The recent wave of soft drinks sweetened with real sugar has traded on nostalgia, bringing us back to an age where flavour mattered and sugar was the sweetener of choice. Then into the fray steps Pepsi Next, a special version […]
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Review: Tim Hortons Gluten-Free Macaroons
If you have any celiac friends, you already know how hard it is to find gluten-free things to eat at a restaurant or café. Every label must be read, and nothing can be left to chance. Asking a staffer if […]
Review: Awake caffeinated chocolate bar
Finally, at long last, a chocolate bar for the student cram session. Not only can you satisfy your snack-craving with an Awake chocolate bar, but you can also get a caffeine jolt equivalent to drinking about 3 cans (355 mL […]
Review: Maple Bacon Kettle Chips
Before I go any further, let me bring forward an example of the profound absurdity of the universe: I found these oily, sweet, salty, smoky potato chips at PLANET ORGANIC – after many years of moderating asinine online comments as […]
Review: Lay’s Do Us a Flavour potato chips
When I started hunting for the four different Do Us a Flavour potato chip varieties from Lay’s a couple weeks ago, they were very hard to find, at least around Calgary. It was as though there’d been a run on […]
Review: Kraft Peanut Butter with Honey
The first groundbreaking development for those who love pairing peanut butter and honey on their toast and sandwiches came with the invention and subsequent ubiquity of squeeze bottles, which made it so much easier to add honey and spread it […]
Review: Popchips Katy’s Kettle Corn Chips
I’m kind of fascinated by Katy Perry. She’s this marvellous contradiction, a gospel-raised chanteuse who rose to mainstream prominence through a risqué image and songs that leave nothing to the imagination. Even the dimmest of bulbs has little trouble reading […]
Review: Brookside Dark Chocolate Açai Blueberry candies
These candies are just so downright subversive, aren’t they? Take açai – a buzzy, health-food-store darling of a berry – and, instead of creating some sort of $7 meal replacement bar for hippies turned investment bankers, drench the hell out […]
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