Nuts.com

The Simple Pleasures of Nuts.com | Eater

"An old-school, no-frills online snack purveyor whose founding story traces back to Poppy Sol selling dried nuts and fruit in a New Jersey open-air market in the late 1920s. The site favors bulk, party-size bargains — think 30-pound sacks of raisins or 10-pound bags of garlic bagel chips — and ships snacks in plain, branded zipper bags that arrive in a familiar box, evoking office unboxing rituals. The narrator mines it for the comfort of familiar office-era treats: half-popped popcorn that nicks the roof of your mouth, sticky-sweet medjool dates, brittle fried green bean chips, and the divisive banana chips, while skipping over items they find cloying or pointless (chocolate-covered cherries, fruit-juice gummy bears, caramel-coated popcorn). Browsing is nostalgic and ambivalent: the catalog’s technicolor array tempts a mindless scroll, but many products inspire fond-but-critical memories of communal snacking rather than a firm plan to reorder now that work is remote." - Elazar Sontag