Hello my name is Mermaid and I am a Zebraholic. I love and sometimes even crave Little Debbie Zebra cakes. I actually avoid a certain gas station closer to my house because I know they have a big rack of the things and I would get one when I went for gas. I have admitted to myself that I am powerless over this confection.
Any other snake cake cravers here, espcialy Zebras.?
snake cake? bleh
uhm how about snack cakes?
Mmmmmmmmm…Zebra cakes.
Okay, so I just wanted an excuse to debut my new sig:
Ta-DA!
o me eating sunchips are like eating shredded wheat … both taste like cardboard although If i have to choose id take the french onion flavored
I miss the original taco flavored doritos … they changed them when they tied them in whit taco bell and called them taco supremes
I miss apple flavored slice although i found a substitute in a soda called Mia its cokes version of the hispanic apple soda but not as sweet as slice (little did i know that Mexico has had apple soda for decades)
Anyone remember pizzarias? they cane out about the same time O’boisies they were these pizza flavored chips odd tasting but id buy a bag occasionally (BTW o boisies were brought out to fight a new frito lay chip called o’gradys they were the same thing if memory serves)
but the stores here used to sell them like 79 cents a bag they’d get popular so they’d raise them to a buck 25 and no one would buy them so they’d lower them again ad invetibaly raise them then they just faded out
Who else remembers when pringles were 3 dollars a can when they first came out?
I donate like sunny delight but I like Hawaiian punch go fig but i remember when they carbonated it and called it sparkling , tasted like Cisco (the cheap wine)
I love BBQ flavored corn chips especially fritos but i used to get some odd looks because they only came out in a small brand here at first and i had to special order them
My nephew still misses banna flavored nestles quick
Tamex – I was disappointed by your failure to include the word “paradigm” somewhere in there…
And, now, a segue. I subject y’all to a grandkid story. My daughter and her boyfriend are Pearl Jam fans. Grandson Eli, not quite two, riding his spring horse, answers to “Where are you going?” with “I’m going to the store and I’m gonna buy a Pearl Jam video”.
Oops, surprise, TWO stories: Six months later, “Am I bigger today?” “Yes, you are a little bit bigger.” “Then let’s so see Pearl Jam.” (The night before, his mom had told him that when he got bigger, they’d take him with them to a Pearl Jam concert.)
-Sue
Hey everybody! Did you see my pal Jester’s new sig? It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, like cheese left out in the sun for too long. Now I’m famous!
Take good care of it Jes’. Not like Puddin’. She dropped the perfectly good sig she got from me and broke it. In just days! [sub](Not that I really mind. Puddin’ can do anything she wants as long as she keeps wearing her genie pants.)[/sub]
-Rue.
Oh Rue, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I currently have an opening for a new sig line if you’d like to fill it. The opening. For the sig. And I promise to keep it for a really long time. Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye. Actually, I won’t do that, that would be silly. No sense in randomly injuring myself. But you know what I mean. Sig me, Rue, sig me! I wanna be just like Jester! Jester’s jake.
And what are these strange snack foods of which you speak? I have never eaten a single one of the snack foods mentioned in these threads. I like in a country bereft of controversial snack foods. I feel so deprived.
Fran/Puddin [sub]Still wearing the genie pants. I should probably launder them soon.[/sub]
I live in a country bereft of controversial snack foods. Not like. Well, I do like it. But that sentence makes no sense as it is. Carry on.
Puddin’, I was touched that you even used the sig you got from me. Even for a moment. I thought it brought us closer together. I don’t know if I could just whomp up a sig on demand, the pressure… Anyway, about those genie pants… Yeah, it’s time they saw soap. I thought you just had six or seven identical pants. Silly me.
Jester, sorry for this hijack, or enveerenation* from your original train of thought, whatever that really was. I’ll try to stay focused on the matters at hand.
Sun Chips! Aaargh! The bastards! I hate them so!
(Better?)
-Rue.
*enveerenation: the act of veering away from a path or goal
And speaking of odd snack foods, I’d like to take this time to debut my new sig which features both an odd choice of food and my current favorite movie.
I really really miss Oboisies…
Also, does anyone remember Pizza flavored doritoes?
anyone remeber chocolate twinkies ? i remember they had them as a limited promotion in like the very early eighties
I dont know if they sold well but the wonder thrift store had them by the ton
when I bring them up now no one has a clue what im talking about
I 'm surprised no-one’s mentioned it before now, so I guess I should. Prepare yourself.
Ahem.
Pringles are the most vile and disgusting torture ever created by man. Seeing someone eat them reminds me of the commercial where a man consumes a bunch of weird things, notably the water from a dish under a plant (anyone else remember this?). That’s what pringles taste like, people!
Glad to get that off my chest. And while I’m at it, though, I think I’ll add that I prefer the Giant over the Original Goldfish Brand Snack Crackers (baked, not fried!). Yeah.
You’re kidding, right? I mean, Pringles are the best snack-food product ever made. Think of it: They all fit together, so they pack tightly and you get a helluva lot more. They’re baked/fried just right, so that they’re nice and golden brown, and flavors are applied liberally, yet not so much as to gag the taster. And of course, let’s not forget that their design lends the perfect amount of structural integrity for eating dip with. Preferably Helluva Good’s French Onion Dip. Mm.
Damn. Now I’m hungry. Somebody talk about Sun Chips again. Or maybe those “Chocolate” Twinkies. Ewwwwwwww…
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*Originally posted by demanton *
**O.K., as long as we are on the topic of vile snacks, <seinfeld voice on> What is the deal with Chick -O-Sticks? **
Hey - I got hooked on those frosh year in high school! Then my friends had an intervention…
For the uninitiated - think the center of a butterfingers rolled in cocoanut-flavored sawdust…
Saw them at a gas station the other day & almost bought one.
Obviously you never had the Cheetos Doritos! They were available in Indiana a year or so ago - wish they were still around!
I probably exceeded my RDA of florescent orange cheez by hundreds of percents while they lasted.
(Can you tell it’s lunchtime?)
Ah, but those would be a variety of Doritos, not Cheetos, and so not covered under the statute.
You need not fear prosecution.
The best part about Tato Skins is the ingredients list…
Oil comes before potatoes.
Well, I still prefer funyuns to responsibilityuns.
Somehow I feel the need to say something … I actually knew the daughter of the woman who named Sun Chips. She was a few years ahead of me in college (the daughter, that is).
I have no idea if she was involved in subsequent flavor-naming (like Harvest Cheddar) or not. But if her daughter is anything like her, you definitely do not want to piss her off.
Sometime in the '80’s someone must have come up with the idea that multigrain = healthy & good. This would lead to 7-, 9-, 13-, and 54-grain breads, multi-grain Chex, and multi-grain Oreos (or is that Cheerios?). The earliest example I can think of is my favorite cereal when I was younger, TEAM. If I remember correctly, it was flakes of Wheat, Rice, Oats, and Corn, but not rye. Why not rye? Because there’s no rye in TEAM, that’s why!
As for the Keebler Elves, I was always amazed at what elfin magic could produce. We all know they went to the Arthur C. Clarke School of Magic. Somehow they made Tato Skins, Pizzerias, and the O’Boisterous O’Boisies, and not a single one of these tasted like they were produced from any naturally occurring food (like potatoes or wheat). They also do a brisk business with the cookies (turning innocent elves into ‘fudge’ and packing them up).
I also suffered through many field trips to the Frito-Lay factory as a child. The flavoring drums they roll the Doritos in aren’t what’s disgusting, what’s disgusting is the corn slush that pours down the slide from the masher into the mixing vat.
Pringles are only the second best snack chip, but they do have the secret, the same secret that the greatest snack chip has used even better. The greatest snack, by the way, is Frito-Lay’s Munchos, and the secret, the secret is – dehydration.
You see, the chip is a vehicle for fat and salt, plain and sample. That’s the only reason people eat them. If they could fry up chunks of salt, toss 'em in a bag, and sell 'em, they’d do it. But salt doesn’t absorb fat very well, so they need something that does, like a paper towel or a potato. The potato is usually chosen as it’s easier to digest than the paper towel. But there’s a problem. You want to eat fat & salt, but now there’s a potato in the way, and that thing is mostly water. So they fix it. They dehydrate the potatoes until what’s left when you fry them is almost completely fat, then the salt goes in, and you get perfection.
Munchos offer the greatest value you can get in your chips. The one bag costs the same as all the rest, but with only 3 or 4 chips, you’ve received as much tasty fatty goodness as in a whole bag of other chips. A 1.5-oz. bag could last you weeks. Unfortunately, they’re extremely hard to come by in California. Sometimes the shopowners seem to get a few delivered by mistake, so I have to buy when I can. Good thing they last so long.