@mikesmells Sam’s club had these about a year ago. They were about to expire and I bought a box for like $2.91. For what they are they’re pretty good. Don’t know anything about the saving lives part though.
Do they make a “This Tastes Good” bar? The branding gives me the impression that the actual product is an afterthought. But maybe I’m wrong and they’re good.
@awk The ones I bought at Costco (it was the last box they had) were okay. Not outstanding, but definitely okay, which is a hell of a lot better than some of the others. (Let us not even start to discuss “protein bars”.)
@dave@fuzzmanmatt I lost a 603 several weeks back (and previously had several-hundred streaks). I’ve since fallen off the clicking wagon, and it’s very freeing to not have to remember every night/day!
@fuzzmanmatt I was going for a 535 streak and bought something and forgot to click the meh face. I contacted Meh to inform them that since the idea is to make sure I was on the site, that I should be allowed to continue my streak.
@DemonMF777@fuzzmanmatt@Kyeh Oh, there’s definitely others with longer streaks. As you can see, once I lost mine I pretty much stopped caring about it. I try to click every day but I find myself missing the random ones now. I’m forever broken.
@cinoclav@DemonMF777@fuzzmanmatt@Kyeh And I messed up and clicked on it by accident today, increasing my count by one from the 1333 that I had decided to stay parked on. Dammit.
@cengland0@cinoclav@DemonMF777@fuzzmanmatt@Kyeh I have 408 in a row max, I just screwed up, 11 days ago, with a run that was approaching 150. My total is 6043. Clearly I have messed up over and over.
@cinoclav@DemonMF777@Kyeh it was never about streaking longer than anybody else, just beating my personal best. It’s so much effort, mentally, to be better than myself. Though, clicking a button every day doesn’t necessarily meet society’s idea of being better.
@cinoclav I just saw that I misstyped; I meant to say “none of us.” I’m pretty sure there’s still someone out there who’s quietly maintained a streak from day 1…
i did some research, and it turns out that these bars actually doom children when purchased, instead of saving them as intended, which is why they had to be discontinued. this effect persists even after the initial sale, so please be aware of the consequences before purchasing.
Does this snack save lives because I then don’t eat other species or my own species ? As I told my kid once - “There are good reasons why some species eat their young”, to which she said, “Mom you hate to cook. You wouldn’t know how to cook me.”. I told her, “There is always the internet.”.
CamelCamelCamel says the Amazon price for these was about $21 for a box of 12 from March 2020 until earlier today () so if anyone’s gaming out the value the “usual” price for 72 should really be closer to $126 instead of $177.
@robson It’s alright usually, it’s a natural sweetener and fiber from chicory. Unfortunately, some folks like my wife are allergic to it. Chicory has like 7 different names, too, so it’s a pain to check for them all all the time.
I would get these for myself but I’m not big on these flavors, whereas they’re her favorites! Lose-lose, lol.
@Telanis Thanks for pointing out that there exist different names surrounding inulin; I had a vague sense that was the case and now I know more about it!
@robson fun inulin fact. Sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) are chock full of inulin. Got some in my farm share and they were delicious but they definitely lived up to their other nickname - fartichokes.
I tried a box of these from Costco, if memory serves. It was a different flavor, something without caramel or sea salt or whatever the third one is, and they were okay. Just okay. Which is better than I can say for some of the other bars I’ve tried, quite a few of which were downright awful. And that’s why there are only a very small number of granola bars that I will buy at all. Experimentally, the number is now zero.
Mehhh… I’m allergic to legumes, including peanuts, and the non-peanut ones have pea protein. Ironically, pea-protein isolate is pretty potent stuff (that’s how everyone makes their protein claims these days), so I’d probably have a worse reaction to the non-peanut ones!
Pitch from the MBA from Daddy’s Alma Mater CEO: This is a nut and grain bar just like Kind, but this one saves lives!
Okay, here are millions!!! Hope you make the tee time this weekend.
This may be one of the more offensive marketing things. Thank you, writers, for giving it hell. But JFC. “This saves people” My god, they got their marketing degree from the same med school that Rocco takes you to for a kidney transplant.
@KNmeh7 If you want actual marketing talent, the MBA from Daddy’s Alma Mater CEO making millions needs to spend more to get talented employees. Maybe Junior needs to get a side hustle or cut back on overpaying for single-family homes to convert to unaffordable rental properties.
For a $20/hr marketing grad with $60K in student debt, three words cribbed from the legacy admission CEO’s elevator speech is the best you’ll get.
@mike808 someone should tell that marketing student that if they want to make more money starting from the point of not working very hard may not be the most productive idea.
Anyone who’s had these, are they a chewy kind of granola bar, or a hard a rocks kind? Interested but only if I can be assured I won’t chip a tooth on them.
@jdude727@shllybkwrm
I had one years ago and it was a chewy kind of bar. It had almost like rice Krispy balls in it that gave it a really nice texture. I also had one that was expired and it was hard chewy in not a good way that hurt your jaw to chew. I’ve had the Madagascar vanilla favor which was awesome and then then chocolate Carmel or something other which was just okay.
Have you never had a plain can of green beans and a can of tuna for dinner when you look through what your local food pantry provided or can get at the grocery store with a WIC or SNAP benefits card?
Clearly you don’t cook your daily gruel with spices to make it actually taste like something.
Also important - spices are not considered “food” items by the USDA or HHS, and so are NOT covered by WIC or SNAP benefits programs. Meaning you can’t even buy salt and pepper with food stamps at the grocery store.
So, yeah, I’m going to applaud the audacity of someone to actually think about their gift to help feed someone beyond dropping a $20 in the local food pantry donation pot, and donate spices (good ones at that, so bonus props for giving Penzey’s, although you can give more spices to more families by giving basic brand spices).
@allthatisjosh ProTip: Don’t give spice mixes. They often are loaded with salt, and the mixes don’t always go with available ingredients or you just don’t like <whatever> blend enough to use up a cup of the stuff before the next century.
Small sample packs are OK, because you can use them up in a meal or two and switch to something else, and not get stuck having to eat “fajita” flavored food for the next month or two to use it up.
Also, in smaller sizes, you can give 4 small 1/4 cup jars to 4 different people instead of a single 1 cup jar to one person.
@mike808 lolol, ok, this whole thread is mocking a brand for patting itself on the back for altruism. But you right, #spicesSaveLives
/giphy the more you know
Specs
Product: 72-Pack: This Saves Lives Snack Bars
Model: 850005582229, 850005582236, 850005582144
Condition: New
What’s Included?
OR
Price Comparison
$149.99 (for 72) at This Saves Lives
$176.58 (for 72) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Nov 27 - Tuesday, Nov 28
Anyone ever eaten these? They look good.
@mikesmells Sam’s club had these about a year ago. They were about to expire and I bought a box for like $2.91. For what they are they’re pretty good. Don’t know anything about the saving lives part though.
@mikesmells these are my favorite bars by FAR. They’re delicious.
Wholesome you
say?
Apparently they’re 5G…AND 6G!
@ybmuG Strap yourself in and feel the Gs!
@ybmuG So that’s where the G-spot is!
@ybmuG 6G reception only if you got the vaccine.
Do they make a “This Tastes Good” bar? The branding gives me the impression that the actual product is an afterthought. But maybe I’m wrong and they’re good.
@awk The ones I bought at Costco (it was the last box they had) were okay. Not outstanding, but definitely okay, which is a hell of a lot better than some of the others. (Let us not even start to discuss “protein bars”.)
@awk they’re super good
Whelp, I screwed up, missed yesterday. 662 days in a row. Not gonna buy this, might not even try for a streak anymore. Dang it.
@fuzzmanmatt If it helps, you just beat my longest streak of 658. (I had a second longest of 372 or so but lost it a couple months ago. 49 right now.)
@dave I was gunning for two years! Ah well. That’s just what happens when you get distracted by real life.
@dave @fuzzmanmatt I lost a 603 several weeks back (and previously had several-hundred streaks). I’ve since fallen off the clicking wagon, and it’s very freeing to not have to remember every night/day!
@fuzzmanmatt I was going for a 535 streak and bought something and forgot to click the meh face. I contacted Meh to inform them that since the idea is to make sure I was on the site, that I should be allowed to continue my streak.
Their response, “No.”
@fuzzmanmatt My best was 687… down to only 17 now! LOL
@DemonMF777 @fuzzmanmatt
Mine was at 951. But none of have anything like @cinoclav’s streak, sadly broken not long ago:
@DemonMF777 @fuzzmanmatt @Kyeh Oh, there’s definitely others with longer streaks. As you can see, once I lost mine I pretty much stopped caring about it. I try to click every day but I find myself missing the random ones now. I’m forever broken.
@cinoclav @DemonMF777 @fuzzmanmatt @Kyeh And I messed up and clicked on it by accident today, increasing my count by one from the 1333 that I had decided to stay parked on. Dammit.
@DemonMF777 @fuzzmanmatt
@cinoclav
Well, @Cengland0 has a pretty formidable streak.
@cengland0 @cinoclav @DemonMF777 @fuzzmanmatt @Kyeh I have 408 in a row max, I just screwed up, 11 days ago, with a run that was approaching 150. My total is 6043. Clearly I have messed up over and over.
@cinoclav @DemonMF777 @Kyeh it was never about streaking longer than anybody else, just beating my personal best. It’s so much effort, mentally, to be better than myself. Though, clicking a button every day doesn’t necessarily meet society’s idea of being better.
@cinoclav I just saw that I misstyped; I meant to say “none of us.” I’m pretty sure there’s still someone out there who’s quietly maintained a streak from day 1…
i did some research, and it turns out that these bars actually doom children when purchased, instead of saving them as intended, which is why they had to be discontinued. this effect persists even after the initial sale, so please be aware of the consequences before purchasing.
I’m already sold! No need to sell me on more of these!
@omally Like the granola bars with metal shavings?
@caffeineguy I’ve eaten almost all of the Julie’s granola bars that meh sold and so far I am still not metal
@omally
How does it doom children?
Does this snack save lives because I then don’t eat other species or my own species ? As I told my kid once - “There are good reasons why some species eat their young”, to which she said, “Mom you hate to cook. You wouldn’t know how to cook me.”. I told her, “There is always the internet.”.
meh stated,
I guess the bar is really
lowmeh then. Right? And those of us who buy this, bar none, are certifiable?Are barbaric barmen barred from bartering for bargain bars?
Asking for a friend.
CamelCamelCamel says the Amazon price for these was about $21 for a box of 12 from March 2020 until earlier today (
) so if anyone’s gaming out the value the “usual” price for 72 should really be closer to $126 instead of $177.
Inulin is the 2nd ingredient in all of these.
Thoughts? Is that problematic? Seems like too much… I did look inulin up on Wikipedia, but I really know nothing about it. Any help is appreciated.
@robson It’s alright usually, it’s a natural sweetener and fiber from chicory. Unfortunately, some folks like my wife are allergic to it. Chicory has like 7 different names, too, so it’s a pain to check for them all all the time.
I would get these for myself but I’m not big on these flavors, whereas they’re her favorites! Lose-lose, lol.
@Telanis Thanks for pointing out that there exist different names surrounding inulin; I had a vague sense that was the case and now I know more about it!
https://essentialstacks.com/blogs/gut-health/inulin-chicory-root-fiber#1
@robson fun inulin fact. Sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) are chock full of inulin. Got some in my farm share and they were delicious but they definitely lived up to their other nickname - fartichokes.
Still thinking of getting these.
I tried a box of these from Costco, if memory serves. It was a different flavor, something without caramel or sea salt or whatever the third one is, and they were okay. Just okay. Which is better than I can say for some of the other bars I’ve tried, quite a few of which were downright awful. And that’s why there are only a very small number of granola bars that I will buy at all. Experimentally, the number is now zero.
Mehhh… I’m allergic to legumes, including peanuts, and the non-peanut ones have pea protein. Ironically, pea-protein isolate is pretty potent stuff (that’s how everyone makes their protein claims these days), so I’d probably have a worse reaction to the non-peanut ones!
Excepting, of course, if I purchase these, don’t like them, then try to give them away.
/purchase
@phendrick Does the artificially unintelligent mehbot not have access to an online thesaurus?
@phendrick No. It was not programmed to consult one. This is a Feature.
@phendrick it’s not that awesome…
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
Here is how it went down.
Pitch from the MBA from Daddy’s Alma Mater CEO: This is a nut and grain bar just like Kind, but this one saves lives!
Okay, here are millions!!! Hope you make the tee time this weekend.
This may be one of the more offensive marketing things. Thank you, writers, for giving it hell. But JFC. “This saves people” My god, they got their marketing degree from the same med school that Rocco takes you to for a kidney transplant.
@KNmeh7 If you want actual marketing talent, the MBA from Daddy’s Alma Mater CEO making millions needs to spend more to get talented employees. Maybe Junior needs to get a side hustle or cut back on overpaying for single-family homes to convert to unaffordable rental properties.
For a $20/hr marketing grad with $60K in student debt, three words cribbed from the legacy admission CEO’s elevator speech is the best you’ll get.
@KNmeh7 Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness. I would have stayed up with you all night had I known…
Ah! nvm, got it, I’ll make a granola bar. #FrayMarketing
@mike808 someone should tell that marketing student that if they want to make more money starting from the point of not working very hard may not be the most productive idea.
Anyone who’s had these, are they a chewy kind of granola bar, or a hard a rocks kind? Interested but only if I can be assured I won’t chip a tooth on them.
@jdude727 Yeah, I’d like to know too before buying 72 whole bars!
@jdude727 @shllybkwrm
I had one years ago and it was a chewy kind of bar. It had almost like rice Krispy balls in it that gave it a really nice texture. I also had one that was expired and it was hard chewy in not a good way that hurt your jaw to chew. I’ve had the Madagascar vanilla favor which was awesome and then then chocolate Carmel or something other which was just okay.
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
I just donated food to the food pantry. Actually, spices. Penzeys. So… I just saved a life! This marketing is so insulting.
@KNmeh7 I’m just thinking of the poor hungry children that are going to sit down to a satiating meal of spices.
@allthatisjosh @KNmeh7
I am too.
Have you never had a plain can of green beans and a can of tuna for dinner when you look through what your local food pantry provided or can get at the grocery store with a WIC or SNAP benefits card?
Clearly you don’t cook your daily gruel with spices to make it actually taste like something.
Also important - spices are not considered “food” items by the USDA or HHS, and so are NOT covered by WIC or SNAP benefits programs. Meaning you can’t even buy salt and pepper with food stamps at the grocery store.
So, yeah, I’m going to applaud the audacity of someone to actually think about their gift to help feed someone beyond dropping a $20 in the local food pantry donation pot, and donate spices (good ones at that, so bonus props for giving Penzey’s, although you can give more spices to more families by giving basic brand spices).
/image the audacity of this
@allthatisjosh ProTip: Don’t give spice mixes. They often are loaded with salt, and the mixes don’t always go with available ingredients or you just don’t like <whatever> blend enough to use up a cup of the stuff before the next century.
Small sample packs are OK, because you can use them up in a meal or two and switch to something else, and not get stuck having to eat “fajita” flavored food for the next month or two to use it up.
Also, in smaller sizes, you can give 4 small 1/4 cup jars to 4 different people instead of a single 1 cup jar to one person.
@mike808 lolol, ok, this whole thread is mocking a brand for patting itself on the back for altruism. But you right, #spicesSaveLives
/giphy the more you know
Pass. I’ll take the “This Saves Money” option.
While heavy handed, I’m sure the marketing comes from a good place…
[1]:
get it… A Good Place
F*ing chicory root! It should be renamed to “This Causes Explosive Gas”.
This is a great deal. I’ve tried them and love them. they are what I wished kind bars would be.
I don’t need, really don’t want, don’t have approval from SWMBO but I’ve really wanted to try this. So here we goat.
/buy
@capnjb Sorry, this deal contains 2 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. You can review how to pick one, or just try ordering from the checkout page.
@mediocrebot Dammit!
Ok… one more go… probably wont work… or I’m going to get a lot of granola.
/buy color – variety pack
@capnjb geeze… guess it can’t be in a response. This is cutting edge
/buy color – variety pack
@capnjb Sorry, this deal contains 2 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. You can review how to pick one, or just try ordering from the checkout page.
@mediocrebot Ok. I guess we all lose. I’ll go to the order page. Jerks.
/giphy indefatigable-perforated-voyage
Kind of like my colon. #dadjoke
@capnjb I lay prostrate before thee, honouring thy patrician wit.
@mike808 Dude… or should I say Deuteronomy.
@mike808 And for what it’s worth, there is a very big difference between prostrate and prostate. #themoreyouknow
@capnjb If the shoe fits, beware it.
@capnjb For what it’s worth, there’s a very big difference between Deuteronomy and two pairs of jeans.
Added sugar: 7, 9, & 9 grams per bar. No thanks.
These actually taste quite good to me - all 3 flavors
I just tried one. Yuck. Then I looked at the date. The “best by” date was Jan 22, almost a year old. That is not what they said when I bought them.
@customers If you’re running low on Snack Bars we’ve got 'em even cheaper today at Meh, and if you’ve already picked up extras, share your review with the community!