Armor me with futile aspirations

One thing I usually will give to the US is that they have tasty snacks.

One of my co-workers crosses the border On The Regular and usually brings back bags of delicious snacks that usually she either puts out in bowls to share or hands off to one of us.
Today she gave me a bag of Chez Mix: Sour Cream 'n Onion.

I like my snacks to have Oomph. Or at least semblance of taste, and these guys are so bland that they actually leave a bland taste in your mouth. How is that possible? What does bland taste like?

However if you sit and stare at the bag long enough you can find one or two things clearly coated in the flavouring that was supposed to saturate the bag but clearly didn't. And man those are good.

Unfortunately this doesn't redeem the rest of this sad-sack snack.

Oh, and the really pathetic thing is that because it's a bagged snack sitting on my desk I keep finding myself reaching and picking up a mini-pretzel or Chex (Shreddie?) thing without realizing it and my mouth tastes like mildly onion-y cardboard.

These snacks definitely recieve an F-, I'm going to go for a walk and try to pawn them off on some sucker.