After the deliciousness that was the Katy Perry kettle-corn style Popchips I sampled a couple months back, I thought I’d try another Popchips flavour. As someone who is genuinely trying to keep calories and overall food consumption in check, the […]
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Review: Lay’s Do Us a Flavour potato chips
When I started hunting for the four different Do Us a Flavour potato chip varieties from Lay’s a couple weeks ago, they were very hard to find, at least around Calgary. It was as though there’d been a run on […]
Review: Kraft Peanut Butter with Honey
The first groundbreaking development for those who love pairing peanut butter and honey on their toast and sandwiches came with the invention and subsequent ubiquity of squeeze bottles, which made it so much easier to add honey and spread it […]
Review: Starbucks Refreshers
When I first heard about Starbucks Refreshers, I probably groaned. I can’t remember my exact response, though if I know myself, I probably lamented the concept as the latest in a moderately long line of transgressions that Starbucks has committed […]
Review: Russell Stover “No Sugar Added” Strawberry Cream candies
Candies and chocolates that proudly proclaim themselves to be “no sugar added” intrigue me. Even though I’d had plenty of childhood run-ins with Sorbee hard candies from the neighbourhood health food store, I’d largely forgotten about the parallel world of […]
Review: Skinny Cow Milk Chocolate Dreamy Clusters
My first experience with a Skinny Cow product was their tiny little frozen dessert single-serve cups, and it was downright terrible. With the first spoonful, I instantly regretted picking it over the tiny tubs of Häagen-Dazs in the same cooler. […]
Food Fight: Peeps vs. No Sugar Added Peeps
I genuinely don’t understand Peeps. I get that they’re made of marshmallow and that they’re meant to look like fluffy yellow chicks. But I don’t get why people would want to eat them by the 10-pack, which is how I […]
Arbitrary: Beer Economics 101 – The Growler Bar
I’m not sure how common these are outside of Alberta, but in the past few months, I’ve seen a couple new growler bars freshly installed at liquor stores in this province. I found one at the massive new Wine and […]