In a moment of weakness, I purchased a $1.29 package of Little Debbie® Nutty Bars™ at the local supermarket. I love peanut butter, I was hungry, I spent the money.
I had 2 of them yesterday, when they were still somewhat warm from the car ride home. The outside chocolate was a bit runny. Didn’t like it.
I let them chill a bit in the fridge, which fixed the issues with the runny chocolate but revealed a greater weakness. The peanut butter was terrible, tasting mostly of bland hydrogenated oils or filler. Peanut butter shouldn’t be refrigerated I know, but this was astonishingly bad even accounting for that. It was like eating a peanut-scented stick of lip balm.
Also, like many American sweet snacks, far too much sugar overpowering any chocolate or peanut flavor. Not intended for adult tastes, I imagine. After eating only 2 and a half of the wafers, I threw the entire package into the trash.
Yuck.
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Sadly, I have known the Little Debbie snacks throughout my entire life.
They have always been there for late night snack runs when funds are low and everyone is tipsy. They have been there for road trips where funds are low and sugar is needed. Always incomprehensibly cheaper than they should be considering the huge variety available, and the large quantity of individually wrapped snacks per box. Time and again they just seem like a great deal, and the expectation of getting that wonderful zebra striped cake just can’t be beat – yet, they usually suck, and you remember (always too late) that you usually get what you pay for in this world…
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