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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI could call many things in life delightful, but then I would sound like a snooty woman who comes from old money and has never worked a damn day in her life A crisp autumn breeze is delightful. A properly poured pint of Guinness is delightful. The chance for a certain baseball team to bring home the bacon two years in a row is delightful. But to call a granola bar delightful, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just pushing it.<\/p>\n
I feel bad for granola bars, even though they’re the whores of the snack food world. All they want is to be loved and enjoyed; instead they’re used as substitutes for what we really want. People, including myself, generally have an “Eh, I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have a granola bar to tie me over until I have REAL food” attitude when it comes to the slutty snack that prostitutes its way from children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lunch bags to the desk drawers of CEOs who had to abandon their three martini lunches because of the economy.<\/p>\n
The Quaker True Delights Dark Chocolate Raspberry Almond Granola Bar is trying to be the Pretty Woman<\/i> of the snack bar world. Dressed in its sexy black wrapper (a.k.a little black dress), it appears to be better than your run-of-the-mill granola bar that you can find slutting it up everywhere. My mother (and every “Very Special Episode” 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sitcom) told me that the inside of a person, or in this case, a granola bar is what matters. <\/p>\n
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the inside is just like any other granola bar. However, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t totally dismiss it. This classy beauty wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like her co-worker, Quaker Chewy bar, because she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t skimp on the good stuff like chocolate and nuts. In fact, she was chock full of nice semi-sweet dark chocolate chunks and crunchy almonds. Of course, the raspberry flavoring wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that strong, but if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read any of my reviews<\/a><\/u> that include pseudo raspberry flavoring<\/a><\/u>, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always bitching about that.<\/p>\n The bar was tasty, but you can find heartier granola bars, like the Nature Valley Trail Mix for less cash. Paying $3.49 for a box of five bars that each weigh a slim 1.2 ounces isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worth it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty bad when the picture on the box says “enlarged illustration” and even that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t big. (Good thing they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show “enlarged illustrations” on bottles of Viagra)<\/p>\n These petite bars are good, but one won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even satisfy mediocre hunger pains that always hit at around three in the afternoon. So what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the point of getting a high class Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the delight in that?<\/p>\n (Nutrition Facts – 1 bar – 140 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 65 milligrams of sodium, 23 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 8 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein, 2% vitamin C and 4% iron.)<\/small><\/p>\n Item:<\/b> Quaker True Delights Dark Chocolate Raspberry Almond Granola Bars I could call many things in life delightful, but then I would sound like a snooty woman who comes from old money and has never worked a damn day in her life A crisp autumn breeze is delightful. A properly poured pint of Guinness is delightful. The chance for a certain baseball team to bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1598,1599],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-quaker","tag-snack-bars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77668,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/24\/new-snack-bars-spotted-may-24-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":5020,"position":0},"title":"New Snack Bars Spotted \u2014 May 24, 2026","author":"Marvo","date":"May 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some interesting new products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. 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\nPrice:<\/b> $3.49
\nSize:<\/b> Box of 5
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Giant
\nRating:<\/b> 4 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Black wrapper adds a classy touch to a whorey snack. Dark chocolate tastes good. A lot of almonds. Adds more variety to the granola bar category. The Phillies.
\nCons:<\/b> Having to settle for a granola bar. Small size. Lack of a strong raspberry taste. Using the word “delight” inappropriately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"