Taste Test – Snack Crate (Road Trip – USA)

This month’s Snack Crate is a USA box entitled “Road Trip”. These should be snacks we are somewhat familiar with, let’s see. A total of twenty three snacks this month including the drink.

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The drink this month is a standard ginger ale from Kentucky. Alex liked it but I do not care for soda. Alex-8 Joe-5

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Cougar Mountain Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookie from Washington State was a classic case of something looking way better than it tastes. We were both anxious to try the cookie. I found the peanut flavor to be too strong for my taste and I just did not enjoy the texture or flavor. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Sifers Valomilk from Kansas were chocolate cups with a gooey marshmallow filling. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Better Made Barbecue Chips from Michigan – I do not like barbecue chips but Alex does. Alex thought they were way too salty. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Owyhee Idaho Spud Candy Bar – fluffy chocolate nougat infused with coconut flakes. OK but I would have preferred without the coconut. The nougat was extremely soft almost marshmallowy in texture. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Salt Water Taffy from New Jersey – typical of the type Alex-7 Joe-6

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Cactus Candy fro Arizona were delicious gummy like candy with a delicious flavor. Flavored with real prickly pear cactus flavoring. Alex-8 Joe-9

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Pumpkin Spice Moon Pie from Tennessee were graham cracker and marshmallow filling flavored with pumpkin spice. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Joey’s Black and White were soft cake like cookies coated with a rich chocolate and vanilla icing, out of New York. Alex and I both quite liked these, the icing was very rich. Alex-8 Joe-8

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Blu Monday candy out of Kentucky – Chocolate coating with a sweet filling. Think of a peppermint patty but without the mint flavor. Alex-6 Joe-7

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Marsha’s Homemade Buckeyes from Ohio – chocolate covered peanut butter balls; delicious like a high end peanut butter cup with the proportion of peanut butter much higher Alex-8 Joe-9

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Anastasia Coconut Patties from Florida – Key lime flavored coconut nougat Alex-7 Joe-7

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Berger Cookies from Maryland had a thick fudge coating on a vanilla cookie. The fudge was very rich with a nice chocolatey flavor Alex-8 Joe-8

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Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll – this crunchy candy bar with nougat center and covered in caramel and peanuts is from Michigan. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Aunt Sally’s Creole Pralines from Louisana cluster of caramel and peanuts Alex-6 Joe-6

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Annabelle’s Abba Zabba from California is a chewy taffy surrounding a peanut butter center Alex-6 Joe-6

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Goo Goo Cluster – Candy from Tennessee caramel, peanuts and marshmallow coated in chocolate Alex-7 Joe-7

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Little Boosie’s Louisiana Heat Chips – these rapper themed chips from Miami, Florida were actually not very spicy and were an OK rippled chip with very mild spice flavor.

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Chesapeake Crab Chips from Virginia were crunchy nice tasting chips. I did not detect any crab flavor more of a crab seasoning flavor. Alex-7 Joe-8

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Garrett Popcorn – a delicious popcorn mix, both the caramel and the cheese flavored corn were top notch. Best in Box! I don’t know if this is typical but the cheese corn outnumbered the caramel 5 to 1. Alex-9 Joe-10

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Asia TransRainbow Belts from Hawaii sweet and sour sugary candy Alex-7 Joe-7

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Tuna Jerky from Hawaii – The fish flavor hits you as an after taste, when you first try them the appearance and texture is like a piece of beef jerky Alex-6 Joe-7

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Elk Jerky – Tastes like any other slim jim type of meat stick. Good but nothing unique, this one was from New Mexico Alex-9 Joe-8

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This was our highest Snack Crate box and one of our highest overall boxes for both Universal Yums and Snack Crate. Maybe it is because it has flavors that we are more used to being from the United States. Be sure to check out our previous posts on Universal Yums and Snack Crate Boxes under Taste Tests.

Alex 7.22 out of 10
Joe 7.13 out of 10

Alex favorite snacks – Elk Jerky and Garrett Popcorn
Joe favorite snacks – Garrett Popcorn

Taste Test – Snack Crate (Hawaii)

We had been receiving Universal Yums for over a year but started to get repeat countries. Because of this we decided to cancel our subscription and subscribe instead to Snack Crate. After researching several options they seemed to have a different variety of countries available and have distinct regions as well. We got the largest box available which has from 18-22 snacks and upgraded with the drink option. The price of the box is quite a bit more than the Yum box ~$60 per month with the drink option. When signing up you can chose more salty of sweet options, we chose a 50/50 mixture. With a beginning subscription you can choose a region prior to receiving your monthly selections. We chose Hawaii since it is a place we have not received snacks from before.

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We started with the drink Lilikoi Passion fruit juice Alex-6 Joe-6 Alex actually likes passion fruit juice and we buy it for him at the store but he only thought this one was average.

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Mochi-pop Crunch was a caramel corn with rice crackers. Alex-8 Joe-8 Alex and I both thought the caramel popcorn was very good heavily coated with tasty caramel but neither of us liked the rice cracker inclusions.

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Hawaiian Hulapeno Chips – Jalapeno flavored kettle cooked potato chips Alex-7 Joe-8 Despite the face Alex thought they were ok, I prefer plain to flavored chips but liked them as well.

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Maui Style Onion Chips another nice kettle cooked style of chip Alex-5 Joe-8

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Lilikoi Biscuits -Lilikoi is a small roundish fruit that grows on a vine, has many seeds, and is used most often to make juice. These crackers were ok with peanut butter or cheese but plain on their own. Alex did not care for them at all. Alex-3 Joe-7

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Luau BBQ Rings – puffed corn with a sweet and spicy BBQ flavor. Alex loved them Alex-9 Joe-7

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Kakimochi cookies were small buttery sesame flavored cookies. Alex-6 Joe-6

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Chili Peppah Nuts – dry roasted macadamia nuts with chili and lemon flavor. Alex-4 Joe-5

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Rainbow Belts are brightly colored gummy strips Alex-7 Joe-7

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Wow-Wee Maui Kona coffee beans, creamy caramel and milk chocolate. Best in the box a coffee flavored chocolate bar with caramel Alex-9 Joe-10

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Tapa Toffee chocolate mixed with macadamia nuts and toffee pieces Alex-6 Joe-6

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Pretz Pineapple – pineapple flavored pretzels Alex-5 Joe-6

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Pretz Kona Coffee, coffee flavored pretzels Alex-6 Joe-6

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Pineapple shortbread – An ok very soft shortbread but with a cheap tasting pineapple filling Alex-6 Joe-7

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Senbei crackers – crunchy rice crackers quite plain Alex-4 Joe-5

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Kona Crunch – macadamia nuts dipped in milk chocolate with crispy rice inclusions Alex-7 Joe-6

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Li Hing Mui Drops – sweet hard candies flavored with plums with a dried plum center Alex-6 Joe-5

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White Rabbit Candy – sweet milk chews Alex-6 Joe-6

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Pineapple gummies Alex-8 Joe-9

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Hi-chew Acai Alex-8 Joe-6
Hi-chew Mango Alex-8 Joe-6

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Teriyaki Tuna Jerky – we saved the most interesting treat for last with the tuna jerky. Alex and I both love jerky of all kinds but this was just a little too fishy for us to rate it highly. I know tuna what did we expect 🙂 Alex-7 Joe-7

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Our ratings for the box
Alex 6.41 out of 10
favorite snack – Wow-wee Maui coffee chocolate bar & Luau BBQ rings

Joe 6.68 out of 10
favorite snack – Wow-wee Maui coffee chocolate bar

Overall our ratings compare closely to what we had been giving Universal Yum boxes. I like that there are more snacks in snack crate 22 compared to 20 and I like the added drink option. Looking forward to future boxes and some different places we haven’t been to.