December 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

I got these 2 pastries from Aldi.  The almond kringle was really good and moist.  The chocolate babka seemed old and too dry.

Weird almond/maple/peanut butter snickers.  The yogurt was terrible.

December 2018 local items

Another visit to Café Cristal

The new location of Benny & Co opened in Stittsville.  I thought it was a lot like Scores but the sauce was worse than Swiss Chalet, St-Hubert or Scores. It tasted slightly sweet and like celery.

November 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

For sure the eggnog cake rolls will be disgusting!  Looks like Entenmann's has taken over the vachon cakes from Sara Lee.

Belvita Gingerbread biscuits - tastes nothing like gingerbread at all.  Culture Republic turmeric flavoured ice cream...

Big Papa individually packaged pickle

Heinz Mayochup.. half mayonnaise, half ketchup

November 2018 local items

Peppermint Bark Oreos

Aloe vera King drinks.  These are really delicious... from South Korea

October 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

Pepperidge Farm citrus cookies: not so good

October 2018 local items

I tried to assemble my own pizza using a premade crust and Rao's pizza sauce and ham and 2 kinds of cheese.  The sauce was not good!  Salty!

My bro made pork tocino.  It was pretty tasty.

Both of these were horrible. Orchard apple & cinnamon Crispy Minis and birthday cake flavoured Oreos.

These Jurassic world cookies were kind of tasteless but the Chin Chin Aloe Vera drink was delicous

September 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

Walmart is trying to compete with the Aldi brioche.  The walmart one sucked.

The Cheesecake Factory is now making candies. I gave these to my coworker friend and did not try.

September 2018 local items

President's Choice has come out with weirdly flavoured pizzas. I didn't try this one because my brother ate it.

Brett's Ice Cream in Kanata North.  You can't go inside.  You just order at the window.  I had a chocolate shake which tasted good but was too small relative to the high price.

Walmart snacks: English bonbons and Sizzlin Sweet & Sour Pringles (tastes like General Tao)

I went to check out a new Chinese/French bakery called Oui8.  It has very short hours so I was lucky to get in before closing time.  This random assortment (5 items) was around $20 or $25. WTF. I won't be going back there, based on price and taste.  The 3 items I tasted so far were substandard (not enough sugar and wrong texture).  I suspect the chef is putting her own spin instead of using Candian-style recipes.

Finally I also tried the "Fruity Cone" from Chocolats Favoris new Kanata location.  It was waffle cone with chocolate ice cream, fresh strawberries and liquid milk chocolate on top which hardened on the drive home.

Aug 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

Donuts were bland but at least individually wrapped

We had to throw out the potato salad without eating it.  The muffin mix was crumbly!

Nilla Banana Pudding cereal tasted like corn pops plus fake banana extract

I could only find these two of the new Lay's flavours.  The bacon wrapped jalapeno popper was bland and the Chesapeake Bay crab spice tasted like celery.

I think I gave this to my coworker

These popcorn balls were $0.50 each.  No flavour other than sugar.  Would not buy again.

Graeter's ice cream came in a fancy container but it tasted like non-gourmet ice cream

August 2018 local items

We checked out a food truck in Stittsville called Crave Tacos.  They were all colourful and weird.  The one on the left was cauliflower, which turned out to be Indian curry with chick peas and beans.  The one on the right was mahi mahi, which was OK except I didn't like the sauce (cayenne pepper in it).

We paid a visit to Crossroads Tearoom in  Perth, ON.  Here's the sandwich tower.

Here's the dessert tower

Only bad thing about this place was these scones which were half baked.  Mostly raw dough.

Here are Simpsons tic tacs.  Marge tasted OK but Bart & Homer were not good.

The new flavours of Lay's chips are: pizza, grilled cheese and taco.  Coincidentally pizza tasted the best and taco was the worst so they are lined up correctly in this photo.

July 2018 Ogdensburg Oddities

We tried Sandwich Warehouse, which is in the building that used to be Knot Just Donutz and More.  Here are some business machines

I had a grilled cheese sandwich. The name is Armory.  All the sandwiches were named after places in town.

My friend had a Reuben

worst flavour ever of cookies: back to school

Rocky road trip oreo "with soy inclusions" ?!?!?!?

Carlos Walnut recommended Rao's spaghetti sauce so I bought a few

frosted chocolate strawberry shredded wheat

It's a Utica Thing! Veggie Riggie

July 2018 local items

Finally we went to check out Marche Adonis, a middle-Eastern superstore in Gatineau. My Egyptian coworker always mentioned going to a location in Montreal.  It was his favourite store, so I had to check it out.  It is not as wild and crazy as T&T in terms of ethnic stores. It is a large store but a lot of the stuff inside is not exotic because this chain is owned by Metro.  There are many counters selling the weird stuff, but you have to ask for them (cheese, meat, nuts, olives, baked meat pies, etc.)  I was a bit nervous to practise my French so I stuck with the stuff that was already packaged.

I got my coworkers some loukoum and candies from France.  I will definitely go back and try asking for stuff.  Their spinach pies were just fine.

These chips just tasted like BBQ

This was absolutely disgusting. It didn't taste like cheese. It didn't look like  the picture.  The "ground beef" was like a liquid.

Went to Luna Crepes & Cafe with ex-coworker friends.  This croissant with egg and cheese was OK but the new family running the place hid the spoons, napkins, straws, and ketchup, and my gelato was tasteless.

This popcorn was flavourless

This orange coke was gross.  Kind of like vanilla.  Couldn't taste the orange.

Nice guy Dave gave me these Malaysian snacks for babysitting his guinea pig. One of the cookies was BBQ pork flavour!