Friday, June 20, 2025

Sonic Turtle Truffle Nut Blast


 According to my calendar it's the first day of summer and a perfect time for a Sonic Turtle Truffle Nut Blast. Yeah, these are fine but not great. I don't know what it is but these are just not great. Maybe it's that you really forget that there are nuts in there, or that the truffles just aren't very good. 

Anyway, good old water is the best thing for you in the heat were I live and I'll be drinking more of that.  


 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Bud Light Seltzer Cocktail Hour Tropical Punch

Bud Light Seltzer Cocktail Hour Tropical Punch tastes like you didn't wash the glass after drinking Tropical Punch.  It  would have been a glass with ice in it but you still only get a hint of flavor.

I wouldn't call this bad so much as I would just say that it isn't much. I find it tolerable but not enjoyable.
 

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Jelly Belly Island Punch Jelly Beans


 Jelly Belly Island Punch Jelly Beans are surprisingly sweet at first try but that doesn't last long. I still don't know what island punch should taste like but given the color it's plumb.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Bubly Sparkling Water Pineapple

In the heat of the summer reaching for some Bubly Sparkling Water Pineapple just may cool you off. It cools me off, and I almost never eat pineapple. 

What, you expected me to eat something good for me? Have you seen me? I'm the blob. 

Anyway, with this water you get just a bit of that burn in the back of your throat but not much. Frankly, I like it. I would get it again.
 

Monday, June 16, 2025

Crav'n Flavor Ripple Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips

Crav'n Flavor Ripple Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips should not be eaten after burning your mouth on pizza. After that I taste no sour cream and the cheese is a little overpowering. 

I would say that these are best paired with a milder dip so that the flavor of the cheese does not clash with whatever your dipping them in. I would, however, say these are not all that great on their own. 
 

Sunday, June 15, 2025

SeaPak Budweiser Beer Battered Cod Strips

SeaPak Budweiser Beer Battered Cod Strips taste a little fishy. I mean, they were okay but I would have figured there would have been more of them in the box and they come with tarter sauce. 

I've never understood tarter sauce. 

There was no taste of beer or Budweiser for that matter and I would say these weren't bad and I would get them again at the right price but I wouldn't go looking for them. 
 

Saturday, June 14, 2025

D-PLUS Green Tea Baked Wheat Cake


 D-PLUS Green Tea Baked Wheat Cake are super soft and mild in flavor but surprisingly good. They don't go well with coffee because the coffee overwhelms their flavor. 

The outer skin of these is not as tasty as the inner bread which makes the best way of eating these to rip them in half, and point the fresh bread at your tongue.  

You should try these because they are rather good.

Friday, June 13, 2025

Serendipity Ice Cream Unicorn Bliss Sundae

Serendipity Ice Cream Unicorn Bliss Sundae is ice cream for those of you who never grew up maybe because you got molested. It isn't great but it's still ice cream and it has flashy colors so children will like it. 

Look, most of the best ice creams look like crap, but we would still eat them out of a toilet shaped bowl. 

This on the other hand has these big white things that kind of remind me of bone that are hard to eat and crunch in your mouth. I think they're made of powdered sugar. 

This is not great ice cream so you will only love it a little bit. I found it disappointing and it only took me six months to eat it all.
 

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Jelly Belly Licorice Jelly Beans

Jelly Belly Licorice Jelly Beans taste like licorice. All licorice is black by the way. The red stuff is normally cherry flavored. 

How much you like these will depend on how you feel about licorice which I have always liked.
 

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Nissin Fire Wok Hot & Spicy Torched Teriyaki Chicken

Nissin Fire Wok Hot & Spicy Torched Teriyaki Chicken was on sale at my local discount store and I have come to really love my noodles. I'm not a fan of spicy stuff, but this wasn't very spicy.

I found these noodles to be more sweet than spicy and they sopped up most of the water I boiled them in so there wasn't much in the way of broth. They are meant to be low on broth for those of you who don't like to slurp it up.  

I will say that the flavor pack did have a stronger flavor because it wasn't diluted, but I was really expecting a lot more flavor. 

All in all, I would buy again. 
 

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Sanzo Mango Sparkling Water

As you can see Sanzo Mango Sparkling Water has stuff in it. It is a cloudy stuff with bits floating in it and I don't care for it. I like my water to be water. This is stuff!
 

Monday, June 9, 2025

Truly Strawberry Hibiscus Margarita Style Hard Seltzer


 You can really smell the strawberry in this Truly Strawberry Hibiscus Margarita Style Hard Seltzer but you can't taste it as much. It didn't make me sick like most Truly but it was okay. 

I could have used a stronger flavor but on a hot day this would have been good enough. 

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Valbreso 100% Pure Sheep Milk Cheese


 Valbreso 100% Pure Sheep Milk Cheese packed a lot of flavor into every bite of this wet crumbly cheese, and it smelled so good my cats insisted on trying some. They liked it fine but didn't eat it all. 

I normally don't like fine cheese but only try it for all of you but this is good cheese. I would say this goes well with white wine, but I don't drink white wine. 

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Banquet Zesty Marinara Sauce Over Meatballs

Banquet Zesty Marinara Sauce Over Meatballs is honestly more Italian inspired than one would thing. Meatballs were originally served as their own dish in sauce. 

The almost Marinara sauce in this would make my grandmother smack me across the face were I to call it food. Then again, she would have called herself a Sicilian and not an Italian. I don't know why that is, because I never knew grandma well. 

Anyway, the sauce taste like almost nothing and the meatballs are full of things that are not meat, but if you don't like cooking this is an easy way to get food ton the table. 

I can complain about these all I want but that doesn't change the fact that I got three of them and ate them all. 
 

Friday, June 6, 2025

Jelly Belly Juicy Pear Jelly Beans


 Jelly Belly Juicy Pear Jelly Beans taste like I remember Pear Jelly Beans tasting like. I don't think they taste much like pear but then it's more a texture thing. 

They have a flavor you really should try. I never really knew how I feel about them, but they are there own thing.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Rip It Energy Fuel Can'D Man

Rip It Energy Fuel Can'D Man is cotton candy flavored. It isn't as good as cotton candy, and I wouldn't drink it just because I'm thirsty, but I found it drinkable. 

If all things were equal I would not choose this over the normal Rip It they have at the dollar tree and I would never have it over a Venom or monster but it passes the passable limit. 

I would buy more if it was all they had. 
 

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Jack in the Box Pink Pineapple Express Shake

 
I always have to point out that when they sake ‘shake’ without adding ‘milk’ the shake can be made of anything. I don’t think you should drink the milk ones anyway.

This Pink Pineapple Express Shake from Jack in the Box tastes of cherry and Hawaiian pineapple, but as pineapple goes there needs to be more of it in this shake. If it had more pineapple I would say you should get this but it just doesn’t have enough flavor to be worth the hit to your health. 

 


AriZona SunRise Grapefruit Hard Seltzer


 AriZona SunRise Grapefruit Hard Seltzer is the best of the lot from this variety pack. It mostly tastes like someone dropped there cut grapefruit into a glass of seltzer, and it gave the stuff a mild flavor. 

The alcohol is so light you can hardly feel it and it will keep your buzz up but not get you there unless you can drink a good amount of it in a short time. 

This stuff is for light weights who drink on an empty stomach. It isn't very good, and I guess that's why I found it at so low a price.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Jack in the Box Nashville Hot Mozzarella Sticks

 Jack in the Box Nashville Hot Mozzarella Sticks are covered in sweet and spicy goo which makes them something you don’t want to eat with your hands. I thought you were supposed to dip mozzarella strips in goo and not have them pre-gooed for you but old Jack feels that goo is the way to go.

These are okay. I wouldn’t go getting them if you don’t like mozzarella sticks to start with, but they're okay.

Jack in the Box Honey Garlic Sriracha Crispy Boneless Wings

What is the difference between a chicken nugget and a boneless wing? I think a nugget is normally made of chicken paste where as a boneless wing is made of breast meat. Now, Jack in the Box boneless wings are glorified popcorn chicken. If it were good popcorn chicken it wouldn’t care what you called it.

Now the Honey Garlic Sriracha verity is just okay. They are boneless wings with some goo unevenly slopped on them. I don’t mind them but I’m not going to miss them when they’re gone.

5-Hour Energy Extra Strength Orange Sicle

5-Hour Energy Extra Strength Orange Sicle is what passes for a zero sugar energy drink. As a flavor I think it stinks. I mean, tastes like bad diet orange soda. It works if your thirsty, but past that I would never get this flavor again.

Then again, do you drink energy drinks for the taste or the power. It looks to work fine so it has  power.
 

Monday, June 2, 2025

Jack in the Box Banana French Toast Sticks

 
I think I got the last of these Banana French Toast Sticks at Jack in the Box, but if they did well they’ll be back. As things go they did taste like banana. I’m not sure why you would want banana flavored French Toast. I felt this was a welcome change to the norm but then I never did dig these before the new flavor.


 

Kellogg's Rainbow Krispies Fruity Flavor Breakfast Cereal

I do believe it's pride month, and what could be more gay than Snap, Crackle, and Pop the three mascots for Kellogg's Rice Krispies? I mean, look at these three little dudes so happy with each other. 

Then Kellogg's says 'hold my apple juice like drink' and they make Rice Krispies out of Froot Loops making Rainbow Krispies Fruity Flavor Breakfast Cereal.

Look, I always knew Snap, Crackle, and Pop were gay, but Rice Krispies aren't gay even as they look like little dicks when you think about it. Rice Krispies is cereal with gay mascots, but Rainbow Krispies are somehow insulting.

They taste like Froot Loops and are poison for children. They may look gay but they will not make you happy.   

At the end of the day, gay people are just people, some of them may be eccentric, but there are plenty of not gay eccentrics out there.  

Kellogg's Rainbow Krispies Fruity Flavor Breakfast Cereal may have nice colors, but it's tacky and bad for you. It's something you shouldn't want in your body just like a tacky drag queen that smells bad.

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Carl's Jr. Tropical Refresher

The Carl's Jr. Tropical Refresher is souped up lemonade and it’s not all that refreshing. I was just disappointed. These things are a lot of sugar water with too little flavor and at too high a price.

I would never have been interest in this were it not for my blog. Then again, I always look for funny stuff to try.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

Scott & Jon's Shrimp Scampi Pasta Bowl

The Pasta Bowls of Scott & Jon’s are almost good enough to eat. I mean, almost, I don’t eat the whole thing when I buy them, and it’s not out of a lack of appetite.

The Shrimp Scampi has some flop of onion and herbs on top that are goopy and detract from the overall texture of the meal. I guess you’re supposed to mix them in but I ate around. They just looked bad and didn’t add anything to my eating experience.  

The shrimp as fine and the noodles were edible, but I think about a quarter of this ended up in the trash. 

 

Friday, May 30, 2025

Jelly Belly Buttered Popcorn Jelly Beans

Jelly Belly Buttered Popcorn Jelly Beans are the best jelly beans I ever had. I remember first trying them in the 90's in a jar from Costco and loving them then. I still love them now. They taste just like buttered popcorn and sugar.
 

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Carl's Jr. Chocolate Chip Cookie


Every now and then when I go to Carl's Jr. they ask if I want to buy Chocolate Chip Cookies. I always say no but this time I said yes and this is what I got. Each of these cookies is a hundred and seventy Calories. 

They are okay as far as cookies go but taste synthetic. You have to be the kind of person that would only want two cookies to get these to start with and even then I would only have them with black coffee. 

I'd give these a pass as they just aren't that great.  

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Rustik Oven Hearty Grains & Seeds Artisan Bread


 Soft and good enough to eat on it's own The Rustik Oven Hearty Grains & Seeds Artisan Bread is too good to be good for me. I never needed or wanted to toast this bread. It really should have had more seeds and fiber to be good and healthy.

That is not to say that I did not like this bread. It was really good bread, and I almost ate all of it before writing my review. Don't look at me like that, I'm at and lazy and sandwiches are easy to make. 

Anyway, good bread. 

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Big game Energy Sour Gummy

Big game Energy Sour Gummy is one sour energy drink. It wakes you up with a flavor that is like dunking your head in ice water and limes. If sour is your thing this will fit the bill. 

It didn't keep me up for long but it woke me up hard. 
 

Monday, May 26, 2025

Urban Pie Pizza Co. Sausage Ricotta Mini Calzones

Urban Pie Sausage Ricotta Mini Calzones did not spew filling all over my baking sheet and make a mess. They had a lot of air in them but being cleaner than other calzones I am willing to forgive that. 

Serve with a small bowl of marinara and you have a real party snack that will leave you wanting more. Or is that just because I'm a massive blob who could eat these all day and want more? 

The world may never know. 

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Hospital Food


 This month I spent five days in the hospital and the food was as bad as everyone says. This is oatmeal, French toast, and eggs. No balance to this meal.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

McCORMICK Mango & Habanero Fruit Spread


 McCORMICK Mango & Habanero Fruit Spread is a thing I thought I would hate because hot stuff isn't my thing. This wasn't very hot. I mean, habaneros are so hot that if you handle your junk after cutting them you burn your beans. 

I couldn't taste the heat at all, not that there was that much mango. It wasn't bad but wasn't good either.

Friday, May 23, 2025

Sun Harvest Spaghetti 100% Whole Wheat

Sun Harvest Spaghetti 100% Whole Wheat is a product they may not sell anymore. I think I got this during the pandemic and forgot about it so long that it's well past it's best by date. 

I still have to admit that being four years out of date didn't hurt it much and it was okay for spaghetti. Maybe not as good as normal spaghetti but long gone are the days that I would eat spaghetti on it's own so if you have something to add to this it will work just fine.

I remember having fiends who would make spaghetti and just put the sauce on it cold. They would let the hot spaghetti heat it up for them. They would probably turn their nose up to this but most people would say that it gives the meal more body. 
 

Thursday, May 22, 2025

McDonalds McCafe Iced Coffee

All the sugar found it's way to the bottom of my McDonalds McCafe Iced Coffee leaving me with a mostly bland milky coffee that I had no love for. I would have rather had my own black unsweetened ice coffee which would have been about as good and better for me. 

I don't know how you fail so hard with something so simple.
 

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Prime Energy Drink Strawberry Watermelon

Prime Energy Drink boasts of natural flavors. This could be why you taste more watermelon than strawberry with their Strawberry Watermelon flavor.  It is refreshing, not overlays so, but it has a nice aftertaste that lingers in the mouth.  If I hadn’t read the can I would have just thought it was watermelon but I like watermelon so that’s not a bad thing.

All in all, were this not zero sugar I would buy more. Not bad.


 

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Truly Hard Seltzer Classic Lime Margarita Style

Truly Hard Seltzer Classic Lime Margarita Style is surprisingly good for being lime cleaning solution. Where as I can't say I would buy this again, I can say that it was kind of refreshing and almost worth drinking. 

It wasn't great but Truly normally makes me want to spit it out.
 

Monday, May 19, 2025

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Bacon, Egg &Cheese English Muffin Sandwiches

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Bacon, Egg &Cheese English Muffin Sandwich is something out of a microwave so far as I can tell. I mean, it's not bad for something out of a microwave but it's still microwave kind of food. 

It's the kind of thing one would want to get over a hangover for sure. I mean, strong coffee and some bacon, egg, and cheese will go a long way to getting you back on your feet. Still needs tomato juice or something to get you out of that feeling. 
 

Sunday, May 18, 2025

V8 Splash Smoothies Strawberry Banana


 V8 Splash Smoothies Strawberry Banana is the kind of thing you would use to make a smoothie before a workout when your fat but pretending to get thin. It's sugar water with some vitamins thrown in but better for you than a coke. 

If you start with this, add greens, add fruit, and top it off with oatmeal then this wouldn't be bad for you.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Hostess Chocolate Caramel Kazbars

Hostess Chocolate Caramel Kazbars are a rich offering from hostess that I need coffee to have with to get that sugar taste out of my mouth. They have a tendency to leave some goo on the wrapper, but I didn't eat it off to find out if it was that great. 

These are the kind of thing I shouldn't eat because they are too good but you can't get enough of them.
 

Friday, May 16, 2025

AriZona Sunrise Mucho Mango Hard Seltzer

 AriZona Sunrise Mucho Mango Hard Seltzer is a cloudy yellow drink with little in the way of flavor and may just give you enough drink to be worth having with a salty sandwich. 

This has almost no flavor and what it does have isn't very good. It tastes like something that should be mixed with something else. Juice and vodka would be better. If I didn't read the box I would have thought it was without alcohol.

Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Father's Table Chocolate Marble Cheesecake

The Father's Table Chocolate Marble Cheesecake needs more chocolate. I mean, you can see that the chocolate doesn't go all the way through. I can hardly taste the chocolate so I feel this doesn't have enough.

Past that, tastes okay.
 

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Carl's Jr. Triple Big Carl

New at Carl's Jr. is the Triple Big Carl. I never had a Big Carl from Carl’s Jr. so I have no idea if this is an improvement. It looks like a sad broken burger that wishes it was made of real beef. I can’t say it was good but I can’t say it was bad. I was left feeling like I ate something.

Jelly Belly Sizzling Cinnamon Jelly Beans


 Jelly Belly Sizzling Cinnamon Jelly Beans are like cinnamon jelly beans. I don't know why you would want them stronger but they're not. I'm not big on cinnamon candy but these are not the strongest I've had. I don't know how to feel about that really.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Jack in the Box Classic French Toast Sticks


 I did not order French Toast Sticks at Jack in the Box. They had wings at the time and I ordered those. However, as I needed to order three times before they got the idea that I was ordering something with classic in the name  I said "well, I haven't tried the French Toast Sticks."

The  French Toast Sticks are okay if you get them fresh and other than them dripping all over the place they are finger food. I mean, the syrup got everywhere.

The sticks themselves didn't have much flavor but that is French toast.  

Would buy again.  

Monday, May 12, 2025

Bon Matin Fig Preserve

Bon Matin Fig Preserve is something I found at a dollar store, it was a buck twenty-five I think, and figured I needed a review. I'm not a preserve kind of guy. In truth, I plan to mix this into smoothies to get rid of it.

I can't say it was bad in any way.  I mean, if I was a fruit on toast kind of person I would love this stuff. Truth is that even the English muffin I put it on was something I needed to use up right away and so I pulled this stuff out, dusted it off, and ate it. 

This is a preserve and about normal from what I gather. You'll do fine serving this in the morning but it won't be something you'll talk about the next day.  

 

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Little Debbie Strawberry Mother's Day Cakes

Last year I had the lemon version of these Strawberry Mother’s Day Cakes and I still can’t tell what’s so mother’s day about them.  Really, Little Debbie, was the frosting pattern what made the name for you?

Anyway, the strawberry version has a sharper flavor  that does remind me more of the life of a mother being bitter sweet. I don’t really know. I think of being a mom as being kind of like owning a cat. I love the little fur ball, but I can’t always be there to keep it safe.

I would figure that if you sat down and had tea with mom these cakes wouldn’t impress her that much. They would be something but not an impressive something.

That said these are good little things that I love to dip in my coffee.  I think of my mom lost to me now for more than thirty years and say “I’m going to do better to make you proud”.