Monday, May 30, 2016

Subway Buffalo Chicken Sub

Subway Buffalo Chicken Sub

What Is It: A footlong sandwich on Italian bread with chopped chicken with Buffalo sauce, ranch, and pepper jack cheese. At Subway you can get whatever you want as far as sauces and veggies go but this is what I get on this particular sandwich.

Presentation: Subway sandwiches tend to not look as good as their menu pictures are but this on doesn't look too bad. Subway packaging looks fairly attractive too.
7 out of 10

Taste: This is my go to when it comes to Subway. They load it up with lots of chicken doused with lots of Buffalo and Sriracha sauce on it. The ranch cuts the heat nicely while adding it's own delicious flavur. I know a lot of people would put a lot more on this sandwich than me but I tend to like to keep it simple when it comes to this sandwich and let the chicken do the talking.
8.5 out of 10

Friday, May 27, 2016

Mike And Ike's Cotton Candy Flavoured Candies

Mike And Ike's Cotton Candy

What Is It: Cotton candy flavoured chewy candy.

Packaging: Looks pretty cool. Lots of balloons and pink colours to go along pictures of the candy.
7.5 out of 10

Taste: Mike and Ike's come up with a lot of clever flavours so I had to try this one. It's exactly what the package says it is with lots of cotton candy flavour. I prefer the pink more traditional cotton candy flavour to the blue blueberry flavoured cotton candy. Both were good though. If you're a fan of Mike And Ike's candy and like to chomp on some cotton candy then give these a try.
7.5 out of 10

Sunday, May 22, 2016

DQ Smore Blizzard

DQ Smore Blizzard

What Is It: A Blizzard patterned after a campfire smore.

Presentation: Eh I've seen better and seen worse. Looks reasonably good for ice cream in a cup.
6 out of 10

Taste: This was one of my favourite Blizzard's I've ever had. Lots of big pieces Hershey's chocolate and tons of graham cracker throughout the Blizzard. I tasted next to no marshmallow here which was a bit disappointing but all in all this is a delicious treat.
8.5 out of 10

Friday, May 20, 2016

Food Truck Hot Pockets Spicy Asian Style Beef

Food Truck Hot Pockets Spicy Asian Style Beef

What Is It: A pocket with spicy beef and vegetables in it.

Packaging: It comes in a pretty cool looking box with the food truck being prominent.
8 out of 10

Taste: This was not my favourite Hot Pocket. The beef wasn't terrible but it just had a wierd flavour in the sauce. I'm not generally a fan of veggies but the problem with them here is that it just ended up as a strange mish mash of flavours. I'm generally a fan of Asian flavours but I don't recommend these.
1.5 out of 10

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tum-E Yummies Fruitabulous Punch

Tum-E Yummies Fruitabulous Punch

What Is It: A kids fruit punch drink.

Packaging: A comes in a cute little bottle kinda like Bug Juice. Looks appealing especially to the younger crowd.
8 out of 10

Taste: I love fruit punch drinks and this one looked so adorable I had to try it. Well it tasted closer to cough syrup then fruit punch. I love cherry flavour but they waaaaay over did it here. If you want fruit punch stick to Bug Juice or Hawaiian Punch and skip this.
1.5 out of 10

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Kroger Ranch Tortilla Chips Vs Cool Ranch Doritos

Kroger Ranch Tortilla Chips Vs Cool Ranch Doritos

Is there really a difference between the store brand Ranch chips and the more popular Cool Ranch Doritos?  There's a 60 cent difference in the price of the chips so let's have a closer look. The bags looked so similar that it took me a few days of eating the Kroger chips to realize that I wasn't eating Doritos. I do think that looking at it now that the Doritos bag is a little more appealing but not by much. As far as the taste goes the fact that it took me three days to figure out I wasn't eating proper Doritos is pretty telling. I think they are identical really. I had a few of each brand of chip in my hand and there was not one difference. With that being said unless you want a slightly prettier bag or are just hell bent on getting the name brand then go with the cheaper Kroger brand.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Kraft Cheese Whiz and Market Fresh Loaf Of Pumpernickel Rye Bread

Kraft Cheese Whiz and Market Fresh Loaf Of Pumpernickel Rye Bread

What Is It: Cheese Whiz is a jarred, processed cheese spread and the rye bread is a dark, pumpernickel loaf meant for tearing and dipping.

Packaging: The Cheese Whiz has the signature Kraft yellow and red colours on the jar which is fine. The rye bread has a simple label on the bag and just lets the bread speak for itself.
6 out of 10

Taste: I put these two items together since it's hard to have one without the other. I absolutely love this sort of rye bread. Once you get into it's got such a soft, doughy kind of center and has great rye flavour throughout which makes it the perfect bread for dipping. Cheese Whiz is obviously not the healthiest option as it's as processed as could be. Still though I think it has decent enough flavour. It's generally a good base for any kind of cheese dip you could want to make but this time I just warmed it up and ate it straight up with the rye bread. I personally liked it but like I said it's really meant to be combined with something else.

Rye Bread: 10 out of 10
Cheese Whiz: 5.5 out of 10

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Pizza Hut Meatlover's Pizza

Pizza Hut Meatlover's Pizza

What Is It: A pizza with pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, and probably a few other meats that I didn't notice.

Packaging: It comes in a brown and black box that has "Thank you" on it as well as the logo. Pizza looks delicious, better than the box really.
6 out of 10

Taste: This is one of my go to pizzas. Of all the meats on here the sausage and ham stand out the most. That's not a knock on the other meats it's just how good those are. Pizza Hut is good at not flooding their pizzas with sauce and it's a good sauce too. The crust is kind of middle of the road. The toppings are what makes this pizza great.
8 out of 10

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Fruit Punch Peeps

Fruit Punch Peeps

What Is It: Traditional marshmallow peeps with fruit punch flavour. 

Packaging: Peeps generally come in cool packaging and this was no exception. They put lots of fun fruit pictures on there to really drive home the fruit punch.
7 out of 10

Taste: I'm a big fan of both Peeps and fruit punch flavour so when I saw this for sale I had to try it. I was not disappointed. The right amount of fruit punch flavour as they didn't overdo it but it was definitely there. If you're a fan of Peeps and fruity flavours then check these out.
7.5 out of 10

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Entenmanns Donut Pop Em's

Entenmanns Donut Pop Em's

What Is It: Glazed donut holes.

Packaging: It comes in a white bag with blue trim. Not bad but nothing special.
6 out of 10

Taste: This is a pretty basic dessert. Little round balls of dough with glaze on them. Hard to mess up something like this. They were very fresh and it had the right amount of of glaze. Very satisfying snack.
7 out of 10

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Cadbury Creme Eggs

Cadbury Creme Eggs

What Is It: A chocolate creme filled eggs made for Easter.

Presentation: The blue and green wrappers look really cool and make me want to buy the eggs.

Taste: These are one of the most popular Easter candies and with good reason. The milk chocolate makes a good shell for all the delicious creme in it. It only takes one or two bites to finish this off but it's a delicious couple of bites.
8 out of 10