May 2020 Local Items

Stur sugar free syrup to add to water

this is macaroni salad, Philippines style. I cut the recipe in half and I will still be eating it for many days. Compared to Canadian style this one is different because it has some condensed milk and crushed pineapple in it

March 2020 Ogdensburg Oddities

I had been wanting to go back to Watertown, NY for a while.  I started googling for restaurants near Fort Drum and I found L&L Hawaiian BBQ on the map.

Inside L&L Hawaiian BBQ. It had many frozen yogurt machines but they were all out of order

This is the chicken katsu plate lunch.  Huge portion.  Looks delicious.  Unfortunately the chicken tasted bad - the oil in the deep fryer hasn't been changed in 2 billion years, maybe.

Lays Crispy Taco, Fried Green Tomato, Queso

Herr's Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup and Deep Dish Pizza cheesies

Good & Gather and spindrift flvoured water

Duncan Hines Gooey Double chocolate brownie and Launch Box Slammin' Ham & Colby sandwiches

March 2020 Local Items

New drinks in Walmart

New cereals - chocolate Harvest Crunch and cocoa Mini-Wheats

February 2020 Ogdensburg Oddities

McFlurry with "shamrock" (mint) flavor added.  I thought it was just oreo flavoured.  That extra squirt of green liquid has very little mint flavor.  I threw it out.

New flavoured waters and salad dressing.  The smartwater ones were not bad.

new kitkats: mint and lemon crisp

February 2020 local items

Fish tacos from D'Arcy McGee's were pretty gross (overfried fish fingers)

Cooling off instant pot when making sweet tea (reddit recipe)

Party Mix All Dressed snack mix is a competitor to Storm Chips in a way because it has many flavours of chips in 1 bag: onion, bbq, etc.

I tried this recipe for inside out eggrolls in the instant pot.  I guess it kind of tasted like what's inside an eggroll but it was  missing the grease of the outer wonton wrapper so not very good over all.

These taquitors were disgusting.  It's like a greasy tube full of greasy cheez whiz.  Out of maybe 10 that I ate, only one had a piece of beef in it that I could  notice.

September 2019 local items

Onion Ring pringles - brought to work

Disgusting hot and sour soup from pressureluck.com

Sweet & sour pineapple chicken.  This was a hit in my house but we ate it too many times and got sick of it

November 2019 local items

I bought the Looney Spoons 1990s recipe book.  After burning 1 recipe I tried this one which was supposed to be some Chinese flavour.  It tasted mostly like 5-spice powder.

This Oikos eggnog flavoured yogurt did not taste like eggnog

December 2019 local items

I made some Xmas crack for my coworkers.  Turned out great.

I got these breakfast bites at Walmart

I tried this Flow water because somebody at the gym drinks it.  The taste was disappointing.  Did not taste like the flavours on the carton at all.

East India buffet stoops to a new low in recycling chicken with: Chicken Pickle

Ogdensburg Oddities December 2019

I tried the Whoopie pies.  They were almost expired and dried up.

These tortilla chips were disgusting

I had wanted to try these Totino's mini snacks for a while.  They were greasy and disgusting.

Cheez-it Duoz and xmas Jelly Belly candies were pretty good

October 2019 Ogdensburg Oddities

Beetology beet juice

Pringles Roasted Turkey

Pecan Pie M&Ms. I am pretty sure I have seen these before and they were gross

The mystery oreos smelled like snickerdoodles.  Some other people described the taste as vanilla frosting from a can.  I did not like the cinnamon coke.

Two new buffalo hot wing flavoured items, chips and popcorn.

Betty Crocker Brittle Mix. I did not make any yet but I have read that Duncan Hines copied this also.

September 2019 Ogdensburg Oddities

It turns out that spray cheese is actually pretty delicious

I got these 2 frozen pizzas.  The left one is actually pretty good (sort of like NYC flavour).  The right one was so so.

Utz Fried Dill Pickle chips were good.  Marshmallow Fluff - I used it to make the famous fluffer nutter sandwich - kind of disappointing.  I think peanut butter & jam tastes better.

The fruit & chia was actually very nice.  The fruit & oats was disgusting (sour and thick like oatmeal).

I did not like the Maple Creme oreos.  (but my coworkers did). . The Halloween ones are just regular flavour.

The Heluva Good! onion dip flavoured chips were good and so were the mint chocolate oreos.  Both got eaten quickly by coworkers.

August 2019 local items

I made banana pudding from an internet recipe, instead of having a birthday cake. It was pretty good (but sweet) and my coworkers liked it.  Here is the recipe https://pressureluckcooking.com/recipe/best-banana-pudding/?fbclid=IwAR3I21Iv7OLnKY3izKVBose7t6HWn9bW3ndXUc0aaDzDrlGC2Ej_vjkLUX4

I got these mysterious Baru nuts at costco.  They tasted a lot to me like burned peanuts and they were not worth $17

These are two new flavours of Lay's chips.  The onion rings one was better.

I steamed coworker Dave's zucchini in the instant pot

July 2019 T&T Marvels

Lay's kimchi flavour, and chicken wing flavour and grilled pork

Chips Delight and Matcha oreos - everybody agreed: they are both terrible