It has something to do with the amount of sodium and flavor involved. There's also a breath-stank factor. Funyuns, Cool Ranch Doritos, Flamin' Hot whatever, Hot Fries, and Snyders's Honey Mustard and Onion Pretzels were always dangling from the hands of all the black kids I went to summer camp with back in the day. That doesn't mean your ghetto if ya' like em', but if you are ghetto, it would be unusual to not like em. You can take the ghetto out of the zesty snacks, but you can't take the zesty snacks out of the ghetto.