What's Wrong With My Cheese Nips?

I bought a box of Cheese Nips last week. Now I haven't had these since I was a very young kid. But the one thing I remember about them was how much cheese flavour they had. So as I bit in an start chewing my 1st Cheese Nip Cracker since my childhood, I knew instantly something was off.
I actually picked up the box to make sure I was eating Plain Cheese Nip Crackers. Because what I was tasting was a salty, cheddar cracker with a very over-powering Spicy taste as well. An wouldn't you know it, No where on the box does it say SPICY Cheese Nip Crackers.
I decided to Google my find an I see in these reviews there is a person who Also says that their crackers tasted SPICY as well.....Very Odd.!
Does anyone have any thoughts to this Mystery?

Stale batch

Bought these crackers cause i usually love them this batch was stale and all stuck together , its to baf that that had to happen its like they were not dried properly