RightRice Risotto Basil Pesto

 I was cleaning out my dining room when I found a box that had these RightRice Risotto Basil Pesto bags that I got years ago now but never tried. I mean, I kept reviewing the original, don't remember if I liked it, and never got on to the other flavors. 

The idea is kind of off. Let's take something simple like rice and complicate it by making it out of something else.  It should be better for you than normal rice and be about as good. 

RightRice is not as good as normal rice. The texture and mouth feel isn't that great. It tastes fine but the basil pesto flavor is too mild and generic. I would have never said "this is pesto" after eating this.

I believe this runs about the same as real rice, tastes fine, and doesn't feel like the real thing. I'm not sure what the point is but RightRice isn't bad, it just isn't all that great.  

Campbell's Chunky Spicy Mexican-style Chili With Beans Bowl

Off the Campbell's Chunky line we have Spicy Mexican-style Chili With Beans that is about as Mexican as Taco Bell. For those of you who don't know, in Mexico a Taco Bell taco is called a "thing" because they aren't taco enough. 

This is a hearty stew to be sure, with lots of beans and plenty of fiber.  If not for all the salt it would be healthy in all true respects. 

All in all, I would call this bland and edible. It's the kind of thing you can drop in your lunch and not think to much about. Not great to distinctive but fine.  
 

Upperdeckys Rippin' Rootbeer

 Upperdeckys is a play on words that describes putting tobacco in the area of your upper lip. They are not made of tobacco but are caffeine bast stimulants.  The Rippin' Rootbeer flavor was so bad that I couldn't keep it in my mouth. 

All in all, the flavor just kept getting worse and worse until I spit it out, but it was so bad that it did wake me up. I mean, it was like a cold splash of water on a hot day.

I would never get this again, but keeping it in my work bag may just keep me up on a long shift. 

Nasty.  

Jack Link's Original Chili

 First try a chili dog and this is what I make. More chili than dog at this point but is that really an issue? I don't know. 

I ran into some hot dogs at a discount and, because I don't like hot dogs, figured I'd have a chili dog to make them worth eating. 

Jack Link's Original Chili was the first option I ran into and, I mean, chili isn't what I thought it was.

Look, when I was a kid, around five or six, my mother used to make Six Gun chili for some pot luck think we used to go to and it was hot. Not like super hot but hot enough to get the old nose running. I thought chili was called that because it had chilies in it.

This chili is almost without chili. I mean, tastes good, don't get me wrong. It has a meaty texture to it and I like it a lot better than some of the mush chili I've had, but it's kind of bland. 

Stuff is good, to be honest, but not as hot as I would think chili should be.  

5 Hour Energy Extra StrangthTroppical Burst

5 Hour Energy Extra Strength Tropical Burst is the kind of thing you really want to add to ice. I mean, it tastes way better with more of a dilution and the stuff in there will go better if you have more water in your body.

I had my first can of this and found it almost intolerable, but the second I added way more ice and it wasn't that bad.  

I classified 5 Hour Energy as a Monday things as in you should only drink them on a Monday because you need to get into thing fast and it's hard.