Worst Snack Food?

[dem in texas]

My old boy bought himself some snack foods recently. On his shopping trip, he purchased a bag of Roaring hot Cheetos They were too hot for him, but nothing is too hot for me. That said, I took one look at them and knew I would never eat them. Instead of chili pepper red color they were strawberry Jello red, so totally fake; one of the worst food products I've ever seen in a grocery store. I don't know if this was a test product or if it is widely sold.

I remembered all the crazy foods we'd serve at Halloween parties when the kids were young such as eyeball cookies and kitty-litter cake. The perfect name for these Cheetos, if served at a Halloween party, would have been - strawberry maggots.

[Midnightwalk]

1. Hot pockets

My son would microwave those and stink up the house. Never ate one but hated the smell

[Kali]

43. I can't eat those either.

yuck

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. Jim Gaffigan re: Hot Pockets

[pnwest]

2. My most hated is Cheez-Its. Vaguely

cheese-flavored sawdust.

[soothsayer]

5. Can I have yours? I love them (esp. extra toasty)

[Freddie]

37. Me too, especially the toasty ones

It’s the “other” cheese crackers that try to be Cheez-its but aren’t that are rank.

[dameatball]

20. I like the Tobasco Cheez-Its in tomato soup.

[Kali]

44. have you tried the grooves?

sharp white cheddar - best chemical cheese powder coated crackers out there

[yellowdogintexas]

45. I love Cheez-its!!! nt

[The Polack MSgt]

3. Every single color flavor or brand of liquorice whip is pure booty

red, the other slightly different red, black doesn't matter in the least AWFUL.

It's like prank candy

[Ohiogal]

9. I agree 100% Sarge

Second place goes to those orange powdery tasting things they call Circus Peanuts. Bleccch

They taste like something that’s been sitting on the shelf since 1982

[2naSalit]

22. But that

shit is considered to be candy. I don't know, I think of snack food as something outside of candy category... As if anything makes sense anymore.

[Ohiogal]

25. True, that!

I’ve always had more of a sweet tooth and have to remind myself that others prefer savory.

[2naSalit]

26. I fluctuate...

sometimes it's sweet or savory. I have come to eschew highly refined sugar things but I have a hard time walking away from a well made eclair! But that involves a trip to the bakery so I stick with popcorn since I already have it here.

[irisblue]

11. Master Sargent... Hell yes. Hell yes.

[soothsayer]

17. Love all flavors and shapes of licorice

Even licorice ice cream

[The Polack MSgt]

19. I know many folks who love that stuff

But I cannot tolerate the waxy texture -

Honestly, the true liquorice flavor (The anise/ouzo/sambucca flavor) doesn't bug me as much as the fake cherry or strawberry does...

But that waxy plasticky feeling you get when you chew these candies bothers me no end

[OregonBlue]

27. Me too and I love it the most when it sits around and gets

nice and chewy!

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

4. Yep, both of those,

plus I don't trust any flavor of Cheetos, between the color and the chemical content plus the way peoples mouths look after consumption...🤮

[2naSalit]

23. It's like the ultimate bastardization of anything that may have originated

As a food source.

[cyclonefence]

6. The only way you'll take away my Cheetos

is from my cold, dead hands. Not the spicy ones, though.

[soothsayer]

10. I like all the snacks mentioned except hot pockets

[cyclonefence]

12. They're snacks

They aren't supposed to be good for you!

[yellowdogintexas]

46. I love the flamin' hot Cheetos the crunchy ones not the air puffy ones nt

[cyclonefence]

52. The puffy ones stink

but the flaming hot ones are too hot for me. Give me the good old-fashioned original fried ones that are crunchy and so very bad for your health!

I had to have an appendectomy after an evening of old Hitchcock films where the only food was crunchy Fritos, and I wasn't allowed to leave the hospital until I had a bowel movement. I finally just lied to the nurse. Like cement up your butt, but so worth it.

[soothsayer]

7. I dislike most brands of beef jerky, especially teriyaki flavored

I like it just as like...salted, dried beef. Most are wretched and terribly expensive.

(I did find an online brand I like finally)

[soothsayer]

13. Plus they add sugar and do something to make it soft

Beef. Salt. That’s what it should be.

Ok, pepper can be good.

[Kali]

42. yes!!!

I have never had a commercial jerky that was ANYTHING like real jerky - salt and pepper dried on the clothes line. hard and chewy. commercial crap isn't fit for pet treats. what the hell do they use to make it so soft an moist?

local packing house does make some decent stuff

[cayugafalls]

8. Circus Peanuts and Slim Jim's

I just think they are gross.

Some people may like them, but I think Slim Jim's are like greasy chewey turds...just nasty.

Not that I've ever tasted a turd.

[soothsayer]

16. Iffy on those peanuts cuz weird texture, adore slim Jim's

Even knowing the casing is a chicken intestine

[2naSalit]

24. Those peanut abominations

are like poorly flavored stale marshmallows only sweetened to a sickening level. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about those things, I hated them when I was a kid.

[OregonBlue]

30. I love old chewy licorice and old chewy marshmallow peanuts.

Guess I'm weird.

[2naSalit]

33. I loved marshmallows...

There used to be a candy thing I could get at the general store on Cape Cod that was in the shape of an ice cream cone, I loved those and the real licorice that is so hard to find now.

[OregonBlue]

57. Never saw the ice cream cone thingy but I know I would love it! Have to go to the health food store

to find real licorice.

[2naSalit]

59. That good to know...

But I am not allowed to eat that kind of stuff anymore, spent too much on my teeth and my digestive world isn't thrilled with candy anymore.

I do have my memories, though.

[OregonBlue]

61. Awww. My sympathies. nothing like old

marshmallow and real licorice.

[2naSalit]

62. Now a days

I console myself with the occasional eclair!

[Phentex]

54. come sit next to me...

I like stale peeps and also those neon white creme filled hard shell easter eggs.

[OregonBlue]

58. YES. The marshmallow eggs. I buy them and leave them sitting around until they are nice and chewy!!

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

34. I'm on keto, you can have...

jerky, slim jim's and peanuts...oh, and pork rinds... I am losing a lot of weight and I am not consuming any raw sugar, conversely, I eating jerky, slim jims, peanuts and pork rinds.

[elleng]

35. Mazel! Good luck!

Peanuts OK with me.

[Retrograde]

48. Haven't had circus peanuts in over 4 decades

and I intend to keep it that way. Slim Jim's are OK, but there are a lot of way better jerkys.

I never understood what circus peanuts were supposed to be: they definitely weren't peanuts, they weren't quite marshmallows, they were too big to eat more than one or two - why do they exist?

[cayugafalls]

50. They have existed for a long time.

I have no idea who invented them and researching it comes up with nothing concrete.

The weird flavor is supposed to be banana. So an orange/yellow peanut that tastes like banana and has a crumbly semi-marshmallow texture.

By themselves they are disturbing, add in an animated gif and well...

[Phentex]

53. Ha Ha! I eat them and love them and they still make them so...

it can't be just me eating them! I buy maybe a bag or two each year.

The story *I* heard is now on Wiki:

Lucky Charms was created in 1964 by product developer John Holahan. General Mills management challenged a team of product developers to use the available manufacturing capacity from either of General Mills' two principal cereal products—Wheaties or Cheerios—and do something unique. Holahan came up with the idea after a visit to the grocery store in which he decided to mix Cheerios with bits of Brach's Circus peanuts.[2]

Banana flavored marshmallow peanuts. That's all they are. And Lucky Charms taste the same and many people LOVE Lucky Charms. I think the biggest turn off for some people is the texture.

[Phentex]

55. I'd say five is the sick point...

I can eat about five before it's too much. But I savor every bite!

[ZZenith]

14. Um, pork rinds, anyone?

[soothsayer]

15. Love

[ZZenith]

18. You and I will never kiss.

Sorry to break it to you!

[soothsayer]

28. Lol! I buy the kind you can pop like popcorn in the microwave!

Hey, it’s no carb and it’s crunchy.

[ZZenith]

31. I'm happy for you that you've found a snack food you can enjoy.

I give you my allotment of pork rinds.

[soothsayer]

32. Apparently, I love ALL snack food! Bugles, chicken-in-a-biscuit, everything in this thread

Except hot pockets

[Phentex]

56. We must be weird...

Cause as I read this thread, I realize how many of these things I will eat. It doesn't mean I buy any of them very often but so far nobody has mentioned anything I'd turn down if it was right in front of me. I ordered my son some chicken in a biscuit as a joke but he liked them! His roommates had never heard of them either.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. chicharrones are awful

I hate them. They smell.

We used to watch the farm hands cook the lard during hog killing time and all these little hard things float to the top. They are the bits of bacon rind that stuck to the fat, and are considered a delicacy. Now they will break a tooth if you aren't careful,so they are aptly named "cracklins" My mom always got some and put them in cornbread. One meal with cracklin bread per winter was enough for me.


As far as sweets, I pretty much dislike all candy except for really good chocolate.

I prefer my sugar to come in the form of a well made cake, pie or cookie.

[yonder]

21. Corn nuts. Can't stand them or the smell. I leave the room if someone's onto them.

[soothsayer]

29. They kind of break your teeth but I don't reject them

[OilemFirchen]

36. D'oh!

Rice cakes.

[Freddie]

38. Quaker Rice Crisps, cheddar

Taste like Cheez doodles but healthy (sort of). Eating the whole bag negates any “healthiness”. The caramel corn ones are good too. The rest, bleah.

[Freddie]

39. My 1.5 year old granddaughter

Came out of the kitchen snacking on a few pieces of Science Diet for Large Breeds. We found the big tub where dog food is kept doesn’t snap tight. Must taste pretty good as she’s done this twice now.

[littlemissmartypants]

41. Ha! Ha! Too cute. ❤ nt

[Warpy]

40. Popcorn flavored jelly beans

are one of the few junk food things I've ever spit out.

I never tried the strawberry colored Cheetos. The color was off putting enough to discourage me, and one of the reasons I now in the desert southwest is because the food here is hot enough to suit me.

Now understand I've eaten--and liked--rattlesnake, fried grasshopper, frog, dog, and other foods that sensible people balk at. Very little has defeated me, although there are many things I will never seek out if anything else is at all available.

Those popcorn flavored jelly beans can go to someone who likes them. There must be someone out there or they wouldn't make them any more. You can have my share, all of it.

[Retrograde]

49. I have banned Cheetos from my house

doesn't stop my husband from buying them for parties, though. Those cheese maggots usually leave an orange residue wherever they've been.

[eleny]

60. Jujube and Good & Plenty

A Jujube can take out a tooth. Gummu Bears don't hold a candle to the Jujube when it comes to sticking to a tooth.


I liked the pink and white colors of Good & Plenty but could never get past the flavor of black licorice.