Taste Test – Snack Crate (Japan)

Snack Crate for November 2020 is from Japan.

Popcorn – buttery and slightly salted

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Corn Potage – light and airy corn puffs

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Choco Flakes – puffed corn cereal with chocolate flavoring

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Watermelon Gummy

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DIY Apollo Strawberry

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Some assembly required!

Mini Kit Kats

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Let’s Make It Apple Candy

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Another DIY snack

Giant Caplico – strawberry confection similar to astronaut ice cream

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Koike-ya Don Tacos crunchy corn tortilla chips

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Carrot Hail – puffed rice snack coated with a sugar glaze

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Yaokin Porickey – crunchy, buttery breadstick snacks

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Pretz Ripe Tomato – slightly salty biscuit sticks

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Chocolate Marshmallow

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Frozen Coca-cola with lemon

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Yaokin Fugashi – fried wheat coated with brown sugar

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Cratz Edameme – crunchy nuggets with a salty soybean flavor

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Pucca – small sea creature shaped pretzel snacks

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Kamekame Sours – hard gummy candy inspired by ramune soda

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Umaibo – puffed corn snack

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Strawberry Pocky – classic Japanese treat

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Pandaro – small shortbread cookies

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Monster Gum

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Hi-chew Grape

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Chocoball Peanut – chocolate covered peanuts

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Statistics

Alex 6.56 out of 10

Joe 6.40 out of 10

Taste Test – Try the World (November 2020)

Our Try the World subscription box for November 2020 contained products from Indonesia, Israel, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, California and The Netherlands.

Ginger Chew candies from Indonesia

Pizza flavored wheat snacks from Israel imported through the UK.

Pho broth out of California

Sparkling Water from Japan

Wheat crackers from Portugal

Similar to saltines

Sour Cherry Jam from Turkey

Crackers and Jam

South African sauce made in The Netherlands

Taste Test – Pomegranate

Alex had never had a pomegranate before so we bought one for him to try. He was amazed with the heft of the fruit and shocked at the seeds inside. After some hesitation he tasted the seeds and fell in love. We now routinely buy the whole fruit and packaged seeds whenever we go shopping as it is his favorite healthy snack.

Taste Test – Snack Crate (India)

Our monthly shipment from Snack Crate is from India.

Thums Up – carbonated soda

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Alex trying the soda

Not his favorite!!

Lay’s Magic Masala – chips with cumin, garlic and chili

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Kurkure Chili Chatka – puffed rice with spicy chili flavor

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Khatta Meetha – sweet & sour snack

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Mad Angles – Mango chips with lime and chili

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Bhujia Sev – curry and red chili sticks

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Roll Yo! – Indian version of a swiss roll

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Strechy Man – Fruit flavored gummy men

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Amul Chocolate Bar – Mocha flavored

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FAB Jam-in crunchy cookie with fruit flavored cream

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Parle G Biscuits – staple wheat and milk flavored cookie

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Hide & Seek – Indian chocolate chip cookie

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Bourbon – crunchy cookie with chocolate filling

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Poppins – Fruit flavored jelly candies

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Kaccha Mango Bite

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Kismi – Caramel chewy toffee bar with cardamom

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Soan Papdi – cotton candy like texture with assorted nuts

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Cadbury Perk – crispy wafers coated in milk chocolate

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Good Day Cashew – rich buttery cookies with cashews

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Rol-A-Cola cola flavored marsiles

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Magix Pineapple – pineapple filled cookie

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Statistics

Alex 6.24 out of 10

Joe 6.86 out of 10