# Snacks from other cultures that you like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228 "2006-09-02T19:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamb\_Chop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/da6949/32.png) [@Lamb\_Chop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamb_Chop)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/1 "2006-09-02T19:34:19Z")
I’m curious specifically about snacks, not meals or hoity-toity “cuisine”. I live in the US now, but spent several years in Asia. During that time, I became addicted to: [list=a] [li][Pocky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky)[/li][li][Yam-Yam](http://teria.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/my-yam-yam/)[/li][li]Wasabi peas[/li][li][Yogloo yogurt drinks](http://www.thejasper.com/Engrish/Engrish07/Yogloo1.jpg)[/li][li][Mr. Brown coffee (served cold)](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:cK2dC_cQM34qyM:http://www.cefirocruising.net/media/mr_brown.jpg)[/li][/list] How about you? ---
**Author:** ![Lamb\_Chop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/da6949/32.png) [@Lamb\_Chop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamb_Chop)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/2 "2006-09-02T19:36:42Z")
Oh, hell, I mucked that up but good. [list=a] [li][Pocky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky)[/li][li][Yam-Yam](http://teria.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/my-yam-yam/)[/li][li]Wasabi peas[/li][li][Yogloo yogurt drinks](http://www.thejasper.com/Engrish/Engrish07/Yogloo1.jpg)[/li][li][Mr. Brown coffee (served cold)](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:cK2dC_cQM34qyM:http://www.cefirocruising.net/media/mr_brown.jpg)[/li][/list] How about you? [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/3 "2006-09-02T19:38:54Z")
I’ve had yocky and wasabi peas at SF convention room parties; IMO, they rate a “meh.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/4 "2006-09-02T19:47:27Z")
I suppose you would discount things that have become standards like salsa and nachos, yes? I have tried wasabi peas and pocky and a few other miscellaneous Asian snacks, but I was not very fond of them. For me it would be more mid-east/Mediterranean food like houmus, tzatziki, and falafel that set my snack palate dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/5 "2006-09-02T20:02:08Z")
Naan! I love the naan! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/6 "2006-09-02T20:02:14Z")
This always makes me think of these little cheese crackers we (we being my coworkers and I) used to eat by the case in Italy. These are prepackaged snacks, kind of like bugles in shape, filled with a chemical-flavored cheese product. Yum! I think our Italian coworkers were always a little bemused that they were such a hit with us. I tried to google them, but I must be a little off on the spelling of the brand name because I can’t find anything. They were the kind of thing you could find on the shelves of just about any grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/7 "2006-09-02T20:04:20Z")
I love the tamarind candy I get at the Asian market. They are covered in big grains of sugar and have a nice sweet/sour tang. They also sell these fruit-flavored solid yogurt shots that are good. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/8 "2006-09-02T20:13:02Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] Naan! I love the naan! [/QUOTE] I’ve had it with meals at Indian restaurants, but is it ever eaten as a snack food? ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/9 "2006-09-02T20:45:09Z")
Do churros count? I love churros. ---
**Author:** ![Severiane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@Severiane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severiane)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/10 "2006-09-02T20:57:42Z")
I love “gressins” (that’s the name in French, don’t know the name in English). It’s an Italian snack made of… hmm bread ?? Well, flour… maybe it’s the same thing Delphica described but I never tasted any with cheese, I love the “natural” ones, without any flavour. You can find them in some stores in France, but not in every store. Pictures : [Gressins](http://www.mariofongo.com/french/grissini.htm) The thinner they are, the best it is (well, for my personnal taste !). The ones in the picture are not thin enough for me :dubious: Apparently the English name is “breadsticks” (that says quite well what it is) [Other picture](http://www.albanesi.it/Alimentazione/cibi/grissino.htm) Thinner ones, but strangely curved… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/11 "2006-09-02T21:01:49Z")
[Wasabi peanuts](http://www.thepeanutshop.com/c/WasabiPeanuts/) ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/12 "2006-09-02T21:49:18Z")
[QUOTE=Severiane] Apparently the English name is “breadsticks” (that says quite well what it is) [Other picture](http://www.albanesi.it/Alimentazione/cibi/grissino.htm) Thinner ones, but strangely curved.. 😕 [/QUOTE] Ohhh, you mean _grissini_! Yep, “breadstick” or “breadsticks” is the English translation 🙂 For some reason the Italian version is made very skinny. The longer they’re rolled out before baking, the more curved they become while baking. One of my baking teachers from culinary school used to make crazy designs from _grissini_ dough and use them as a combination appetizer/decoration for cocktail parties. She once showed me how to do it. Mine came out looking like spidery aliens from Mars 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/13 "2006-09-02T22:08:36Z")
I really like stuffed grape leaves. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/14 "2006-09-02T22:15:16Z")
Dried chilli squid. Bombay mix. Okonomiyaki flavor potato chips. Wasabe peanuts/peas/whatever. Japanese peanuts-and-fish beer snack. And pretty much everything else above. I love snackfoods, especially spicy. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/15 "2006-09-02T22:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] I’ve had it with meals at Indian restaurants, but is it ever eaten as a snack food? [/QUOTE] Sure. I snack on it all the time, by itself. Perhaps I’m a non-traditionalist. But I’m just a rebel that way. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/16 "2006-09-02T22:58:15Z")
Didn’t see Japanes okaki mentioned. Could nibble on that all day. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/17 "2006-09-02T23:14:10Z")
Nothing beats a good samosa, with some mango chutney. It has to be potato filling; I am not as big of a fan of the beef or chicken ones. Not that I would ever turn them away though. I can’t wait to get back to the city where I can get ethnic food. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/18 "2006-09-02T23:16:37Z")
I love Pocky. What about Botan Rice Candy, does that count? The kind where you can eat the wrapper and you get a cool temporary tattoo! I’m wearing my frog today. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/19 "2006-09-02T23:25:09Z")
Wasabi peas. They’re one of those things that I never think of until I see them in the store and as soon as I get home I wonder why I don’t get them more often. Kasebrezeln. Just pretzels with some cheese on them, available in every train station and bakery in Germany. I haven’t seen them elsewhere, but when I’m over there, they account for, oh… half my caloric intake. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228/20 "2006-09-02T23:37:09Z")
the coconut-flake type of pocky is excellent. i’ll also throw in a mention of edamame. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snacks-from-other-cultures-that-you-like/371228.md?page=2)