Top 10 Worst Snack Foods

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Top 10 Worst Snack Foods

1. Salt and vinegar potato chips

What were they thinking? Who does this appeal to? These chips bring the extremely bitter taste of vinegar into your mouth, a place where it should never go. Don’t they use vinegar as a cleaning product? That’s a sign it SHOULD NOT BE INGESTED! I wonder how a single bag of these has ever sold.

2. Barbecue potato chips

Maybe one or two of these tastes fine, but immediately after that, they are hard to keep eating. They are too spicy and the taste becomes boring. If this is your favorite flavor of chip, sorry, you’re kinda weird.

3. Chester’s Puffcorn (Butter Flavored)

I once bought these thinking they’d combine the soft crunch of regular Chester’s Puffcorn with a nice movie theater popcorn flavor, but the junk food confectioners really struck out on this one. It just tasted horrible. The soft crunch was still there, but the flavor was unbearable.

4. Tostitos

Under most circumstances, corn chips taste fantastic. However, this only seems to be the case with off-brand varieties. The number-one-selling brand, Tostitos, is never salty enough and too crunchy. The Scoops variety is even worse because they put you at higher risk of cutting the roof of you mouth on the edge of a chip.

5. Lays Ruffles (Loaded Bacon and Cheddar Skins Flavored)

Bacon tastes good on its own, but when combined with cheese in any context, it ruins the cheese flavor. This is the case with anything, such as bacon mac and cheese, and these chips are no exception. If you want bacon flavor, eat bacon, don’t combine in with other things that are supposed to live on their own.

6. Andy Capp’s Hot Fries

While their cheddar fries are awesome, Andy Capp’s makes these hot fries too hot. It only takes two or three for your mouth to dry up and start craving a drink, and by the end of the bag, anyone who’s not used to spicy food will be huffing and puffing. Spicy food is for some people, but if you’re not one of those people, avoid these at all costs.

7. Rold Gold Pretzel Rods

A few mini pretzels are ok, but too many pretzels, or too much of a pretzel rod, will dry your mouth out. Their saltiness and the dryness of the pretzel itself leaves you feeling unsatisfied afterwards. However, unsalted pretzels are too bland, so the salt remains a necessity if you’re going to eat pretzels. As Cosmo Kramer famously said, “These pretzels are making me thirsty!”

8. Chex Mix

This may cause some controversy, but Chex Mix may be one of the most overrated snacks out there. The Chex taste fine. And the pretzels. But those sticks (What are those, anyway?) are the blandest thing ever, and the bagel chips are burned to a crisp. I didn’t even know they what those were, I had to look them up.

9. Pizza Flavored Combos

This is included on the list partially because pretzels, as mentioned before, are a boring snack. However, the pizza flavored filling in these is a major disappointment. Pizza Pringles work because their flavor is only a powder, but a Ritz Bits-like filling that is supposed to taste like pizza just doesn’t work for whatever reason.

10. Smartfood (White Cheddar Flavored)

This is yet another controversial choice, not only to the general public, but also to me, as I like almost everything about Smartfood. It tastes amazing. However, it has one huge downside that forces it onto this list. You always get kernel shells either stuck between your teeth or between your teeth and gums. It’s enough of a pain to get those out at night, but the absolute worst is when one of them becomes stuck on the back of your tongue, too far back to reach without vomiting. I’ve had these tiny pieces stuck in my mouth for days at a time. It’s not worth buying a delicious snack if it’s going to cause you so much trouble afterwards.