Here’s a New York City landmark you can really sink your teeth into — the Statue of Liberty carved from a 1200 lb block of cheese by champion cheese carver Troy Landwehr!

Thanks to CurdNerds for finding and sharing the video!

Popularity: 83% [?]

Reese’s Ultimate Soft Baked Cookies are part of the Hershey’s Vending Product Line, meaning you’re really only supposed to be able to buy them from vending machines but in Tennessee apparently they consider Big Lots stores vending machines!

This peanut butter cookie contains Reese’s peanut butter chips, Hershey’s milk chocolate chips, and the entire bottom of the cookie is dipped in Hershey’s milk chocolate. The cookie is sufficiently soft without the disgusting taste of raisin that many soft cookies contain to keep them soft. As soon as I took my first bite I was reminded of the Nabisco Almost Home peanut butter cookies I loved a little too much as a child.

I had expectations for this cookie, but Reese’s and Hershey’s far exceeded them. I love soft baked cookies, I love peanut butter cookies, I love Reese’s products, and I love Hershey’s products. Put all four together and the best pre-packaged cookie on the planet is hanging out in my mouth being chewed ferociously.

In the “I wish I’d known that before I ate it” department, a single cookie is two servings, each serving weighing in at 170 calories and 8 g of fat. Oddly, the cookie used to be 190 calories and 9 g fat per serving, but the package I picked up in Tennessee clearly states that the same 2.75 oz cookie shown elsewhere on the internet is 20 calories and 1 g fat less per serving. BFD, though, really, it’s still bad for you! So, indulge, eat both halves!

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A glass of milk really hits the spot with this cookie.

Eat your vending machine cookie while watching Neal and Del eat their vending machine food on their way home for Thanksgiving in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Popularity: 100% [?]

Cadbury Mini Eggs are milk chocolate egg-shaped candies coated in a sugar shell. In the United States this product is manufactured by The Hershey Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Each egg is about 3/4 inch long and about 1/2 inch wide at its base. The chocolate inside each egg has a buttery and slightly salty taste to it which makes eating a reasonable number of the eggs pretty much impossible.

The sugar shells are in a variety of pastel colors, with tiny purple speckles on the eggs to give them a robin’s egg appearance. If your hands are warm at all the sugar shell will very quickly dissolve in your hand, so be prepared to lick some sugar off your palm if you decide to hold onto them for any length of time. (Extra treat!)

Cadbury Mini Eggs are only sold during the Western Easter holiday, so it’s a good idea to stock up as soon as you see them in stores. If you participate in Lent and choose to give up chocolate just remember that Sundays are your feast days so you can totally eat these eggs on Sundays! Yay, you!

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An ice-cold Coke goes best with this chocolate. (See? We’re soda neutral here!)

Risky Business is the perfect movie to watch while you snack on this treat. It’s always fun to bite into these eggs while you watch Joel dive through the air to catch his mom’s Fabergé egg!

Popularity: 8% [?]

Never has a candy enjoyed such a rabid cult following as the Peeps Marshmallow Chicks that are manufactured by the Just Born Candy Company of Bethlehem, PA. The original chicks were colored yellow, but over the years the colors have expanded to include purple, green, blue, and Target stores exclusive red.

The candy itself is a simple marshmallow shaped like a chick and coated with colored sugar. While the granular coating provides a course initial texture, beneath is the familiar soft white squishiness of marshmallow that reveals itself as the sugar dissolves on your tongue. The taste is not really original or spectacular. It is uber-sweet and squishy, and marshmallow fans will enjoy it, but in the end it is a sugar coated marshmallow.

However their celebrity as a candy has resulted in a number of uses besides consumption, including what is called Peep Jousting. The basic premise is to lick the right side of two Peeps and stick a toothpick “lance” to its side. Then place both Peeps into your microwave facing each other, turn it on, and the winner is the Peep who does not explode or become deflated. I can think of no other candy that has been forced to fight its own for consumption. Nor can I think of any candy whose fans are crazed enough to think of such a concept.

Hence, while the candy is simple and plain, it has had enough power to inspire a culture around it and therefore I’m giving it around 2 buckets more than I normally would.

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The movie to watch while swallowing those little yellow chicks by the handful is Chicken Run! We can let the Peeps hope before placing them into the microwave arena of death… can’t we?

Popularity: 32% [?]

Asteroids are a puffed corn ball coated in yummy Cheetos cheese. They are smaller than traditional cheese balls, but pack just as much flavor. Each serving contains only 100 calories and 6 grams of fat with 0 grams of trans fat, so you feel like you’re eating something healthy (even though you totally still aren’t).

Asteroids are actually crunchier than regular cheese balls, presumably because less oil is used to make the product which results in a drier snack. Also, the snack is fairly salty tasting so it’s definitely a good idea to have a beverage handy while eating them.

If you like Cheetos crunchy snacks you’re pretty much guaranteed to love Asteroids just as much. As with regular Cheetos, your fingers will definitely be coated with yummy cheesy goodness when you’re done eating them — a snack for later!

There’s never enough in only one package so save yourself the worry and indulge.

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How about a nice Sunkist? Nice and sweet to counter that salty.

And to continue the orange theme I recommend A Clockwork Orange (Two-Disc Special Edition). Nothing wrong with a truly bizarre dystopia film to go with your cheesy treat.

Popularity: 13% [?]

The original Funky Chunky Popcorn from Funky Chunky Inc. is a combination of dark, milk, and white chocolate drizzled over already caramel covered popcorn. Just in case that wouldn’t be enough… they also threw in almonds, pecans and cashews. So if you ever wondered what would happen if you put Cracker Jacks on steroids, this is it.

The tri-chocolate drizzle on top of the caramel covered popcorn alone puts this concoction over the top on sugar, and quite possibly makes it a diabetic’s public enemy number one. Besides the over sweetness (which before this, I never knew there could be such a thing) the problem is the severe lack of a distinct taste. We love each of the chocolates for their individuals flavors, but this carelessly throws them aside for an apparent sugar shock value.

The nuts never really stood a chance with this Frankenstein monster dominating them like the big bad bully in the schoolyard, but are the saving grace of the snack. While being lightly caramelized, they also seemed to avoid the multi-chocolate bath and only had one kind of chocolate or the other.

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Such a funky snack deserves to be consumed while watching Funky Monkey to complete that craptastically funky experience.

We recommend having a few doses of insulin on standby.

Popularity: 21% [?]

Raisinets are another classic candy that has persevered through the ages. Unfortunately, it hasn’t aged as gracefully as others. Introduced in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company (the same company who introduced Goobers), Raisinets became a fast favorite at movie theater concession stands as it mixed the sweetness of chocolate with nature’s own sweet treat in the form of a raisin.

Unfortunately, over the years the raisins in Raisinets are found more often than not to be dehydrated and lacking any sign of juice. This transforms the candy from a moist chocolaty treat to a chewy one. Sadly, while Raisinets continues to be the premiere choice in movie theaters, there are fresher brands of chocolate covered raisins out there. If the lesser known brands can make a moist chocolaty treat, then why can’t the premiere choice?

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For a snack that is older than some dirt and has probably lost its juicy flair, we recommend the classic version of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier. At least you’ll get some satisfaction from the screen if you end up dissatisfied with what was in the box.

Popularity: 6% [?]

For a candy that is over 80 years old (having been trademarked in 1925 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company), Goobers have held up over the years exceptionally well. It’s strength is in its simplicity of two basic snacks mixed together… roasted peanuts covered with milk chocolate.

A classic movie treat, the roasted peanuts hold up especially well beneath the chocolate layer due to their natural oils. The fact that peanuts and chocolate appear in many forms together along numerous product lines helps keep Goobers a popular choice wherever concession stand registers may ring.

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While Goobers is a snack that is practically edible with almost all movies/dvds out there, I have to recommend the classic Peanuts - A Boy Named Charlie Brown to be eaten with a classic snack.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Guinness is a dry stout that originated in the St. James Gate Brewery of Dublin, Ireland. Its distinctive dark ruby color and flavor is the result of unfermented roasted barley used in the process. The stout is named after its brewer, Arthur Guinness, who began brewing it based on the porter style that had originated in London in the late 18th Century. Guinness first exported his brew in 1769 to London, England itself. Since then, Guinness has been recognized around the world through creative advertising and its promotion of Proposition 3-17 to make St. Patrick’s Day an official holiday

Guinness is a heavy brew whether from draft or the can. Its healthy head of light foam covers the liquid below that is heavy to the tongue, and bitter to the palate. Many first time Guinness drinkers will turn away from it, having spent to many years consuming inferior “light” brews. However, once the first pint is down (a pint is the only way to drink Guinness… unless you wish to take the challenge of drinking a yard of it) the second pint, and every one thereafter goes down much smoother. While Guinness has been described as a “meal in a glass”, it actually is not as high in calories as one might think. At only 198 calories per Imperial Pint (20 fl. oz.), it has less calories than the same size bottle of Coca-Cola (240 calories).

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What? Recommending a drink with another drink? This may be the only time this happens… but we need to recommend Bass Ale with Guinness in the form of a Black and Tan. A Black and Tan is a traditionally American drink that features the Guinness layered over the Bass Ale. The two do not mix due to the density of Guinness. The American Black and Tan is made by first filling half the glass with Bass Ale, then pouring the Guinness into the glass over a tablespoon to prevent splashing and the mixing of the layers.

We recommend watching the story of Irish immigrants in Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) while drinking Guinness either straight up, or the American style Black and Tan.

It’s a meal in a glass for pete’s sake! The only thing we may recommend to have on hand would be Emerald Nuts Mixed Nuts. Other than that… the only other thing we can recommend is a designated driver… but you should have one of those for whatever it is that your drinking.

Popularity: 36% [?]

These chips are the perfect amount of salty and sweet with lots of great barbecue flavor on every chip. The mesquite is not overpowering, just enough to make the chip entertaining, but not too much to make it taste like you’re in a smokehouse.

Each chip is cooked in 100% sunflower oil in small batches so they’re extra crunchy. Extra crunchy makes me extra happy, but does not equal extra mess. Sure, there’s a film of barbecue goodness on your fingers when you’re done eating them, but that just means you get to lick your fingers!

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Fried Green Tomatoes (Extended Anniversary Edition) goes well with these chips since, let’s face it, they were making some mighty tasty barbecue in that movie!

Have a Coke and a smile!

Popularity: 7% [?]