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==Chips==
 
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| Better Made - Barbecue || Good flavor, but too salty.
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| Better Made - Barbecue || USA || Good flavor, but too salty.
 
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| Better Made - Rainbow Old Fashioned Dark|| Cooked longer than usual, less salt, very delicious.
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| Better Made - Rainbow Old Fashioned Dark || USA || Cooked longer than usual, less salt, very delicious.
 
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| Better Made - Red Hot Barbecue || Just as hot as regular BBQ, but with even more salt.
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| Better Made - Red Hot Barbecue || USA || Just as hot as regular BBQ, but with even more salt.
 
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| Better Made - White Cheddar Popcorn || Good flavor, but not quite as good as Smartfood.
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| Better Made - Sweet BBQ || USA || Nice sweet BBQ flavor, better than the regular BBQ.
 
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| Bissli - BBQ || Kind of bland, not a very good BBQ.
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| Better Made - White Cheddar Popcorn || USA || Good flavor, but not quite as good as Smartfood.
 
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| Bissli - Pizza || Kind of bland, not a very good pizza flavor.
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| Burts - Mature Cheddar & Green Onion || UK || Thicker than American chips, but good flavor.
 
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| Charras - DoniLokas - Chile Limón || You immediately taste the tangy lime and spicy flavor. The puffed wheat rings are light and airy with a great crunch. The only thing I don't like about them is the Jesus fish on the package.
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| Calbee - Hot & Spicy Potato Chips || Hong Kong || Spicy with a mild fish flavor. Not horrible.
 
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| Cheetos || A fried crunchy corn puff with cheese powder. Far better than cheese puffs or cheese balls, but very artificial cheese flavor. As a child, I loved them, but now I find them too bland and prefer Flaming Hot Cheetos.
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| Doritos - Cool Ranch || USA || Corn chips with blue and red speckles. Good crunch and flavor, but they switched to "Cooler Ranch" and decreased the flavor.
 
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| Cheetos - Cheddar Jalapeno Crunch || Adds a hint of jalapeno to Cheetos. Not as hot as Flaming Hot Cheetos, and not as good of a flavor either.
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| Doritos - Cooler Ranch || USA || A less flavorful version of Cool Ranch.
 
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| Cheetos - Flaming Hot || Same crunch as regular Cheetos, but the cheese is replaced with a sweet red chili powder. It causes a nice burn that slowly increases the more you eat. My favorite Cheetos flavor.
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| Doritos - Nacho Cheese || USA || Corn chips with a bright orange cheese powder. Good crunch and flavor, but most of the flavor comes from salt.
 
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| Combos - Jalapeno Cheddar || The jalapeno is immediately tasted, but, after that, it's mostly the bland taste of fake cheese, salt, and starch.
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| Doritos - Spicy Nacho || USA || Slightly spicier the nacho cheese flavor, and slightly better.
 
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| Devon's Mackinac Island Popcorn Co. - Fruit Salad Candied Popcorn || Candy-coated popcorn. Flavors include apple, banana, blue raspberry, cherry, grape, orange, and strawberry. Colorful and delicious.
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| Doritos - Spicy Sweet Chili || USA || Has a zesty sweet chili flavor. My favorite Doritos.
 
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| Doritos - Cool Ranch || Corn chips with blue and red speckles. Good crunch and flavor, but they switched to "Cooler Ranch" and decreased the flavor.
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| Fritos || USA || Crunchy corn chips cut into thin strips. Very good, but too salty.
 
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| Doritos - Cooler Ranch || A less flavorful version of Cool Ranch.
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| Fritos - Chili Cheese || USA || Fritos with a dusting of a cheese powder and chili powder. Decent.
 
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| Doritos - Nacho Cheese || Corn chips with a bright orange cheese powder. Good crunch and flavor, but most of the flavor comes from salt.
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| Fritos - Honey BBQ Flavor Twists || USA || Fritos twisted into spirals with a honey BBQ flavoring. My favorite Fritos.
 
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| Doritos - Spicy Nacho || Slightly spicier the nacho cheese flavor, and slightly better.
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| Lays - Sour Cream & Onion || USA || Kind of bland. I would prefer a stronger onion flavor.
 
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| Doritos - Spicy Sweet Chili || Has a zesty sweet chili flavor. My favorite Doritos.
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| Lays - Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue || USA || A little bland at first, but has a mild heat to it.
 
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| Fritos || Crunchy corn chips cut into thin strips. Very good, but too salty.
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| Sun Chips - Harvest Cheddar || USA || Not a very good cheese flavor, and how can cheese have anything to do with the harvest?
 
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| Fritos - Chili Cheese || Fritos with a dusting of a cheese powder and chili powder. Decent.
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| Takis - Fuego || USA || Rolled corn chips with lime and chile pepper. Decent taste and actually hot.
 
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| Fritos - Honey BBQ Flavor Twists || Fritos twisted into spirals with a honey BBQ flavoring. My favorite Fritos.
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| Terra - Real Vegetable Chips - Mediterranean || USA || Deep fried slices of various tubers like taro, sweet potato, batata, parsnip, and yuca. Adequate flavor and crunch, but more starchy than potatoes.
 
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| Juaninas Cookies || Terrible. The jam-filled ones were hard, the butter cookies were powdery, and the box was missing one of the types listed on the assortment.
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| Tostitos - Salsa Verde || USA || Corn chips with a salsa powder on them. Nice flavor, but it doesn't taste like salsa.
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==Cookies / Biscuits==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Bahlsn - Choco Leibniz Minis || Germany || Miniature wheat cookies with a milk chocolate backing. Decent flavor, not too sweet.
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| Daelmans - Stroopwafels, Honey || Holland || Wonderful crun-chewy texture with a delicious honey waffle flavor.
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| Jacob's - Jaffa Cakes || Ireland || Mini sponge cakes with marmalade and chocolate coating. Pretty good, and not too sweet or bitter.
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| Juaninas Cookies || Mexico || Terrible. The jam-filled ones were hard, the butter cookies were powdery, and the box was missing one of the types listed on the assortment.
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| Jules Destrooper - Butter Crisps || Belgium || Thin hard waffles. Sweet buttery flavor, good crunch, a little boring.
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| Keebler - Coconut Dreams || USA || Ring-shaped cookies coated with caramel and roasted coconut and chocolate. Nearly identical to Girl Scouts Samoas.
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| Keebler - Grasshopper || USA || Mint chocolate cookies. Nearly identical to Girl Scouts Thinmints.
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| Keebler - Sandies Shortbread - Pecan|| USA || A bland shortbread cookie with pecans. Not very good.
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| Lotte Koala's March || Thailand || Small four-pointed cookies filled with creme (chocolate or strawberry), with a koala painted on them. The creme filling is nice and the cookie has a good crunch, but it's a bit bitter.
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| Macarons de Pauline || Belgium || Rather dry and crumbly, mild flavor. Flavors are chocolate, strawberry, and pistachio.
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| Moon Pie || USA || Graham cracker cookie sandwich with marshmallow center, and the whole thing is coated in a glaze. Good flavor, but I'm not a huge fan of marshmallow. My favorites in order are chocolate, vanilla, then banana.
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| Fig Newtons || USA || Favorites are blueberry, fig, strawberry.
 
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| Moon Pie || Graham cracker cookie sandwich with marshmallow center, and the whole thing is coated in a glaze. Good flavor, but I'm not a huge fan of marshmallow. My favorites in order are chocolate, vanilla, then banana.
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| Oreo - Caramel Coconut || USA || Chocolate cookie sandwich filled with a caramel coconut cream. I can only taste the caramel, but I like it.
 
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| Smartfood - White Cheddar Cheese Popcorn || My favorite white cheddar popcorn.
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| Oreo - Carrot Cake || USA || Filled with a spiced cream. Tastes like store-bought carrot cake, that is, far too sweet.
 
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| Sun Chips - Harvest Cheddar || Not a very good cheese flavor, and how can cheese have anything to do with the harvest?
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| Oreo - Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie || USA || Graham cookie sandwich with half peanut butter, half chocolate creme. Kind of bland, not very good.
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| Oreo - Thins || USA || Less creme and thinner cookie portion. I actually like this better than regular Oreos.
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| Oreo - Thins, Dark Chocolate || USA || The filling is a more bitter chocolate cream. Not that great.
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| Oreo - Thins, Mint || USA || Adds a light minty flavor. I like this more than regular Oreos.
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| Oreo - Thins, Pistachio || USA || Very nice sweet nutty flavor. My favorite Oreo.
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| Pejoy || Thailand || Biscuit cylinders filled with cream. Flavors include cookies & creme and matcha. Good texture and more subdued flavors. The tea flavor is too mild.
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| Pepperidge Farm - Caramel Apple || USA || Soft chewy texture, good spiced apple flavor, not overpowering.
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| Pepperidge Farm - Verona || USA || Shortbread with strawberry jam. Jam is good, shortbread ruins them.
 
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==Crackers==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Honey Maid Graham Crackers - Cinnamon || USA || Nice graham flavor, and the cinnamon and sugar makes it effectively a cookie.
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==Other==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Alessi - Grissini al Sesamo || Italy || Long crispy bread sticks covered in sesame seeds. Good crunch, very light, nice sesame flavor.
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| Bhuja - Nut Mix || Australia || Mix of peanuts, cashews, peas, chickpeas, almonds, and fried noodles spiced with in Indian spice mix. Decent flavor, but the chickpeas and peas give it a dusty texture.
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| Cakebites - Classic Italian Rainbow || USA || Three-layer colorful almond cakes with separated by raspberry jam and dipped in dark chocolate. Decent flavor and texture, strong almond flavor, pretty good.
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| Club Minis Mix || USA || A mix if club crackers, pretzels, and cheese puffs. Bland, salty, and powedery texture. Threw it out before I even got halfway through.
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| Corn Nuts || USA || Corn kernels deep fried in corn oil and salted. A hard crunch that I love. My favorite is the original flavor. The ranch flavor adds some zest, but isn't as good.
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| Corn Nuts Crunch Mix || USA || Corn Nuts mixed with mini corn chips, corn puffs, and corn sticks. I don't like the corn puffs and the chips are very generic. I would prefer just Corn Nuts. I've only tried Fiery Hot, which is indeed hot.
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| Jayone - Sweet Crunchy Rice Snack || South Korea || Essentially a rice cake in tube form with more sugar. Bland and kind of messy to eat.
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| Meijer - Oat Bran Sesame Sticks || USA || Nice crunch and good flavor.
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| Meijer - Salted Pistachios (No shell) || USA || Not as enjoyable as eating them from their shells.
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| Pure Organic - Layered Fruit Bar || USA || Firm gelatin fruit bar. Flavor was pineapple passionfruit. Nice flavor and texture.
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==Popcorn==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Cretors - Four Cheese Mix || USA || Nice cheesy flavor, but a bit salty.
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| Devon's Mackinac Island Popcorn Co. - Fruit Salad Candied Popcorn || USA || Candy-coated popcorn. Flavors include apple, banana, blue raspberry, cherry, grape, orange, and strawberry. Colorful and delicious.
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| Smartfood - White Cheddar Cheese Popcorn || USA || My favorite white cheddar popcorn.
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|}
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==Pretzels==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Combos - Jalapeno Cheddar || USA || The jalapeno is immediately tasted, but, after that, it's mostly the bland taste of fake cheese, salt, and starch.
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| Dot's - Homestyle Pretzels || USA || Spicy and buttery pretzel rods. Very good.
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| Meijer - Pretzel Rods || USA || Blander, but less salty, than other pretzel rods.
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| Snyder's of Hanover - Pretzel Pieces - Hot Buffalo Wing || USA || Hard sourdough pretzels cracked into pieces covered with buffalo powder. Flavor is good and tastes similar to wings.
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==Puffs==
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! Product!! Country || Notes
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| Bissli - BBQ || Israel || Kind of bland, not a very good BBQ.
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| Bissli - Pizza || Israel || Kind of bland, not a very good pizza flavor.
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| Calbee - Shrimp Chips - Yuzu and Black Peppet || Thailand || Fried wheat puffs with a very subtle shrimp,  and yuzu flavor, with a black pepper after taste. A bit underwhelming.
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| Charras - DoniLokas - Chile Limón || Mexico || Nice tangy lime and spicy flavor, and the puffed wheat rings are light and airy with a great crunch. Strange after taste, and I don't care for the Jesus fish on the package.
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| Cheetos || USA || A fried crunchy corn puff with cheese powder. Far better than cheese puffs or cheese balls, but very artificial cheese flavor. As a child, I loved them, but now I find them too bland and prefer Flaming Hot Cheetos.
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| Cheetos - Cheddar Jalapeno Crunch || USA || Adds a hint of jalapeno to Cheetos. Not as hot as Flaming Hot Cheetos, and not as good of a flavor either.
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| Cheetos - Flaming Hot || USA || Same crunch as regular Cheetos, but the cheese is replaced with a sweet red chili powder. It causes a nice burn that slowly increases the more you eat. My favorite Cheetos flavor.
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Revision as of 14:17, 21 January 2021

Chips

Product Country Notes
Better Made - Barbecue USA Good flavor, but too salty.
Better Made - Rainbow Old Fashioned Dark USA Cooked longer than usual, less salt, very delicious.
Better Made - Red Hot Barbecue USA Just as hot as regular BBQ, but with even more salt.
Better Made - Sweet BBQ USA Nice sweet BBQ flavor, better than the regular BBQ.
Better Made - White Cheddar Popcorn USA Good flavor, but not quite as good as Smartfood.
Burts - Mature Cheddar & Green Onion UK Thicker than American chips, but good flavor.
Calbee - Hot & Spicy Potato Chips Hong Kong Spicy with a mild fish flavor. Not horrible.
Doritos - Cool Ranch USA Corn chips with blue and red speckles. Good crunch and flavor, but they switched to "Cooler Ranch" and decreased the flavor.
Doritos - Cooler Ranch USA A less flavorful version of Cool Ranch.
Doritos - Nacho Cheese USA Corn chips with a bright orange cheese powder. Good crunch and flavor, but most of the flavor comes from salt.
Doritos - Spicy Nacho USA Slightly spicier the nacho cheese flavor, and slightly better.
Doritos - Spicy Sweet Chili USA Has a zesty sweet chili flavor. My favorite Doritos.
Fritos USA Crunchy corn chips cut into thin strips. Very good, but too salty.
Fritos - Chili Cheese USA Fritos with a dusting of a cheese powder and chili powder. Decent.
Fritos - Honey BBQ Flavor Twists USA Fritos twisted into spirals with a honey BBQ flavoring. My favorite Fritos.
Lays - Sour Cream & Onion USA Kind of bland. I would prefer a stronger onion flavor.
Lays - Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue USA A little bland at first, but has a mild heat to it.
Sun Chips - Harvest Cheddar USA Not a very good cheese flavor, and how can cheese have anything to do with the harvest?
Takis - Fuego USA Rolled corn chips with lime and chile pepper. Decent taste and actually hot.
Terra - Real Vegetable Chips - Mediterranean USA Deep fried slices of various tubers like taro, sweet potato, batata, parsnip, and yuca. Adequate flavor and crunch, but more starchy than potatoes.
Tostitos - Salsa Verde USA Corn chips with a salsa powder on them. Nice flavor, but it doesn't taste like salsa.

Cookies / Biscuits

Product Country Notes
Bahlsn - Choco Leibniz Minis Germany Miniature wheat cookies with a milk chocolate backing. Decent flavor, not too sweet.
Daelmans - Stroopwafels, Honey Holland Wonderful crun-chewy texture with a delicious honey waffle flavor.
Jacob's - Jaffa Cakes Ireland Mini sponge cakes with marmalade and chocolate coating. Pretty good, and not too sweet or bitter.
Juaninas Cookies Mexico Terrible. The jam-filled ones were hard, the butter cookies were powdery, and the box was missing one of the types listed on the assortment.
Jules Destrooper - Butter Crisps Belgium Thin hard waffles. Sweet buttery flavor, good crunch, a little boring.
Keebler - Coconut Dreams USA Ring-shaped cookies coated with caramel and roasted coconut and chocolate. Nearly identical to Girl Scouts Samoas.
Keebler - Grasshopper USA Mint chocolate cookies. Nearly identical to Girl Scouts Thinmints.
Keebler - Sandies Shortbread - Pecan USA A bland shortbread cookie with pecans. Not very good.
Lotte Koala's March Thailand Small four-pointed cookies filled with creme (chocolate or strawberry), with a koala painted on them. The creme filling is nice and the cookie has a good crunch, but it's a bit bitter.
Macarons de Pauline Belgium Rather dry and crumbly, mild flavor. Flavors are chocolate, strawberry, and pistachio.
Moon Pie USA Graham cracker cookie sandwich with marshmallow center, and the whole thing is coated in a glaze. Good flavor, but I'm not a huge fan of marshmallow. My favorites in order are chocolate, vanilla, then banana.
Fig Newtons USA Favorites are blueberry, fig, strawberry.
Oreo - Caramel Coconut USA Chocolate cookie sandwich filled with a caramel coconut cream. I can only taste the caramel, but I like it.
Oreo - Carrot Cake USA Filled with a spiced cream. Tastes like store-bought carrot cake, that is, far too sweet.
Oreo - Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie USA Graham cookie sandwich with half peanut butter, half chocolate creme. Kind of bland, not very good.
Oreo - Thins USA Less creme and thinner cookie portion. I actually like this better than regular Oreos.
Oreo - Thins, Dark Chocolate USA The filling is a more bitter chocolate cream. Not that great.
Oreo - Thins, Mint USA Adds a light minty flavor. I like this more than regular Oreos.
Oreo - Thins, Pistachio USA Very nice sweet nutty flavor. My favorite Oreo.
Pejoy Thailand Biscuit cylinders filled with cream. Flavors include cookies & creme and matcha. Good texture and more subdued flavors. The tea flavor is too mild.
Pepperidge Farm - Caramel Apple USA Soft chewy texture, good spiced apple flavor, not overpowering.
Pepperidge Farm - Verona USA Shortbread with strawberry jam. Jam is good, shortbread ruins them.

Crackers

Product Country Notes
Honey Maid Graham Crackers - Cinnamon USA Nice graham flavor, and the cinnamon and sugar makes it effectively a cookie.

Other

Product Country Notes
Alessi - Grissini al Sesamo Italy Long crispy bread sticks covered in sesame seeds. Good crunch, very light, nice sesame flavor.
Bhuja - Nut Mix Australia Mix of peanuts, cashews, peas, chickpeas, almonds, and fried noodles spiced with in Indian spice mix. Decent flavor, but the chickpeas and peas give it a dusty texture.
Cakebites - Classic Italian Rainbow USA Three-layer colorful almond cakes with separated by raspberry jam and dipped in dark chocolate. Decent flavor and texture, strong almond flavor, pretty good.
Club Minis Mix USA A mix if club crackers, pretzels, and cheese puffs. Bland, salty, and powedery texture. Threw it out before I even got halfway through.
Corn Nuts USA Corn kernels deep fried in corn oil and salted. A hard crunch that I love. My favorite is the original flavor. The ranch flavor adds some zest, but isn't as good.
Corn Nuts Crunch Mix USA Corn Nuts mixed with mini corn chips, corn puffs, and corn sticks. I don't like the corn puffs and the chips are very generic. I would prefer just Corn Nuts. I've only tried Fiery Hot, which is indeed hot.
Jayone - Sweet Crunchy Rice Snack South Korea Essentially a rice cake in tube form with more sugar. Bland and kind of messy to eat.
Meijer - Oat Bran Sesame Sticks USA Nice crunch and good flavor.
Meijer - Salted Pistachios (No shell) USA Not as enjoyable as eating them from their shells.
Pure Organic - Layered Fruit Bar USA Firm gelatin fruit bar. Flavor was pineapple passionfruit. Nice flavor and texture.

Popcorn

Product Country Notes
Cretors - Four Cheese Mix USA Nice cheesy flavor, but a bit salty.
Devon's Mackinac Island Popcorn Co. - Fruit Salad Candied Popcorn USA Candy-coated popcorn. Flavors include apple, banana, blue raspberry, cherry, grape, orange, and strawberry. Colorful and delicious.
Smartfood - White Cheddar Cheese Popcorn USA My favorite white cheddar popcorn.

Pretzels

Product Country Notes
Combos - Jalapeno Cheddar USA The jalapeno is immediately tasted, but, after that, it's mostly the bland taste of fake cheese, salt, and starch.
Dot's - Homestyle Pretzels USA Spicy and buttery pretzel rods. Very good.
Meijer - Pretzel Rods USA Blander, but less salty, than other pretzel rods.
Snyder's of Hanover - Pretzel Pieces - Hot Buffalo Wing USA Hard sourdough pretzels cracked into pieces covered with buffalo powder. Flavor is good and tastes similar to wings.

Puffs

Product Country Notes
Bissli - BBQ Israel Kind of bland, not a very good BBQ.
Bissli - Pizza Israel Kind of bland, not a very good pizza flavor.
Calbee - Shrimp Chips - Yuzu and Black Peppet Thailand Fried wheat puffs with a very subtle shrimp, and yuzu flavor, with a black pepper after taste. A bit underwhelming.
Charras - DoniLokas - Chile Limón Mexico Nice tangy lime and spicy flavor, and the puffed wheat rings are light and airy with a great crunch. Strange after taste, and I don't care for the Jesus fish on the package.
Cheetos USA A fried crunchy corn puff with cheese powder. Far better than cheese puffs or cheese balls, but very artificial cheese flavor. As a child, I loved them, but now I find them too bland and prefer Flaming Hot Cheetos.
Cheetos - Cheddar Jalapeno Crunch USA Adds a hint of jalapeno to Cheetos. Not as hot as Flaming Hot Cheetos, and not as good of a flavor either.
Cheetos - Flaming Hot USA Same crunch as regular Cheetos, but the cheese is replaced with a sweet red chili powder. It causes a nice burn that slowly increases the more you eat. My favorite Cheetos flavor.