June 2016 local items

Kettle Classic Caesar chips.  Will they taste like tomato, hot sauce, lime and celery.. or vodka?  I brought them to work.  They tasted like V8 vegetable juice.

This is a packet of flower tea.  Sisley ordered many of these for her wedding favours.

New drinks found in Mac's Milk  Brisk bluebeberry/lemonade/iced tea, cherry/limeade/iced tea and wild cherry pepsi (it's about time)

Also from  Mac's Milk.  There is nothing Mentos about these, other than the packaging. They are caramels with chocolate and chocolate mint filling.

Ling and I went to Quitters coffee house.  Here is a fancy coffee, lemonade, chewy chocolate brownie type cookie, and croissant.  We liked our drinks and the cookie.  I didn't try the croissant.

This is the Quitters tuna melt sandwich.  It was a tiny bit spicy but it was good.

Grilled cheese with an extreme amount of cheese and mushroom soup from 'Wiches Cauldron

Sour cream & sriracha.. it wasn't hot at all.

An extremely disappointing visit to Big Easy's Steak and Seafood restaurant. Look how puny this fried chicken is.  The so called mashed sweet potatoes was like only 3/4 cup in volume.  The season vegetables were literally 10 baby spinach leaves and 1/2 a brussels sprout.  This half size portion was $26!

Here is the dessert, a flourless chocolate cake which 3 of us tasted and found inedible due to a raw, mealy texture.

I got these rolls at Giant Tiger. They taste worse than they used to in the good old days.

May 2016 Ogdensburg oddities

Caramel Creams, Roar Patriot Punch, and Watermelon Pop-tarts.

Mountain Dew Baja Blast and Pitch Black, Strawberry Shortcake Oreo.  I will  bring these to work.

Wise Loaded Chili Cheese Dog and Grilled Cheeseburger chips. I will bring them to work.

Cotton Candy flavoured Roar.

May 2016 local items

I found this at foodbasics. It didn't taste like roses much at all. More like cardamom.

I ate 2.  Too spicy. Not as crunchy as the TGIFridays type.

I brought this one to work to compare with the oreo thins.  Thumbs way down!

Ox Head 2 opened up. About the same as the original Ox Head.

uncooked fish tacos from Hurley's. My fork couldn't flake off 90% of the fish so I ate around the edges.

Thai Express.  This stir fry was disgusting and oily and slightly sweet.

This is what Tim had at Thai Express.. Bean sprouts with chicken. Remarkably, he gave it a 7/10.

Dole Mixations and Fruit 'n Pudding.  These were both disgusting. Do not buy.

Fried egg sandwich from Burger Builder

April 2016 Ogdensburg oddities

Divine gelato filled fruit

The battle of the Easter butter shapes. Lamb and bunny.

Oreo mint thins: OK.
Roar: this is like gatorade mixed with coconut water: OK
Brownie Brittle: DELICIOUS
BBQ Veggie chips: OK

new soft drinks.  1893 Ginger Pepsi: DISGUSTINGLY STRONG FLAVOUR.  Did not try the others yet.

Hot chili M&M peanuts

Little Muffins Blueberry.  OK but tiny and way overpackaged.

April 2016 local items

A Coney Island hot dog from The Corny Dog in Barrhaven. It was pretty gross - bland chili, shredded cheese, and a giant boiled hotdog for $9.  I even saw the employees slice the dog and grill it - but this made no difference to the taste or texture.

Their poutine was also BLAH

Whippet Brownie Sticks: gross flavour and texture

Canadian ginger pepsi. Not as gross as the USA one but still not good.

Grilled quinoa sandwich from Amuse restaurant. It was OK.  I think the guys liked their food more than I did.

These ice cream popsicles taste good because they also have jam inside.  But the price is too high.

Philly cheesesteak and fried chicken from Crispy's.  According to reddit, their fried chicken is the best.. but according to me, it does not have the zing of KFC or Popeye's... although it is extremely crispy.

Ogdensburg oddities March 2016

Carrot cake hershey's kisses. Ick. I'll bring these to work.

Armour Treat.  This  makes me so grossed out.

Prediction: both the Hormel beef tamales in chili sauce and filled cupcake oreos will be disgusting.

New springtime Milano flavours: banana chocolate and orange chocolate.  Might be OK.

Doritos mix taco explosion.

Sara Lee tries to rebrand Vachon Flaky and Ah Caramel... I wonder if they are suitable to American tastebuds.

Pillsbury S'mores and chocolate lava mini pies. BARFF

The freakiest seasonal item of the month: if you like Shamrock shakes from McDonald's, you might drink TruMoo mint flavoured milk. Ick

Chipotle BBQ flavoured cheese curds. ewww

Kellogg's cereal to go - fits in your car's cup holder - Imagine driving while eating handfuls of cereal.  Seems messy.

Mucho Mango Arizona drink - just tastes like sugar

March 2016 local items

Skyr, the Icelandic style yogurt. It is thick like Greek yogurt, but tastes better.   But I wouldn't buy it again.

I bought these Otis Spunkmeyer mini muffins out of curiosity. I am pretty sure cookies from that company used to be given out on flights.  The muffins were extremely sugary.

Sensible Portions garden veggie chips: I did not eat any because my bro ate them all!

Natura fortified chocolate almond beverage: it is as chocolatey and sugary as chocolate milk.

 I bought this potato spiraler from the internet.

These Gardein Pocket Meals (fake pulled pork flavour) are disgusting!  It tastes like what a magic marker smells like.

No bake banana split cake for pi day.  Here is the recipe: http://www.letsdishrecipes.com/2013/05/no-bake-mile-high-banana-split-pie.html

Raspberry milk chocolate shake and tuna sandwich from Cacao 70.

First non-gross President's Choice product I have eaten in a while: Mini Jamaican Beef Patties

Trying to save French's factory.  Garlic ketchup is OK.

Nagaraya Garlic Cracker Nuts: not bad