Potato chips, cheetos puffs, gushers fruit snacks, twizzlers and kitkats are my go to food when I want textures more than flavor.

Munching on crushed ice.

Rock candy. I love how the crystals separate along flat planes as you chew. Don’t get me wrong, the sugar is nice too, but mostly it’s the texture experience for me.

Anything creamy and “fluffy”: cheesecake, tiramisu, pastry cream, even pudding with whipped cream folded in (like in ambrosia salad). Cream puffs are especially nice, having that soft filling inside a pastry, mmm…

Anything with a tater-tot kind of structure- loose grains that get crispy on the outside but keep it softer on the inside.

Any cereals that crunch. Also, fish roe. And watermelon. Honey roasted nuts. The list is very long but those are the first ones that come to mind.

Wu Gok, it’s a like a fried donut made of taro, you get it at dim sum.

Dragee stuff. Like sweets with a hard coating and a softer inside (dragee eggs). When you break the coating the whole thing starts to melt in your mouth.

One thing I love and simply haven’t found a replacement yet: “Obstgarten” yogurt which is very fluffy quark with a bit of fruit jam underneath. I don’t want the fruit jam, but I do love the quark part. If you buy other quark products they simply don’t have the same texture (which is probably created with nitrogen in an industrial process and can’t easily be replicated at home).