In America, you have Cheetos Crunchy. In Canada, we have Cheezies. And also Cheetos. Because that’s how we are up here – carving out an identity for ourselves while borrowing cultural tidbits from our southern neighbours. Snipping open the retro […]
Junk food
Review: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios
There was a time when Cheerios was an ostensibly healthy cereal – bland and oat-y, but nothing special. Then came Honey Nut Cheerios, and there was much rejoicing from children. Finally, a cereal that they could sell to their parents […]
Review: Kettle Chips Dill Pickle Potato Chips
These “Krinkle-Cut” dill pickle Kettle Chips aren’t exactly new, but they’re new to my pantry. I adore dill, and I’m always up for finding new ways to rock the flavour. Dill and potatoes are already a perfect match, which means […]
Review: Orange Sorbet Coca-Cola
It’s been a good year anyone who enjoys different flavour offshoots of the standard Coca-Cola brands. Cherry Coke Zero seems to be back again in limited quantities (for how long?), the Diet Coke line has been relaunched with a bunch […]
Food Fight: Aero vs. Mirage chocolate bars
The food world can be strange at times. Mergers and acquisitions can create strange bedfellows, with junk food companies owning health food brands, and competing products in the same category somehow winding up under the same roof. And so it […]
Review: Reese Big Cup Stuffed with Pieces
When faced with the unenviable convenience-store dilemma of choosing between Reese Peanut Butter Cups and Reese’s Pieces, your choice, until recently, has been an unsatisfactory “pick one or buy both.” What kind of horrible world do we live in? Is […]
Review: Kerr’s Maple Kisses
Around our house, maple syrup coats our pancakes, sweetens our smoky chipotle chili and mingles with lemon on our standby oven-roasted baby potatoes. I try not to be caught without a bottle of the stuff in the fridge. Why? Because […]
Around the Web: Millennials rejecting processed food?
There was an interesting story in last Saturday’s National Post about young’uns rejecting processed food, and the impact it’s been having on the food industry. It’s certainly worth a read, if you haven’t seen it yet. At the core of […]
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