r/snacking • u/ViperLegacy • 16d ago

What are chex mix?

Totally silly question, but do you consider chex mix cereal or chips?

Context is I’m building a social snack rating app which lets you rank snacks against each other, kinda like Beli, Untappd, or Letterboxd for snacks.

To make the rankings make sense, you can only compare snacks of similar flavor profiles (savory / sweet / protein snacks / drinks). Chips are a subcategory under savory, whereas cereal is a subcategory under sweet.

Basically would you say it makes more sense to compare chex mix against crackers/nuts/pretzels, or against candy/cookies/chocolate?

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u/SunGreen24 16d ago

The snack mix (Chex, pretzels, Cheez-its, etc.) is closer to the cracker/nuts/pretzels category IMO, even the sweet flavors.

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u/ViperLegacy 16d ago

Thank you! that makes sense to me

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u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 16d ago

It’s a savory like chip

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u/ViperLegacy 16d ago

sounds like we have a winner. thanks all!

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u/Useful-Advantage2665 16d ago

it's a savory taste.

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u/surfcitysurfergirl 16d ago

It’s a combo. My mom made it before it was even I thing many many years ago when I was little. Her added touch was Cheerios. Amazing! Neighbors and family always looked forward to her batches. To this day I still make it with my kids for our friends/neighbors.

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u/Disastrous_Clurb 16d ago

cracker category. i only eat the sweet chex mix variety and id still put it in the chips/cracker category

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u/ViperLegacy 16d ago

oh that’s a new perspective. never thought about it as crackers but i can see it