Spudz Stix “Ranch”

Quaker

This treat seems pretty harmless at first but one read of the package and I was filled with a little sense of mystery. First of all it’s popped potato sticks. I wasn’t aware you could pop a potato. Corn, sure, but a potato doesn’t really resemble corn in any way. I’m no scientist but I don’t think the basic makeup is at all the same. I was going to attempt to put a potato in a popcorn air popper and see what happens but I felt that might be a bad idea. The other thing that threw me off a little is the ranch flavour. Now I don’t want to pick on this one treat because as far as ranch goes it wasn’t bad. What I want to know is where did the “Ranch” flavour come from?

Well, after opening up this bag-o-mystery I came across what seemed like Ranch flavoured cheesies. I can’t really make out any kind of potato flavour, but they still tasted ok. I don’t think I could go through a whole big bag of these, but this snack size bag did me fine. I just don’t think they have yet made a treat like this that improves upon the potato chip. Keep trying, but I’m not sure it can be done.

Taste: 2.5
Novelty: 3
Texture: 3.5

All scores out of 5

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