Bad Snacks

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You have bought a snack. You thought at the time that it might be delicious, but it's not. It's terrible. You don't enjoy it now and you're not going to enjoy it later. It is a bad snack.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
I am throwing away the bad snack. Fuck bad snacks 23
I will eat the bad snack anyway. I am not wasting a snack 21
I will leave the bad snack in a drawer or cabinet. Perhaps to someone else it is not a bad snack. 12


Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:19 (nine years ago) link

i'll eat anything as long as someone dares me

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link

I can't remember the last time a snack was unexpectedly terrible. You can usually get a pretty accurate visual read, no?

jmm, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link

i have def thrown out a Bad Snack, but it is more likely to linger in the back of a cabinet

johnny crunch, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link

I stash the snack in my bookbag/backpack and forget about it. Three days later the snack has ruptured and metastasized throughout the interior of the bag and it takes me half an hour to clean up the mess and the bad snack has punished me twice.

B.L.A.P. (rip van wanko), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link

dare you to eat it

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link

throw them shits in the garbage

Lamp, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link

there is a package of blue diamond smokehouse almonds in the cabinet above my desk that's been there for months

ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link

i think this would only really happen abroad, and i don't tour as much as some

fuck eating a bad snack tho

mookieproof, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link

i dont believe in "bad food" only ppl who are unwilling to accept food on its own terms i am snack jesus tho btw

owe me the shmoney (m bison), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link

i am intersted in your snack gospel

mookieproof, Friday, 19 September 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link

i like the parable of the woman at the snackwell's.

estela, Friday, 19 September 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link

oh wells

mattresslessness, Friday, 19 September 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link

m. wells

replacements gustafsson (get bent), Friday, 19 September 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link

option D, "try to pass it off on a coworker or friend"

Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Friday, 19 September 2014 07:04 (nine years ago) link

throw that shit away then feverishly root through the bin for it in abject & pitiful remorse and desperation at 3am

fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Friday, 19 September 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link

voted "I will leave the bad snack in a drawer or cabinet. Perhaps to someone else it is not a bad snack." btw that "someone else" might be me when I am really hungry another time

droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 19 September 2014 10:17 (nine years ago) link

fuck eating a bad snack tho

DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Friday, 19 September 2014 10:34 (nine years ago) link

OTOH if they're snacks I've made myself then there's more of a good/bad gradient. I made florentines last night and I left them in the oven for 30secs too long so they turned out a little crunchier than I wanted. This dashed my enthusiasm a little so I didn't bother tempering the choc either so they don;'t look quite a nice as the previous batch. I'm not taking them to work cos I'd be embarrassed to serve up sub-optimal biscuits, but I'm not throwing them away either, they'll be perfectly adequate for w33dmunch.

DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Friday, 19 September 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link

so I finished the "smokehouse" almonds. they were "smokehouse" in the sense that they were covered in barbecue chip dust, and they were gross.

ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link

snack demon

ciderpress, Friday, 19 September 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link

that snack tasted like the flaming lips

ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link

One time years ago I tried to buy a Hostess cupcake from a vending machine but I pushed the wrong button and accidentally purchased an orange flavored Hostess cupcake from the vending machine. It was a very bad snack. I threw it away and bought a carton of milk from the adjoining vending machine so as to wash the taste out of my mouth. The milk was thoroughly curdled. Two bad snacks were thrown away that day.

I always wanted to be a hot dog, but I feel naked without a bun! (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link

That was a bad snack day, Old Lunch!

Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link

I like the orange ones. They're like future food.

Also I love smokehouse almonds sooooo much. bbq dust forever.

polyphonic, Friday, 19 September 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link

I threw out some corn soup I bought at a street festival that turned out to be not good but I had to be really sneaky about it because the dude was really nice and I was worried about hurting his feelings. In retrospect fretting over the scam artist who charged me six bucks for a styrofoam container of garbage soup is not my proudest moment. Also trying to eat a bowl of soup at a street fair made me realize why most food there is served on sticks. Fucking snacks.

Brio2, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link

throw that shit away but envision the pacific trash vortex and vow to not buy packaged snacks in the future good or bad.

mattresslessness, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link

^burner answer

mattresslessness, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link

eat it in penance for shit purchase. even if it is snyder's pretzel pieces (cue 900 posts, btw ur all disgusting)

imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link

i thought this was going to be about eating good snacks to cancel out the bad snacks.

festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link

(which can turn into a bottomless pit of bad snacking)

festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link

'Orange Right Hand' by Fig Cake and the Bad Snacks

ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link

Fuck wasting a snack!

Aphex T (wins) (Branwell with an N), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link

we have a separate thread for bad dates

Branwell with anNe (wins), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

(a) but sometimes sorta (c) if i'm not completely out of other food but i anticipate being desperate enough to eat the bad snack at some point in the future

j., Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link

In the bad old days of my poverty, I would eat the bad snack. Now that I am rolling in clover, fuck no.

Aimless, Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link

i suspend all snack standards when i'm on a plane, i was thinking about that the last time i flew while i wolfed down a complimentary bag of unclassifiable semi-opaque powdery salty discs.

estela, Thursday, 25 September 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link

Eat it, bad snacks!

The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 26 September 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link

I love all unhealthy food and therefore I can barely even understand the concept "bad snack", I'm p. sure I would eat 99.9% of snacks anyway. I mean I've eaten a lot of snacks and can only think of maybe two times in my life I've decided I'm not even going to bother finishing it. why yes, I am fat

having said that I'm on a diet (sigh) and just had a perfectly OK cupcake bought from the work charity bakesale and felt a little pang of disappointment that this, my one treat that I could allow myself per (not yet defined time period) and carefully selected from a table full of cakes, did not quite live up to the full-on amazingness I had been anticipating

but I did not throw it away, oh hell no

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 26 September 2014 09:45 (nine years ago) link

yeah basically 100% otm

the one time i can remember specifically bad snacks is when i was driving to NY and i kept trying red velvet baked goods at rest stops and they kept having buttercream frosting instead of cream cheese frosting which is totally disgusting and i had to keep buying more red velvet baked goods until i found one with cream cheese (eventually) but i still ate all the disgusting buttercream ones because i will eat literally anything that is made out of corn syrup and carcinogenic food dye, america

linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 26 September 2014 10:21 (nine years ago) link

<3 zachylon

The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Friday, 26 September 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link

This is the dilemma I face when anything sesame-based is offered

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link

Also when I buy a muffin and it's one of those "yogurt muffins"

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link

i suspend all snack standards when i'm on a plane, i was thinking about that the last time i flew while i wolfed down a complimentary bag of unclassifiable semi-opaque powdery salty discs.

― estela, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I do too! I will eat anything while in-flight. I also buy out all the airport stores and wind up with a ton of crap I don't need. I think for me it's because I really hate flying so adopting a fuck it all I'm in an airport/on a plane attitude helps me cope with the fear.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link

a bad snack that i physically dislike eating - probably throw out
a bad snack that i get no joy or nutritional value out of eating but can still eat mindlessly - put back in cupboard because even stale pretzels come in handy on those days when i can't leave the house but there is no food in the house and i'm ravenous

lex pretend, Friday, 26 September 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link

i am guilty of eating stale snacks. and microwaving stale tortilla chips to eat with very old salsa.

GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 September 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link

i started in on some stale chips a couple weeks back and it was a mistake.

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link

microwave that moisture out

GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link

a heat lamp in every snacking home

GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link

they were not moist, they were 'healthy' chips! i do not buy things with grease, what am i suicidal?

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 September 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

SCENE: Office breakroom. Bag of "Beaver Nuggets" on table.

PPLAINS (PP) watches as CO-WORKER (CW) takes one, eats it.

PP: So what's a Beaver Nugget taste like?
CW: They're not so bad. Kind of a combination between popcorn and... peanut butter?
PP: Really? Not sure about that combo.
CW: Well, if you don't like either, then –
PP: No, I'm a huge fan of both. Just don't know if I'd like them together.

CO-WORKER begins programming microwave. PPLAINS takes one, eats it - immediately starts gagging. Spits Beaver Nugget into trash can.

PP: What the –? That wasn't peanut butter! That was BUTTERSCOTCH!
CW: Oh, right. Maybe that's what I meant.

~SCENE~

pplains, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link

CW: Peanut butter in the conference room.
PP: I'd like to suck on some of that!
CW: begins programming microwave
PP: (goes to the conference room and finds out that it's butterscotch not peanut butter) NOOO!!!!!!!

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link


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