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The Snack Report: Marshmallow Crispy Oreos
I have a lot of respect for Oreos. Their original, chocolate cookie/vanilla cream flavor is beloved by millions; they could easily rest on their laurels and do nothing more than make those cookies (and maybe double stuff too) and still probably make a bajillion dollars. But they don’t let being America’s #1 cookie make them lazy. They’re always coming out with new flavors to tempt our taste buds. They currently have 8 flavors out (in addition to the regular one), with the two newest being Marshmallow Crispy and Cookie Dough. We recently bought the Marshmallow Crispy flavor to try and let you know what we think.
Pizza Lab #11: Limburger Pizza
Pizza Lab is a fun theoretical column in which Meg A. and Erik S. explore their innermost passion for baking and eating pizzas. It exists purely for the sake of experimenting in the kitchen. It may not necessarily be cost-effective everytime, so don’t try this at home kids.
So it’s November already, huh? What a shame Meg and I already created a Thanksgiving Pizza for Pizza Lab months ago. Hindsight may be 20/20, but now that I’m trying to look back, I can’t exactly remember the rationale in making a Thanksgiving-themed pizza back in the springtime… No matter. Time marches on, and so does Meg and I’s experimenting on all things food. If you recall, Meg recently gave her positive thoughts on everybody’s favorite stinky cheese, limburger. Being unabashedly weird and having a fondness for various weird things, the two of us knew we couldn’t settle with just the one review and call it a day. Instead, we surmised the possibility of a Pizza Lab involving the limburger and give it a send off worthy of our new favorite cheese.
Meg A. Once we realized there’d be leftover Limburger from our cheese adventure, we knew we had to use it on a pizza. We are us after all.
Erik S. Haha yeah, just trying limburger wasn’t enough, heh.
Meg A. Yet despite knowing for about a month we wanted to make this pizza, we kinda put the plans for it together rather slapdash. I fear we let the limburger down a bit.
Erik S. Yeah, we had a loose idea of a pizza, but it was literally the night before we made it, that we actually made a solid plan. Despite how some of our pizzas may look, we do generally put a lot of thought into them.
Meg A. Yeah, this one… we sorta dropped the ball on. We’ve been busy! Bah. Stupid lives and responsibilities we have. It should all just be baking pizza.
Erik S. Oh God I wish… It really should.
Meg A. But even with the relative lack of planning, the pizza still turned out pretty darn good! It has the potential to be my 5th favorite savory pizza we made. Pretty much the only thing keeping it from that was the unfortunate use of maple bacon.
Erik S. Yeah, once again bacon screwed us over in a Pizza Lab. We put too much faith in it for the Disco Fries pizza, and now this time it messed up our Limburger pizza.
Meg A. What makes it even worse is that in retrospect we probably didn’t even really need it. The few strips of regular we had would likely have been enough.
Erik S. Yeah… lesson learned for next time.
Cheese Review: Limburger Cheese
I’ve been told that there are people who, when they come into some extra money actually save it. Most people I know use the money to buy something fun and frivolous they otherwise would not have. We meanwhile spent this money on… stinky cheese.
Besides just our love of cheese, the idea for buying this cheese came from a discussion about how in old shows and cartoons like Looney Tunes Limburger cheese was always used as the quintessential smelly thing.
It’s apparently aged using the same bacteria culture that’s found on human skin to make b.o. and smelly feet. It’s even included on the list of Top 10 Stinky Cheeses in the World. We wondered, what does limburger cheese really smell like? Could it really smell that bad? If it did, why would people even eat it? The curiosity was eating away at us. Since Limburger isn’t the kind of cheese easily found in grocery stores, and local cheese stores around here sell mostly local cheeses, we ordered it from the internet.
Hey iGourmet, we’re giving you some free advertising…how about some free cheese?
Pizza Lab #1: Honey Mustard Chicken Finger
So what is Pizza Lab you ask? It’s exactly what it sounds like. Meg A. and myself don some labcoats, lock ourselves in a laboratory with pizza ingredients, and go balls to the wall until something amazing happens. Well, at least that’s how it goes down in my head. More realistically, it was the result of us wanting to make pizzas together, never having done so. So we devised the idea of Pizza Lab, a column in which we brainstorm the most random pizza abominations which, as far as we know, don’t really exist in the mainstream pizza industry. The results are recorded (with an expensive, enormous camera) and then discussed here. Essentially we just remark on whether it was edible or not, and if it’s worth actually making again. Without further ado then…
Honey Mustard Chicken Finger Pizza
This is exactly what it sounds like. Any diner, food franchise, bowling alley, family restaurant, snack truck, rest stop, and planet in the freaking solar system serves chicken fingers, and you love them. Even you too, vegetarians. Deep-fried, battered chicken tenderloins, served with ketchup and/or honey mustard. In this case, sliced and thrown onto a pizza with the aforementioned honey dijon in place of tomato sauce. The combination of salty chicken and tangy mustard results in a pizza that’s almost sweet enough to be served at dessert. On second thought, it’s better than dessert. If someone told me I could only have a slice of red velvet cake, or this pizza, I’d take the pizza (not withstanding that I could simply break their shins and take both).
The Cereal Report: Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut
Certain things just go together and make sense, before you even experience them in person. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine it would be awesome to win the lottery on your birthday, or eating pizza while watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or win the lottery while having sex.
To everyone who ever wondered what it’d be like if you combined Frosted Flakes and Honey Nut Cheerios:
The adult in me appreciates the bright, morning-themed box. The child in me laughs at the word “nut”.
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