How does one write about a new Doritos flavour without grudgingly expecting it to vanish shortly thereafter, regardless of how good it is? Like the summer love you found at camp that one year in junior high, there’s a good […]
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Review: Crispers, Ketchup Flavour
They’re not chips. They’re not crackers. They’re Crispers. The commercials were everywhere in Canada in the 1990s when these launched, and from the very beginning they played at the snack’s manufactured identity crisis. Are they crackers? They’re made with wheat […]
Review: Ritz Fudge Covered Crackers
Contrasting tastes can be fascinating to explore, as can contrasting textures. Sweet with tart, smooth with crunchy, bitter with malty. Not all against-the-grain pairings work, but when they do, they add up to more than the sum of their parts. […]
Review: Tootsie Roll Midgees
It’s November, and Halloween is gone and done for another year. The spooky décor is back in the basement, the Monster Mash will soon be replaced by Mariah Carey’s multi-octave merriment, and every Canadian and American office has a bowl […]
Review: Quality Street Chocolates
It’s hard to explain, but Canada exists in a sort of in-between world — between continents, between neighbours near and far, between traditions old and new. We exist as part of the colonial past of Great Britain, but also as […]
Review: SugarSin Sparkling Rosé Gummies
Prices are a complicated motivator. It’s easy to be drawn to a cheap bag of treats, but it’s also almost just as easy (at least for me) to be entranced by a candy that is strangely expensive for what it […]
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 […]
Review: Stride Sour Patch Kids raspberry chewing gum
Whether you appreciate or loathe Stride’s new Sour Patch Kids raspberry chewing gum will depend less on the flavour and more on what you expect from a piece of gum. Should it freshen your breath and make you feel all […]
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