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People who like chewing on toast left under the grill for three hours? People who chew on bark?

"Oh just let people enjoy things" NO, NO I WONT

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

£1.25

It's British "food", of course it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

nom nom nom :3

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

my guess is some guy named Jacob.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

these Twiglets™ are making me thirsty

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The perfidious north it*lians who still insist on eating grisines for some reason

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

What's wrong with a good old fashioned pretzel stick?

Brits always gotta be reinventing things but bad smdh

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

People whose fate has led them to the Shitty Motel Seven Course Snack Machine Feast.

If you’re lucky they might have some Cheez Waffles in stock…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Drunk people craving salty goodness.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're not even 1 iota of salty. There is precisely 0 salt on them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

They taste salty to me. Like marmite.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

"Twiglets" because somehow "Pretzels" was considered too "ethnic" smuglord

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I love Twiglets, always have. They taste like marmite. Try dipping them in copious amounts of soft cheese.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The target market is the demohraphic of people who only try stuff that gets discontinued

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

i'm in my fallout shelter with enough Orbitz to last me the rest of my short life

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There used to be a cracker called Twigs that were basically stick shaped Cheezits with sesame seeds that were amazing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These are covered in yeast extract and taste like eating burnt coals out of a bbq

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cracker? And here I was thinking Hexbear doesn't support the use of racial slurs (/s, obviously)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's impossible to be racist against anti-cracker-aktion

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"twiglet" is such a silly word

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least they're vegan unlike piglets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

depends what you feed them i guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of sremoved**, which reminds me of Douglass Adam’s The Meaning of Liff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dumbass censorship bots: snıglet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

You're an owl, you don't understand mammal things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're pretty good depending on what you're drinking, tbh. I liked them with a Magners back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wrong, peanuts are the drink snack. Or pork crackling for the schmeat eaters

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Cheez-It Mix is my favorite. It's Chex Mix with Cheez-Its

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Twiglets are kinda just a worse version of pretzels covered in yeast extract. Highly recommend just making some homemade pretzels covered in different stuff.

Powdered buttermilk with garlic salt. Yeast extract and MSG. Mustard and onion powder. Lemon pepper and ranch.

Not going to share my homemade soft pretzel recipe because I do not want to be responsible for someone accidentally getting lye on themselves, but you can do basically the same thing by taking store bought sourdough pretzels, breaking them up and using a compound butter to adhere the powders to the broken insides, which turns out like those Snyder's pieces.

Edit: next time I make pretzels I'm going to try sodium carbonate instead of lye and if it turns out ok, I will share a full process recipe but only if everyone promises to wear gloves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do the Germans have a word for finding out that something as mundane as pretzels has been a competition and that one is losing at it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apparently you can coat store bought hard pretzels or pretzel sticks with some oil and powdered seasonings in a plastic zipper bag! Seriously, just mess around with some seasonings. Mustard powder and buttermilk powder are each great starting places, and then just add stuff that doesn't contain salt if they're already salted pretzels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If it has a good flavor and helps me shit better I'll give it a try

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Now this is the kind of struggle session I live for

That shit tastes like dried cat doo doo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

twink lovers, obviously

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Twiglets are great you fool. And they are marmite flavoured.

I do have to wonder if you've ever tried them or if you've just seen a picture of them and the concept has fried your brain.

What's more the packets are full to the brim, unlike so many other snacks that are mostly just bags of air.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have a tub of them gifted to me that I can't physically continue to eat cos it tastes like I'm eating dirt. And no one else I know wants them either. They don't even taste like marmite either, marmite has a saltiness and smokiness that these don't have.

Its why i made this post, someone dared remind me these aberrations exist. Come take this accursed tub away from me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I will happily take them from you. Are you in the accursed UK?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am but too late my Dad unburdened me of the twigged lets

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The "let people enjoy things" crowd just want you to stop being a hater so they get more hate to hate while you're not looking. Don't be fooled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I’m a huge fan of pretzels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

All these products in the last decade or so marketed as “baked, not fried” really reminds me of the old Lucky Strike ads where their cigarettes were “toasted” and therefore better for you.