Archive for the 'Food' Category

Um, corn syrup is NOT “the best stuff on earth”

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

I admit Snapple is not bad-tasting, but how they get away with calling sugary, fruit-flavored tea “the best stuff on earth”, as if it is: 1) unusual and 2) high quality, is beyond me. Can’t you just say it tastes good? Anything that has corn syrup as the second ingredient […]

Vanilla Brey’
(or…Ice cream manufacturers, you fickle little whores!)

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Whatever happened to “vanilla bean”? Remember, not too many years ago, when ice cream makers discovered that adding actual vanilla bean to ice cream made it taste…oh, what was that word again…FAN-FRUCKING-TASTIC? Remember that? What happened?
Even Paul Newman’s “Mean Vanilla Bean” is long gone from store shelves. […]

My little cannellini - where have you bean all my life?

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Cannellini beans == love it

Get your microbes on with Lifeway probiotic Kefir

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

So I got suckered into buying a strawberry kefir by some company called Lifeway, which I’m really not familiar with. But the bottle wrapping was fancy enough to turn me on and here I am, 12 shots later, my stomach presumably overrun with beneficial lifeforms.
I don’t really know how to judge the effects of […]

Health Valley Spicy Black Bean Chili - BLAH!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

How did Health Valley make a canned, spicy black bean (fat free vegetarian, etc, etc.) chili this bad? It is amazingly tasteless. No, actually, I think I’ve identified the dominant flavor…1000-year-old canned kidney beans.
This product has 13 grams of protien, 12 grams of fiber, and only 7 grams of sugar. Unfortunately, it […]

McDonald’s “McGriddles” are a culinary atrocity

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

McDonald’s McGriddles are a culinary atrocity