@courteousblock I mean. You do know “expiration” dates are completely made up nonsense especially for sealed shelf stable food? Right? Please tell me you know that?
Chuck half in the freezer if you really care about the made up date and want them. Peanut butter cups are always good “frozen”
@courteousblock@sdencar
foods with high fat content (like peanut butter) DO actually have a potential to get rancid. That being said, there is generally a LARGE window of time they are fine still. I rarely look at BB or eat by dates, unless I am eating something I know is out of date and then it’s morbid curiosity!
@chienfou@courteousblock@sdencar I go with the sniff test. Yes. I’m aware that’s not always definitive. And yes aware of fats going rancid. But I store those things pretty well. Until the seal is broken fat can’t go rancid as there is no oxygen to react with.
I had some milk dated 12/14 I just hadn’t opened and it’s completely fine.
@unksol
Just used some from 12/28 a couple of days ago.
Ditto with egg dates. “Bad” milk is still fine to cook/bake with for pancakes etc. (Think buttermilk)
These have 32% less sugar than other chocolate peanut butter cups because they are 35% smaller than other chocolate peanut butter cups. Oh, and they contain Blue Agave, which is technically not sugar.
@hchavers Agave “nectar” (syrup) is sugar, and worse, it’s mostly fructose, which is particularly bad for its action in causing the generation of the smallest LDL particles.
@hchavers@stttttttoeksoskProof would require that you be able to follow the intricacies of the fructose metabolic path in the liver, where the process results in the formation of VLDL particles. A small number of them need to get generated to replace lipid particles that are completely used up, but large quantities of VLDL will contribute to the implanting of lipid plaques. The tiniest particles can easily embed themselves where the bigger ones can’t.
Unreal (the snack company, not the graphics engine)
Thanks for the clarification. I thought maybe these were some kind of uncanny valley approximation to actual dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
Wait, they put WHAT into these?
Mmmm: INULIN… TWICE. Pure fart fuel, if you’re lucky. For the initiated, inulin is a type of sugar that’s more or less undigestable so it shows up in “diet” foods. However just because the human stomach can’t adequately break it down doesn’t mean OTHER things can’t break it down, so it tends to ferment by the time it makes it into the lower intestines leading to noxious fumes (at least) and occasionally a fart-carbonated fecal liquid tsunami, like cracking a shaken can of devil’s beer. Add in that it’s already delivered in a chocolatey load from the top end… Straight shartnado. This oughtta be classified as a munition.
Edit: In for two. Valentine’s is gonna be a blast!
@blaadnort Amused by your writing! But also remember that inulin is an effective prebiotic, feeding the good bugs in your gut. As they say in the Rx world, “the dose makes the poison!”
I’ve had these and their coconut bars. In order to cut back on straight sugar and overall sweetness. The inulin in them is very little. For me, no farts, no Tsunassmi of brown etc. If you are actually looking for a snack that reasonably approximates the brand name PBcups, this is fairly good. If you like full up sugar, you are going to meh, bleh, yuck these as they are way less sweet.
The quinoa gives a crunch without overpowering the PBcup. For those trying to get off/reduce sugar, decent sub.
The price compared to current on the shelf is great, in for a few orders!
Do Not Want. I like peanut butter, and I like dark chocolate, but I detest the combination of the two. It’s not as vile and awful as the combination of milk chocolate and peanut butter, but I will still leave all of this for others to eat. And that’s without even taking the presence of agave syrup into account.
I’ve picked up the mounds version of these at Costco and they are really tasty. They really help when a sugar craving hits though I have found different bags have different textured coconut so I’m imagining these will be a bit more consistent bag to bag.
I have yet to find a commercial peanut butter cup that I like better than just a square of semi-sweet dark chocolate, a smear of peanut butter and a small sprinkle of salt. The packaged ones are all too sweet for my tastes.
I’d just rather waste my excess calorie count on something more delicious.
Personally, i’ll take a ten-ounce Delmonico, medium, well-seared. And a spud with lots of bacon bits and butter, and some garlic salt. (I have simple but not always inexpensive tastes.)
@ravenblack Mine were full sized but Almond Butter and no Quinoa. They must have run out and sold more than they had and filled orders with whatever they could instead.
Arrived today in fine condition. Actually pleased to see that there were six 8-packs of the described peanut butter ones, and six 6-packs of non-quinoa almond butter cups. So 12 fewer cups but hey, variety!
@TaRDy I got the same two boxes of something that I didn’t order, the almond butter. Two words that should never be in the same sentence…almond butter.
@TaRDy@thevorlon Me too! I feel like a jerk complaining since they are very similar, but honestly I wouldn’t have bought it if it had said Almond butter.
To be honest…I actually think I like the almond butter ones better than I would have liked the quinoa ones, so I’m not upset by this entirely. One bag down and ready for the next.
@TaRDy I wondered if I had made a choice then forgot about it - I got half peanut butter, half almond. The boxes look nearly identical. I wonder if no one even noticed they weren’t all peanut butter.
Just got them today. 4 boxes of peanut butter. I think I had these years ago, but never got them since because they were too expensive. Couldn’t pass these up. They far exceeded my expectations, especially considering the expiration date, which I’m not really worried about. They are definitely dark and creamy with a slight not-too-much crunch.
I’m aware of the inulin thing, so I’m purposefully avoiding eating too many at once until I’m sure. But I’m fairly sure I’ve had it before and haven’t had an issue.
If all continues to go well, my only regret will be not getting more.
I got two of the peanut butter cases. The chocolate is dark and tasty, but the quinoa adds an odd, slightly chemical flavor. I assume it is just a remnant of the crisping process. The real disappointment is the peanut butter. There isn’t much of it and what is there barely has any flavor. I wish they had skipped the quinoa and added more flavorful peanut butter. We’ll eat them, but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.
Just received mine yesterday. They definitely fill the need for a chocolate/PB fix and they are smaller, which is actually a good thing for me.
I’m also pleasantly surprised at the taste factor - they aren’t Reese’s cups but they also don’t have the overbearing greasiness that those have. Also I don’t find them as addictive as the Trader Joe’s dark PB cups - I am fine eating one or two of these, rather than the downward spiral of choco-coma that ensues when I crack open the TJ brand.
I worked with support on this and they really do a great job taking care of their customers. This is the 2nd time I’ve had to use support since Meh debuted and both experiences were amazing! This is a great company to do business with.
Specs
Product: 12-Pack: Unreal Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups With Crispy Quinoa (96 cups)
Model: 855571005479
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$53.98 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Jan 23 - Tuesday, Jan 24
There should be a tournament for eating these things.
Less than 20 cents per piece.
Yay!
@Euniceandrich tiny ½ ounce cups, so $6 a pound.
Are these at least size “C” cups?
I see many trips to the bathroom
Unsure if my partner and I can eat 96 peanut butter cups between now and Feb.
@courteousblock YOU CAN DO IT!!!
@courteousblock I mean. You do know “expiration” dates are completely made up nonsense especially for sealed shelf stable food? Right? Please tell me you know that?
Chuck half in the freezer if you really care about the made up date and want them. Peanut butter cups are always good “frozen”
@courteousblock these are good for at least a couple more years.
@courteousblock - well not with that attitude!
@courteousblock @sdencar
foods with high fat content (like peanut butter) DO actually have a potential to get rancid. That being said, there is generally a LARGE window of time they are fine still. I rarely look at BB or eat by dates, unless I am eating something I know is out of date and then it’s morbid curiosity!
@chienfou @courteousblock @sdencar I go with the sniff test. Yes. I’m aware that’s not always definitive. And yes aware of fats going rancid. But I store those things pretty well. Until the seal is broken fat can’t go rancid as there is no oxygen to react with.
I had some milk dated 12/14 I just hadn’t opened and it’s completely fine.
@unksol
Just used some from 12/28 a couple of days ago.
Ditto with egg dates. “Bad” milk is still fine to cook/bake with for pancakes etc. (Think buttermilk)
You know if I buy these, imma house the whole 560-calorie bag in one go each time I open one.
/giphy it’s a trap
@CraigDanger YES
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups…
Oh nice, Meh is finally selling some normal food!
…With Crispy Quinoa
Dammit!
0.5oz cups
Lol what a joke
Two forms of inulin included to accelerate those pesky bathroom visits. I’ll pass… pun intended. Ohhh palm oil!
$6 a pound, meh
/giphy nice-slick-glove
These have 32% less sugar than other chocolate peanut butter cups because they are 35% smaller than other chocolate peanut butter cups. Oh, and they contain Blue Agave, which is technically not sugar.
@hchavers Agave “nectar” (syrup) is sugar, and worse, it’s mostly fructose, which is particularly bad for its action in causing the generation of the smallest LDL particles.
Do Not Want.
@hchavers it is based on weight…so your statement is inaccurate.
@hchavers @werehatrack proof? Y’all jus saying anything
@hchavers @stttttttoeksosk Proof would require that you be able to follow the intricacies of the fructose metabolic path in the liver, where the process results in the formation of VLDL particles. A small number of them need to get generated to replace lipid particles that are completely used up, but large quantities of VLDL will contribute to the implanting of lipid plaques. The tiniest particles can easily embed themselves where the bigger ones can’t.
They’re so proud of the quinoa they put it in a smaller font, I thought that was funny.
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Thanks for the clarification. I thought maybe these were some kind of uncanny valley approximation to actual dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
Wait, they put WHAT into these?
Mini peanut butter cups with quinoa - whoa. LOL.
Now if it was 18 for 12 I might… They might be good, or they might be yuck.
Also, getting a wee bit irked with all the super short sell dates guys.
/showme 96 uncanny valley peanut butter cups
/showme 96 uncanny valley peanut butter cups with quinoa
@mediocrebot Proving Quinoa makes a difference
Chocolate liquor as the first ingredient? SOLD to the functioning alcoholic!
@yougotrossed be so fr
Mmmm: INULIN… TWICE. Pure fart fuel, if you’re lucky. For the initiated, inulin is a type of sugar that’s more or less undigestable so it shows up in “diet” foods. However just because the human stomach can’t adequately break it down doesn’t mean OTHER things can’t break it down, so it tends to ferment by the time it makes it into the lower intestines leading to noxious fumes (at least) and occasionally a fart-carbonated fecal liquid tsunami, like cracking a shaken can of devil’s beer. Add in that it’s already delivered in a chocolatey load from the top end… Straight shartnado. This oughtta be classified as a munition.
Edit: In for two. Valentine’s is gonna be a blast!
@blaadnort <finally catches breath> Bless you good sir or madam
@blaadnort Amused by your writing! But also remember that inulin is an effective prebiotic, feeding the good bugs in your gut. As they say in the Rx world, “the dose makes the poison!”
@blaadnort Inulin isn’t as bad as the stuff that was in the long-discontinued Fat-Free Pringles.
https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/182862349.html
@blaadnort @werehatrack Big Food is pure evil. They are successfully poisoning 75% of the world’s population (98% in the US).
Inulin survivors unite!!
I’ve had these and their coconut bars. In order to cut back on straight sugar and overall sweetness. The inulin in them is very little. For me, no farts, no Tsunassmi of brown etc. If you are actually looking for a snack that reasonably approximates the brand name PBcups, this is fairly good. If you like full up sugar, you are going to meh, bleh, yuck these as they are way less sweet.
The quinoa gives a crunch without overpowering the PBcup. For those trying to get off/reduce sugar, decent sub.
The price compared to current on the shelf is great, in for a few orders!
got 3x … yum
/giphy elastic-smiley-chess
@outdoorslife That’s a great giphy.
Do Not Want. I like peanut butter, and I like dark chocolate, but I detest the combination of the two. It’s not as vile and awful as the combination of milk chocolate and peanut butter, but I will still leave all of this for others to eat. And that’s without even taking the presence of agave syrup into account.
Came here to comment on the first heavy metal poisoning dark chocolate comment, was disappointed.
@caffeineguy heavy metal? i love black sabbath
@caffeineguy this doesn’t have heavy metals my guy
I’ve had these, they’re actually pretty good! Like Reese’s and Crunch together. But I really don’t need 12 packs of them.
@LittleRedMello Who said it was about NEED?
How much lead in these?
@Pufferfishy You’re too late, @caffieneguy was here looking for you, but he left.
@Pufferfishy none??
What a waste of Quinoa
I have these. They are really good. Less than $2 a bag is a steal. Totally worth the purchase.
/giphy nuisance-mortal-humor
I’ve picked up the mounds version of these at Costco and they are really tasty. They really help when a sugar craving hits though I have found different bags have different textured coconut so I’m imagining these will be a bit more consistent bag to bag.
And honestly for $20? What a steal.
/buy
@dvdvd77 It worked! Your order number is: synonymous-pretty-ghost
/image synonymous pretty ghost
@mediocrebot Needs a better thesaurus. “Omniscient” can be ugly as hell.
I have yet to find a commercial peanut butter cup that I like better than just a square of semi-sweet dark chocolate, a smear of peanut butter and a small sprinkle of salt. The packaged ones are all too sweet for my tastes.
@macromeh I agree with this part:
Oh, I don’t hate them, I’d just rather waste my excess calorie count on something more delicious.
@Kyeh
Personally, i’ll take a ten-ounce Delmonico, medium, well-seared. And a spud with lots of bacon bits and butter, and some garlic salt. (I have simple but not always inexpensive tastes.)
@werehatrack
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Yeah, I wouldn’t turn that down. As long as someone else cooks it! (Also nice if someone else pays for it …
/buy
@jpmiller03 It worked! Your order number is: rude-lacy-bone
/image rude lacy bone
/giphy superfluous-jaunty-ravioli
The best are the Costco/Kirkland branded Macadamia Nut Clusters with a dollop of Crunchy Peanut Butter
/buy
@TrinSF It worked! Your order number is: sporty-mournful-scrooge
/image sporty mournful scrooge
/buy
@Knightp It worked! Your order number is: worst-guttural-margarita
/image worst guttural margarita
Oh, they’re mini, that’s disappointing.
@ravenblack Mine were full sized but Almond Butter and no Quinoa. They must have run out and sold more than they had and filled orders with whatever they could instead.
Arrived today in fine condition. Actually pleased to see that there were six 8-packs of the described peanut butter ones, and six 6-packs of non-quinoa almond butter cups. So 12 fewer cups but hey, variety!
I got 2 boxes of 6 x 6 - .53 oz dark chocolate almond butter cups… I am not sure yet how I feel about the difference from what was advertised
@TaRDy I got the same two boxes of something that I didn’t order, the almond butter. Two words that should never be in the same sentence…almond butter.
@TaRDy @thevorlon Me too! I feel like a jerk complaining since they are very similar, but honestly I wouldn’t have bought it if it had said Almond butter.
@thevorlon Some folks have peanut allergies, hence other nuts instead.
To be honest…I actually think I like the almond butter ones better than I would have liked the quinoa ones, so I’m not upset by this entirely. One bag down and ready for the next.
@TaRDy I wondered if I had made a choice then forgot about it - I got half peanut butter, half almond. The boxes look nearly identical. I wonder if no one even noticed they weren’t all peanut butter.
Luckily, I like both.
Just got them today. 4 boxes of peanut butter. I think I had these years ago, but never got them since because they were too expensive. Couldn’t pass these up. They far exceeded my expectations, especially considering the expiration date, which I’m not really worried about. They are definitely dark and creamy with a slight not-too-much crunch.
I’m aware of the inulin thing, so I’m purposefully avoiding eating too many at once until I’m sure. But I’m fairly sure I’ve had it before and haven’t had an issue.
If all continues to go well, my only regret will be not getting more.
I got two of the peanut butter cases. The chocolate is dark and tasty, but the quinoa adds an odd, slightly chemical flavor. I assume it is just a remnant of the crisping process. The real disappointment is the peanut butter. There isn’t much of it and what is there barely has any flavor. I wish they had skipped the quinoa and added more flavorful peanut butter. We’ll eat them, but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.
Just received mine yesterday. They definitely fill the need for a chocolate/PB fix and they are smaller, which is actually a good thing for me.
I’m also pleasantly surprised at the taste factor - they aren’t Reese’s cups but they also don’t have the overbearing greasiness that those have. Also I don’t find them as addictive as the Trader Joe’s dark PB cups - I am fine eating one or two of these, rather than the downward spiral of choco-coma that ensues when I crack open the TJ brand.
I worked with support on this and they really do a great job taking care of their customers. This is the 2nd time I’ve had to use support since Meh debuted and both experiences were amazing! This is a great company to do business with.
@etarak44 worked with support… how exactly? Maybe I’m just being nosy, but I’m curious.