Favourite bagged snack (chips(crisps), pork rinds, that sort of thing)

[Aglaopheme]

I had these amazing potato sticks when I went to Tokyo.

http://i.imgur.com/0PDkCXu.jpg?1

One of my day trips was to Mount Fuji. The guy holding the bag was an Australian tourist that let my buddy & I try some. I took a pic of it because I wanted to buy more when we got back to the Shinjuku district. I showed that pic to at least 20 different convenience store clerks to try to find more but no luck.

They were amazing and I only got to eat a friggin' handful...once.

Yeah, these too

http://media.shopwell.com/gladson/00041200005068_full.jpg

 

[Conager]

I'm not much of a chip person - my go-to snack would be pistachios though. I always have a bag at work and a bag at home.

Love them. Has to be in the shell though. Something about how hard you have to work for each little salty crunchy bit of goodness makes it better.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned chicharones! We have a huge Hispanic population here and many Hispanic markets. My favorite market sells fresh made chicharones. Nothing better than fried pork belly and skin lightly salted.

Heaven.

I've got two honest-to-dios carnicerias within walking distance. I was at one the other day to get some chili verde and they had those. I didn't even consider trying them because the ones in the bag are just awful I don't know why anyone eats pork rinds but maybe fresh made at the butcher's is better.

i've been snacking on sunflower seeds as of late. guilty pleasure is a bag of nacho cheese doritos and a vanilla coke.

Same general idea as pistachios they have to be in the (hulls?) to taste right. The work to reward quotient though is not to my liking I am bad at hulling them. I read one time that you can actually overdose on selenium by eating too many sunflower seeds. I can't imagine eating that many in my lifetime as slow as I am at hulling them.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Yeah, these too

http://media.shopwell.com/gladson/00041200005068_full.jpg

The thing was that they didn't just taste like potato sticks...there was an unknown ingredient that made them taste different/awesome.

 

[KimGordon67]

Plain potato chips - the plainer the better. My favourite ones still have the skin on, and not very much salt at all. Potato is one of my favourite food - I don't want it dicked with.
Pistachios ... I'll eat ALL the pistachios.
And not exactly the right genre, but salted edamame beans. Yum!!!

 

[Conager]

The thing was that they didn't just taste like potato sticks...there was an unknown ingredient that made them taste different/awesome.

Was the flavor in the ugame vein?

The Japanese really work that note. Seems like MSG was originally isolated from seaweed if I recall correctly. I wonder if it was a less processed version of MSG?

 

[Aglaopheme]

The thing was that they didn't just taste like potato sticks...there was an unknown ingredient that made them taste different/awesome.

I get it. It's like a food haunting. That auction item you stopped bidding on, that song playing in your head just out of reach.

 

[Brollyanna]

Oh my goodness yes, but for me they are more of a special treat. Growing up we were not a family that ate a lot of fast food or junk food, but I have vivid memories of little red finger tips.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2549788/images/n-RED-PISTACHIOS-628x314.jpg

Red pistachios?

 

[Aglaopheme]

Red pistachios?

You must be younger than me. I never see them anymore, but I do recall them being an adult snack my folks would let me indulge in on occasion.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[lovetoread]

i miss the red pistachios

 

[Emerson40]

I remember reading that they were dyed red to hide stains and imperfections.

I think better harvesting techniques have negated the need for the red dye nowadays, which is probably why you don't see them around anymore.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Conager]

Ah. Pistachio green is one of my favourite colours. And the soft pinks in the skins.

They are delicious.

I remember liking green pistachio pudding as a child and I having no idea at the time that pistachio was a nut

 

[Disgustipated]

Plain potato chips - the plainer the better. My favourite ones still have the skin on, and not very much salt at all. Potato is one of my favourite food - I don't want it dicked with.
Pistachios ... I'll eat ALL the pistachios.
And not exactly the right genre, but salted edamame beans. Yum!!!

Perfect! I love all listed and just recently got into the edamame beans.

You must be younger than me. I never see them anymore, but I do recall them being an adult snack my folks would let me indulge in on occasion.

They were always around my family's places in the mid-west in the 70-80's.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Perfect! I love all listed and just recently got into the edamame beans.



They were always around my family's places in the mid-west in the 70-80's.

It's a soy bean. Stop being pretentious. It's also patented by Monsanto. Stop being a corporate boot-licker!

 

[Disgustipated]

It's a soy bean. Stop being pretentious. It's also patented by Monsanto. Stop being a corporate boot-licker!

Soy is less pretentious than edamame? Plus, Monsanto pays a lot of bills *licks boot*

 

[Brollyanna]

You must be younger than me. I never see them anymore, but I do recall them being an adult snack my folks would let me indulge in on occasion.

I knew there was a color called pistachio green before I'd ever eaten any pistachios and when I had one for the first time, I was really disappointed in the subtlety of the color. That was in my "brightly colored everything" period of my youth (before fluorescents and after pinks) and I'm sure I would have loved the bright red nuts back then. Not so much now, though.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Glad my nuts aren't bright red then...

 

[Brollyanna]

Glad my nuts aren't bright red then...

Fluorescent?

 

[phrodeau]

I remember reading that they were dyed red to hide stains and imperfections.

I think better harvesting techniques have negated the need for the red dye nowadays, which is probably why you don't see them around anymore.

Red dyed pistachios came from the Middle East, particularly Iran. They were embargoed in the 1980's, and American farmers stated growing them to meet the demand.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Fluorescent?

More of a peach. When I draw selfies, I use Crayola #138

 

[ryan8558]

OK, so it's in a can

http://www.emlii.com/images/article/2014/03/53271667df66a.jpeg

 

[KimGordon67]

Perfect! I love all listed and just recently got into the edamame beans.



They were always around my family's places in the mid-west in the 70-80's.

Edamame beans are the absolute bomb. I was so stoked to discover our supermarket sells them frozen - two minutes in boiling water and a shake of salt and there you have - deliciousness in a bean.

 

[KimGordon67]

It's a soy bean. Stop being pretentious. It's also patented by Monsanto. Stop being a corporate boot-licker!

I started eating them in Japanese restaurants, so they just are edamame as far as I'm concerned.
I don't really see how Monsanto can patent them - they've existed for freaking ever.