Serious Pig Snackingham Classic

‘Snackingham. It’s not a village in HAMpshire!’ says the packet.

No, it’s tender slices of air-dried British pork infused with a blend of garlic, caraway seeds and just a hint of white pepper. And very nice too.

And while I don’t know where this product is actually made, possibly Kent, the company is based in London.

Delicious! Very tasty indeed, and hard to stop eating. Great with a glass of white wine.

It looks a little like slices of a salami style sausage, but the taste reminds me more of the Swiss delicacy viande sechée (which of course is actually made with beef).

OK, I admit, this is not a crispy snack. But it’s a snack. And so good that I would be remiss in my mission to alert my readers to new snacks if I didn’t include this one. Just 17g in this little packet, which makes it look like a crispy snack which it still isn’t, but definitely recommended.

I would buy this product from Serious Pig again. In fact I have. If you eat pork, maybe you should too.

Highly recommended.

Boundless Gut Happy Snacking Smoky Bacon Flavour

Well, this is a tasty crispy snack. 

To be honest, I am not usually mad keen on Smoky Bacon flavour which can often be a bit overpowering, but this crispy snack has a gentle flavour that I really appreciate. Very nice indeed. 

And, quite interesting, not at all what I was expecting, 46% of this crispy snack is made with sprouted sorghum. What even is sprouted sorghum? (Apparently it’s high in cyanide!) Other ingredients include pea flour and maize flour. But whatever this crispy snack is made from it’s definitely tasty and has a very nice texture.

I am not at all sure what makes this snack so good for my gut. Maybe the sorghum? I don’t know.

But yes, I would buy this again. It would be interesting to try another flavour from Boundless, and see how that works.

But where to buy it? I got this from the drinks trolley on my GWR train from Stroud to London and I have no clue where else it might be sold. If you can find it not on a train, I think you will enjoy it.

Vegan approved. And pretty packaging.

Red Leicester Cheesies

These tiny cubes of cheesy crispy snack are slightly larger than, say, a rice crispy. But with a rather different bite. They are very light so you don’t get many cubes in your 20g packet.

I must say I was a little surprised at the flavour. Many cheesy snacks are very sweet. And not actually all that cheesy. These Red Leicester Cheesies are not at all sweet, more sharp, and actually do taste of cheese. 

Perhaps this is because the only ingredient is cheese. The packet tells us there are no carbs, no sugar and no junk. And also they are carefully labelled high protein. Everything has to be full of protein these days, doesn’t it? Instagram is even full of people drinking protein coffee which I think I will manage without.

I’m not sure that I would want to eat more than 20g of these Cheesies at a time, but I might change my mind if I had a glass of nicely chilled white wine to hand. Or perhaps a dry sherry.

Not the most photogenic of snacks but you can see that I ate most of them before I thought to take a photograph.

By the way, I shouldn’t have to say this but I will: nothing that appears on this blog has anything to do with AI. I eat all my own snacks and write all my own words using my own brain. Scientists keep telling us that using our brains is a good thing so I will try to continue doing just that.

Pretzel Pete Cheese Pizza Flavour Pretzel Mix

What? Wait, Cheese Pizza flavoured pretzels? How can this be a thing?

OK, pay attention, it’s not just pretzels because there are chunky bits of biscuity bites and some little sticks too. But I actually prefer the pretzel shapes. They really seem to work quite well with this very strong cheesy pizza flavour. And there’s a lot of flavour going on.

To be honest, I think there’s a bit too much flavour here, and I’m not entirely sure it actually tastes of cheese pizza.

Not bad. But fairly sure I wouldn’t buy another packet.

Cambrook Hickory Smoke Seasoned Almond

 Oh dear. Don’t call me picky, but I really didn’t like these Hickory Smoke flavour almonds.

I’m not mad about almonds in the first place, but if they are fried in butter with a handful of salt chucked over them, I think they are fairly edible. My godmother’s Christmas Day recipe.

However, these almonds are flavoured with hickory smoke seasoning. And to be honest I really don’t like this.

And there we are.

See what you think if you come across them.

Huligan Pretzel Crush Honey Mustard Sauce

This little 65g packet of broken up pretzels is very tasty. Very crunchy. A rather harder crunch than you get with most crispy snacks, but none the worse for that. 

And the pieces are exactly as shown on the packet. It looks as though the factory makes actual pretzels and then hits them with a hammer to make the bits.

The flavour says honey mustard sauce. I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy this taste but in fact I really liked it. So I ate this entire packet very quickly. And wished for more.

Recommended.

M&S Dry Roasted Peanuts

I was in M&S recently, picking up some cold meat that I could have for supper when I came home from staying with friends. And I casually snatched up this packet of Dry Roasted Peanuts to eat on the train.

I generally love Dry Roasted Peanuts but haven’t eaten any for quite a while, so I was sure I would enjoy these. But I didn’t check the list of ingredients which I discovered later features smoked salt. This significantly altered the taste of these peanuts and created a flavour I wasn’t expecting. Not the reassuring taste of your regular Dry Roasted, but a very strong smoky flavour.

Not nasty, just unexpected. I really think the addition of smoked salt should be in the name of the snack. However, the packet seems to be designed to be difficult to read.

I finished the packet over several days, and quite enjoyed them. But I think I would have been happier without the smoked salt. Very nice quality peanuts though.

Butterkist Simply Salted Popcorn

 

This gently flavoured popcorn isn’t as exciting as the Sweet & Salty version of my previous post. It is lightly salted, and lightly buttery, which may not sound very gourmet. But the popcorn itself is tip top. Really good quality, very nice indeed. 

If you like subtle flavours then this is the popcorn for you. Very easy to eat and extremely moreish.

Butterkist Deliciously Sweet & Salty Popcorn

 

Absolutely delicious! Really nice quality popcorn and a lovely taste. 

What more could you want? Umm, yum, I think this is the best popcorn I have ever tasted. Honestly, so good!

I am not sure why this simple combination of sweet and salt is so extremely tasty, but it is. I’m not surprised it won a Great Taste Award in 2024.

Run to your nearest supplier and buy a packet for yourself because I’m not sharing. I got mine in the local Co-op.

Really good!

Walkers Heinz Tomato Ketchup

 

 I’m pretty sure I haven’t tried these crisps before. And I’m not very sure I should have bothered.

Tomatoes are quite sharp and almost citrusy, and ketchup can be quite sharp too. So we need something to sort out the flavour. And in many cases, a spoonful of sugar will do the job.

I think the flavour of these crisps is just too thin. And the crisps themselves are quite thin. Not a lot of crunch really.

Not bad, not nasty, perfectly edible but just not quite right. They just don’t seem to taste of ketchup. Honestly, Walkers, I think you could do better.

There are even TV ads for this flavour. That’s not going to change my mind, Sorry Walkers.

What other ketchup flavours have we tried? What about this one?