BS: Salty and sweet snacks

Subject: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 10:28 AM

I like Fritos now made with 100% genetically modified corn.
I tried a new snack by Welchs. It is like a cheese puff made of multi grain but has a crisp coating of Welch's Concord Grape Juice. It's not too addictive .

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 10:50 AM

I might not be too popular later. I’ve munched my way through a box of Morrison’s “Mature Cheddar Cheese Crumbles”. Pip started something a few weeks ago when she bought a box of some Co-op sort of toasted Italian bread (I can’t think of the name) which were delicious with bits of different cheese on top. It seems that Morrisons, Co-op (and I guess other UK supermarkets) have ranges of small boxes of (I suppose) “savoury bites” and Pip has been getting a box or two whenever she visits on of these stores. Most, maybe all, of them are incredibly moreish.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 10:57 AM

Authentically British on the edge of American comprehension. I love it.
UTZ makes a potato chip so thin no one is thinner.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 02:26 PM

Since I have high blood pressure (controlled by medication) and my husband is at risk of type 2 diabetes, we avoid too much salt or sugar in our diet. So we eat quite a few nuts as snacks.

We like unsalted peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, and often get large packets of mixed selections. Rather fattening, but no salt or sugar in those!

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 03:46 PM

But didn't you love salt?

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 03:53 PM

Well yes Donuel, I like salt and vinegar on my chips, and salt and butter in mashed potato. And my husband has a very sweet tooth. He loves our neighbour Ruth, who bakes him delicious rhubarb crumbles.
We're trying to be good though, as our health comes first.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 04:56 PM

mmm

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 05:15 PM

As you say Donuel,'mmm'. But now I have no salt in my spuds, and only HP sauce on my chips. And Ruth now makes my husband sausage rolls instead. (I think she fancies him. Hee hee!)

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 08:22 PM

I am also supposed to be on a low salt diet. It is true that you can lose the taste or desire for salty things if you avoid it, and the diet sheet I got suggested adding herbs to replace some of the flavour. Bring back the unsalted crisps with the optional wee twist of salt to add or not. (You can still get them, but not often seen!)
But if you start reading all the ingredient labels in ready prepared foods it can be something of a shocker. Just as an example: 2 tins of tomatoes in our cupboard, and one had 10 x the amount of salt in it compared with the other!

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 05:44 AM

Yes Tattie, you're right. The list of ingredients on food packets is indeed a shocker. And not just the salt. All sorts of artificial additives and chemicals.

I read recently that McDonalds put quite a lot of sugar into the buns for their burgers. I always thought they tasted a bit sweet.

My husband used to add two TABLEspoons of salt (!!!!!) into his pot of Spicy Horror. It's a large pot, and lasts three days, but even so.

I persuaded him to stop this. His mum and sisters have always used tons of salt in their cooking, and he was copying what he'd seen them do.
In any case, the Scotch bonnet chillies are enough to take one's head off, so no need for salt!

I well remember those little blue packets of salt in Smiths Crisps when I was young.
I don't really miss my salt. My husband does miss his sugar though. But when he finds that his rather large tummy won't fit into his Nike tracksuit trousers, he realises he must cut down on the calories!

I have to admit to attempting some subterfuge here. He had a snow-white beard, and I told him it was due to too much sugar and salt in his diet.
But all he did was shave it off. :(

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 10:12 AM

I'm not a fan of vinegar and am not fond of salt and vinegar crisps. As for salt. I think the only food I put it on to is chips.

I had a sweet snack for my supper last night. A Tunnocks Caramel Wafer. I love them.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Jos
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 11:44 AM

I don't like salt and vinegar crisps either - I prefer plain ones, but I can tolerate cheese and onion.

And I don't ruin my chips with vinegar either.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 12:24 PM

Another thumbs down for vinegar in any shape or form (my husband ruins a perfectly good piece of salmon by immersing it acetic acid!)
And a thumbs up for Tunnock's caramel wafers (heard the song by Adam McNaughtan?) and their teacakes, but no, no, no to snowballs (coconut, yuk!)
And a wee story from a dinner party a few weeks back with fairly new-found friends: I put a teaspoonful of white crystalline substance into my coffee, thinking it was sugar: it was salt! Undrinkable, but kept quiet about it, as I didn't want them to have to go to the trouble of making me another coffee. Told them about it a few days later, and we had a good laugh!
And Senofou, perhaps your husband's liking for salt stems from having lived in a very hot country where you need to replace all the salt sweated off!? I know that I get cramp in hot countries if I don't up the salt intake.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Raedwulf
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 12:39 PM

Once upon a time... Errrmm… about 20 year ago, I think, I ran across some snacks in one of the smaller, cheaper supermarkets whose name I forget..

Pasta snacks. I think the producer was "K Foods" or "K snacks"; K summat, anyway. Basically, they were crisps or tortillas or whatever, except they were fusilli. And they were chilli. None of this "sweet chilli" nonsense that is horrible. They were chilli pasta snacks of just the right heat & flavour; never been able to find them again! :(

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 12:55 PM

Ohhhh Tunnocks teacakes.... always served with a nice cup of tea on the flight from Norwich to Edinburgh, on a little Dornier plane, and always by Emma, the only flight attendant on board.
She slipped me another one because I seemed so delighted. Lovely lady.

You may be right Tattie about salt intake in hot climates. But I reckon it's to add some flavour (along with the fiery spices and chillies) to their very poor-quality food. Sometimes their only protein is some kind of innards (don't ask!) in a sauce, and white rice on a huge shared flat dish in the middle of the family circle. They always seem to find a few onions and tomatoes though. And copious amounts of oil.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 06:22 PM

Our resident nurse could tell you that too much salt makes your blood vessels less pliant and flexible. Existing plaque would then increase a risk of stroke or coronary. BUT you need some. :^/

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 07:34 PM

You had me at salty.

Just came from dinner at Legal Sea Foods which is a restaurant franchise
limited, I believe, to the Northeastern US
(this one is in Framingham, Massachusetts).

The salad dressing on their Caesar salads is the handmade kind,
it doesn't come out of a jar from the mayonnaise aisle in the shops.

And is it salty -- ?!!
Too much so to be good for you -- but it hits the [salty] spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 07:37 PM

Legal Seafood started in Boston but is here in DC for 20 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 04:00 AM

I'm no fan of bagged junk foods but I will devour a packet of pork scratchings with relish once in a while. I mean the ones with teeth-breaking hard bits and thick slabs of fat, not those namby-pamby puffed-up ones. I've had a few bristles and some very fine nipples down the years, but I've yet to find the fabled pig's anus in a pack.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 04:11 AM

Ugh Steve! Haaaaahaaaahaaaaaagh! Give it time mate! That anus will find you some day! :)

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: michaelr
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 03:36 PM

I thought this was about snacks that are both salty and sweet. I love salted caramel in all its incarnations - toffee, chocolate, ice cream, cocoa...

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 28 Oct 18 - 01:29 AM

I like kettle corn for a sweet and salty snack. It's best piping hot from the vendor
at an outdoor fair, but some of the bagged varieties are good too.

Don't like vinegar on anything btw, can't abide the taste on chips at all.

And though I rarely drink soda nowadays, ( another delightful
edible that is added to the ever growing list of things you love
that are bad for you) , I discovered a wonderful beverage to wash all these
s&s snacks down with. It is :
Canada Dry's berry flavored seltzer. Anyone try it? No further need for
a Coke now, this stuff is delightful.

Subject: RE: BS: Salty and sweet snacks
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Oct 18 - 03:35 AM

I had to look that up, lefthanded. I see it's a kind of popcorn.
We make our own, but I drizzle melted butter on it (I can never get enough of dairy stuff, especially butter).

I saw Shloer rosé for sale at £1 a bottle in Asda on Friday, so I bought just one. But they've removed most of the sugar (my sister crossly told me it had about 20 teaspoonsful of sugar in every bottle!) and it's far too sharp now. It was like drinking lemon juice (it's grape juice actually) so no more of that for me.

I bet they reduced the price because no-one buys it any more!