Not so good: Pringles Restaurant Cravers: Onion Blossom!

This is our third review of Pringles, our second of the Restaurant Cravers line.  After the first review of the Pringles Restaurant Cravers (which was unfortunate enough to earn a Not so good tag as well), we were a bit reluctant to pick up this new flavor.  Would it meet our expectation of tasting like a real onion blossom?  Or would we just be let down again?  I'm sad to report that it's the latter.

Packaged in the familiar black tube, this one with small teal green detailing.  I decide to take a whiff before tasting, and it did smell slightly sweet, like an onion might smell like.  So I can safely say that at first I was just ever so hopeful.  But upon eating the first chip, my hopes were quickly dashed.  The sweetness I was smelling tasted more like honey mustard, rather than onion.  I ate another chip just to be sure, but alas, there was no onion flavor to be found. 

Honey mustard could be used as a dipping sauce for onion blossoms, so I suppose therein lies the link between a real onion blossom, and Pringles Restaurant Cravers: Onion Blossom.  But that is a poor link, at best.  If what you seek in a chip is a slightly sweet flavor with a bit of a bite, then give it a shot. Just be aware that you will not be savoring any onion blossom goodness at all.

~Rachael

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Not so good: Pringles Mozzarella Sticks & Marinara Flavor!

I've always been a fan of Pringles and its large variety of flavors, but today we ran into an odd new line known as Restaurant Cravers. I decided to pick it up out of the sheer niche quality of this offering, Mozzarella Sticks & Marinara. What wierded me out is how they would translate the concept of a mozzarella stick, with its very memorable crispy outside and gooey interior into a chip format. I was skeptical and had every right to be.

The packaging is nice enough, featuring a darker colored tube with red labels exclaiming its 'Restaurant Cravers' line as well as the 'Super Stack' feature(meaning there are 100 chips in each tube). Opening it though I was faced with what looked like any Pringle, except with tiny red flecks after a closer inspection. They also smelled like any other Pringle, with no noticeable hints of zesty marinara, or mozzarella stick or appetizer flavors.

I popped the first one in and proceeded to notice that it had an incredibly mild tomato flavor, but was missing just about everything else. Baffled that the mozzarella stick flavor was completely absent, I kept trying one after the other to make sure it wasn't just the first chip or two that lacked what it said it would have. The result was disappointing and the concept itself in my opinion, was flawed to begin with. The idea of translating a gooey, yummy appetizer, which in itself is mostly a textural experience just doesn't translate into potato chip format. If you're considering trying these, just get ready for Pringles: Marinara because there's no cheesy flavor to be found in this sad tube of chips.

Not so good: Baby Star Crispy Chicken Noodle Snack!

It was bound to happen, and it’s bound to happen again due to the nature of this blog. We’re going to run into that occasional bad apple here at Snack Overload! And so, we will begin our ‘Not so good’ section with dried chow-mein like snacks.

There are so many red flags on this bag, yet we decided to try them anyhow. The brand name itself doesn’t help. The jaundiced child on the front seemed to claim that these were chicken flavored yet upon opening and trying one of these crispy noodles all that was left was an aftertaste of sadness and disappointment. Due to their small size and consistency of broken dried spaghetti, you’re bound to make a mess trying to get these out of the bag to begin with. They also tasted like burnt bread, which didn’t remind us of chicken at all.
The only thing I could think of after choking down my first and last handful of baby star snacks was the flavor betrayal I was experiencing. Avoid at all costs.