Peanut butter crackers are a pretty good idea, a little carb, a little protein, sugar, salt and -voila, snack. Not the best snack in the world. I’ve only had these out of desperation at the vending machine but they do seem to do the trick.
Come to think of it, I should keep, a packet of these in my glove box. That packet of ketchup that’s in there now probably won’t do much for me if I were stranded.
Anyway, let’s get on to the snacking…
Ritz:
These smell more peanut buttery than they taste. The crackers are really good, they have just the right amount of salt and they have that reliable Ritz buttery taste. In fact, I didn’t really taste the peanut butter that much but we both found these enjoyable as the crackers are so good.
Austin:
Very bland crackers with no salt. I really felt like I was eating a hardened water and flour combination with something in the middle that wasn’t necessarily peanut butter. We both ate another Ritz after these to end the evaluation on a better note. These are probably okay if there’s nothing else around and they’re not being compared to a more flavorful cracker, but they’re definitely not our first choice if we bought something like these again.
Wrap up:
Ritz, even though the peanut butter wasn’t very pronounced. They do what they do so well that they crackers make up for the lack of pb flavor.
Austin’s crackers were bland enough to not make them worth eating- although like I said, it might be because we were eating them right after the Cadillac of crackers.
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The first thing Ethan and I noticed was the extreme saltiness of these crackers. Rick described the texture as moist and flaky, which it was. My 3 1/2 year old nephew said they smell like chicken. I don’t know if I’d say these tasted like chicken if they were called something else but I guess it was something like dry chicken soup mix in a cracker, although Ethan did note that they do actually have dehydrated chicken in it as well.
I thought these crackers looked “friendlier” somehow but all every one at the table had to say about these were “gross” or “just gross”. That’s because they were. the only description I could drag out of anyone (other than gross) was “stale” and Ethan said it’s tastes like the grey pieces of chicken in cans of soup, and it really did capture that essence. My nephew wouldn;t even try it after sniffing it.
Although this cheese and cracker snack combo is offered by a few different brands, these two were on sale, so that’s what I got. 
Mom and I both noticed how butter these crackers were, which we liked. The salt was just enough too and I felt it really complimented the butteriness of the cracker. Mom felt that the cheese had a chemical taste to it while Ethan and I had trouble tasting the cheese at all. It was just there for texture as far as I experienced.
Mom felt the cheese was the same in this with it’s chemical taste. I could taste the cheese a little more, not so much the sharpness of cheddar but it did add a creaminess that Keebler lacked. Ethan said he still didn’t really taste any cheese. The cracker was less buttery and salty but more dense, which mom liked.
Unfortunately, Sunshine baked goods don’t really exist anymore except as 
Ritz has a nice crunch, that I’d describe as a “soft crunch”. A nice buttery flavor and just the right amount of salt on top to compliment the cracker.
These had a different crunch, sort of dryer. There is a lack of buttery flavor, and they taste more like Saltines. Salt is present but a little too sparse on the surface, yet still a somewhat satisfying cracker. Not Ritz but not bad.
Cheez-Its are one of my all-time favorite snacks. For some reason they go really well with Tab. I thought it was just me but I had some people try the Tab with Cheez-its once and they agreed. I don’t know what it is but I don’t care. Cheez-Its of course do mighty fine on their own too and that’s why I love them so much. I’ve tried other brands but they’re just not the same. For this evaluation, I got the arch enemy of Cheez-Its: Cheese Nips. In this evaluation we had the help of pur friends Marc and Sara.
One comment was that these have a toasty cheese flavor. We all felt the saltiness was just right and they have a good crunch to them. I usually like to let these sit in my mouth for a little bit and suck off the salt and then let the “it” soften up and then that’s when I take a swig of Tab (so good!). We all agreed these had a very satisfying cheese flavor and a nice crunchy (one person thought somewhat buttery as well) texture. 
Cheese Nips were visually different in that they seemed to have less texture, like a saltine. There isn’t the salt presence that Cheez-it has, although some did have a few smaller granules of salt on them. We agreed these lacked the same full-bodied cheese flavor and almost resembled an oyster cracker with a little bit of cheese flavor. Also, these were a little dryer than Cheez-Its and didn’t soften in my mouth the way Cheez-its do.
These crackers were a little larger than Goldfish, (much like how real whales are bigger than real goldfish!) the first thing I noticed when I put one in my mouth was the nice salt-to-cracker ratio. I like to just move the cracker around in my mouth and take in any cheddar flavor before chewing, and did get some flavor. Ethan felt that although they didn’t really taste like cheddar, they were good.
Next was our childhood classic, Goldfish. These actually seemed pale in flavor after the Whales. We agreed they were lacking any real cheddar flavor and actually tasted more like a saltine. Even the salt didn’t seem as good on these. It’s saving grace was the texture which was a little more crunchy and didn’t seem as mushy after chewing.