Old World Quality Foods Blackcurrant Jam

 

Old World Quality Foods Blackcurrant Jam came with my Marketplace Brands 12 Teas of Christmas. The stuff doesn't spread well, but only has three ingredients, and I love the little jar. 

I'm going to save the jar for my jar collection after I eat all the jam. I probably wouldn't finish the jam otherwise, because I don't really eat jam. It's okay jam as jam goes.

Old World Quality Foods Strawberry Jam

 Old World Quality Foods Strawberry Jam doesn't look much like jam really. Jelly is clear and uniform where as jam should be cloudy because it has fruit in it. Jelly is made from juice and jam from fruit. 

In any case, this little jar of jelly comes in the 12 Teas of Christmas pack, and it is serviceable but will not last long enough to make any sense in a 12 day pack. You get three of these things and at best they last two days.

5th Day of Christmas Marketplace Brands Apple Spice Tea

 Yes, ladies and gentleman, this is the fifth day of Christmas and along with those five golden rings you get Marketplace Brands Apple Spice Tea. The only thing right with this name is the tea part because there is no apple or spice in this. 

In fact this tastes just like the 1st day of Christmas apple spice tea. I don't know how they got twelve days because there are only four flavors. Now I need to review something else for the rest of the year. 

One seams to hear fail everywhere, marry marry marry Christmas. 

4th day of Christmas Marketplace Brands English Breakfast Tea

It's the 4th day of Christmas and  Marketplace Brands English Breakfast Tea is tea 4 of the 12 Teas of Christmas. It has a caramel taste with a bolder aftertaste that isn't bad. 

I'm normally not one for breakfast tea, but this isn't bad at all.  I don't think you can get it outside of the set but the set should be on sale now.

3rd Day of Christmas Marketplace Brands Peppermint Tea

It's the third day of Christmas and I can't taste peppermint in my Marketplace Brands Peppermint Tea. It hardly tastes like tea. Why they would have this for the third day of Christmas I don't know. 
 

Then, there is no direct chicken known as a French Hen. There are French breeds of chicken, but I don't think any one breed is the French Hen. It was just something to put in a song, and this tea is just something to put on a shelf. 

Fail!

2nd Day of Christmas Marketplace Brands Orange Black Tea

 It's the second day of Christmas and we are drinking orange black iced tea. It tastes like nooothings. Well, it tastes like something just not much. I'm not sure why you would buy the 12 Teas of Christmas if this is what you get. Hardly enough tea in the pack to make anything. 

Oh, well, I am drinking more water. 

Peeps Marshmallow Snowmen

Peeps Marshmallow Snowmen are peeps to dip in your coffee. I can think of no other reason one would want to buy peeps. In any case, these are not bad. I wouldn't go and buy them again, but I wouldn't say no if someone offered them to me.

1st Day of Christmas Marketplace Brands Apple Spice Tea

 It's the first day of Christmas and I'm drinking iced Marketplace Brands Apple Spice Tea. Stuff tastes like water and has no hint of apple or spice. The box shows a 'Partridge in a Pear Tree'. I don't imagine partridge tea would have tasted all that great. Pear tea sounds like a good idea. This stuff is a joke.

12 Gourmet Coffees of Christmas Holiday Gift Set by Marketplace Brands

 Okay, you got a gift from someone and now you need to get them something that makes it look like you just weren't home when they dropped off your gift so you run to the store. You look around and see '12 Gourmet Coffees of Christmas Holiday Gift Set by Marketplace Brands' and say "well, he likes coffee". Yeah, no, this is crap. Even if the coffee was good, which it is not, you don't get much of it. It's not 12 full pots of coffee but rather an ounce of each coffee. Who drinks so little coffee?! Well, K-cup people...and these are not K-cups.

Market Place Brands 12 Teas of Christmas

 Market Place Brands 12 Teas of Christmas is probably the only one of the three sets that doesn't imply extreme loneliness. The worst of the bunch is the hot cocoa being as you can only have one cup of each flavor and the coffee set only makes half a pot per bag. Tea, on the other hand, can make a whole pot per bag and you can share a pot of tea. I got two sets of these even as I have way too much tea sitting around. 

 The only thing is, get this, the 12 days of Christmas start tomorrow. Yeah I know, Christmas day is the first day of Christmas. If I want to fit these in I need to have more than one review a day for a spell but it's kind of worth it. After all, I need to drink more water, and tea is mostly water.

Original Sixlets Chocolatey Candies

Decked out in green, red, and white Original Sixlets Chocolatey Candies are ready for the holidays. The fact that they don't taste like much could be why someone gave me two packs last Christmas. These things aren't as bad as they look, they just aren't great and not worth the calories.

Marketplace Brands Irish Cream Coffee

Marketplace Brands coffee is generally sad and tastes meh. The Irish Cream is the best flavor in there 12 coffees of Christmas pack. This doesn't change the fact that you only get a few cups worth and so have to drink it on your lonesome.

I mean, if they sold this stuff alone I would buy it. I would take a tin of this to work to drink with my crew. I don't think they do sell this alone, so bad idea. 

Peeps Gingerbread Flavored Marshmallow Gingerbread Men

Peeps Gingerbread Flavored Marshmallow Gingerbread Men are the best Peeps I've had so far. They have a real ginger flavor, um, well they have a ginger flavor. I don't know how real it is, but I can taste it and it is great.

Marketplace Brands Chocolate Coffee

Marketplace Brands Chocolate Coffee would be better if someone had remembered the chocolate. I mean, it tastes like they were low on that and said, 'well, it's brown enough.' Every time I drink more of this crap it's like another disappointment. This coffee is like life sad, bitter, and full of falls promises.

Richardson Double Dip Chocolate Candy Sticks Peppermint

Richardson Double Dip Chocolate Candy Sticks Peppermint are the best combination of peppermint and chocolate I've had in years. I have to say they don't go well with coffee but they wake up your mouth like no body's business. 

In the world of bland American food these stand out as a real oddity. The only bad thing is you can only get them around Christmas...and they make you fat. 

Marketplace Brands Cinnamon Coffee

 

Marketplace Brands Cinnamon Coffee tastes like cinnamon coffee if you left the cinnamon out. I mean, cinnamon without sugar has never been my bag but you get so little with this flavor that why bother?

Hershey's Mint Fudge Bon Bon Bells

Hershey's Mint Fudge Bon Bon Bells are a hard chocolate coating with whet fudge inside. These things are a great change from the normal kiss. I wouldn't want them to replace my Hershey's kisses, but I'm glad I tried them. 

There is so much chocolate in the world and so little time to burn off all the fat. 

Marketplace Brands Italian Roast

Marketplace Brands Italian Roast is one of the 12 coffees of Christmas for no good reason. I mean, not even an ginger coffee made the list but here were are with this stuff. Well, at least it's dark and strong...well, dark...kind off. This whole thing was a ripoff. Never buy this crap.

Organic Ocho Peppermint

Organic Ocho Peppermint tastes like a dark chocolate Andie's Mint. Only these are bigger, and bigger is better with candy. I have to say I like these things. The dark chocolate is a great touch for these little fat makers.

Marketplace Brands Breakfast Blend Coffee

Marketplace Brands Breakfast Blend Coffee is, well, crap.I never liked breakfast blend coffee, and I don't like this simpler pack. It's bitter old and there isn't enough of it.

Palmer Peanut Butter Cups

Palmer Peanut Butter Cups have nothing on Reese's. I mean, I guess they're okay, a little dry, and your children will get fat off them. They just don't have the same depth of flavor as the real deal.

These, like most cheap candy, are also really bad for you. I don't mean they just make you fat. I mean the clog up your guts kind of bad for you.

Marketplace Brands Amaretto Coffee

If you close your eyes and hold it in your mouth long enough Marketplace Brands Amaretto Coffee tastes of Amaretto. You still don't get enough coffee to make a pot and if you did want this one of the 12 coffees of Christmas you have no way of getting more unless you want to by the whole sampler over again. singing: Fail, fail, fail, fail, faaail,

Organic Ocho Carmel Trees

Organic Ocho Carmel Trees were left over in the discount store after last Christmas and it's a shame. These are good caramel trees. I mean, I'm not going to stop eating other chocolate but Ocho isn't bad. I think they're slave free as well which is even better.

Marketplace Brands French Vanilla Coffee

For those of you who don't know, French Vanilla started as an ice cream flavor where in more eggs where used then normal vanilla. This gave it a creamy color. How this can be expressed in Marketplace Brands French Vanilla Coffee I don't know. 

As the flavor can't exist and just sounds fancy so the vanilla here is missing.  This is crap. 

Hillshire Farm Yard-O-Beef

When I think back on my youth one of the odd products that showed up around Christmas was this Hillshire Farm Yard-O-Beef. They were bigger back then and no amount of nuking the things could get the oil to stop flowing out of them. 

This is a lot dryer than those where but it still makes for a great mix with good old rice and peas. I bet these are terrible for you but a little goes a long way flavor-wiz. 

Marketplace Brands Holiday Blend Coffee

How do you make something one of the Twelve Coffees of Christmas? You add 'Holiday' to the name and hope no one knows what that means. I mean, come on people. You could make eggnog coffee. Or pumpkin pie coffee. No, we got ourselves some holiday blend. What is that supposed to taste like over eating and commercials?!

Gratify Gluten Free Pretzels Dark Chocolate & Peppermint Covered Twists

Gratify Gluten Free Pretzels Dark Chocolate & Peppermint Covered Twists where a leftover from last Christmas that I picked up. Not bad really, not great, but not bad. I ended up leaving these in my car so they got all mushy and then I put them in a coffee smoothy. 

They really worked well in the smoothy. 

Marketplace Brands Hazelnut Coffee

Marketplace Brands Hazelnut Coffee is okay if not for the fact that you don't get much of it and you can hardly taste the Hazelnut. It's like someone got the cheapest Hazelnut Coffee they could find for this pack because they knew that you wouldn't be looking for more. 

This is so a Christmas ripoff. 

Gratify Gluten Free White Chocolate & Peppermint Twists

Gratify Gluten Free White Chocolate & Peppermint Twists have a good amount of flavor for what they are. If you're a fan of peppermint these will tickle our taster. 

However, leave them in you car on a hot day and you have a mess on your hands. This mess will become a hard block of pretzel chocolate that not even my brother will eat.

All and all, these got left on a shelf for a reason so buy carefully.

Marketplace Brands Mocha Coffee

In addition to not being enough for a pot Marketplace Brands Mocha Coffee is a flavorless addition to the 12 coffees of Christmas. Stuff tastes like really old coffee. No mocha, just old bitter coffee. Get this stuff for someone on Christmas you're sure to make them angry.

Holiday Popping Candy with Lollipop 3 Flavors Blue Raspberry Strawberry Green Apple Festive Snowman Reindeer Santa

Holiday Popping Candy with Lollipop 3 Flavors Blue Raspberry Strawberry Green Apple Festive Snowman Reindeer Santa. Yeah, that is what they call this stuff on Amazon. It's pop rocks. I have to say it was better than I thought, but still just pope rocks.

Marketplace Brands Peppermint Coffee

Marketplace Brands Peppermint Coffee is one of your 12 coffees of Christmas and I got them so I could talk about Christmas all month. Mint and Peppermint are two different things. Peppermint is known for it's sharper taste hence the name.   

I like neither in my coffee but peppermint is the lesser of the two. Not that you could really taste much of it in this bitter brew, but, hay, I don't think you could get more if you liked it anyway.

Kelloyg's Frozen II Cereal

 I never saw Frozen, I never saw Frozen II. I have no wish to see these films but running into the cereal for a buck a box sparked enough interest in me to spend a dollar and I got this pile of meh. On the one hand it tastes nothing like white chick, which is what the box would imply it tastes like, and on the other it tastes like very little at all. 

Now, white chick is not a thing I would like food to taste like.  Still, I would have expected cinnamon or something.

Marketplace Brands Spicy Orange Coffee

Marketplace Brands Spicy Orange Coffee comes as part of the Coffees of Christmas collection and would be okay if you didn't only get an ounce. You'd do better snorting this stuff.  

No one who loves coffee would be happy with this small bit of grounds. 

Southern Comfort Vanilla Spice Flavored Egg Nog

Southern Comfort you nasty.Vanilla Spice Flavored Egg Nog. Flavored as in not real vanilla. Man, you don't drink whisky to be cheap. If you want the keep that party going, get some real vanilla. Man, what a rip. There is no whisky in this by the way. You have to add your own.

12 Cocoas of Christmas Holiday Cocoa Assortment

 12 Cocoas of Christmas Holiday Cocoa Assortment was twelve dollars or more at the store and I wouldn't buy them. At five dollars a box I still thought they were too much. Finally they came to under two dollars a box and, like an idiot, I got four of them.

Why did I do that? Because I figured I may screw up on my reviews of them so I wanted an extra. 

In any case, who thinks this is a good gift? Each box is one pack of cocoa, and so only good for one watery cup.  What lonely soul would want to spend the holiday sipping this on a cold morning?

The only good thing about these is that they look cool and so if you find one after the new year you can buy it, box it, and put it up next Christmas for a good laugh or a gift for that person you just don't like. 

Marketplace Brands Chocolate Cocoa Mix

 

Marketplace Brands Chocolate Cocoa Mix... would that be double chocolate or just flavored like it is? Merry Christmas the box says on this Chocolate Cocoa Mix of the 12 Cocoas of Christmas and it in tales the disappointment of the phrase. 

Right about now is when the real drinking starts with all the leftover bottles for thanksgiving, and the worrying over how much the holiday will dent your bank account. 

Have this with a shot of rum and forget. 

Marketplace Brands Gingerbread Cocoa Mix

 Marketplace Brands Gingerbread is the first Cocoa Mix I tried from the 12 Cocoas of Christmas collection and as you can see it looks like muddy water. It has a taste of ginger but not a strong enough one to be called gingerbread. The box says "The most wonderful time of the year" but the flavor says "I'm going to lose a friend if I give this as a gift". 

Rock View Pumpkin Spice Egg Nog

Rock View Pumpkin Spice Egg Nog forgot the pumpkin spice... is that a thing? I mean, it keeps happening to me. Are you folks sending me pumpkin spice things that don't have pumpkin spice in them just to screw with me?

Catullo Prime Meats Turducken

Catullo Prime Meats Turducken was the easiest Thanksgiving I ever had. I'll grant that it was also the most expensive. This Turducken as all the bones you don't want removed so that you get almost nothing but meat. It's still really just turkey if you ask me. I couldn't taste any duck or chicken. 

If you have the money these are fine. If you don't these are just not worth it, because you can get more meat for less at the normal store.

Marketplace Brands White Chocolate Cocoa Mix

 Marketplace Brands White Chocolate Cocoa Mix is one of the 12 Cocoas of Christmas that really kicks. It looks runny, but it's rich and bold with a deep sweat flavor.  Some of these are so bad that every time I get a good one I'm surprised. 

If you could get this product on it's own I would recommend it but I don't think you can.

Sara Lee Sweet Potato Pie

If you didn't know what you are eating you would be forgiven for thinking that Sara Lee Sweet Potato Pie was pumpkin. If you didn't read the box before buying you can be forgiven for shouting angrily at the top of your lungs after doing so. 

It takes about three hours to make one of these.  That would be an hour in the oven and two hours cooling which means if you like pie hot your out of luck. 

All and all, this was fine, bland, but fine. I wouldn't write home about these pies, but they taste okay. 

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Dairy Whipped Topping

The fail of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Dairy Whipped Topping is mind boggling. It tastes nothing like chocolate or peanut butter. I don't often have this product, but I remember whipped toppings being better than this in general so this stuff was so big a fail that it didn't even hold up to the normal flavor. You should only get this if it's less expensive than the normal version.

Pumpkin Spice Jell-O Pudding

Pumpkin Spice Jell-O Pudding sounds like a match made in heaven but the truth is it tastes so mild that you would never know it's pumpkin spice at all. I mean, I grant that we live in a pumpkin spice saturated world so a milder for of the flavor may appeal to some people. As for me. I added ginger and cinnamon to this to make  it taste like something.

Marketplace Brands Cinnamon Cocoa Mix

 Marketplace Brands Cinnamon Cocoa Mix, part of the 12 Cocoas of Christmas gift set, sends you the warmest of wishes. Those wishes should be warmed with whisky because this tastes like banana. 

How you get cinnamon this wrong I don't know. These things are so wrong that I don't know how they got made. Did they expect me to drink these when drunk or did they just figure no one would drink them at all?

Marketplace Brands Dark Chocolate Cocoa Mix

 

Marketplace Brands Dark Chocolate Cocoa Mix is one of the 12 Cocoas of Christmas and is not at all dark. I know what dark chocolate tastes like and I don't like it much. I can be good or it can be too bitter for me. 

This has nothing that would indicate the darkness that makes dark chocolate it's thing. Tastes okay otherwise.

Philadelphia Cream Cheese Pumpkin Spice

 Philadelphia Cream Cheese Pumpkin Spice is like candy cheese. It does not have that distinctive cream cheese tartness that you come to love in the spread. 

If you're the kind of person that likes to add jelly to cream cheese this may work for you, but for me I would rather have the real thing and add my own flavoring to the stuff. 

Marketplace Brands Mocha Cocoa Mix

 Marketplace Brands Mocha Cocoa Mix leaves you asking what the difference is between chocolate and mocha. I mean, mocha is chocolate coffee as far as I know so this should be coffee, but it's just chocolate. 

It is what it says it is, but by definition it is a fail. It would be like bread flavored bread. What is it, and why does it exist?

Lunch Box Jumpin' Turkey Jack

 Lunch Box Jumpin' Turkey Jack can't jump. Why you would call it that is a mystery to me. The turkey has fewer chewy bits than the ham and feels better in your mouth. 

I still think these are for people who are just too lazy or have too much to do, but they are edible. I'd stick with the salami on this one, but this wont kill you.

Marketplace Brands Hazelnut Cocoa Mix

 "Have a Holly-Jolly Christmas" reads the box of my Marketplace Brands Hazelnut Cocoa Mix which is one of the 12 Cocoas of Christmas. Only thing is that I think they got the wrong nut in there. 

No, someone did not have a "Holly-Jolly" in my cocoa. It tastes like coconut not hazelnut. Not to say that it was a bad flavor. It wasn't great, and it wasn't what I was expecting.  

As for 'would I get this again?' no, it's not that great. This is crappy cocoa.