SunBelle Blackberries

Although I do not believe in fate, I surely tempted fate with all my silly little fruit and veggie reviews. Because now I have OAS and can never eat a raw fruit or veggie again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or at least I can't eat blackberries without getting super itchy. Dang. I even tried microwaving them like a sicko, which made them hot and taste like weird soap in addition to making me super itchy. I told my mom about this development and she said "try washing them!". Wow, thanks mom, I didn't know about washing them. 😐😐😐

Anyway, they still taste great and are more consistent than other berries. And (until now?!) I wasn't allergic to them, so, that's cool. Time to try a lot of Baked Fruit I guess. Sigh!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Manischewitz Egg Noodles (Wide)

Merry Christmas indeed!! These are the only egg noodles at my store, and they are perfectly serviceable egg noodles, although the truth is I prefer generally a non-egg noodle (and entailed dishes). But 'tis the season for stroganoff, and these are the correct noodles for that. They cook in 6 minutes or so, and taste like egg noodle. Good texture, lovely curl, no complaints.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Kathy Kaye Popcorn Balls

It's probably a little hypocritical of me to get annoyed at "Merry Christmas"es as I gleefully consume every Christmas-themed foodstuff available to me, but so it goes. Popcorn Ball is a very unique foodstuff. There's a certain taste to it that smells uniquely chemical-sweet and would probably be really bad if you had it all the time, but I have approx 1 popcorn ball every 20 years, so it's a treasured sense memory for me instead. Ball-shaped popcorn that tastes like a Rice Krispie Treat, even though it is coated with sugar and not marshmallow. These are also proudly nut-free, right on the package. Kinda filling, too. Merry Christmas indeed!!! If I ever see another living being again, perhaps I will offer them Popcorn Ball.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Ferme Benjo Carrot(te)s

Local produce from... Québec! C'est étrange, but OK. I had a tragic discovery this week that I'm itchy and hivey from raw carrots now. Never again the veggie platter times, I guess. But cooked carrots are still fine, so I get a lot of mileage from these guys anyway. They last a long time compared to other (localler, even) produce, and although they don't taste very good cooked (too sweet!), I know they are good for My Eyes and Mike Aloriecount. A good "team player" veg that can slot in to many dishes.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Haribo Football Mix

Football is cute when Haribo does it. I assume this is a Haribo USA creation, and Germans aren't enjoying Raspberry Foam Finger Gummy like I did. But I did. Soon it'll be time for my annual year in review reflection, and probably the only category on there that won't depress me is gonna be Haribos (a new category invented just for this year to not depress me). Anyway, this was at Wal-Mart, where I rarely go, so it may be a Wal-Mart exclusive, which is too bad because it was pretty fun. These have the white dolphin-gummy coating on the bottom that I like. They're still extremely firm, too firm, but the flavors are mostly good. My ranking is:

Raspberry Foam Finger > Lemon Cleat > Apple Jersey > Orange Football > Strawberry Helmet (tastes like nothing) >>>> Pineapple Trophy (tastes bad)

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Dunkin' Pumpkin Munchkin Creamer

A lot of people (online) talk about how coffee creamer is a major trigger for migraine/vertigo/etc, and I definitely have felt terrible after I consume it, but I don't know if that's fully Biological or fully Psychological, even though I'm trying really hard to be scientific about the whole enterprise (of my agonies). A tragic thing about living alone is that I have no one I trust to set up little masked studies for me! Anyway, the blessing in disguise is that this contains 63 servings but goes bad after 7 days, so I only sampled it a few (=7) times and now I can go back to my biological and/or psychological baseline. I can also feed the neighborhood mammals a lot of janky expired creamer; happy holidays kitten and squirrelfriends.

The flavor isn't even that good, or at least, it isn't good enough to vom because of. I don't usually get cream in my coffee regardless, possibly for vom-based reasons below my past level of awareness, and so this just adds a non-coffee note that I don't need. It turns coffees into desserts, I guess. I do like desserts, but there are many more delicious dessert options. It sinks to the bottom of the cup and so you just get vaguely tangy sweet-ish flavors until you get a sudden burst of "dunkin spice", which if you get a lot of Dunkin products you'll know what I mean. It's not super duper artificial, but it's a bit "off", a bit nutmeggy, sweet and creamy, sure, but not only. I don't know if I've ever had a pumpkin munchkin, but I've had their munchkins and their pumpkin donuts and I would say this is a pale imitation, as if someone sneezed over the pumpkin donut powder and it fell into a vat of expired creamer mixed with a cinnamon flavor shot. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10
Doesmyhousesuddenlysmelllikegarbageorisitjustmybrain: 10/10

Pirate's Booty Cheddar Blast!

Whew. This has been a really rough week for me (not health-wise, actually, just work-wise) so I didn't have time to cook any food; I could only eat this entire bag of mediocre snack product. And now, review it. It is mediocre. Although they claim there is a Cheddar Blast!, I perceived no cheddar presence (which is good 'cause I'm not supposed to eat cheese). Airy gritty small plump puffs, they are a fine substance but not a pleasurable one. If you yearn for Star Trek food, check this out.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10