I’m feeling in need of some light relief at the moment. Yesterday my daughter came back from her youth activity with some left-over snacks; US flavours, courtesy of church members with contacts at a US military base. That would be Dill Pickle flavour potato crisps. So, this week I’m asking what is your favourite snack? When do you eat a snack?
What is your favourite flavour for potato crisps/chips? Apparently, in Britain the number one flavour for potato crisps is Cheese and Onion, something my immediate family find hard to believe. It isn’t our favourite. My husband sticks with Salted, though will sometimes opt for Black Pepper. For me nothing beats Prawn Cocktail flavour, though failing that I’ll opt for something vinegary; one of the many variations on Salt and Vinegar, or Pickled Onion. 
What’s the strangest flavour you’ve encountered? I enjoyed that Dill Pickle flavour snack my daughter brought home. I like dill, and then there was the vinegary element. Dill pickles are not something we have in Britain, though we do have gherkins, which made it a very new taste experience. I don’t usually snack on crisps though, nuts or cheese are my usual choice; I’m trying not to eat too much salt.
I’m not a big fan of popcorn, though my husband enjoys making it, particularly if we’re going to be watching a DVD together. There seems to be some debate about how healthy it is; depending how it is cooked, and what’s added afterwards. When I was a child popcorn came with either salt or sugar, and that was pretty much it. There’s more variety now. We cook ours in olive oil and grind black pepper onto it afterwards, no salt. If I want something a bit special I’ll add lemon oil to the olive oil. My daughter makes a Christmas popcorn with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, no sugar. Do you like your popcorn sweet or savoury? Have you experimented with seasonings? We make our popcorn the old-fashioned way with oil in a pan, but there are a plethora of popcorn makers out there, some using only hot air. How do you make yours?
To summarise:
- What is your favourite snack?
- When are you most likely to eat a snack?
- What is your favourite flavour for potato crisps/chips?
- What’s the strangest flavour you’ve encountered?
- Do you like your popcorn sweet or savoury, and have you experimented with seasonings?
- How do you make your popcorn?
Wheat & Tares 
Apples in all their varieties. I even make apple crisp Saturday night which we bake Sunday morning for breakfast. I’m not a chip person unless I have a sore throat.
Dark, dark chocolate. I find I can’t eat very much, but it hits the spot.
Prawn crisps were new to me.
Pop,(or soda, if that’s what you guys call it), ice cream (of course the chocolate varieties), chocolate in all it’s forms(dark and lite). With chocolate sometimes I think it I would like to take it chasing the dragon but then I wouldn’t be able to taste it. I like cheese and meats with crackers, chips(of all kinds) and caraway seeds in rye bread or any kind of tough bread. When it’s the holidays oyster soup is always good. Come hungry and eat until you’re kind of sick and rest a little while and then see if you can eat some more, but don’t go overboard.
On the third line ‘it’ doesn’t belong there.
I think we call that apple crumble here Mark (thank you google), I was envisaging crisps made from apples. That would be desert here, rather than breakfast, though I must say it does appeal as a breakfast. Apples are good. I like russet apples. Nutty flavour. Only available in autumn though, unlike other varieties.
Mark & Rich, you both reminded me of my grandfathers habit of handing out dried fruit, nuts and seeds as snacks. All very healthy!
handlewithcare, my husband would be with you on that one. The only person I know who can make a bar of dark chocolate last over a month, savouring at piece at a time.
Stephen, they’re amazing!
Rich yes, there is something about chocolate, but I think taste is part of the experience. If I start I have to finish it, so for me, best avoided as snack. Same goes for ice-cream. I do like seeded breads.
Favorite snack – pistacchio nuts, however, they’re expensive, and I want to eat them until they’re gone, so I seldom buy them.
Favorite chips/crisps – dill pickle. The most unusual flavor I’ve encountered were the prawn crisps in the UK. We’ve never had that flavor anywhere I’ve lived in the US.
Savory popcorn is preferred. As kids my brother & I would make it lightly buttered & salted, then dip it in ketchup as we ate it. I understand if people find that disgusting. Still, I sometimes crave it that way.
When making popcorn for a crowd, I use a hot air machine. It’s clean & quick,but noisy. If I just want a snack for myself, I pop the corn in a saucepan in coconut oil, then sprinkle salt on it.
I put 1/3 c popcorn kernels in a brown paper lunch bag, roll the very edge together and nuke in the microwave on the popcorn setting (about 2.15 min). Ta-da. Much cheaper and healthier than store-bought microwave popcorn, and I don’t have to mess with an oily pan, although butter-flavored popcorn oil (Orville redenbacher’s) is the.freakin.best.
Wanna know the secret to the best salted popcorn (dry or with butter, oil, sugar)? Pulse the salt in a magic bullet, spice grinder, or blender, etc. until it is a powder, not granules. Put in a labeled, ‘popcorn salt’ shaker. The powder adheres better and more evenly to the popcorn, is easier to taste, and gets in all the nooks and crannies.
I ❤ popcorn and maintain a popcorn Pinterest board for all sorts of recipes. I think the primary song imprinted on me.
The strangest chip flavor I’ve ever had was seaweed flavor Pringles from China. The aftertaste was very unusual/foreign to my palate, and i can’t say I’d ever buy them.
Tina, coconut oil sounds like it’d make a lovely flavour. I do like coconut. Think I’ll skip the ketchup, though it’s true the things you eat as kids do linger, in nostalgic memory.
Mortimer, we used to sing the primary song with the kids whilst making popcorn when they were younger. My son informs me that it was some time before he realised it wasn’t the singing that made the popcorn pop. I’ve ground sugar to a powder before, for baking, but never tried it with salt. I think my husband tried making popcorn in the microwave a time or two.
Utahhiker, seaweed Pringles hey. That’d be popular in Japan too. Along with wasabi flavour. Which reminds me that my daughter’s favourite snack is seaweed, very chewy seaweed of the sort usually used in making a kind of sauce for serving with cold noodles in Japan. My kids also like fish jerky from Japan, also very chewy, and smelly!
Coconut oil is flavorless, Hedge. It’s the latest health food craze, and it cures everything from cancer to a leaky head gasket. I can’t imagine life without dill pickles – do you have dill? I can send you my Auntie Dot’s recipe; they’re easy to make!
Rich, you’re right; it’s “pop.” And “apple crisp” – although “apple cobbler” is acceptable, but usually used for the same dish made with peaches. But then I come from a state where a casserole is called “hot dish” and I was in my 30s before I thought through the implications of my mother’s summertime classic “cold tuna noodle hot dish.”
I do love dill pickle potato chips. (Apparently the few types of salt and vinegar chips available in Provo are so lame that my daughter at BYU insists on having Minnesota favorite Old Dutch brand Salt and Vinegar chips sent to her in care packages.) But I will usually go for sugar over salt; I run in cycles. Currently it’s Original Chips Ahoy cookies. Sometimes it’s peanut or almond M&Ms, or those little Swedish Fish, or sugar cones (for ice cream, the pointy ones) without ice cream.
Kind offer New Iconoclast. I don’t have dill. And supermarkets only stock it dried (I sprinkle it on salmon for baking). If, and it’s a big if, I find seeds and manage to grow it successfully, I’ll let you know.
Some parts of Britain a casserole is called a “hot pot”. But I don’t know that our casserole is the same as your casserole, probably not since your tuna dish sounds like a “pasta bake”.
Google tells me Swedish Fish are some kind of sweet/candy. One Japanese snack is literally very little silver fish, whole, and crunchy. My kids like them.