Category Archives: The Snack Report
Cheese Review: Drunken Goat
For a blog run by people who love cheese so much, it’s been far too long since there’s been a cheese review. Well today I shall end that drought with a review of Drunken Goat. I first tried drunken goat back in December of last year, and it quickly became one of my favorite cheeses.
The Snack Report: Chips Ahoy! Birthday Frosting Filled Cookies
Last week I reviewed one of Chips Ahoy!’s new chewy filled cookie flavors – Oreo crème filled. This week I’ll take a look at the second new flavor – Birthday Frosting. From the outset we were more skeptical of this flavor. Frosting can be a wonderful thing, but many times mass produced frosting is filled with chemicals and just tastes weird and fake. So we didn’t have much hope for the frosting that filled these cookies. But we tried them anyway, for you, dear readers (and also just because we really like cookies).
The Snack Report: Chips Ahoy! Oreo Crème Filled Cookies
While at the grocery store the other day, picking up ingredients for dinner Erik and I stumbled upon an end cap of Chips Ahoy! cookies. Included were Oreo crème filled, and birthday frosting filled chewy Chips Ahoy! Intrigued by all things new in the cookie world, we knew we had to check these out. First up for trial, the Oreo crème filled cookies.
The Snack Report: Turbana Plantain Chips
Plantains are an interesting food. They look like big, angular bananas, and that’s because they pretty much are. The two are very closely related. The main difference is that plantains are large and starchy, and therefore best eaten after being cooked, while bananas are smaller and sugary, and often eaten raw. Flavor-wise plantains are actually more similar to potatoes than bananas. In fact fried plantains (tostones) are pretty much just the best French fry you’ll ever have. The first time you eat plantains it can be hard to get over the idea that it’s’ going to taste like a banana. But once you do you’ll want to eat all the plantains.
The Cereal Report: Froot Loops Treasures
The Cereal Report is a column in which PCFG conducts various cereal reviews, of new or limited products, as well as providing brief backgrounds on the cereal. Cereal is delicious and fairly cheap as far as meals go. Everyone should eat cereal!
Froot Loops is a tragic cereal. Don’t get me wrong, I really like them, but they fall into that group of kid cereals that get a bad rep due to their fairly high sugar content. Some cereals are pretty stupendously caloriffic, but Froot Loops isn’t particularly bad, featuring only 150 calories per serving with milk. It’s not really that bad for you, especially considering the sugars themselves are just plain sugar, not high fructose corn syrup, so a lot of the stigma comes from the fact they are pretty damn sweet-tasting. And I suppose sweetness isn’t for everybody, so let the people who dislike flavor stick to their plain Cheerios, but do not hold it against those of us who do enjoy partaking in sugary cereals for breakfast. (Because guess what, when you add sugar and fruits to your plain cereal, you’re not really making them that less sugary than Froot Loops.)
But I must digress, Froot Loops caught my eye the other day in the store when I saw a new iteration of them, Froot Loops Treasures.
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