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After having filled my basket with salt & vinegar peanuts, I traipsed down the snack aisle on my most recent shopping trip and ran across the latest snack to catch my interest: Salt & Vinegar Goldfish Crisps.
While familiar with Goldfish crackers, the Crisps variety were new to me. They were salt & vinegar so I put them in my basket regardless of what this whole Crisps class of crackers was.
The bag says "LIGHT & AIRY" and indeed they are. The fishes are hollow and their shells are almost tissue paper thin. It's like they're the croissant of the snack world.
I threw a few into my maw and began chewing. It wasn't long before I noticed that these weren't simply diet Goldfish crackers. They tasted differently from the familiar snack that I grew up eating so I looked at the ingredient list. It turns out they're a junk food chimera - a potato chip-cracker hybrid. Potatoes are the first ingredient although there's also wheat. That explained the earthier taste.
Just because they don't taste like the crackers doesn't mean they were bad. On the contrary, the potatoes ably lent their earthy sweetness while I tasted more salt - nothing to get your blood pressure to spike, just a little extra saltiness. While not the tangiest s&v snack ever, there was a decent vinegar flavor to them, much more than the peanuts that lived just down the aisle. After eating, oh, say, a quarter cup, my tongue felt the tang and had a pleasing, if fairly mild, numbness.
All in all, a very fine snack.
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