Snack Review: Calbee Snapea Crisps

I know, shouldn’t it be ‘snap pea’ or ’snappea’? But that’s not what it says on the bag. The pea has lost a ‘p’ somewhere in the transformation to crisps, it seems.

The other odd thing it says on the bag is “Snack salad.” I don’t know about you, but the first thing that comes to mind when I think ‘snack’ is definitely not ‘salad.’ Those are two words that make about as much sense together as “colorless green ideas.”

But, the thing is, I got this email from my mom the other day:

I am starting to be a little concerned about you
reviewing snacks on “Snackerrific” web site.

Are you eating regular REAL food?

OK, I am not going to go so far as eating a bag of baby carrots or anything like that. But ‘snack salad’ – that’s something a mother could love, right?

The question of course is, is it something ONLY a mother could love? The text on the bag sets our expectations rather high:

Your salad never got such a lift!
The pea has played an important role in dietary life and culture since the dawn of recorded history, and because of its nutritional value it has great potential for our dietary lives in the future.

OK, pea potential! So how do these measure up?

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