Tuesday, 28 October 2025

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.



Thursday, 23 October 2025

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.

Saturday, 18 October 2025

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.

Saturday, 11 October 2025

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.