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. 

 

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.
 

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.  

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. 

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. 
 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 
 

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.
 

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.

 

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.
 

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. 
 

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.

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.
 

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.

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.
 

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.

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.  

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.  

 

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”.

 

Ritter Sport Alpine Milk Chocolate

Ritter Sport Alpine Milk Chocolate is made with Alpine Milk. I mean, what does that mean? I would have to say that the milk would have different nutrients but this just tastes like normal milk chocolate to me. 

I mean, yeah, it's European chocolate without the harsher flavors of American chocolate. It's not as sweet as the American stuff as well.
 

Hillshire Farm Beef Lit'l Smokies Smoked Sausage

I have never understood cocktail wieners. What does one really do with them. If I had a dog I guess they would be okay as dog treats. These Hillshire Farm Beef Lit'l Smokies Smoked Sausage are salty little things with enough oil to leave a thick slick in the pan. 

I had trouble getting them cooked to my liking, but I guess they were okay. My cats didn't think much of them.  

I wouldn't get these again. 
 

Long Chips Honey & BBQ

I believe the way to eat these Long Chips is curve down if you want the most flavor out of them. If you want the more bland experience then curb up is better. 

The Honey BBQ flavor is more honey than BBQ but the chips are still so easy to eat and pack that I can't figure why they don't have more of them in the US. I mean, I believe these are a UK thing but you can order them. 

If I had known how good they were I would have gotten more. Still, this flavor doesn't stand out.
 

Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Beef Merlot

 The Café Steamers line from Healthy Choice comes with a lot of packaging for the amount of food you get so they aren’t that great for the environment’ but I do have a few of their steam trays that I use as cullenders. Being small and standing the test of the dishwasher they aren’t bad to reuse.

The Beef Merlot was something of a disappointment having flavorless vegetables and not having much in the way of beef. The old and flavorless vegetables were the worst part given that this is a frozen meal I could tell that the carrots were sitting in a bad environment before being cooked and frozen. That had a bitter taste to them that said it all.

All in all, this was a disappointment. It was small and cheap but was almost not worth eating.

Petal Sparkling Water Elderberry White Tea

Flavor is not a big thing with this Petal Sparkling Water Elderberry White Tea but not everything needs to be so flavorful that it knocks you out. I would say that if you're an IPA fan then you'd like this because it has a flavor that is not at all sweet. 

It's not bad but it's not for everyone. If you like unsweetened tea then this is a must try. If you like dry wine this is a dry tea with fruity notes. 
 

Rancho La Gloria Mango Margarita Wine Cocktail

Rancho La Gloria Mango Margarita Wine Cocktail is crap. It has almost no mango to it's flavor and taste like the kind of tequila you don't shoot. I had to mix this with something else to make it drinkable, otherwise it just tastes bad.
 

Starbucks Tripleshot Energy Coffee Beverage Extra Strength Caramel

Starbucks Tripleshot Energy Coffee Beverage Extra Strength Caramel has no flavor of caramel. I find it to be thick and low in coffee. It's more like drinking bad chocolate milk.

I would give this one a pass. Doesn't give me energy and doesn't taste great. 
 

Lay's Wavy Cuban Sandwich Potato Chips

Lay's Wavy  Cuban Sandwich Potato Chips taste like pickles. Not a lot like pickles but like potato chips and pickles. Wavy chips are thicker and stronger for dipping so these would be best with a milder dip so as not to cover their own flavor. 

I found them interesting but not wonderful. If you like Cuban Sandwiches these are not as good, but they are easier to eat.
 

Jelly Belly Dr. Pepper Jelly Beans

 Jelly Belly Dr. Pepper Jelly Beans are nothing like Dr. Pepper and they won't put a spring in your step. I mean, these things are just sad. Jelly Belly was sleeping on the job when they made these.

Melinda’s Chipotle Ketchup

Melinda’s Chipotle Ketchup is for those of you who like it hot but not too hot. I'm not a fan of hot so I wasn't too upset when my cat's knocked this over and it spilled on the floor. I saved the fish sticks so that's what was important to me. 

I would say this is better for burgers than fish sticks. I mean, burgers are more robust in flavor to start with, and so this will add to them without overpowering them.  

If you want to add this to your out door cookouts for the summer you may have a few folks who fall in love. Be weary, hot food leads to more beer consumption. 

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