The first snack on my most memorable list is Dutch licorice. I actually reviewed several Dutch licorices this year, as well as managed to eat a piece of Dutch licorice every day for more than a month. My goal was to try and gain a taste for this very polarizing candy. As you know people either love licorice or hate it. I fell under the hate it category, but I started to see the appeal of the flavour. I never grew to "love" it, but I understand it a little bit better. The fact that I spent so much time thinking about Dutch licorice made it one of the most memorable treats that I sampled all year.
Three of the snack son this list made it to this list because of the package. This was one of them. I loved the way that the whole package was themed. It was super cheesy, but really fascinating at the same time. Most interestingly, the treat itself turned into a bit of a surprise, a tasty surprise. I would actually consider buying these again in the future. It's not common for a fun gimmick to turn into a good snack, but this one works. Sure the snack has nothing to do with the gimmick, but the two of them together made Space Raiders fairly memorable for me.
This is another snack that made it on the list because of the package. Not so much the theme, but most about the description of the treat. The word "Chocoblobs" is a good indication that the people writing the text on this package aren't familiar with English words used to describe food you might want to eat. The word "Extruded" doesn't help either. There are certain processes in the candy making world that make you hungry, popped, melted, or baked are just a few of the good ones. Extruded falls into the category of words that don't make you hungry. The snack itself was just OK, pretty tasteless and forgettable, but who can forget the words "Extruded Chocoblobs".
I don't think I'll ever forget these durian cream chocolates. Even though I just reviewed them a few weeks ago, years from now when I look back I don't think I'll have forgotten them. They are easily the worst smelling candy I've ever reviewed in the history of this site, or any time in my candy eating career. Strangely I found something appealing about them, but it took a great deal to get over the smell. As far as candy eating experiences go, this will likely be the most memorable, yet it still isn't the most memorable snack I've reviewed all year.
When I first spotted this bag of chips, I thought it was too good to be true. I also thought that I would see them again, and at the time we were driving across Southern Africa, and in a bit of a rush. I spent the rest of our time on this trip trying to find them again. Then, by a stroke of luck I came across them at one of the last stores we stopped at before heading home. Monkey Gland Sauce Potato Chips are truly one of those snacks you'll never forget... Sort of. The problem with these chips is that the flavour itself is somewhat forgettable.
The true wow factor of these chips is the name. That is unless you were born in South Africa. As it turns out Monkey Gland Sauce has no monkeys in it at all, and as far as I can tell at no point was it used on monkeys. It's simply a chutney often used today on hamburgers and other barbecued items. I will say that when I first posted a picture of these chips online, people thought I was crazy for trying them. As it turns out the durian candy was much more risky. But I'll never forget the day I saw them at a gas station on the Botswana/South Africa border.
This year I noticed something interesting, more than half of the memorable reviews are salty snacks... sort of. Two of the five snacks were also some of the more disgusting snacks I've ever eaten. There also isn't one snack on this list from North America. I guess that comes from all of the traveling I did this year.
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bar so big that it takes two people just to unwrap it.
