Dove Dark Chocolate Bar

Dove Dark Chocolate Bar

What Is It: A bar of dark chocolate separated into 12 connected pieces.

Packaging: A very nice looking package with half red and half cream colours with a little chocolate artwork and their very elegant logo. Great stuff.

10 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This is a fantastic chocolate bar. It has no gimmicks and needs none. The chocolate is so smooth and has such a great flavour with the sweet with a hint of bitter as any good dark chocolate bar would have. This is a real winner here.

10 out of 10

Private Selection Colby Cheese

Private Selection Colby Cheese

What Is It: Sliced colby cheese from the Kroger deli.

Packaging: It's a deli bag. Not much you can do to fancy it up. Quality ziplock bag though.

6 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This is as good of a colby cheese as you'll find anywhere. Great "colby" flavour as well as great thickness and texture. Tremendous on a lunchmeat sandwich or on a sandwich by itself with some Miracle Whip or great just eating it out of the bag. Great product.

9 out of 10

Peep Oreos

Peep Oreos

What Is It: Yellow Oreos with peep flavoured filling.

Packaging: It comes in a yellow package with a pink Peep on the front as well as one of the cookies. Very attractive I think.
9 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This is one of my favourite of the special flavours of Oreos. The yellow cookies is great and that filling is a dead on Peep. Put those two things together and you have a match made in heaven which is appropriate for an Easter themed cookie. High recommendation.
10 out of 10

Happy Farms Mature Cheddar Valentine Cheese

Happy Farms Mature Cheddar Valentine Cheese

What Is It: A Valentine made after my own heart it's a heart shaped block of aged cheddar cheese.

Packaging: Well it's cheese with the red wax covering making the heart red. My kind of valentine.

9 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: Not only was the Valentine's Day concept cool but the cheese was darn good too. A nice, sharp flavour that is perfect for a cracker or just eating it straight up. I ate this all in one shot. Delicious.

9 out of 10

Now And Later Jellybeans

Now And Later Jellybeans

What Is It: Jellybeans patterned after the Now And Later candy. Flavours include apple, cherry, watermelon, grape, strawberry, and banana.

Packaging: It comes in a pink bag with all of the different fruits included in the jellybeans. The rest is kind of blah. 

5.5 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: These were some decent enough jellybeans. They have mostly the same flavours as the Now And Later candies which were fine. Their flavours are pretty straightforward with nothing unique but all pretty good. As usual cherry was my favourite with the strawberry being a solid second. All of the others were fine for what they are. There are more exciting jellybeans out there but they were good enough to be passable.

5.5 out of 10

Lays Beer And Brats Potato Chips

Lays Beer And Brats Potato Chips

What Is It: Your typical Lays potato chips flavoured like beer and brats.

Packaging: It comes in a really cool looking bag as it's got a nice gold colour with a wonderful looking brat and some nice beer artwork. Great effort here.

9 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: Well this was kind of middle of the road effort here. I definitely could taste what they were going for here as there was a pronounced beer flavour. The brat flavour was here but not very prevalent. As a longtime fan of Lays I feel like they've done a lot better than this one. Maybe good for like a German party or something.

4 out of 10

Specially Selected Gouda Cheese

Specially Selected Gouda Cheese

What Is It: A block of gouda cheese encased in red wax.

Packaging: It looks like a block of cheese with red wax. The label looks fine I guess.

5.5 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This is one of my favourite types of cheese. As the label says it's creamy with a sweet, robust flavour. I like it with some crunchy pretzels. This would last most people a couple of days but I always kill one of these in one shot. Delicious stuff.

9.5 out of 10

Krispy Kreme Signature Doughnuts

Krispy Kreme Signature Doughnuts

What Is It: Um a regular doughnut with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. Not sure what is signature about it.

Packaging: It comes in a white polka dot box with doughnut pictures on the bottom. Not bad.

6 out of 10

Taste: Like I said I'm not sure what makes this signature as it's as basic of doughnut as there is. The chocolate flavour was pretty middle of the road but the sprinkles were fun. These weren't the freshest and I ate these same day. This is a bit of a recurring problem with Krispy Kreme doughnuts I've bought over the years and I've gotten them at several different stores. They're not horrible but there are better doughnut options out there.

3 out of 10

John Morrel Maple Bacon

John Morrel Maple Bacon

What Is It: A fairly large package of maple bacon.

Packaging: It comes in a red plastic package with a little clear part so you can see the bacon. Pretty basic.

5 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This was a pretty darn good pack of bacon. Had great maple flavour without overwhelming the bacon. I personally like it on a sandwich with some Miracle Whip. But it's also good straight up or with eggs or pretty much anywhere. It's freaking bacon. Eat it!

8 out of 10

Jelly Belly Very Cherry Jellybeans

Jelly Belly Very Cherry Jellybeans

What Is It: Um very cherry jellybeans.

Packaging: The picnic blanket borders are really cool. I also like the cherry and jellybean artwork as well. Great bag.

9.5 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: I'm afraid there's not much to say here. They're cherry jellybeans. Although they're really good cherry jellybeans. These are great straight up or even better as a topper for ice cream (which makes sense as I did buy these at Graeters.)  Good stuff.

8 out of 10