Aussie shoppers ‘mind blown’ over surprising discovery about a popular supermarket item: ‘Omg I feel lied to’
A shopper has made a surprising discovery about a popular supermarket snack – leaving hundreds stunned by the little-known revelation.
Nikki said she has been eating the Harvest Snaps Baked Pea Crisps for years and loved them for what she thought was ‘dehydrated’ peas.
However, she dropped a bombshell on social media after discovering what the snacks were actually made of.
‘I’ve been eating these yummy snacks… these green bean goodness for years. It wasn’t until last year I found out that these aren’t dehydrated peas,’ she said in a now-viral video.
‘They’re just shaped like peas. Does this not look like a dried pea?’
Nikki called on Harvest Snaps to answer her amusing question: ‘How many times a day do you get people realising this because you had me duped for years that these were dehydrated green peas?’
The snack brand weighed in on the discussion, confirming: ‘Happy to share the process of how we make our snacks.
‘We start with whole green peas (we mill it in house), then we form them into fun pod shapes and bake it for the perfect crunch. You’ll find that veggies are listed as our very first ingredient.’
Speaking to FEMAIL, Nikki said: ‘I told my colleagues and even they were mind blown that they aren’t dehydrated peas. I didn’t realise I wasn’t the only one.’
Content creator Nikki posted a viral video revealing that she initially presumed Harvest Snaps Baked Pea Crisps were ‘dried peas’
Her video, which has been watched more than 290,000 times, was flooded with responses from stunned fans who had made the same assumption.
‘Wait… are they not? I totally thought so too!’ read one reply.
‘HUH I thought I was eating VEGETABLES,’ added a second.
‘I consider myself to be relatively intelligent, and I too just thought they were dehydrated peas for soooo long,’ added another.
‘Omg I feel lied to I thought it was a pea-pod,’ chimed in another commenter.
One parent complained they felt fooled about what they’d been giving their kids.
‘I sent these with my kids to school smug AF thinking I had cracked some smug healthy parent code,’ they wrote.
‘Instead I was just sending them with chips, like damn Pringles.’
On the other end of the spectrum, many Harvest Peas fans were stunned that Nikki could mistake the baked pea crisps for actual peas.
The official Harvest Snaps TikTok account popped up in Nikki’s comments section, offering a brief explanation as to how the snack is made
After her initial 46-second video about Harvest Snaps received over 290,000 views, Nikki posted a lengthier follow-up video giving her take on how she believed Harvest Snaps were made
‘Girl have you ever had fresh peas before? They look nothing like that,’ one said
‘It hadn’t even occurred to me people might think these are dried pea pods, not pea pod shaped chips,’ replied another.
‘Babe, you can see the seam on the end where it’s come out of the machine,’ added a third.
One commenter conceded that although they were aware it wasn’t a dehydrated pea, they understood how the error could be made.
‘To be fair, they did shape them like that in the hopes you wouldn’t think much further.’
Another noted that the packet literally ‘has a picture of a pea on it’.
Nikki subsequently posted a longer follow-up video the next day, going into greater detail about what the snack is made of and how she believed it was produced.
