gobble gobble

These snacks don't involve maize, but they would make Squanto proud. Right after he taught the pilgrims to do that whole fish-fertilizer business, he taught them how to glue cookies and candy together with frosting to make these adorable turkey snacks.

The internet is teeming with "recipes" for making these giblet-free turkey treats. The fundamental break between the Oreo and the Nutter Butter sects. I appreciate what the Oreo is doing, but come on, a Nutter Butter and a turkey are virtually indistinguishable. But this is an unbiased news outlet, so the Snack Maniac will get back to the facts.

To make your own poultry pastry snack, you take a cookie, a bunch of candy (Whoppers, Reese's cups, Hershey's Kisses,) and a bunch of icing to glue them together. This piece of candy creates the torso(?) thorax(?) for your turkey. Next you create the plummage with candy corn, fruit roll ups or some other colorful, wax-based snack. I came across some recipes that involved raisins , but I am not even going to talk about those, because we all know that Squanto hated raisins, and so should you.

do not be SCARED of these snacks

Just in time for Halloween, here are some gory guts cookies for your perusal. While the skeletal snacks are an obvious choice during this season, the thymus and spleen cookies are slightly less traditional offerings. Less delicious? Probably not, but highly gross AND educational. [Is that what my spleen looks like?!?!?]

What sort of bakery creates the thymus treat??? Are only medical professionals allowed to snack on these?? Were you playing an entirely edible version of Operation?? Tipster, tell us more in the comments section!!!


Happy snacking on this spooky day. Remember in the fight for fun size snickers, it is every snacker for himself!!

Breakfast Bomb

Kudos to Hardees who, last week, debuted a snack that tests the limits of "snack per square inch."

The Country Breakfast Burrito includes eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy--all conveniently wrapped up in a tortilla, which adds both an international flair and an easy way to tote this snack gem with you.

READERS-have you seen anyone chowing on the CBB during your commute??? If so, please send dispatches to thesnackmaniac@gmail.com

At first I thought that was ranch dressing in the picture, but it turns out it is gravy. The SnackManiac suggests getting a tub of ranch on the side, you know, for dipping.

Some decry this 920 calorie snack as not quite as healthy as other breakfast options, like All-Bran, for instance. But "we don't try to hide what these are" says Hardees. And by that, I can only assume they mean a tasty, on the go breakfast that will fuel you for a day of hard physical labor or a really intense game of MindSweeper at your desk.

spooky snacks!!

(photo credit to my office neighbor, Chris)

Check out this gross-out eyeball cupcake!!! [note: not a real eyeball in the middle there, it is a CANDY eyeball. just as slimy as a real eyeball, but made of CANDY.] I'm not quite sure what sort of meeting this kind of thing is appropriate for, but these terrifying treats wound up in the left-over pile in the office kitchen today. What a fright!!!

snack crackdown!

This morning's Examiner reports that metro plans to step up efforts to eliminate problematic subway snacking.

While they have no plans to repeat a 2000 incident when a girl's unalienable right to snack was violated over a FRENCH FRY, riders will be subject to a $100 fine.

This is all okay by the SnackManiac; some snacks are worth $100 and I want John Roberts to be able to spend his time enjoying snacks, not adjudicating them, oh, and upholding the constitution.

Sugar high

I'm not sure what is going on with Oreos these days. Two unrelated pieces of reporting have indicated that there may be a link between the smoking of marijuana cigarettes and consumption of Oreo products. (ed. Snack Maniac is not implying that this lady with nylons and sandals on, oh and a HUGE OREO HAT smokes marijuana cigarettes. Also, this picture is from the TrueMajority website.)

The first indication of this trend came from an unreliable source, the internet. In a discussion thread on Digg, there were 148 comments posted under the headline "Oreo Clearly Tries to Capture the Marijuana Market w/ New "Cakesters." Most of them don't make all that much sense and half of the posters are disappointed that the string wasn't *more* about pot.

I dismissed this notion without further thought until the reputable and high minded Express newspaper set forth a strikingly similar argument in a column entitled "Styles Test: Pizza Gone Wrong."

"People need to stop messing with Oreos. First, there were the Cakesters, which are unholy. And right behind them on the profane train is the new Oreo Dessert Pizza from Domino's."

Ok, so I haven't had the Oreo 'za, but I think that commercial with the weird "Oreo Dessert Pizza Beard" set up is funny, even though no one else does. Nonetheless, Express goes on to say that an office taste tester said "people who are high will love this." UNBELIEVABLE!

I can't tell who is being slandered more here, the Oreo or the cannabis-enthusiast.

snacks at sea

SnackManiac hit the beach a few weeks ago in Maine where there was some serious coastal snacking. I ate many (MANY) Congdon's donuts while there. Much like fresh fruits and vegetables, these fresh DONUTS made me feel healthy and alive, my heart was pumping extra loud and hard (STRONG) after chowing on four or five of these.




I wasn't the only one on vacation, check out this picture of a Heath Bar blizzard catching some rays!!!