Funny, I just found a new Ritz-based snack I love too. It's the Ritz pretzels, pretzel crisp on the outside, buttery Ritz inside. Waaaay to delicious for me to have in the house. I devoured my first box in like 3 days.

OMG, I'm going to have to try both the Fudge Covered Ritz and the pretzel crisp things. I haven't seen either of these in the store, although I didn't even know to look for them.

I did finally try the "Peanut Butter Snickers" about a week ago. They were giving free samples of them at Costco. They were also giving free samples of Macadamia Nut Milk Chocolate Covered Salted Caramel Turtles. Big mistake, DO NOT try these if you see them, just walk right on by. We wound up with a 1 pound jar of these and almost made ourselves sick. They are soooooo good, sinfully salty caramelly deliciousness covered in milk chocolate heaven in your mouth turtles.

On the topic of chocolate covered deliciousness, Trader Joe's Astounding Jo-Jos live up to their name.

The awesomeness of the typography on the box makes the awfulness of the Ritz logo stand out all the more.

I just want some nice bitter dark chocolate right now. Also a bowl full of passionfruit.

I'm guessing these are going to end up in a cupcake.

@4: I was going to say the same thing. That is a surprisingly stylish box.

Hey, foods with hydrogenated oils in them are directly linked to heart disease and breast cancer. Health agencies around the world are pushing to make this shit illegal. If you want a cracker dipped in chocolate. please dip a real cracker in some real chocolate and quit buying this crappy stuff. Ritz Chocolate ingredients:

Sugar, Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid), Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa, Soybean Oil, Whey, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda and/or Monocalcium Phosphate), Skim Milk, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Soy Lecithin, Natural and Artificial Flavor.

I wish I could get excited over heavily chemically processed foods, boxed and wrapped in the materials helping to cause climate change.

PRS-1 you are a fun stealer!

not to say you aren't right, cuz you are. and also i bet there was child slavery involved in the chocolate production.

I say eat all the fudge you want, just quit giving these fools money to make stuff that makes people sick. Meanwhile, hydrogenation in food is gradually fading away because government health agencies see the studies, and also because companies like Frito Lay are taking a look at R.J. Reynolds and realizing that they are next in line for massive class action law suits for selling us this bullshit and making us want it so, so bad.

@11, I expect they're madly searching for the next major class of outside-the-regs twisted chemical modifications to natural oils that will keep them waxily solidified at both room and arterial temperatures. Perhaps the intercalation of unobtainium into the hydrocarbon chains, achieved through simultaneous fossil-fueled incandescence, strong neutron bombardment, and high magnetic flux. Cynical investors, keep your cursor on the "buy" button.

Thank you for "intercalation of unobtanium", rob!.

@12,13: Apparently, "unobtainium" has been a long-standing joke amongst engineers. When setting up the specifications for some product, an engineer might quip that the casing should be made out of unobtainium, that the circuitry must be superconducting and fit on the head of a pin, and that it should have a telepathic user interface. My dad, an engineer, was somewhat pissed when "Avatar" stole the joke.