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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
August 2020 brought us to the Netherlands for this month’s Snack Crate box. A little bit disappointed as we had received a Netherlands box from Universal Yums previously but we hoped there would be a different selection of snacks. With the exception of two or three items the snacks were different than the Yum box.
Although the up charge for one can of soda is a bit steep Alex and I both love the idea of getting a drink with each Snack Crate box, for us the variety is worth it.
Cherry Bouquet – A sweet and sparkly cherry soda both Alex and I found it to be too sweet. Alex-7 Joe-5
Lay’s Patatje Joppie – Mustard, onion, curry and mayo flavored chips. Not a combination of flavors I enjoyed but they did have the typical Lays texture.
Knetter Chocolade White Chocolate – White chocolate sticks with pop rocks sprinkled on top, very good white chocolate. Alex does not care for white chocolate. Alex-5 Joe-9
Venz Tijgervlokken – This item replaced an item listed in the flyer and had no description. They were chocolate flakes with many different colors. They seemed to be poor quality chocolate ok as sprinkles on something but not very good alone.
Alex 6.54 out of 10
Favorite snack – Wokkels Paprika, Fruit-tella, Croky Bolognese
Joe 6.67 out of 10
Favorite snack – Smoeltjes UFO’s, Roger’s Chips, Knetter Sticks
Our second snack crate we found similar in quality to the Hawaii box. Pretty much down the middle in terms of ratings with not a lot of really high marks but also not a lot of terrible snacks.
