Otmuchów Bingo

Otmuchów is a snack food producer I discovered in Poland.  I love trying snack foods in other countries, and these caught my eye immediately as they looked like peanut puffs, one of my current favorite kinds of things to munch on, just like the Przysnacki brand I also had in Poland, Lorenz in Germany, or, the OGs, Bamba from Israel.

I can't find much info about the brand, but I see they make the puffs in both a classic peanut flavor, and the one I seem to have picked up, paprika.  I don't know anything about the other product lines, nor about any other varieties they may come in.  The puffs are corn based like most.

O Smaku Paprykowym
(Paprika).

I opened my bag and found a product that basically looked like I was expecting, puffy bite size pieces, much like any other product in this space.  They were fat but very short, so a slightly different form factor than others, but, quite familiar.  I popped a few in my mouth.  Airy yet crisp, again, quite familiar, quite expected.  They were pretty middle-of-the-road in terms of how crunchy they were.  Basically, all seemed normal so far.

But then ... yes, um, there was something else going on with these.  I saw the package had a red bell pepper on the front, which, frankly confused me as to why I would have purchased these as I don't really care for bell peppers, but I didn't taste bell peppers.  I tasted peanuts, and the packaging had no peanuts.  Was my brain just looking at them, seeing something Bamba-like, and making up the peanut flavor?  And why was there bell peppers on the package?  But I did taste something slightly ... zesty? among the peanut flavor.  It was really a confusing taste, but I didn't dislike it.  If I hadn't seen the packaging, I would have thought it was just a Polish version of peanut Bamba.  

Once I used Google Translate at home I saw that these were paprika flavored.  Well, that sorta made sense, at least, in that the image on the front made sense.  But I still mostly tasted peanuts.

I did like these.  Good form factor, fun to have niblets a bit smaller than other brands, decent peanut flavor, not too sweet, and just a little extra something to them.  I'd get them again.  I'd love to compare them side by side to their regular flavor.  Slightly odd, but not in a bad way at all.  4/5.