Snack Attack

As the fate of America’s favorite yellow, cream-filled snack cake hangs in the balance, a Canadian company is preparing to pounce. Saputo Inc. is the Montreal-based cheese and bakery products manufacturer that happens to hold the rights to Twinkies and other Hostess products up in the Great White North. But Canadians don’t have the love affair with those seemingly indestructible packaged goodies. Instead, Canadians have long saved their sweet tooth for the snack cakes made by Vachon, the bakery arm of Saputo. Here are our 10 favorites.

In testing, we realized that when the pork skin was chopped really small it almost had a popcorn-like result. Topped with the salty-sweet seasoning, it’s addictive and one of the most popular items on our menu. It’s also perfect for any party or tailgating snack. Chef Gerard Craft's ingenious creation after the jump.

Popcorn (with, ahem, a goblet of red wine) is my signature comfort food; it’s what I crave after a hard day or if I’m settling down on the couch for a night of TV or to watch a movie. A number of years back, I went through this Hawaiian Hurricane popcorn faze where I must have consumed this concoction of buttery popcorn with Japanese furikake (a Japanese seasoning) and rice crackers on a daily basis for weeks on end.