A Crown Of Potato Chips For The Microwave

Ronco Chip-Tastic Microwave Potato Chip Maker

You want to eat potato chips and look good doing it, don’cha? Sure you do. And if not, the above potato chip maker/edible crown arrangement also makes fruit crisps. Just use the included slice-O-matic and pop the Ronco Chip-Tastic Microwave Potato Chip Maker into the microwave. Your great fashion sense will reward your waistline. Plus, since walking around with a crown of potato chips on your head is sure to become a new fad, people will look at you like a fashion icon. Or at least look at you.

Hostess Twinkies Bake Set With Pastry Bag & Recipe

Hostess Twinkies Bake Set with Pastry Bag & Recipe

The Great Twinkie Scare of 2012 was no laughing matter. Except of course, that it was. Jokes can be made about Twinkies never, ever, really going away due to their long shelf life. Or perhaps, one can chuckle at the thought of a Twinkie being grown because they are not really food. And then of course is the biggest myth of them all: that Twinkies are some sort of superfood.

In any event, just in case the iconic snack cake does ever disappear, the Hostess Twinkies Bake Set with Pastry Bag & Recipe Booklet will be there to help repopulate store shelves everywhere. Or at least eBay auctions.

Gama-Go Bowtie Bag Clips

Gama-Go Bow-tie Bag Clips

Clip-on ties are not usually considered to be the epitome of high-class. Oh how wrong that is! The Gama-Go Bowtie Bag Clips combine high style and salty snacks. These clip-on ties not only ooze class and style, but they also keep chips and the like from going stale. Considering that the greatest social faux pas is serving stale crackers with a cheese ball, these things might just be the height of refinement.

Cherkees: Beef Jerky Potato Chips

Cherkees: Beef Jerky Potato Chips

It’s pretty clear that there is always room for more on the snack shelf, despite the overcrowding. The trick, of course, is to make your product stand out amongst the bags of chips, pretzels and popcorn. One way to get noticed is to add something unique to your snack of choice. Like beef.

Cherkees Beef Jerky Potato Chips are a blend of potato chips and good old-fashioned beef–not beef-flavor, beef as in beef-beef. They come in recognizable flavors like Cracked Pepper, Teriyaki and Smokehouse, which begs the question: what the heck to eat them with?

Product Description:

Cherkees are a hybrid of two delicious snack foods; beef jerky and potato chips. These are NOT beef jerky flavored potato chips. Cherkees are beef jerky and potato chips at the same time! Real lean beef and crispy potato finally meet. Cherkees are indeed unusual: very low in fat, high in protein, not fried. Ingredients include; potato, beef, onion, soy, spices. Package size: 5.8 oz.

Cheesy Poofs Are Happening

Frito-Lay Cheesy Poofs

While some may say we have enough salty snacks without the need to add fictional items to the store shelves, others may say, “No Kitty, my Cheesy Poofs!” Cartman, along with everybody else, will finally get their chance from August 28th through September 18th. Frito-Lay has partnered with Comedy Central to produce the iconic package from South Park. The limited edition snack will have a hefty run of 1.5-million bags, finally giving fans of show a chance to try Cheesy Poofs–assuming Cartman doesn’t get to them all first.

(Via Bites)

Giant Raisins Overtake California Town

“Raisinets City”, Calif. (March 24, 2011) /PRNewswire/ — March 24th is National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day and in celebration NESTLÉ® RAISINETS® took over the small town of Raisin City, California renaming it: “RAISINETS City” for the day!

As the “the first chocolate covered raisin candy to have a cartoon series”, Raisinets are not exactly inexperienced with innovative marketing. Nestle, makers of the chocolatey snack have organized a takeover promotion involving the small California town of Raisin City. Renaming the town Raisinets City for the day, the event coincides with National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day, but really as we all know, it’s just an excuse to dress up as giant raisins.

Clink on through for the press release and a link to the cartoon series.

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