The sour cream-based flavors are very tangy and not available un-blasted, so if that’s your jam, you might choose these. They come in several flavors, including Xtra Cheesy Pizza, Cheddar & Sour Cream, Sour Cream & Onion, and several names for cheddar each more ridiculous than the last. Campbell'sĬampbell’s says these are one of its best-selling lines. Heather Martin Flavor Blasted Flavor Blasted Goldfish have a salty powdered coating and come in several tangy and cheesy flavors. As a nutritional professional, I assure you this is totally normal behavior. Grade: B Express yourself with different sizes of Goldfish crackers. I would probably prefer these two if the seasoning were tweaked a bit, but they’re solid offerings, and they allow for more interesting artistic expression with your food-related mosaics. It’s not the size of the cracker that matters, though it’s the savor of the flavor. Oh, these are your favorite and you want to tell me all about it? Sure, just dial 1-800-COME-ON-MAN to lodge a complaint. Making them into a fish shape in a cruel parody of a beloved childhood experience adds insult to injury. Regardless of shape, pretzels are objectively the worst snack. Grade: C Pretzel Pretzel Goldfish taste like any other crunch pretzel - ho-hum. The flavors are too aggressive to eat more than just a few, although they work well in the new Goldfish Mixes or added to trail mix and bento box lunches. To their credit, these two varieties use the ingredients from the flavor names, but not as successfully as the Cheddar. If pressed, I’d say the pizza brand they most taste like is the Chef Boyardee kind, out of the box. It may just be that they are tied together in my memory, but eating these is reminiscent of nothing so much as a scratch-and-sniff sticker of a slice. As with most things I don’t like, my main issue is that there’s not enough cheese they mostly taste like pizza sauce, heavy on the tomato paste and celery seed, which is somewhat credibly standing in for uncured pepperoni. It may be one of the original five flavors, but I can’t understand the lasting popularity. Grade: C Pizza If you like tomato paste and celery seed pizza, this is the snack cracker for you. It might be my imagination, but it seems like the Whole Grain ones hold their smiles a little better than average, too. The Whole Grain version is one of the best-tasting, healthy-ish whole-grain cracker options out there, with a fine texture and no attempt at the usual healthy food devil’s bargain: the addition of sugar to tempt the little ones. They’re not greasy like chips, either, despite the cheese. The cheddar powder is baked right in, so it has a toasted quality that is hard to reproduce with added flavorings, and there’s no messy powder coating. The original flavors of Goldfish crackers sold in 1962 were: Salted (now called Original), Barbecue, Pizza, Cheese and Smoky. This flavor and color are so iconic and ubiquitous that many assume it’s the true original, but Campbell’s told me it was actually introduced four years after the initial five flavors of Original, Cheese, Pizza, Barbecue and the vintage flavor I most wish I could time-travel to try: Smoky. Grade: B- Cheddar & Whole-Grain Cheddar With a little protein and some extra fiber, but not at the sacrifice of taste or texture, Whole Grain Cheddar Goldfish are at the coolest in the school. Otherwise, though, there’s not enough “there there” to serve as a stand-alone snack. They contain a little protein in the form of milk, but no cheese, so if you are extremely tangy-averse, these might be your Goldfish of choice, and they make a great soup or salad garnish. Kambly in honor of his wife’s astrological sign, Pisces, and first sold under the Pepperidge Farms label in the US in 1962. I would have bet these were American through-and-through, but according to Campbell’s, the Goldfish cracker was invented by Swiss cookie manufacturer Oscar J. These are the tastiest plain old oyster crackers you’ll ever have. Who makes the grade? Let’s put them to the test! Original Original flavor Goldfish are lightly salted and mildly flavored. 1 snack brand, and nearly half its sales are to households without children. In fact, Campbell’s says teens rank them as their No. Although you might think of them as kiddie fare, they’ve been to outer space at astronaut request, and some of their limited edition flavors are very grown-up indeed. I talked with Campbell’s, the maker of Goldfish, about the upcoming 60th anniversary of the crackers, and the company told me it now makes more than 25 varieties, totaling 187.6 billion individual crackers every year. I’ll get to the taste test in a minute, but this got us thinking: How many flavors of Goldfish crackers are there in this crunchy school of fish? We decided to check out the whole range for a definitive ranking of this tiny icon.
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