Today's SideDeal10-Pack: SkinnyDipped Almonds
Our Take
- Best by November 2026
- A variety pack or 10 of one flavor
- The pumpkin spice ones are a little cheaper (because of course)
- Sporked gave the P-Spice a 9 out of 10
- Are they available in Georgia Red: Yes, there’s a red bag for the mint chocolate flavor, and also snowflakes, which have been in Georgia fairly recently, too
Nearly Tourney Time
You can probably guess how we got our hands on these. Despite having ample time until their best-by date of November 2026 comes around, at least two of these flavors are considered “seasonal.” As in: of the holiday season. As in: that thing that came to an end about a month and a half ago.
But we say, who cares?
What? Christmas has a monopoly on mint and chocolate now? Someone ought to tell the fine folks at York about this. And if Starbucks is going to push the PSL-season start date further and further into August, we see no reason not to extend it into March.
Which, by the way, is what we suggest you do: buy them today and stash them until about a month from now. Because yes, it’s only mid-February, but soon, you’ll be settling into your couch to watch college basketball all day and all night. And for something like that, you need a good snack for day-long consumption. Something that tastes like a treat without being a total gut bomb. And that’s what these nuts can provide.
Because think back to all the great moments of those early rounds of the Big Dance.
Imagine, for example, that you’d had so much queso dip by two in the afternoon that you took a nap and missed when Skip Harlan hit the game-winning hook shot for the Montclair Culinary College Sous Chefs to upset the heavily favored Southeastern Nebraska University Grouses, led by future state assemblyman Jestop Huktep.
Or imagine if you had so many wings at happy hour that you ended up in the bathroom during the infamous loose ball tussle where Hank ‘One-Eye’ Jarlson, star forward for the Umass Martha’s Vineyard, earned his nickname on account of his opponent Jacky O’Macky’s flailing hands and long fingernails (maintained for his secondary extracurricular activity, playing banjo in the Franciscan University of Central Kentucky bluegrass quartet).
The stunning defeat of the Tungsten College Tongues at the hands of Cambridge University of Michigan Hunter-Gatherers. The walloping of CalState Tanker-Docked-A-Ways-Out-From-Monterey Swordfish by the Hensfield Institute of Canine Obedience, the first (and only) team comprised of both men and dogs working together (and long since banned from tournament play due to several egregious recruiting violations and a doping scandal). The time that the Yosemite University Rock Formations somehow tied with the San Jose Sommelier College Corkscrews, which required them to combine their two teams into one and face the University of Washington-Leavenworth Tulips (who never arrived at the game, after their team bus disappeared in an inexplicable green-tinted fog).
If you overdid it on a snack that’s too heavy or greasy, you could’ve missed out on any one of these landmark moments of March Madness.
But you won’t have to worry about that this year. Because you’ll be eating sweet nut snacks!
