as to be uneatable, except that the sweetness was even more overwhelming than the sour. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/33 "2014-10-08T00:54:37Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > Most people don’t eat them alone as snacks, but maybe more often topped with something, but a couple of years ago Nabisco pulled regular Premium saltines off the shelves around here [and replaced them with ROUND ones](http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/for_saltine_enthusiasts_round.html). > > FAIL! What?! That’s like the graphics to “Orange is the New Black”, where orange is written in black lettering, and black is written in orange. My brain doesn’t want to process round saltines. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/34 "2014-10-08T03:36:50Z")
Just yesterday I decided to try some squash latkes. Made the batter ahead of time, left it in a covered bowl in fridge. Sister-in-law (semi-vegetarian) came in some time later to raid the fridge, saw the bowl of batter, thought “ah… **Seldom** made a carrot salad!”, helped herself to a nice bowl of… Grated butternut squash, grated onions, eggs, etc, all raw. Said later she had several spoonfuls down before it dawned on her that something wasn’t right. So… a snack that didn’t work out. The latkes were delicious, BTW once they were properly fried. SS ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197/35 "2014-10-08T04:15:15Z")
Chocolate covered ginger altoids. I loved the other chocolate covered ones, but those…blech. I gave them to a coworker who liked ginger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-fails/700197.md?page=1)