Tuscan Garden Salsa Ranch and Croutons

Tuscan Garden Salsa Ranch and Croutons

What Is It: The salsa ranch is kinda of a chipolte ranch type. The croutons were flavoured with honey butter and thus is very sweet.

Packaging: The label on the dressing has a picture of a salad on it which I guess made it semi appealing. The croutons just came in a mostly clear bag with black trim. Points for dressing and not the croutons here.

5 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: Ok the reason I'm doing these together is since I don't like salad for a snack I often buy croutons and dressing to dip them in. Yeah I know. I'm wierd. Anyway the dressing like I said before kinda tastes like chipolte ranch. Pretty good for the context I used it for and probably would work really well in like a southwest salad. The croutons were a little too sweet for my taste as I like a more garlicky or herby flavour. The dressing was good but get better croutons.

Appleton Farms Pulled Pork

Appleton Farms Pulled Pork

What Is It: Refrigerated pulled pork in a big ole package. It's meant to serve 4.

Packaging: It comes in a mostly brown package with half of it with the info and half with a picture of the bbq on a sandwich. Looks cool.

7 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This is kind of a sweet bbq which is good for that sort of thing. It's definitely made for a sandwich and is nice and thick. I put a slice of sharp cheddar on mine although most people prefer coleslaw. A great idea for a quick and easy dinner that also tastes great.

7 out of 10

Tostitos Smooth And Cheesy Dip

Tostitos Smooth And Cheesy Dip

What Is It: It's a variant of a queso meant for dipping tortilla chips.

Packaging: Well it looks like a jar of cheese. A jar of cheese looks good. Thus this looks good.

It looks like a jar of cheese thus it looks good out of 10

Taste: It's kind of a bland for a queso cheese. It's not terrible by any stretch but it's not much different than like a Cheez Whiz. I think it would be best as a taco topper or burrito filling than as a direct dip. It's better as a flavour component but not necessarily as the main event. So in that wat I can recommend this.

6 out of 10

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Snickers Peanut Butter

Snickers Peanut Butter

What Is It: A normal Snickers with peanuts and caramel covered with chocolate only this time with the addition of peanut butter.

Packaging: It comes in a gold wrapper with the logo across the front. Although it looks different than the original it's kinda boring. Meh

4 out 10

Taste/Final Analysis: This was one of those things that although it gives you everything it promises I don't think is an improvement over the original. They packed plenty of peanut butter flavour here but it's at the expense of everything that makes a Snickers bar a Snickers bar. The peanut butter covers up almost all of the caramel flavour and the peanuts get a little lost too. I love peanut butter but it hurt more than helped here.

4 out of 10

New York Bakery Texas Toast Garlic version and 5 Cheese version

New York Bakery Texas Toast Garlic version and 5 Cheese version

What Is It: Frozen Texas Toast. Boxes come with 8 pieces. The garlic comes with well just garlic and the 5 cheese has it melted on there (well it will be after you bake it) along with garlic.

Packaging: They both come in elegant yellow boxes with big pictures of the product on it and the toast looks darn good. Good box.

Taste/Final Analysis: This is good take on this. They are very heavy handed with the garlic but that's a good thing with a good Texas Toast. The cheese added a lot to it too although I think they added a ton more garlic to the 5 cheese one. These are perfect with an Italian dinner or just eat them straight up as a snack. I like these but you better have some mints on hand afterward.

7 out of 10

Ritz Bits Cheese

Ritz Bits Cheese

What Is It: Cracker sandwiches with cheese in the middle.

Packaging: It comes in the normal Ritz red box with lots of cool cracker artwork on it. Pretty good effort.

7 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: You know there are more exciting snacks out there but this is very time tested one. The great buttery flavour that you love in a Ritz cracker with a sharp cheese center. I like to put some port wine cheese spread on it to make it even better. Still as is this is a dependable, safe snack.

6 out of 10

Snyder's Pretzel Dips Hershey's White Creme

Snyder's Pretzel Dips Hershey's White Creme

What Is It: Basically a variation of the white yogurt covered hard pretzels only covered with Hershey's White Creme.

Packaging: It comes in an elegant looking bag with a large product picture on it. It sold me.

8 out of 10

Taste/Final Analysis: Since I love yogurt covered hard pretzels I figured I would like this and I was correct. It was very similar to the yogurt one's but it did have a rich creaminess that made this unique. Of course the salty pretzel finished it off perfectly. This is definitely sweet and salty done right.

9 out of 10