Snyder’s of Hanover Peanut Butter Pretzel Sandwich Dips, Dipped in Hershey’s Milk Chocolate & Sunday Funday Hypotheticals
Junk Food Nation, how much would it take for you to drive a Smart Car on the Autobahn? I’m talking tiny car with a max speed of about 80 mph, on the world’s fastest highway … thoughts? Mine below.
Today’s junk food: Snyder’s of Hanover Peanut Butter Pretzel Sandwich Dips, Dipped in Hershey’s Milk Chocolate! That may be the longest name of a junk food snack I’ve reviewed so far.
The Money Shot
Snyder’s pretzels have been a favorite of mine for a long time. They were the first pretzel company that I remember that really embraced the use of flavors in pretzels. Readers of this blog understand my beef with pretzels – they can’t retain flavor powder well and as a result are bland. Snyder’s changed all this.
By using bigger pretzels, breaking them apart, and using the exposed dough to lock in flavors, they revolutionized the pretzel game IMO. And they are at it again here with these PB sandwiches.
Snyder's, the creators of so many tasty tidbits
According to Wiki, Snyder’s is the United States’ largest pretzel company, even surpassing the juggernaut Frito-Lay corporation. Based in Pennsylvania, Snyder’s is more famous than Michael Vick and Yuengling beer. Just sayin’.
Splish Splash!
Clear product representation here, showing exactly what you’re gonna get – peanut butter in pretzels splashing gleefully in a bucket o’ chocolate. My only critique of this bag label is the use of a cursive type font for the word DIPS. Why do advertisers think a flowery font gives a product some “zest?” It’s pretzels and chocolate, not an 80’s rock band.
Dipped in only the best
Not just any old chocolate covering, but Hershey’s – also a Pennsylvania company. I smell monopoly here.
Well...it's a great combo, but I think I could've figured it out
As much as I love Snyder’s, I chuckle when I read this description. They describe this “newest pretzel innovation” like it’s hydrogen fuel. I’m more surprised no one came up with it sooner!
Big nuggets!
Opening the bag, I could already see that these pretzel bites were more than just bites – the chocolate coating made the whole enterprise pretty substantial. I mean, look at them – you could find anything inside! Pretzels…Oreos…buried treasure.
Before...
...After. NOMNOMNOM
Biting into one, I knew we had a winner, and it’s not surprising. It’s salty pretzel with a nice peanut butter mixed with milk chocolate. You knew this would taste good as long as Snyder’s didn’t eff it up. And they didn’t – the pretzel is perfectly preserved within the chocolate casing, so the crispy crunch doesn’t disappoint. The peanut butter and the saltiness of the pretzel mix really well, and the super sweet milk chocolate melds all the flavors nicely into a complete bite. Savory, sweet, salty, crunchy – an excellent junk food WIN.
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I’m not sure how much it would take for me to drive a Smart Car on the Autobahn, because I wouldn’t drive a Smart Car PERIOD. I don’t have anything against saving fuel, saving energy, reducing my carbon footprint, better parking radius, comfortable amenities, and barely-existent leg room (I’m short anyways). But safety, people, SAFETY!
Smart Cars have apparently been given a 4 of 5 star safety rating in the US, as the car has a safety cell that activates when collided with. WHATEVER. A 2009 crash test resulted in the Smart Car going airborne and and turning 450 degrees! WHAT!? I have to imagine that scene was not unlike when you kick an inflatable beach ball into the air. And you’re the ball.
So call me a pansy – but I’d like to live, thanks.
Sincerely, Junk Food Guy
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What up, pansy? I’ve driven a smartcar on the Beltway, dude.
So I was coming down to DC for a wedding and I thought, “William Shatner can’t possibly be wrong: I’ll use Priceline.com to book my rental car!” If you’ve never used priceline, you get to “name your own price” but there’s no obligation of any vendor on the site to honor said price. Economy-class car: suggested price: $20 / day. I bid $10. Rejected. The next day (yes, you have to wait 24 hours between bids), I bid $11. Rejected. The next day: $12. ACCEPTED. I get a nice email that says to go bother Hertz at BWI.
You know some asshole at Hertz got this flashed across the screen and thought, “Jackass thinks he can get a car for $12 / day? You get a SMARTCAR, biatch.” So my girlfriend and I get to the parking lot and I’m suddenly and instantly emasculated seeing the toy car I have to squeeze my junkfood-loving frame into. It’s blue with a black top, like a renegade Smurf. Also, took us 15 minutes to figure out how to open the trunk. It’s reasonably zippy though, and although the shifting was a little weird (it operated on both manual and automatic), I got the hang of it and soon we were barreling down the Beltway.
I get to our hosts’ house and immediately google Smartcar’s safety record. Up pops up a page of videos of crash tests. Do I look away? I CAN’T!!! Terrifying.
A few observations: the car is really light, because it’s totally made of plastic. In fact, there’s no differentiation between the windshield and the moonroof: it’s ALL one sheet of plastic, with no metal crossbeam in between. However, it’s SUPER easy to park and got great gas mileage. Also, was hilarious to watch the valet try to figure out how to drive it when I parked at the wedding. I didn’t feel super safe driving it, but I wouldn’t *not* do it again.