Reviews Filed Under 'Snack Brands'
Price: $3.50 per package
Serving: 3 cookies, 1.1oz.
Calories: 160 per serving
Fat: 14%, 9g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 4%, 95mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 19g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugars: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Pepperidge Farm says: Journey into the texture of a Geneva cookie. An enchangtingly textured collage of indulgent delight. This beautifully decorated cookie is accompanied by a smooth chocolate later with crunchy pecans. An adventure in texture.
Abi says: Did Pepperidge Farm trademark Geneva? How does Lake Geneva feel about that? And the actual Swiss city of Geneva? Does it just refer to cookies? Could I create a line of Geneva crackers and get away with it?
Geneva cookies are seemingly exotic, European, and chocolatey. In reality, they are a ghetto cookie. The actual cookie part is not nearly as delicious as the biscuit found in Pepperidge Farm Milanos and the pecans (which are not a European nut at all, but rather a member of the North American hickory family) are merely shabby, palate-grating studs. Sure, the dark chocolate is good, but that’s certainly not the bulk of this cookie.
I’d prefer Godiva’s version of the Petit Ecolier anytime.
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Posted on October 24, 2007
Categories: All Natural, Chocolate, Contains Nuts, Cookies, Pepperidge Farm, Three Points, Three Stars, Vegetarian
Price: $0.25
Serving: 1 Package, 7/8oz.
Calories: 120 per serving
Fat: 10%, 6g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 8%, 190mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 16g
Fiber: <1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Frito Lay says: Turn up the volume of your snacking with the amped-up spices, high-decibel cheese, and the awesome crunch of Doritos brand tortilla chips. The bold flavors like Doritos Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch are the loudest tasting snacks on earth.
Abi says: After trying the Doritos Zesty Taco Chipotle Ranch Collisions, I was reluctant to open this adorable little bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos.
Sure, it was just 25¢ and I could toss it if it was bad, but that wasn’t the point. The point was that I didn’t want to live in fear of potentially repulsive Doritos. I wanted to rejoice in the intrinsic Americanness of this snack. I wanted to sit back with my Doritos and enjoy a bit of television and maybe a beer.
But I didn’t want to ruin a good beer with bad Doritos.
Fortunately for me, these chips are just like the original Nacho Doritos, with a bit of added oomph in the form of spice. Not any particularly nameable spice, just some added flavor that takes them beyond the norm. Though, ‘norm’ is the wrong word because these taste nothing like any nachos I’ve ever had. You have to admit that it is pretty impressive how chip manufacturers can put any sort of flavoring on a chip, call it a name somewhat related name (nachos and this chip both have some form of cheese, right?) and we’ll eat it right up. I supposed that’s what happens when you’ve got a heavy hand with the MSG.
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Posted on October 10, 2007
Categories: Corn Chips, Doritos, Frito Lay, Gluten Free, Nacho
Price: 75¢
Serving: 1.9oz., 4 cookies
Calories: 250
Fat: 15%, 10g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 9%, 210mg
Protein: 4g
Carbohydrates: 3%, 8g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 15g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 points
Nutter Butters says: Peanut Butter sandwich cookies made with real peanut butter.
Abi says: Nutter Butters are a one note cookie. Sure, they provide a layer of crisp cookie and a creamy filling, but both layers taste like off-brand peanut butter. I’m not sure why I even got excited about eating these. I love peanut butter, but it would have been much more satisfying to have the real thing rather than these cookie imitators.
Nutter Butters are much better in my memory than they are in real life. Sure, the peanut shaped cookies are adorable. But you can’t eat adorable.
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Posted on October 3, 2007
Categories: Cookies, Kraft, Peanut Butter, Six Points, Two Stars, Vegan, Vegetarian
Price: €1.50 for 1 small bag
Serving: 2/3 bag, 25 grams
Calories: 130 per serving
Fat: 13%, 8gg
Sodium: 13%, 300mg
Protein: 1.8g
Carbohydrates: 4%, 12.8g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 0g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 per serving
Nabisco says: Su crujiente textura y su exceptional sabor son fruto de la perfecta union entre el aceite de oliva y la sabiduria de nuestros expertos.
Abi says: If you don’t speak Spanish, here is my crude translation of the product blurb:
These crispy, flavorful chips are the product of the perfect union between olive oil and our expert chip-makers.
I purchased these Olive Oil chips in Spain, so everything on the package is in Spanish. I enjoy that because it gives me a chance to practice my language skills. Also, it is fun to imagine how the text could be translated literally by a non-English speaker.
But this review isn’t about learning a second language. No, this review is about Olive Oil potato chips. That’s right, brilliantly yellow, thick, crunchy, salty chips that pretty much leap from the bag and into your mouth. Okay, so they aren’t that fantastic. They are an olive oil version of a kettle chip: a bit more heft than your average Lay’s chip. And while the Olive Oil taste is interesting, it certainly isn’t the essential, nutty, grassyness of truly fantastic olive oil. One can’t eat a lot of these chips (a selling point perhaps?) and they definitely lack the light airiness of a standard, sunflower-oil friend potato chip.
I think that America will continue to operate just fine without the Olive Oil chip. Or this olive oil chip, but foodies may be up in arms. How else will they be able to produce Ferran Adria’s Egg and Potato Chip Tortilla?
Yeah, the answer would be ‘go to Spain and get some chips’ but once you’re in Spain, fantastic tortillas de patata abound and the reason for these crisps becomes null. What a conundrum!
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Posted on October 2, 2007
Categories: Frito Lay, Potato Chips, Three Stars, Vegan, Vegetarian
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