Ages ago we hosted a party with the objective of creating a tier list of 7-11 snacks. It’s time to finally share the results.
First, if you’re just here for the data, it’s all available in the google sheets spreadsheet.
Method
We gathered 85 snacks from 7-11 and initially were going to categorize them into sweet, salty, ice cream, drink, etc, but it was proving to add way too much complexity, so we just photographed every item and chucked them all on a google form.
At the party, we made all the food available, as well as some computers with the form open. People would try an item, input their name or some other unique identifier into the form, and submit their score for that item. This way, they could do multiple submissions for various items, rather than try to keep one session open for all items and risk losing their score for other ones.
People could rate snacks a score between 1 (least tasty) to 5 (most tasty).
Yes, taking a picture of every item, then bringing them up to our roof and preparing all the instant noodles and cutting everything into bite sized test pieces was a huge amount of work. My buddy Thomas came in clutch. I’m really not sure how we pulled it off.
Results
We didn’t collect as much data as I’d have liked. There’s 61 different submission events, all having rated various amounts of snacks (some people would rate multiple snacks in one form submit, not the intention but perfectly acceptable). Several items didn’t get ratings at all, either because we forgot to put it out or because nobody got a chance to try them.
It’s a bit hard to say which snack is the absolute winner. Chicken Wings got an average rating of 5, but only had 1 person review it. Below is some pictures of winners and losers.
Now for some losers:
Table of Results
If you are a crazy person that wants to see a whole ass table of results, here they are. If you want to see the accompanying image, search for the exact string below in the form.
| Name | Score | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken Wings | 5.00 | 1 |
| Melona Bar | 4.83 | 6 |
| Crunchoco | 4.67 | 6 |
| Tea Eggs | 4.60 | 5 |
| Grilled Beef Onigiri | 4.50 | 6 |
| Black Sugar Chofers | 4.50 | 2 |
| Matcha Ice Cream Waffle | 4.50 | 8 |
| Soft-boiled eggs | 4.33 | 3 |
| Kimchi Pork Onigiri | 4.25 | 4 |
| Black Sugar Boba Ice Cream Waffle | 4.20 | 5 |
| Crunchoco Almond | 4.17 | 6 |
| Pineapple Ice Lolly | 4.14 | 7 |
| Instant Noodle Beef Flavor Purple Seal | 4.11 | 9 |
| Simple Fit Sandwich Tuna | 4.00 | 2 |
| Lime Wafers | 4.00 | 1 |
| Witor’s Selection Crispy | 4.00 | 4 |
| Grilled Pork with Salted Green Onion Onigiri | 4.00 | 3 |
| Nutty Wafer | 4.00 | 3 |
| American (?) Chofers | 4.00 | 1 |
| Maltesers | 4.00 | 3 |
| Strawberry Chofers | 4.00 | 1 |
| Korean Fried Chicken | 4.00 | 1 |
| Boba Milk Tea Ice Cream Waffle | 4.00 | 1 |
| Milk Caramel Monaka | 3.83 | 6 |
| Chicken Rice Onigiri | 3.75 | 4 |
| Corn Soup Popcorn | 3.71 | 7 |
| Lipton Tea Ice Cream Bar | 3.71 | 7 |
| Honey Chicken | 3.67 | 3 |
| French Toast | 3.57 | 7 |
| QQ Sweet Potato Ice Cream Bar | 3.57 | 7 |
| Instant Noodle Beef Tomato Red Halfcircle Background | 3.50 | 2 |
| Simple Fit Sandwich Peanut | 3.50 | 4 |
| Tuna with Onion & Celery Onigiri | 3.50 | 4 |
| Potato Chips Classic Garlic Butter Flavor | 3.50 | 8 |
| Matcha Caramel Ice Cream Wafer Monaka | 3.50 | 2 |
| Boba Chocolate Balls | 3.44 | 9 |
| Honey Half Circle Donut | 3.40 | 5 |
| Sour Cream & Onion Pringles | 3.33 | 6 |
| Pork Dumpling | 3.33 | 6 |
| Japanese Noodle Snack with Intense Chicken Flavor | 3.29 | 7 |
| Vanilla Bouchee | 3.25 | 4 |
| Open! Boba Balls | 3.25 | 4 |
| Roe & Crayfish Salad Onigiri | 3.20 | 5 |
| Boba Milk Ice Cream Bar | 3.20 | 5 |
| Spicy Chicken | 3.20 | 5 |
| Tiger Sugar Black Sugar Boba Ball | 3.17 | 6 |
| Bolognese Baked Rice with Roast Chicken | 3.00 | 2 |
| BBQ Rice Ball | 3.00 | 1 |
| Pork Floss Onigiri | 3.00 | 3 |
| Simple Fit Salmon Rice Ball | 3.00 | 5 |
| Black Pepper Pea Crackers | 3.00 | 7 |
| Strawberry Cream Puffs | 3.00 | 3 |
| Fried Chicken Dorkbua | 3.00 | 1 |
| Peanut Bar | 3.00 | 1 |
| Cute Animal Butter Flavor Snack | 3.00 | 6 |
| Pringles Cheeeeeese | 3.00 | 3 |
| Butter Koalas | 3.00 | 2 |
| Vege Squid Ball | 3.00 | 1 |
| Instant Noodle Beef Carrot with Gold Half Background | 2.86 | 7 |
| Shrimp Strips | 2.86 | 7 |
| Instant Noodle Beef Black Bar Red Background | 2.83 | 6 |
| Cream Puffs | 2.75 | 4 |
| Crispy fishies | 2.71 | 7 |
| Simple Fit Sandwich Strawberry | 2.67 | 3 |
| Chocolate Bouchee | 2.60 | 5 |
| Xiao Long Bao | 2.50 | 4 |
| 711 Brand Cream Puff Strawberry? | 2.33 | 6 |
| Baumkuchen White Circle Roll | 2.25 | 4 |
| Cream Puff Dark Chocolate | 2.17 | 6 |
| Spicy Chicken Rice Ball | 2.00 | 1 |
| Strawberry Balls | 2.00 | 1 |
| Thicc Kitty Butter Cookies | 2.00 | 1 |
| Seafood and Pork Shaomai | 2.00 | 1 |
| Chicken Nuggets | 2.00 | 2 |
| Candy Strawberry Nougat Thing | 1.50 | 2 |
| Nougat Bar 76% | 1.33 | 3 |
| Nougat Bar Regular | 1.33 | 3 |
| Peko Sweets | 1.00 | 1 |
| Japanese Fried Chicken | 1.00 | 1 |