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 […]
Author: Iain Ilich
Review: One Coffee K-Cup Coffee Pods
Brewing coffee at home with a Keurig or Tassimo machine is like announcing to the world that you’re both lazy and incapable of basic supermarket math. It’s absurdly easy to make a standard pot of rudimentary coffee at home – […]
Review: Swell Water Bottle
I have had a general dislike and distrust for insulated bottles since my elementary school days, when the thermos that was included in my Care Bears lunch box (don’t you goddamn judge me) would routinely spill whatever was inside all […]
Wait … something around here looks different
When we launched NEAROF! back in 2010, the idea was to keep at it for a year and see where it went. Well, it’s eight years later and we’re still humming along, but we haven’t done anything with the design […]
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: Nescafé Sweet and Creamy Original
K-Cups. Those awful little capsules that cost way too much (which you’d know if you could do basic math, which, statistically speaking, you probably can’t), weigh on the conscience of anyone who thinks about future generations who’ll be stuck on […]
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 […]
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