Category: food
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Grinds My Gears: Boiled Veggies
You know what really grinds my gears? Water from boiled vegetables on my plate. Did I order green bean soup or green beans? Did I ask for my sandwich to be soaking wet due to the excess goo that came with my veggies? Why the hell are you boiling them anyway, when steaming is so much better?
That’s what really grinds my gears.
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Honey Bunches of Oats is Back!!!
My friends, today is a great day. On a whim, as I occasionally do, I picked up a box of Honey Bunches of Oats. If you are a longtime Songoose reader, you may remember my Open Letter to Post Cereals, in which I informed the company that although HBoO is the single greatest cereal ever created, that I would “not buy another box of Honey Bunches of Oats until [they] stop using Partially Hydrogenated Oils. Period.”
(It should be noted that HBoO had less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving, which allowed them to claim 0 grams trans fat on the ingredients list, but that doesn’t make the use of hydrogenated oil right.)
Anyhoo, Post has finally relplaced the hydrogenated oil with plain old vegetable oil — trans fat free. I can now enjoy the best cereal ever made again — my mouth is salivating for tomorrow morning already!
Interestingly, I never received a response from Post (which I always found strange). But perhaps my voice among the many contributed to this great change. Thanks Post.
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MustRead: The Coke Guy
AZ Republic: The Coke Hoops Legend Revealed
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Top 5 Candy List
In response to Wisdom’s awesome candy post, I’m listing my top 5 candy choices:
Twix — My all time fav, a beautiful combination of chocolate, caramel and cookie. Eat one or two, and serve with a tall glass of milk.
KitKat — Simple, but beautiful — milk chocolate meets flaky wafer. Recent additions Dark Chocolate, Triple Chocolate and Big Kat only add to the legacy.
Butterfinger BBs — I love the flavor of the original Butterfinger, but there is just too much finger and not enough chocolate, making it somewhat difficult to eat. The BBs add more chocolate and lessen the stickyness, but keep the wonderful peanuty flavor. The mini bars are pretty sweet too, but nothing beats Selma’s Butterfinger Brownie.
Reese’s PBC — needs no explanation. Serve chilled.
Heath Bar — only because Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch is one of the most divine creations known to man.
What are your favorites?
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Candy Tasting and Reviewing Fun
So the wife and I were up in New York this weekend to see our friend John performing in in La Forza Del Destino, the Moscow Cat Theater, and some other fun activities including a visit to Dylan’s Candy Bar.
A fun and playful 2-story candy store, Dylan’s was too crowded for my taste but included a collection of obscure and old-skool candies that made it worth the trip. We wound up spending about $30 on candy bars at ~$1.50 a pop. Below we shall review them as we eat them – look for regular updates.
#1: Nut Goodie
A milk chocolate medallion with peanuts on top and (more…)