Top 5 snacks for reading
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 snacks for reading.
Wow… I think in my quest to make an easy month of top 5’s, I might have gone too far on the easy train for May. But, we’ll make the most of it before I decide what to do for July-September. (Also, if you have ideas of things you want to do, please just reach out. Otherwise I guess we’ll just make our way through my very long list of random ideas…)
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top 5 snacks for reading
Maybe I should have come at this from the other direction and done a “snacks I won’t eat while reading”. Because I almost feel like that would be more interesting. What I will or won’t eat depends on what format book I’m reading.
For example, if I’m reading a fancy hardcover, then I will NEVER eat cheezels. Because cheezels dust is about as bad a lily pollen. But, if it’s an ebook, then basically anything is fair game!! So, I guess I will need to categorise the below… 🤔
Swedish Fish
This one is a newer addiction, as we don’t actually have Swedish Fish in Australia. BUT I have a friend in the US and we send each other snack boxes filled with all of the things the other can’t buy. Erin gets Cherry Ripes, Chicken Crimpys and Red Frogs. I get Swedish Fish, Milk Duds and Milano Cookies.
But, I really just enjoy lollies (which is called candy in the US and possibly other places). I can easily replace this with Red Frogs, Cola Bottles, Jubes, Snakes, Gold Bears, Peaches and Cream, etc. Basically any kind of lolly that doesn’t leave a film on fingers, so I can read and eat with no issues!!
Raspberry Bullets
I LOVE Darrell Lea raspberry bullets. I’m pretty sure this is an Australia only thing though. Essentially, they’re like a red licorice rope (but softer than the Willy Wonka brand) that are coated in milk chocolate.
Darrell Lea brand in particular are AMAZING. There really is no substitute for this. They do a proper licorice bullet version, and for both bullet types they also do a dark, milk and white chocolate coating. So you get to mix and match to your preference. But this one is mine.
Chocolate
I am very annoyingly particular about chocolate — partly because I can’t eat nuts, and partly because I am spoilt by excellent chocolate in Australia. (I’m sorry, but US chocolate is gross. I don’t know what you put in Hersheys, but it needs to stop.)
But, my faves are Cadbury (black forest, tropical pineapple, caramilk hokey pokey, and crunchie if there are none of the above); and Darrell Lea (caramel craving, raspberry licorice and half-time orange).
Sour Patch Kids
Honestly, this could probably be ANY kind of sour gummy lolly. I don’t really discriminate with these so much. Although, Sour Patch Kids are my favourite. I also love sour Gummi Worms, Cola Bottles, Gold Bears, Peach Rings — basically anything Haribo makes is good.
One that I don’t like are the watermelon flavoured ones. I don’t know why, but they are not my jam. I think it’s only the sour patch watermelon flavour though? I can’t remember who else does them.
Chicken Crimpies
So, I had to go one savoury item, and Chicken Crimpies are the GREATEST. I don’t really know how to explain them as I don’t know any other country that has them.
Arnott’s Shapes are basically different shaped savoury biscuits (cookies?), but the oval crimp edged ones are chicken flavoured. Now, we have many different chicken-flavoured biscuit in Australia. But NONE of them compare to these. There is literally no other contest. Confirmed by the fact that I send boxes of these to Erin in the US.
I also eat these when I have a migraine and crave salty food. They’re basically a migraine cure as far as I am concerned.
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What are your top 5 snacks for reading?
18 Comments
Tanaz Masaba
I love Cadbury Crunch, it’s one of my favorite chocolates! Also, now I kinda want to have Raspberry Bullets, they look so good!
meeghan
They are delicious, but very sweet!! I can’t eat too many or I feel sick 😂
journeyintobooks
Great post, I completely agree about American chocolate I don’t know how they make it but it’s awful.
meeghan
I think it’s the sugar? Corn syrup sugar should not be allowed in chocolate.
kathyscottage
I like what you and your friend in the U.S. do ~ sending snacks back and forth to one another! 😀
meeghan
Thank you!! It has definitely given me a sugar addiction. I also love the US’s Milano cookies — but they aren’t very good for reading as they’re quite crumbly…
kathyscottage
🙂
Davida Chazan
Mine are coffee, cigarettes, soda water, more coffee, and more soda water (maybe with a dash of lemon).
meeghan
Oooh, I have to say I am not a coffee drinker… but you will see the 80 different types of tea I drink in next week’s ‘drinks for reading’ post!!
Davida Chazan
I look forward to that.
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DB @ DB’a Guide to the Galaxy
Cadbury’s very good and I can’t imagine America not having it 😄
Sour things are fantastic, except for when they say that they’re sour and then they’re NOT. if something SAYS it’s sour I expect my mouth to start watering when I LOOK at the packet!
wonderwall360blog
There is a shop near me that is sometimes getting Australian choc. So tried hokey pokey with caramilk love caramilk but decided the hokey pokey only added crunch. I’m a sucker for black forrest deserts so choc sounds interesting. I may be coming to Australia in Dec so will have to look for that!
meeghan
Ooh, that is exciting!! I grew up eating hokey pokey icecream (vanilla with a butterscotch sauce ripple and honeycomb pieces), so the Caramilk hokey pokey is a lot about nostalgia for me. 💕
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
Sour Patch Kids are one of my favorite reading (or any other time lmao) snacks, too! Om nom nom. 😍
meeghan
They’re so good!! 🤤
Just_Me :)
Anything Cadbury is yum!
meeghan
it’s just such a superior chocolate 😂