Pizza Snack: 2025 (Cheesy Pizza Chex Mix)

All of my favorite pizza-flavored snacks have been discontinued. First it was my beloved Doritos... 

It was a bag of half pizza and half ranch chips from their Collisions line. It was discontinued sometime around 2010. I mentioned how much I missed them in a post, and a reader recommended pizza-filled Snyder's Pretzels, which were amazing. They were even better than the Doritos, but they also got the axe. I've been on the hunt for a new pizza-y replacement ever since, and this is my current fixation.

The packaging photos look kind of ugly, because the bag is nearly empty. I couldn't stop myself from cracking into it and this isn't the first time. This is my fourth bag. Safe to say, I like these. A lot.

Ah Chex Mix, We Meet Again - Strawberry Yogurt Simply Chex

Strawberry Yogurt Chex Mix - Target

Did anyone else go through obsessive snacking phases as a teen, or was it just me? There was one summer I was absolutely obsessed with Herr's BBQ potato chips. I ate them until I was absolutely sick of them. I moved on to Pizza/Ranch Doritos which I ate religiously until they were discontinued. Then I became obsessed with Chex Mix for a few years, but this was back when it was new, in a blue and white bag, and it still had bagel chips. (I also think the pieces covered in extra seasoning were far more plentiful back then.) There is actually a fun rant about which pieces are the best in The Venture Bros. episode, A Very Venture Halloween.

The extra-seasoned rice Chex were my holy grail during snacking, I could easily demolish an entire bag while seeking them out. But, like the BBQ chips, eventually I made myself sick of it, so I moved on to something else. 

During my Chex-Mix-less years, things changed. More flavors, both sweet and savory, have come and gone, and, as stated earlier, bagel chips are MIA in the original mix (but we still keep two different types of meh-flavored-pretzels? Blasphemy!)

I think I have only tried a handful of the different varieties. I remember a caramel turtle flavor, a chocolate one, and the bold mix (which I hoped was 100% extra seasoned pieces, so I was very disappointed when it wasn't). I think that's it, but honestly, none of the other flavors appealed to me. Even now, I bought this flavor on a complete whim. At best I had hopes this would taste like breakfast cereal, at worst? Chapstick or maybe NesQuik. So, will this be a new snacking obsession, or a regrettable impulse buy?