July 2017 local items

I found this recipe online for lemon butter garlic chicken.  Holy cow, it was a keto or paleo recipe that used 1 stick of butter and 1/2 cup oil.  I left out the oil but the butter was disgusting.  I threw it out.

Hawaiian Barbecue kettle chips with avocado oil - they just tasted like BBQ chips to me.

Ben & Jerry's non dairy ice cream. YUCK

chopped spinach nuggets from walmart.

Volcaaaanos from Chile (chocolate pyramids containing caramel), Cherry Cola Twizzlers (yuck), and Vietnamese coconut crackers

A visit to Sugar Marmalade: "assorted balls"

mango tapioca drink

Taiwanese shaved chocolate ice

Strawberry limeade

Fish sticks

Fried chicken chunks meal. There is 1/2 an egg under the pile of chicken

Fried chicken chunks with sauce and moving bonito flakes all over the top

French fries with sauce and moving bonito flakes all over it

pancakes and ice cream with mango

Oreo cheesecake

sesame ice cream with giant tapioca balls, corn flakes and sesame panna cotta

another honey comb

Terrible garbage low quality ice cream. Do not buy.

All I can taste is butter.

Here are some classics from 2009 and 2010

I saw these once in Ogdensburg Walmart.  It was hard to find somebody willing to sample it.  It had a very thick layer of dust on the cans too.

I don't know what this thing is called.  It contains plums or apples and cooked rice and sugar and sometimes meringue.  You cook it before eating. It is old school Euro style.

This was my first time seeing EXTRA GIANT Marshmallows (fist sized).  I saw them in Price Chopper in Watertown, NY in 2009.

I saw this Capilano Snap N Squeeze Australian Honey in Hannaford's in Watertown, NY in 2009.  Since then the crocodile hunter has passed away.

I saw Crastan  Effervescent??! in Food Basic n 2009. It contains baking soda for digesting.

I got this Jolly Time Mallow Magic Marshmallow Treat Flavoured popcorn in 2009.  I got some coworkers to try it.  It didn't taste right.

These throwback drinks started showing up in Ogdensburg in 2010.  Pretty good flavour.  The first time I tried the Throwback Pepsi, it reminded me of how colas used to taste.  But these days, they don't taste right, even if you get the Throwback ones.

Proof of concept for a United Way bake sale in 2010. I was testing if fruit roll ups would show up or melt or what.
Step 1: bake a white cake.
Step 2: cover it with fruit, candies, etc.
Step 3: Prepare the jello as per instructions and pour the hot liquid over the cake.
Step 4: Refrigerate
Step 5: It's delicious

Awww yeah, here is the real cake I made for the bake sale.  Blue jell-o ocean scene with hammerhead sharks made of fruit roll-ups!