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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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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

£1.25

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

[–] italktothewind@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] italktothewind@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

nom nom nom :3

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my guess is some guy named Jacob.

these Twiglets™ are making me thirsty

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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

Brits always gotta be reinventing things but bad smdh

[–] D61@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Drunk people craving salty goodness.

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

They taste salty to me. Like marmite.

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year 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…

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] flan@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago
[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"twiglet" is such a silly word

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least they're vegan unlike piglets.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

depends what you feed them i guess

[–] davel@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] davel@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dumbass censorship bots: snıglet.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year 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?

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

twink lovers, obviously

[–] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Now this is the kind of struggle session I live for

That shit tastes like dried cat doo doo

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago
[–] M68040@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I’m a huge fan of pretzels.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Me, I'm the target audience