The Look: The packaging looks like it was designed by a creatively challenged child with a felt marker and a below-average aptitude for shading. Possible explanations? 1. The common (and much sought-after) crappy-looking-restaurant-with-amazing-food fake-out trick. 2. The terrible packaging design […]
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Review: Kerstin’s Lemon Dream Chocophilia bar
White chocolate is a polarizing foodstuff. Some call it a pretender to the chocolate name, something quite unlike either milk or dark chocolate and thus undeserving of being lumped in with “real” chocolate. Others, me included, see it as a […]
Company’s Coming, newspapers, and the byline rush
Given enough time, deadlines and stories churned out, plenty of writers turn cynical about what they do. The repetition of shuffling words from brain to screen by way of fingers, day after day, is a tedious process far less romantic […]
Review: Pepsi Throwback
Back in the day, pop was sweetened with sugar, a delicious form of sweetness that brought out the best in soft drinks like Pepsi and Coke. Then business got in the way of pleasure, leading to corn syrup, a cheap […]
Review: Cadbury Crème Egg
The Look: Once you peel away the colourful foil wrapper, each egg looks (and feels) like a solid egg-shaped chunk of chocolate. But looks can be deceiving. Inside the thick milk chocolate shell, there’s a centre of white sugary goo, […]
Review: New York Fries’ Butter Chicken Poutine
I’m going to go right ahead and call New York Fries’ Butter Chicken Poutine what it is: fusion food for the Canadian masses. So what is it? First, for our American friends: Poutine is a Quebecois fast-food delicacy that combines […]
Review: Molson Canadian 67 beer
The only good thing about Molson Canadian 67 is that my wife hates it so much, I can safely keep a case of it around the apartment without any fear of it vanishing. Canadian 67 is clearly a light beer […]
Review: Old El Paso Spanish Rice
Growing up, our family taco nights included something we knew as Old El Paso Mexican Fried Rice. It came in a yellow box, it was vaguely exotic to my young Winnipeg taste buds, and we loved it. And then it […]