>>1020842The hype is overblown, but as I pointed out in the other thread, Clif bars are nice outdoors food because they taste OK, come in a variety of flavors and have a good amount of calories, but also because they are relatively easy to eat when either hot or cold. They don't melt like chocolate candy bars, and when they do freeze, you can still eat them pretty easily because there isn't too much water content and they aren't too thick.
On the other hand, there seems to be a pretty universal propensity of getting sick of them by about your 200-500th bar, whether a person eats that many of them all in the span of a month or over ten years, it seems to be impossible to eat any more than that many and still like the taste (and texture) of them.
Like someone else said, there are other companies making these kinds of bar foods in the US, so we can at least mix things up, although I don't know about availability of these kinds of foods in metric land. The commonly recommended alternatives, if bars aren't available, would be things like granola or mixed nuts. The niche that Clif bars fill is to have an easy snack food to eat during breaks from heavy activity that doesn't require any preparation.
