Chewing gum is one of the wonders of modern food science, so you’d expect gum to be “natural” in the same way you’d expect a Ferrari to be fuel efficient: it could happen, but it’s not by design. With all […]
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Review: McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes
Unless you’ve spent the past month in solitary confinement in a North Korean prison, watching the same two pirated I Love Lucy DVDs over and over again on a black and white T.V. you paid for with a kidney, you’re […]
Review: Savi Seed
One bite of Savi Seed and you’ll appreciate Mary Poppins’ view that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Though in this case, more than a spoonful is needed to distract from the awful taste of this latest […]
Review: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites
When was the last time you plopped a spoonful of uncooked muffin batter into your mouth, or eagerly chowed down on a chunk of raw bread dough before putting a loaf in the oven? But cookie dough? Who hasn’t tasted […]
Review: Chocolate peanut butter mochi
It’s no secret that I love mochi ice cream. I reviewed the tiny ones made by Lotte earlier on NEAROF!, and I’ve loved almost every other brand of mochi ice cream I’ve tried so far. I’ve only recently started to […]
Review: Starbucks Cake Pops
Adorable! That’s what I think of these crazy new cake-on-a-stick things at Starbucks. Near as I can tell, they showed up at my local Starbucks in the middle of March, placed prominently in the pastry case in a spot I […]
Review: Pear drink at Ikea
As we’ve already established, I quite like pears, and I quite like Ikea. Combine the two, and you’ve got a tall can of non-alcoholic pear drink — Kolsyrad Parondryck by name — available at the Ikea food store. The look […]
Review: Reese’s White and Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
I’ve tried a whole pile of different Reese’s products in the past, from various bar-form treats to cereal to tubs of peanut butter, but I’d never seen Reese’s Dark Chocolate and Reese’s White Chocolate peanut butter cups until a trip […]