# Snack foods that are oddly addictive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 2, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039 "2020-12-02T20:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/21 "2020-12-02T22:30:01Z")
The **one** delicious snack food? There are many foods I simply don’t buy often. That would be completely consumed the day of purchase, regardless of quantity. Nothing odd about food addiction - this is commonplace. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/22 "2020-12-02T22:58:17Z")
Cocktail weenies with barbecue sauce. If I had access to an infinite supply of those, I would eat them until I exploded like Mr. Creosote. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/23 "2020-12-02T23:09:30Z")
Sunflower seeds in the shell. Homemade Chex Mix. Wasabi peas. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/24 "2020-12-02T23:33:24Z")
Mini corn dogs. I could fatten up like a pig eating deep fried cornmeal and preservative laced hot dogs. Pizza rolls on the side are nice too. ---
**Author:** ![allyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@allyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allyn)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/25 "2020-12-02T23:38:28Z")
Doritos Cool Ranch/Nachos. Gummi bears and variants… ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/26 "2020-12-03T00:06:15Z")
_Old joke_ Everyone knows that Cheetos is laced with crack. You have to finish the whole bag in one sitting and need another one in a couple of hours! Defining addictive as I crave it for days or weeks until I have it, I’ll say Cheetos, Doritos, BBQ potato chips, beef jerky and dried cuttlefish as a preference over beef jerky. Not addictive in the sense that once I have it for a few days or week (never polished off a whole regular sized bag of any of those in one sitting), I’m fine for months or years. Right now I have open bags of everything expect Cheetos and Doritos and I alternate between them. In Hawaii, we say “I’m 'ono\* for X snack/food!” \*'ono means delicious/tasty. Not to be confused with ono (without the okina/accent mark) that means a type of fish. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/27 "2020-12-03T01:57:24Z")
So many foods. Pretzels, wasabi peas, wheat thins, goldfish, pistachios, Trenton crackers (does anyone here know them? No longer made.) Many other things. Also chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/28 "2020-12-03T02:51:22Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > Chili Cheese Fritos\*. These. > [@Dogginit](#): > > Pork rinds, especially the hot & spicy ones. And these. And Bugles. I don’t eat them often, but they rarely last past one session. Maybe two. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/29 "2020-12-03T03:07:40Z")
White chocolate peppermint M&Ms. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/30 "2020-12-03T12:52:02Z")
[The Carolina Nut Company](https://carolinanut.com/) has some amazingly flavored peanuts that are difficult to stop eating once you start. Sriracha Ranch are my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/31 "2020-12-03T13:03:23Z")
Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses. Food of the gods. I could eat a family bag in one day, probably. They just melt on my tongue in the most scrumptious way. I wish they were calorie free. And unwrapped. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/32 "2020-12-03T13:07:15Z")
Pistachios! 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/33 "2020-12-03T13:25:16Z")
Unshelled they are dangerously addictive, but if you buy them in the shells then you have to work to get at them. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/34 "2020-12-03T13:26:02Z")
ALL of the above, really! I could totally pig out on anything. These days my #1 vice is sesame sticks. I have to grab a handful of them and give the rest to my husband to hide. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/35 "2020-12-03T13:27:48Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Unshelled they are dangerously addictive, but if you buy them in the shells then you have to work to get at them. No way! It costs me fifty dollars a pop to get my nails done! LOL ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/36 "2020-12-03T13:30:00Z")
Utz salted peanut butter pretzel thingies, lol. I am also a total sucker for Cheetos puffs and pretty much any brand of Ruffles. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/37 "2020-12-03T13:42:55Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I’m a sucker for the jalapeno or salt & vinegar flavored kettle-style potato chips. Not necessarily Kettle brand, or any other, but just the general category. I went through a kettle-style Jalapeno chip phase. I found Kettle brand to be the tastiest. > [@Dogginit](#): > > Pork rinds, especially the hot & spicy ones. When I was on keto, pork rinds were my snack of choice-- about the only carb-free crunchy snack there is. Yes, the hot & spicy are best. Surprisingly, I found Kroger brand pork rinds to be the best. Pork rinds will have a certain percentage of discolored, very hard to crunch rinds with a funky off-flavor. Kroger brand seems to have the highest percentage of the light fluffy crunchy rinds to weird rinds. When my kids were younger and more into Cheez-its, I found them surprisingly addictive. I would seek out the ones that were toasted a little browner than the rest. Later I discovered they came out with different flavors of Cheez-its, the most popular variant being “extra toasty”. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/38 "2020-12-03T14:01:21Z")
> [@solost](#): > > When I was on keto, pork rinds were my snack of choice-- about the only carb-free crunchy snack there is. Yes, the hot & spicy are best. Surprisingly, I found Kroger brand pork rinds to be the best. I just recently found the Kroger brand, and they’re as good, if not slightly better, than the Baken-ets I grew up on. Not homemade, but you don’t have to fire up the kettle & slaughter the hog, either 😆 ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/39 "2020-12-03T15:00:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I went through a kettle-style Jalapeno chip phase. I found Kettle brand to be the tastiest. If I had to pick, I like the Lay’s Kettle Cooked version, followed by Zapp’s or Bob’s. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039/40 "2020-12-03T15:06:10Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > > [@sitchensis](#): > > > > Chili Cheese Fritos\*. > > These. > > > [@Dogginit](#): > > > > Pork rinds, especially the hot & spicy ones. > > And these. > > And Bugles. I don’t eat them often, but they rarely last past one session. Maybe two. I had never heard of chili cheese Fritos before @sitchensis’s post. Must. Not. Try. Aw heck, who am I kidding; I’ve added them to my groc list. Bring on the polyaddiction! Bugles OTOH. I was about 8 or 10 when they were introduced. IOW, the perfect kid age for kid food. They were then, and still are today, inedibly awful. I am truly mystified that, like Fresca and (until recently) Tab, the product somehow hung on in the filthy rat-infested bilges of the snackfood-industrial complex’s catalog. YMMV on Bugles there buddy. Then again, that means more for you! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-that-are-oddly-addictive/927039.md?page=3)