Monday, April 7, 2025

McDonald's Soda Potion




 

In a McDonald's Minecraft Meal, which is not for children, you can get yourself a Soda Potion. It doesn't do anything fun but I guess it looks cool. 

Not being a Minecraft fan I can't tell you what this has to do with the game. I mean, it's the kind of toy you put on your shelf in your computer room and look at it. 

 

Culinary Creations Springtime Delights Molded Chocolate Candy


 Culinary Creations Springtime Delights Molded Chocolate Candy is the kind of thing you get thinking that the candy is bigger than it is because the box is thick. 

What you get are these three chocolate pieces and most children will be happy to have them. They are, well, okay. I wouldn't get them again but I think I payed a buck for them. 

No big thing.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

McDonald's Nether Flame Sauce

McDonald's Nether Flame Sauce is a Minecraft tie in product that tastes like it was made in the game. I mean, is it hot, yeah I guess, but is it good? No, tastes like it was made in a lab. 

This stuff is nasty. I would never get it again but then I would never have gotten it were it not for this blog.

Culinary Creations Tractor Treat 2 pack Solid Gummy Bunnies

Culinary Creations Tractor Treat 2 pack Solid Gummy Bunnies were all over the discount stores last year. I couldn't find them on line.

They look like a real eye pleaser until you need to dismember them to eat them and they were twenty two servings of rubber. 

They taste of cherry and cinnamon but are so chewy that you will spend a long time eating them and it's just too much gummy for one person. 

I know a few people who would eat the heck out of these but I don't care for them. If you don't mind tossing away the leftovers and never wanting to eat gummy again these are fine. 


 

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Mike and Ike Cotton Candy Strawberry Lemon

Mike and Ike Cotton Candy Strawberry Lemon

was something I found in the discount bin after last Easter and figured I'd give it a try.  I'm not sure what I was expecting but it was a fail. I didn't taste much but sugar and even putting this into a drink didn't make the drink good enough to be worth having. 

I don't know if I have ever had fresh cotton candy. My family didn't do that kind of thing when I was young. I almost never go out now so I may never have fresh cotton candy, but I know that cotton candy can lose its fluff and gat stale.  

If you ever had the real candy I think this would disappoint you. Sure as hell did nothing for me.
 

Friday, April 4, 2025

Cadbury Mini Caramel Eggs Milk Chocolate

Cadbury Mini Caramel Milk Chocolate Eggs pop up every Easter and I must admit I love them.  They do kind of remind me of cat poop. I mean, look at them unwrapped and they looked like little cat poops. Past that I can’t get enough of these even as I should not eat them because I’m a big fat dude.

 


 

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Swedish Fish Jelly Beans


Someone got the idea of taking Swedish Fish and making them into Jelly Beans. They taste about the same but don't feel the same in your mouth. They have that low quality jelly bean texture that really puts me off. 

I think this has something to do with the idea that jelly beans have a coating that keeps them from sticking together and that changes the makeup of the candy. 

I wouldn't get these over the original. The normal fish are better. 

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Hershey's Cookies and Creme Polka Dot Bunny

Hershey's Cookies and Creme Polka Dot Bunny has no chocolate. There was no coco butter or anything that said coco at all in the ingredients. 

I can't say this is bad, just bad for you, but if you thought it was chocolate or even chocolate adjacent you're wrong. Your children won't care but I do.
 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Shirakiku Ramune Drink Original

Shirakiku Ramune Drink Original tastes almost like bubble gum. I find it hard to describe but I wouldn’t call it fruit for sure. I don’t really know what it is and I haven’t been able to find out what they flavor it with.  I mean, it tastes like Ramune I guess. I can’t say I miss it when I don’t have it and I can’t say I don’t like it.

Stuff is fine. If I were you I would try it just to see what it’s like because it is very odd.


 

Monday, March 31, 2025

Healthy Choice Power Bowls Roasted Red Pepper Romesco Chicken Pasta

Healthy Choice Power Bowls Roasted Red Pepper Romesco Chicken Pasta has one of those long names that I truly hate. Did you really need to tell me that there was Roasted red pepper in this, because I didn’t taste them. I think the red pepper was pureed and made into the sauce. The sauce was honestly very good.

I’ve had a lot worse from Healthy Choice, but I still wouldn’t recommend this product because it’s just too small. You get a big box full of air with these things and the food may look good and taste okay but be a real disappointment.

 

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Tastee Choice Linguine Del Pescatore


 Tastee Choice Linguine Del Pescatore was fishy but not bad fishy. I mean, it tasted like fish stuff but it didn't taste bad. I would even say that if you had a real meal with this then you would have been able to stretch this for two people. 

I mean, if you had a salad and maybe some kind of appetizer this would have been a solid meal for two on date night.   These things are food for single man who know nothing about nutrition, but this one was good enough.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

American Classics Hot Chili with Beans

American Classics Hot Chili with Beans are not hot. For that matter they are sweet. Why would they be sweet? I don't know, but they were also not all that even. There were some dryer looking beans in there. 

This was some bad chili. I mean, I didn't expect much but I can say that I'm dropping the second can into box for the homeless because I couldn't even finish the first can. 
 

Friday, March 28, 2025

Hidden Valley Ranch Dipping Sauce

Hidden Valley Ranch Dipping Sauce is what you get at Burger King. I was never one for putting white stuff on my food but as white stuff goes this is the good white stuff. I've never known anyone who liked ranch who disliked this.

Good show, Burger King, you use the name brand. 
 

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Tony's Chocolonely Milk Chocolate with Nougat

 
Tony's Chocolonely Milk Chocolate with Nougat has hard bits in it that taste like brittle or caramel. I didn’t really detect any nougat like you would see in a Snickers bar.

Tony’s comes with a promise that as little suffering as possible has happened for this chocolate so when I saw this I had to buy it and I can say it is good chocolate. I just don’t know about that nougat.


 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Jelly Belly Sunkist Orange Jelly Beans


 Jelly Belly Sunkist Orange Jelly Beans need more orange. I mean, they just don't taste very orange but they do leave you with an orange aftertaste.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Smart Ones Creamy Basil Chicken with Vegetables

A solid entry in the Smart Ones catalog Creamy Basil Chicken with Vegetables starts you off by smelling great then keeps you going by not being total garbage. Frozen food edibility is something of a low bar, but it is the bar.

Other than the fact that this was rather small it was well made and balanced so that I liked it, which is more than I can say for a good number of the frozen meals I have had as of late. There could have been a more even distribution of basil, but past that this was fine.

 

Monday, March 24, 2025

The Father's Table Brownie Cheesecake

The Father's Table Brownie Cheesecake really needs to have some Brownie in it. I couldn't taste any. Brownie is more than a flavor but also a texture and had I closed my eyes I would have tasted nothing but cheesecake.

It was still good. 
 

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Prime Lemon Lime Energy Drink

 Prime Lemon Lime Energy Drink isn't disgusting. It tastes a bit like lemon lime soda and isn't bad. It passes a low bar. It doesn't taste like diet soda, but it doesn't taste as good as Sprite or Seven Up. 

If you want to drink this to cool off it won't work. If you need a boost it will give it to you. 

I still don't recommend these things, but I work the night shift and need to keep them eyes open to keep the paychecks coming.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Glico Pocky Matcha Covered Biscuit Sticks

Glico Pocky Matcha Covered Biscuit Sticks are what you expect. They don't have a lot of flavor and are kind of forgettable, but they do taste like Matcha.

Look, I just don't think I get Pocky. I like Matcha, but I still drink it to wake up and get going. This will simply not get you going so it defeats the purpose to me.
 

Friday, March 21, 2025

Maruchan Noodle Soup Ramen Soy Sauce


 Maruchan is the poor peoples' Ramen with a six pack being two dollars last I went to the store. I spiced up this Soy Sauce flavored noodle pack with carrots, Brussels sprouts, mushrooms, and a salmon patty to make it a meal. 

I'm not at all disappointed, this tasted great and was filling. Just looking at the picture makes me want to make another.  

The big thing about Ramen is that you just need to know what to add to it and this Ramen is simple and common starting with little but enough flavor. It's not bad and I would buy it again. 

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Dunkin Iced Chai Latte


 Dunkin's Iced Chai Latte is big and cold. Big an cold is often good as I live in California and we have a lot of hot and miserable. I would say that I was unimpressed. I mean, it was fine but didn't have enough flavor to cover that ice. 

It was fine, but I wouldn't get it again.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Jell-O Girl Scouts Coconut Caramel Pudding Cups


 Jell-O Girl Scouts Coconut Caramel Pudding Cups are an odd bird. I mean, I found them at a discount and figured why not. You put the two halves of the container together and shake them to mix up your snack. 

This leads to the two halves getting covered in pudding and you having to watch it get tossed away or lick it clean, neither of which is fun for a grown man. These are better for home eating for that reason but are an interesting thing to add to the menu.

I say, if you can deal with the coconut you should try them.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Jack in the Box Classic Sauced & Loaded Waffle Fries

Jack in the Box Classic Sauced & Loaded Waffle Fries are a low effort snack that isn't all that great. The topping are unevenly distributed, the bacon is soggy, the cheese is slime. 

I didn't think much of these. I wouldn't get them again. 
 

Lean Cuisine Shrimp Scampi

 Lean Cuisine Shrimp Scampi is the kind of diet food that leaves you wanting. I know it is supposed to be high in protein but it really doesn't look very balanced as a meal. There is not enough shrimp and what you get is smaller than what you see on the box. 

Now that rotting monster ejaculate they put on this stuff is not on the box art and I guess that's for a good reason because it really doesn't do much for the meal. They did have the good manners to place it on the side and let you mix as much or little as you want into your noodles. 

At the end this wasn't bad, but it just wasn't good.

Monday, March 17, 2025

McDonald's 2025 Shamrock Shake


 I have never understood the Shamrock Shake from McDonald's. I have never gotten how Shamrock and mint came together to make this.

That said, this was okay. I mean, it didn't have much flavor and wasn't all that great but I guess it didn't taste bad. 

If you like these this is a lessor version than the one that had the cherry on top a few yeas ago. They may get you in the mood for the day but will fail at being all that jazz.  

Superior on Main Shamrock Sprinkle Iced Cake Cookies


 Superior on Main Shamrock Sprinkle Iced Cake Cookies are the kind of things you throw to your kids as you drink yourself into oblivion. 

I have never gotten drunk on St. Patrick's Day and I would never drink beer with green food coloring in it.

These cookies are what I would celebrate with and they are disappointing. I mean, the sprinkles don't do much, and the cake is thin so it dries out.  

I can't eat these without coffee so the day after you're bender you may just eat these to have something to wash down your coffee and ibuprofen.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Bacon


 Just getting my hands on a McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Bacon was harder than I thought it would be. First I got one and it didn't have bacon. I mean, what was the point there? 

Anyway, I found this to be about as good as the original. Maybe a little bit less. The bacon really did little to add to the overall burger. 

It will kill you just a bit faster, but it won't taste all that much better.

Urban Pie Pizza Co. Calzones Mini Chicken Pesto

Urban Pie Pizza Co. Calzones Mini Chicken Pesto could use more chicken and will get your pan all dirty with pesto drippings. There is enough pesto that you don't need a dipping pesto but some ranch would be nice. 

These are delicious. I would get them again. 
 

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Jack in the Box Classic Crispy Boneless Wings


 I note that they have not used the word chicken to describe these Jack in the Box Classic Crispy Boneless Wings. There is no wing in this and they are in fact breast meat so not bad I think. That is to say if this is really chicken.

I batter is heavy and thick with little in the way of flavor so the ranch these come with really saves them. I mean, these are expensive for what you get and not that great. I find they make me feel like sleeping after eating them.

Healthy Choice Power Bowls Adobo Chicken

 The Healthy Choice Power Bowls Adobo Chicken has the power to leave you wanting. This is one of the better Power Bowls from Healthy Choice. The beans and grains that make up the bulk of this snack are hearty and filling, there just aren’t enough of them to fill up an active human. The chicken was also of solid quality and there could have been more of it but what do you really expect?

This is what you get when you really want healthy frozen food. It stinks, you’re still hungry after eating two of them, but they are good for you.

Friday, March 14, 2025

Jack in the Box Oreo Mint Mocha Sweet Cream Iced Coffee


If you like your sugar with cream then Jack in the Box Oreo Mint Mocha Sweet Cream Iced Coffee is for you. Me, I'd like some coffee in that mix so this didn't appeal to me at all. 

This has so much sugar in it it set off my diabetes and made me feel bad for 12 hours. I could taste some mint and the Oreo bits were fine, but there was just so little coffee in this that I would have never thought of it as a coffee drink.

This was a fail, I would never get this again. 

Tony's Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Caramel Sea Salt

Tony's Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Caramel Sea Salt has chunks of salt that slowly melt in your mouth to grow the flavor of their chocolate. The caramel is hard and will not get all over your fingers. 

Tony's is a high quality chocolate and it is fair trade coco. I don't get this candy often but when I do I often saver it because of the high quality. 

I do not inhale this chocolate like a typical fat man. Stop laughing. 
 

Thursday, March 13, 2025

McDonald's 2025 OREO Shamrock McFlurry

The McDonald's 2025 OREO Shamrock McFlurry is as unimpressive as the one I had last year or so. The mint isn't mixed well and the Oreo is still Oreo. 

I only have these because of the blog because they don't impress me. This year I found that it still had most of its vanilla ice cream intact and that the green was just at the top.  

If I could put this in the blender it would have been less disappointing but to me it just was too little and poorly executed.  


 

 

Somos Mexican Brown Rice

Somos Mexican Brown Rice is really mild by comparison to the hotter Mexican rice I used to make for my family. I wouldn't call it great but it is a solid product for pre-made rice. 

I have to point out that rice is easy to make but red rice is harder and so this product makes a little more sense than some of the ready rice I've had. 

I can take or leave this, but I don't think ill of it in any way.
 

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Carl's Jr. Redhook Beer-Battered Fish Sandwich

When I heard that Carl's Jr. had a Redhook Beer-Battered Fish Sandwich I had to have one. I love Redhook! Then I had one and I just wasn't impressed.

The batter is far too thin, and you can't taste any Redhook. The whole point of beer batter is to make the batter thicker and change the temperature of the fish. 

The fish itself is too soft and taste too farm raised. 

I was disappointed but this sandwich, and now I really want some Redhook.
 

Coca-Cola Ultimate

Coca-Cola Ultimate is probably no longer available. I mean I got it back when it just came out and forgot until I found the box under some laundry. Don’t look at me like that. I’m depressed. I’ve had some large things go missing in my house like brooms and computers.

Anyway, stuff just taste like coke to me. I mean for the most part it tastes like coke with a little odd flavor that could be my imagination.

I miss Coke Starlight. This stuff is just kind of there.