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The Snack Report: Reese’s Peanut Butter Oreos
When it comes to licensing brand names to things, obviously Oreo is no stranger to the game. Oreos has lent itself into candy bars, cereal, ice cream, and lots of other random products that made use of its formula and name. On the other side of the spectrum is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which has also licensed itself out. Its sidequests include cookies, cereal, ice cream, and lots of other random products. Holy shit! It’s like they’re connected!
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We Can Do It Better: Chicken Nachos
Confession time: late night half-price appetizers at Applebee’s are a bit of a guilty pleasure for us. Well, maybe not so much a pleasure…it’s something we’re guilty of doing sometimes when it’s starting to get late and we haven’t made dinner yet. We usually get nachos to share and then our own things. In case you hadn’t noticed by now, Erik and I don’t eat beef, so instead of the Chili Cheese Nachos we get the Nachos Nuevos (which are chicken nachos), that used to be their own menu item but aren’t anymore so you have to ask for them special.
In general they’re pretty good. But they can also be rather hit or miss. Sometimes there’s hardly any chicken, sometimes the cheese is barely melted. Worst of all, one time there was literally piles of salt on the chips. The result is that we usually end up regretting our decision, since it results in being thirsty and bloated the rest of the night. Finally we decided that we could do this better on our own. And we did.
The Snack Report: Mission Tortilla Triangle Chips
The other day Erik and I were at the grocery store, shopping for supplies for dinner. We were going to make nachos (more on that to come later). As we strolled down the chip aisle we made a horrific discovery: tortilla chips are stupidly expensive. Even on sale they were more than we thought they should be. Wondering what to do, we decided to check out the aisle that had tortillas, thinking maybe we would have to make our own. That was where we found the Mission tortilla chips (they also have rounds and strips, but we chose the triangles).
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).
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