I have a fraught relationship with Perrier. On the one hand, bubbly water is simple and refreshing. It’s the original diet soda, with no funny artificial sweeteners to distract or strange flavours to linger. It’s a nice change from tap […]
Food
Review: My/Mo Mochi Cashew Cream Frozen Dessert
I’ve written about Mochi before – both the regular and mochi ice cream types – so I’m familiar with these curious little treats from Asia. While there are pockets of mochi appreciation in Canada, I can’t say they’ve entered the […]
Review: Kellogg’s Special K Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate bars
Protein bars exist in a strange kind of alternate food universe, a world more like that of the Jetsons and their utilitarian food pellets than our garden-variety world’s insistence that the things we eat bring us pleasure as well as […]
Review: Diet Coke Strawberry Guava and Blueberry Acai
When Coca-Cola introduced Coke Zero back in 2005, they may not have anticipated the pent-up demand for a no-calorie product that tasted like regular Coca-Cola instead of Diet Coke, which, to be charitable, tastes like stale metallic ass. While Coke […]
Arbitrary: Growler Bar Economics, Revisited
Back in 2013, I wrote about the pros and cons of growler bars, which were just starting to pop up in Calgary, where I lived at the time. To be blunt, I wasn’t exactly sold on the experience. The cost […]
Review: Ikea’s Bulk Candy Bar (Lordagsgodis)
When Ikea added a bulk candy section to their Swedish food store, I was both excited and perplexed. Why, of all things, would Ikea sell bulk candy? They’d long been supplying the world with Daim chocolate bars and other imported […]
Review: Wonderful Sweet Chili Pistachios
Pistachios are one of my new-ish guilty pleasures. I keep a bag on my desk at the office for snacking, as I find them filling and satisfying – a flavourful little nibble with a hit of salt to perk up […]
Review: Cuban Lunch Chocolate Bar
I first heard about the Cuban Lunch chocolate bar on CBC Radio last year, then read about it again in Janis Thiessen’s Snacks, a definitive history of the early years of the Canadian snack food business. People seemed to rave […]