Welcome back for another Top 5 Tuesday. Today, the prompt is the top 5 snacks for reading which I have to admit made me ponder whether my favoured snacks change depending on whether I’m reading or not. I mean logically you’d avoid messy foods, or food that needs both hands, but I’ve just never really thought that much about it. I get hungry, I eat. I’ve probably lost borrowing rights from several people through admitting this, but there we go.
Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, and is now being hosted at Meeghan Reads!
1. Apples
So this is pretty much my go to snack providing it’s a good apple. I am incredibly picky about apples when I can be. As far as I’m concerned a good apple should have a texture just shy of a rock and a sourness just shy of battery acid. I’ll make exceptions for a really fresh apple with a great sweet flavour, like a Discovery or a Spartan, but otherwise give me an in-season underripe Cox, or a Granny Smith. Braeburns can be good, Galas are usually adequate, and whoever named the Golden Delicious and Red Delicious should be dug up to stand trial.
2. Crisps
Or chips for many of the readers. Cold fried potato products of great crunchiness. Me, I tend towards weird meaty spicy crisps. The peri-peri chicken crisps Walkers did in the UK were immense, the Maui bbq ones that someone does in the States (Utz?) are like crack. The current crisps in my cupboard was the rib’n’saucy Nik-Naks, one of the greatest supermarket staple crisps over here. They’re not very book friendly, but I usually manage through careful attention to which fingers are allowed to touch which.
3. Nuts
I saw a lot of people do specific brands and I wish I’d done this now particularly as a lot of my favourite snacks are kind off the table right now as I try to get healthier. Nuts are one of the things I gravitate towards for that, particularly pistachios and hazelnuts. Less healthy are the candied almonds my wife makes, but they are very good.
4. Jerky
Being in the UK means I can’t sate my love of jerky properly, although I get some biltong from time to time. In the States though? Youse are damn jerky addicts. There’s a place called Bardines near Pittsburgh we go to get the really good stuff, but I’ll take a pack of Teriyaki Jack Links if that’s around too, no worries.
5. Covered Ricecakes
This is a bit of a new one for me, and I don’t think I’d like ricecakes without something on them, but once there’s some dark chocolate or yoghurt on them, they’re nice enough. Which isn’t really the bar that should exist for snacks, but there we go. Let this post be a monument to snacking sensibly before you have to snack healthily.
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Peat, I’m not sure we can be snack friends… Underripe Granny Smith’s are almost my worst nightmare. My mum grows them and I wait until the fruit is almost falling off the tree to pick them. And then they sit on my bench for a week after that just to make sure.
I don’t think I’ve ever had rice cakes with yoghurt or chocolate on them either. I usually buy the savoury flavoured one, like sun-dried tomato (yum).
I hope you had fun with this week’s topic 🤤
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Meeghan, I feel the same – no snack friends with Peat 😦 hehe
Unsalted crisps or the popped ones, veggie crisps (but I feel they all have too much salt), cashews, sweet apples (who can recommend me types?), digestives, plain ricecakes, …
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Did not anticipate my most controversial take of the year being my taste in apples!
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I like the salt and vinegar veggie crisps… but again, too much salt. Also, I try not to eat things that flake when I read because I have nightmares about food living in my books and growing mould. (Just to bring the tone all the way down…)
Sorry Peat. Apple ripeness is a controversial business!
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And so it should be! It’s an important business. I support everyone eating the right apples for them. It’s the people without strong opinions on this I worry about.
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My most loved reading snack are crisp. I never snacks on fruit while reading, even if I should do it (healtier is better… And I should start to care!), but we have the same tastes for apples. I may not be as picky as you, but Granny Smiths, especially the crunchiest and the greeniest, are the best!
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I’m glad someone else around here appreciates a good Granny Smith the right way.
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I like the salt and vinegar veggie crisps… but again, too much salt. Also, I try not to eat things that flake when I read because I have nightmares about food living in my books and growing mould. (Just to bring the tone all the way down…)
Sorry Peat. Apple ripeness is a controversial business!
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