You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead, or in their lie...The Handi-Snacks Cheese Spreader Poll

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As of October 2014, Mondelez International offers a variety of items under the Handi-Snacks name. Mondelez International now offers breadsticks or pretzels with cheese and Oreo cookie sticks and cream cheese in addition to the traditional crackers and cheese.
Recently, the company stopped putting the red stick in with the crackers.

This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
I used the stick and I am missing that stick 21
I used the stick because it was there but I do not miss the stick 3
I never used the stick but you don't miss your water until the well runs dry and I am now missing that stick 2
I never used the stick and I'm glad that stick is gone 1


you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:48 (seven years ago)

used the stick and miss it

Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:51 (seven years ago)

Strictly a Toast Chee man myself, but how do you spread the cheese without the red stick?

how's life, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 18:57 (seven years ago)

instead of spread-spread-spread and bite-bite-bite. you now must dip-bite, dip-bite, dip-bite.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:00 (seven years ago)

as a kid i definitely scooped the cheese out with my finger and ate it straight but even then i knew how wrong it was. the stick separates us from the animals.

orifex, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:09 (seven years ago)

We don't have these in England. It looks like a self assembly Ritz Cheese Sandwich. What's the appeal?

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:13 (seven years ago)

We believe in self-sufficiency here in the States. Furthermore, as the old adage goes, if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself.

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:26 (seven years ago)

Also, let it be known that it is a point of American Pride that goths love processed cheese food.

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:27 (seven years ago)

xxp the cheese bucket is sealed until you peel back the plastic film. this either allows or causes there to be more moisture in the cheese compared to a pre-assembled sandwich. i might be wrong, but cracker sandwich cheese seems too chalky and rigid to easily spread or dip into.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:34 (seven years ago)

The red stick is the same colour and approximately the same size as the spreader that used to be supplied with tubes of Copydex glue.

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:40 (seven years ago)

I usually used the stick but sometimes just dipped the cracker into the cheese. When I first saw these as a kid I thought the cheese section was too small, but in actuality I usually had leftover cheese when the crackers were all gone, which I probably did scoop out with my fingers to make sure I got every last bit. Been awhile since I had one and didn't know they took away the spreader. It's an essential part of the Cheese n' Crackers eating experience (that is what they were originally called IIRC) and should remain.

Lee626, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 21:49 (seven years ago)

Poll needs option: Huh?

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:43 (seven years ago)

I'm pretty sure the stick and the cheese are both made from the same plastic.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 12 October 2017 01:54 (seven years ago)

xp In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one, the one with stickless Handi-Snacks.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:11 (seven years ago)

Disgusting

flappy bird, Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:16 (seven years ago)

the stick is an obvious choking hazard. think of the children lawsuits you savages

rip van wanko, Thursday, 12 October 2017 03:21 (seven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wnJKw-PmA

qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:15 (seven years ago)

one day in 2nd grade me and another kid started quoting this commercial verbatim and then we became best friends

qualx, Thursday, 12 October 2017 04:16 (seven years ago)

what the fuck

what the fuck

j., Thursday, 12 October 2017 05:20 (seven years ago)

Used the stick to divide the cheese well into 4 equal segments for spreading, and miss the stick. A well meaning but dopey neighbor kid actually collected his used sticks in a ziploc baggy, around the time of Garbage Pail Kids.

Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 12 October 2017 08:47 (seven years ago)

If he kept the sticks, he could sell them on eBay and make a fortune.

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Thursday, 12 October 2017 09:26 (seven years ago)

j. otm

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 October 2017 09:32 (seven years ago)

Choc dips resolved this problem by having an edible 'spoon'.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:07 (seven years ago)

Oh God I loved these as a kid. Used the stick. Don't miss it because I am an adult and haven't had these in over 20 years. That said, would miss if I were to eat some today and now I want to but will boycott because no stick.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:15 (seven years ago)

that commercial really tapped into the inherent charismatic persona of the stick

del griffith, Thursday, 12 October 2017 14:18 (seven years ago)

Also, let it be known that it is a point of American Pride that goths love processed cheese food.

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Handi-Snacks or charismatic stick man's coffin? the mystery is gone.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 October 2017 16:19 (seven years ago)

wonder if going stickless helps save the planet or if the sticks were previously made of recycled punch-out scraps from plastic army men that are no longer in style

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:50 (seven years ago)

or if it is the work of a high-paid consultant. the person who advised mcdonald's to put only one half of a slice of american cheese on the filet o' fish had another brilliant stroke.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:52 (seven years ago)

or even a 'highly paid consultant' bc wtf is a 'high-paid consultant.' 'handi-snacks' is fucking with my internal monologue.

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:53 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 30 October 2017 00:01 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 00:01 (seven years ago)

a classic 21-3-2-1 split

you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 00:47 (seven years ago)

five months pass...

apologies to anyone hoping this revive is related to a reintroduction of the thin red stick. i've nothing as exciting as that to share in this or any thread today. or ever. but someone is still stocking the breakroom cabinet with these on occasion, and i've noticed that this most recent batch features crackers that have been over-toasted. they have a brownish hue and subtle burnt nutty flavor. i don't think i've ever encountered a snack food produced at this scale with this kind of process variability. or perhaps the variability is common out in the wild, but most manufacturers catch and bin any burnt product to protect the brand. either way, i'm starting to respect the fuck-it-let's-just-do-it-and-be-legends cheek of the current Mondelez International management.

Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 April 2018 22:18 (seven years ago)

Love Kaukana spreadable cheese, ahh handisnax for grow ups

brimstead, Thursday, 12 April 2018 23:56 (seven years ago)

Whatever happened to Wispride? Overnight it was gone and Kaukana took its place.

Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 April 2018 03:40 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

Sarah Handibee-Snackers

del griffith, Friday, 3 August 2018 00:02 (six years ago)


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