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NEW WEiRd DIFferenT Limited and Special Edition Foods Out There March 2025

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There is ALWAYS something new, weird, different, limited, or special edition in the wonderful world of food. We never know WTFork we will come across when we shop for food.

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DIFFERENT – Old El Paso Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dessert Shells. I guess it’s something to TACO about.

LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Fruit Loops Sweethearts….UGH!……..They are not LOOPS if they are hearts………..Dah!

DIFFERENT – Nomad Ramen flavored Popcorn…..Something to go STIR-Crazy for?

DIFFERENT – Nomad Chimichurri Popcorn……….DILL-Licious!

DIFFERENT – Chata Cochinita Pibil shredded pork in a can – Pig Out when ever you want!

NEW – Pringles (not so new I’ve seen them months ago) Mingles Dill Pickle and Ranch….??????

DIFFERENT – Pringles Chili Cheese Fries

DIFFERENT – Pringles Mexican Street Corn

DIFFERENT – Pringles – All Dressed – Tomato, Onion, Vinegar ……

LIMITED EDITION – Goldfish ….?….Butterscotch…..Butterbeer….? Harry Potter Crackers….?……Sounds like Goldfish Crackers have gone crackers.

DIFFERENT – Valasic Dill Pickle – Pickle Ball Corn Puffs – ?????? Dill-lisious?

DIFFERENT – Dolly Parton’s Original Syrup in a guitar shaped bottle might be music to someone’s ears.

WEIRD – Emerald Sugar Cookie Flavored Cashews. Someone must have been on drugs to think this one up.

DIFFERENT – Grillo’s Pickles – Pickle de Gallo in mild and hot – It a cure for the usual.

WEIRD – Long Chips – Mashed Potato Honey BBQ Long Chips. Why would anyone want honey & BBQ on their mashed potatoes? ……I Gave it a try…..Not bad…actually good….but too bad….can’t be found anywhere…..Maybe discontinued?

DIFFERENT but also kinda WEIRD – Protein Poppers Birthday Cake Chips. I don’t know…This one almost seems normal after the last two.

DIFFERENT – The Saucy Ladies – Marinara Kettle Chips. Maybe someone was sauced to think this flavor up?

DIFFERENT – Tochi Kung Fu Panda 4 Chili Crisp Gourmet Popcorn – Sounds tasty…don’t know….haven’t tried.

DIFFERENT Rao’s Chicken & Gnocchi Soup…….Awwwwwwww…..The pastabilities!

and there is usually something Oreo

DIFFERENT – Oreo Thins in ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Irish Cream.

Well that was the New Weird Different Limited and Special Edition for March 2025. Who knows WTFORK we’ll come across next month.

The Forking Truth

NEW WEird DIFFerenT Limited and Special Edition Foods Out There February 2025

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There is always something new, weird, different, limited, and special edition in the wonderful world of food. We just never know WTFork we will come across when we shop for food.

Up above is –

NEW – General Mills Cinnamon Toast Crunch Waffles Cereal. Waffle you waiting for…Go try them.

DIFFERENT and maybe NEW – General Mills – Birthday Cake Loaded with vanilla filling cereal. Don’t mean to be the health police but that doesn’t sound like breakfast to me.

DIFFERENT – General Mills Lucky Charms Berry Swirl with Berry Marshmallows and OTHER natural flavors – Oh Boy!

NEW – General Mills Lucky Charms S’Mores – Doesn’t sound healthy so who cares?

DIFFERENT – Cap’n Crunch’s Cinnamon Crunch……Naturally Flavored so go ahead and enjoy!

DIFFERENT Ghost Cereal in PB flavor…….Something to die for?

DIFFERENT (but not so different) Ghost Cereal with Marsh Mallows that is naturally and artificially flavored

DIFFERENT – Dolly Chardonnay – Something to wine about.

DIFferenT – Sable & Rosenfield Tipsy Cherries in whiskey and bourbon – hic HIC!

WEIRD but funny – Tillen Farms Bada Bing cherries

WEIRD – Sellor Farms Buffalo Wing Pistachios …IDK why would anyone want pistachios that don’t taste like pistachios?

DIFFERENT – Goya Ketchup – Another brand of ketchup.

DIFFERENT – Goya Pacaya a shoot from a palm tree……Haven’t tried as of yet.

DIFFERENT – Kikkoman Sriracha & Coconut Japanese Panko – sounds tasty!

DIFFERENT – Rap Snacks – This one is salt, vinegar, bbq, onion, garlic and more!

DIFFERENT – Rap Snacks – O.G. BBQ Cheddar, Snoop Dog …….?????

DIFFERENT – Rap Snacks – BBQing with my Honey Truffle Nicky Minaj…….????

NEW – Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup Drops. It looks like they come in a can? How inconvenient…..

And there is usually something Oreo.

This month you got TWO new Oreo Cookies. One is from Subway that was suppose to come out in January…….

NEW – AT SUBWAY – Oreo Footlong Cookie

And

I think it’s from Jelly Roll? Or is it Teddy Swims??????

Wrong Dude It’s Post Malone.

I think they have Butterscotch and Caramel Cream middles…..Why didn’t they do Jelly Roll Cookies…Maybe they will?

Well that was the New Weird Different Limited and Special Edition for February 2025. Who KNOWS WTFORK we’ll come across next month.

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My Forking Thoughts on Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips – OMG YUM!

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I saw these Hot Honey Beet Chips at my local Sprouts Grocery. They were on sale and sounded interesting somI picked them up.

I try one…..OMG WOW! This is delicious…….It’s thin….It’s shattering crisp but light as air…..It’s slightly spicy……..IIt’s slightly smokey ………t’s almost sweet…….It’s just delicious flavors…..It’s WAY BETTER than any potato chip…..I could easily eat this whole package…..WOW! What a great surprise these Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips are!!!!!…..

Hot Honey Beet Chips from Sprouts Grocery are FORKING DELICIOUS!

Sprouts Hot Honey Beet Chips

I’ll be out of these soon. I hope Sprouts has more!

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Foreign Chocolate Covered Corn Puff Battle – Gusto VS Bamba

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I like to try foreign snacks once in a while for a taste of something different. Usually it’s weird flavors of potato chips but these chocolate coated corn puffs caught my eye so I decided to give them a try.

In this corner is something called Gusto from Romania.

It was only around $1. at the Asiana Market in Glendale. I can’t read the package and I thought the picture on the package looked like chocolate covered peanut puffs. I should have worn reading glasses because I didn’t even notice the raspberries on the package. ………..These things are Corn Puffs coated in milk chocolate with raspberry flavor. I ate one…These are hard for me to stomach. They are sickeningly sweet and just awful ……..I think that cheap chocolate kind of taste mixed with artificial raspberry is stomach turning…The corn puff has very little or almost no flavor…Its the coating that is unappealing and just packed with YUK.. These are going to hit the trash can after I make my husband try one. Maybe their other flavors are better?????? I read that they make a BOOZY RUM corn snack…..Maybe they make that flavor better????? But this one sucks so bad I doubt I’ll ever feel like trying it.

In the other corner are Bamba Dark Chocolate Dipped Peanut Corn Puff Snacks are marked, “Sold By Trader Joe’s.” Bamba peanut without chocolate are a well known famous snack food from Israel that are sold at nearly every supermarket in little bags. The Bamba dark chocolate dipped peanut flavored corn puffs do cost more than the Gusto chocolate coated corn puffs. They are in a bigger bag but If I recall correctly they were around $2.99 a bag.

I have to admit that I do occasionally enjoy the regular peanut Bamba puffed corn snacks. I read on Amazon that they are made 50% from peanuts….so they are at least 50% healthy….

OMG these Chocolate dipped Bambas are really good……They seem so light and tasty…..they are almost impossible to stop eating. They are not too sweet and not heavy or greasy…..with that indulgent chocolate on that light as air peanut cloud.

DAM You Trader Joe’s! I’m going to have to buy a bag every time I shop in your store until you stop selling them…..Just like you always discontinue my favs……Then I’ll be mad at you again!

Anyways-

……The combination of peanut puff and dark chocolate is very tasty………savory…….They seem light as air…(But I know they are not)……They are very hard to stop eating.

Gusto lost this battle WAY too easily…….I was hoping for a close battle.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Foreign Chocolate Covered Corn Puff Battle.

Your opinion may or may not differ.

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Kroger Reuben Potato Chips

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I was food shopping at my local Fry’s supermarket and came across these Kroger Reuben Potato Chips…….I thought to myself I gotta try them. I glance real fast at the ingredients to make sure nothing really strange is in them.

They do have some chemicals in them……

Then I happen to notice that the chips are marked kosher and dairy.

I can be now be relieved that they aren’t made with castoreum (beaver butt juice actually from a gland by the butt) because beavers are not a kosher animal to eat. Castoreum is never listed as an ingredient because it is a flavoring. It is listed as natural flavor because that is what it is.

I get the bag home and take a whiff.

It truly DOES SMELL LIKE A REUBAN!

Incase you are not familiar with a reuben it is a sandwich made of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, Russian dressing on grilled rye bread or Russian pumpernickel.

The chips are slightly speckled, a little powdery, and are extra crisp.

I gobble a few down……

They are very tasty but at first they taste mostly like mild sauerkraut …….it maybe only slightly cheesy and laced slightly with a rye bread taste.

I eat one very slowly and it taste completely different.

When you eat them slowly you get the rye taste dominating the other flavors.

They are very tasty and extra crunchy.

Those were my Forking Thoughts on Kroger Reuben Potato Chips.

(I note that your Forking thoughts may. differ)

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My FORKING Thoughts on Deep River Snacks Chinese Mustard Kettle Potato Chips – Worth a Fork!

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I found this bag of Deep River Snacks Chinese Mustard Kettle Potato Chips at Marshall’s. I thought this flavor seemed different and fun so I gave them a try. The bag is different.

The top of the bag reads, “Because we give a chip.” What it means is that they donate from their sales to a charity to feed children.

Then I look at the ingredients.

Seems safe to eat.

I open the bag and it smells like mustard.

Spill some chips out.

These are very small chips. They look fingerling sized??? They are extra crisp, very thin and slightly powdered.

I eat a few.

They really taste like Chinese mustard with that slight horseradish flavor.

Now I go to eat one real slow…………can’t………..the flavors are too strong that way….These you just have to eat.

I have to say these Select Edition Chinese Mustard Kettle Potato Chips from Deep River Snacks are Worth a Fork!

Worth A Fork!

If you are a fan of Chinese Mustard and Crispy Potato chips you might want to give this bag of potato chips a try.

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My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – Turkey 2021

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Universal Yums is a gift or subscription service for a box of international snacks. You have a few different size choices.

I get the basic Yum Box and it comes with a booklet of facts, trivia, a recipe and information about my snacks.

Lets try a snack.

Ummmm…Now these are tasty! They are little cookies filled with a chocolaty filling that is laced with a small amount of hazelnut and tahini. These are tasty…Now they are gone.

We got a Yum bag with Mastic Toffees and Melon and Lime Chews.

Oh joy……..(not really)…Turkish sour watermelon gummies. I just don’t do gummies and ESPECIALLY Don’t FORKING do sour gummies. But I will ask my husband to eat one.

Next is a coconut & coffee snowball cake.

I like coconut but never liked coffee so far. I thought maybe I haven’t had good coffee yet and that is why I don’t like coffee? I tried two bites. I think I would like this if I liked coffee. The cake is moist with a nice texture and the exterior is very unique. The center cream isn’t terrible. I would like this if I liked coffee, Coffee just taste like bitter coffee grinds to me……

Next……

Baharat spiced cracker chips in taco flavor…??? They are odd to us….They are very powdery chippy crackers……..The powder texture sort of bothers me more than the odd flavors….They are very salty, they are onion-ee, there is sweetness to them, They finish very sweet….They sort of stick to my teeth.

Only two treats left….

Here’s tahini halva…..Not bad…It seems like light fluffy frosting that taste like sesame seeds instead of something too sweet.

Last treat

These are just plain chickpeas that are salted. These are GOOD! The texture doesn’t break my teeth like most bagged chickpea snacks. These you can actually eat in salad and do have a nice natural chickpea flavor. These I would buy if I saw in the store.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Universal Yums – Turkey 2021

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Your Forking thoughts may differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on Universal Yums – February 2021 Ukraine Box

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Universal Yums sells snacks from around the world. You can either subscribe or gift in a variety ways and different available sizes.

I get the basic Yum Box. These days it is 5-7 snacks and runs around $16. a month. My box includes a 12 page booklet with fun facts, a recipe and some games.

The first treat we try are the wasabi spicy potato strips.

They taste like they could be made by Pringles but in a long thin strip and wasabi flavored…Ummmm not bad. I’m surprised that they aren’t all busted up. Not bad..I’d buy them once in a while.

Next we try the baked Milk and Dark Chocolate Bar.

It’s a lot of wafers surrounded by a dark chocolaty wax coating. Not awful….but also not great…..I think mine is an off batch…I have next to zero filling between the wafers. It’s kind of dry. Oh well what’s next?

Next we open the Yum Bag. we try a juice filled Ukrainian mixed fruit jelly (yellow wrapper)……It’s weird….Not sure what it taste like….It’s coated with cornstarch and my mouth full of cornstarch…but is more jelly fruity and wet than corn starch…..It’s weird to me.

A day later I tried the other candy in the Yum Bag.

WOW! This candy is even weirder than the last candy. It’s really soft caramel with a strawberry fruit center that doesn’t taste like much. My husband found this candy less weird. He also agreed that you barely taste the strawberry and it’s mostly just a soft caramel…….I would never eat this again.

This is suppose to be a sweeter condensed milk cream cake. I don’t think mine wasn’t made right. It’s very dry and not sweet…I think it taste like it was made with saw dust………YUK! Neither me or my husband could stomach this one.

This one is a creme brûlée milk chocolate bar…It’s very sweet….like as sweet as thick donut icing….It’s too sweet. I think you can get diabetes if you eat more than one chocolate piece. This one was almost good.

Last snack is the roasted garlic rye chips.

My bread chips arrived mostly busted up. I go to taste one…..Not much on garlic taste….Mine taste like dry wheat bread mixed with wood pulp and they are very dry…..

I hope next month is better or I will have to cancel my membership.

Those were my Forking Thoughts on Ukraine Universal Yums

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My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Magic Masala Potato Chips

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I found these Lay’s Magic Masala Potato Chips at Asiana Market in Deer Valley in Phoenix. They are a medium size bag that weighs around 3 1/2 ounces. These chips are from India.

The ingredients don’t look bad. Not too many chemicals. I’m so glad that they used edible vegetable oil instead of the inedible vegetable oil.

I take a whiff before I try them. It really does remind me of Indian food. They do smell fragrant.

I spill some out.

The chips are on the small side. They have ridges and feel sort of powdery.

I taste one slowly.

It’s very spicy. The flavors I taste are heavy with onion, garlic and chili pepper flavors. There are other flavors…One is something sort of vinegary. I’m getting the tomato and maybe cumin. There are other flavors that fill in but the onion, garlic and heat over power those flavors. Ginger might be there. …It taste like maybe asafoetida is there. I think that is the mystery flavor that makes this Indian Masala.

My husband tries some. He thought he was eating smoky BBQ chips…(lol)

These chips sure are better than many of the Lay’s flavors. I would like more ethnic kind of flavor here but they still are good tasting chips. However these chips are only for people who can take spicy.

Not bad…They don’t suck!

Your opinion may indeed differ.

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My Forking Thoughts on Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips

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Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips have been out for a while now but I finally got up the nerve to try them. About a year ago I tried several different flavors of Lay’s potato chips that just didn’t do it for me so I gave up trying new flavors until recently.

These Lay’s Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Potato Chips smell just like a jar of dill pickle!

I got to look at the ingredients.

They have a few ingredients that are unexpected like whey and sour cream…..???? Why whey and sour cream? They don’t go into spicy dill pickles!

Here are the chips up close.

The chips are smaller in size and are a little powdery.

I taste one. It’s almost too hot and *****IS*****too vinegary for me.

My husband loves them and is woofing them down.

The chips for me are painful to eat slow.

If I eat them faster they don’t hurt my mouth and they really do taste like spicy dill pickles.

Pretty good and worth a try! …Just don’t eat them slow.

Your experience and taste may indeed differ.

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