Saturday, 4 November 2017

November 2017 local items

I found this Swiss Chalet meat pie in Your Independent Grocer.  Do not buy! Gross!















Costco Dark Chocolate Covered Mango: A+
















Cookies from Loblaws.  The ones at the bottom are the best: lemon oatmeal with cranberries, recommended by Fong Pay.














Tastes nothing like BLT























Takeout Middle Eastern pies from Simbad Bakery.  We've been going once a week with the coworkers for lunch.














Some of my buffet items from the company Xmas party at Infinity Convention Centre.  The theme was Canada 150

Sunday, 15 October 2017

October 2017 Ogdensburg Oddities

I will bring these Wise chips to work

















2 new oreo flavours.  I will bring to work.























Hershey Skulls and Reese's Eyeballs.  Both have the oval Easter egg shape instead of circular






















Coolhaus Dirty Mint Chip ice cream.  This is the first mint ice cream I've ever tried that actually tasted like real mint.

Saturday, 7 October 2017

October 2017 local items

I got this Guy Fieri BBQ sauce at Sobeys because I ran out of the Heinz Carolina style BBQ sauce.  OMG it was disgusting.





















I got this White Rock cucumber watermelon seltzer at the Jewish loblaws. It is OK.






















Ritz bacon flavor crisp & thins : bland.  Bizarre Italian hard cookies: TOO HARD and old.  They tasted like lady fingers.














A couple of weeks ago Tim bought one of these Harvey's pies and brought it to work.  I think it was kind of salty and a bit dry.  The filling was not as juicy as the blueberry pie.




Sunday, 24 September 2017

September 2017 local items

We checked out Tomaso's after seeing a portable billboard advertising Detroit Deep Dish pizza. Here it is: it is just tall bread.  I wish it was more like Chicago style deep dish pizza wit a lot of toppings.












Will report on these later after getting coworkers to try.
















I tried to make my own mini deep dish pizza with a taco bowl.  The concept is OK but the sauce was not good.














I got this Kawartha ice cream at Food basics.  It was not chocolatey enough.















Pepsi with lemon tastes bad, like diet.

Sunday, 3 September 2017

September 2017 Ogdensburg Oddities

New restaurant Hot Tamale where A&W and Long John Silver used to be. I did not go in.















New cafe The Bagelry near the grocery store
















Golden Crisp was right beside Sugar Smacks.. One and the same. I will eat the cherry pie during Twin Peaks tonight. PS The cashier in Walmart told me that people love the mini pies. It's their best selling item, and people are buying 20-30 pies at a time.













chocolate flavoured licorice and the pie company is now selling individually wrapped cookies

















disgusting and the box is so huge

























Wild Mike's Ultimate pizza



















Wise Kettle chips

Thursday, 10 August 2017

August 2017 local items

another watermelon failure. It tasted like apple juice.






















Chocolove - ok but the loaf is small and the slices are thick.  The chips taste like BBQ.















Palak paneer in the instant pot.

















More new Oasis drinks.  These ones taste like drinking diluted herbal tea.






















tea time at the Delightfully Different Tea Room in Kingston






















I forgot to take a photo of the scones























And now a dreadful visit to The Vanitea Room on Somerset St.

















Mocktail (grapefruit juice and ??)






















So far so good

















Lower layer: tuna, egg and olive tapenade sandwiches (OK) and a pointless shotglass of lukewarm green pea/dill soup.

Second tier: two savory (onion) scones with onion jam. WTF.

Top layer: slightly stale desserts and....
















this is literally one of the worst things I have ever tried to eat.  It is charcoal panna cotta.  Tastes like sugar and is very gritty and inky black.  After eating here, Joanne and I felt sick. I wasn't even sure if I could drive.  It was that bad.












These eclairs from FoodBasics were kind of tasteless
















In other food news, here is the Kanata location of Mandarin Buffet Chinese restaurant under construction in the food basics parking lot at Kanata Town Centre.







Wednesday, 2 August 2017

August 2017 Ogdensburg Oddities

Took a visit to Watertown, NY.  Sonic drive thru cheeseburger and oreo flavoured custard concrete.  The custard concrete is like a milk shake but way thicker.  Burger was bland.













boiled peanuts, charcoal salt

















Wise chips, Hershey already had halloween candies out in Target

















Sweet corn chips






















Oddities from Tops Friendly Market

















more oddities from Tops























more oddities from Tops


















new American flavours
















new flavours

















new American flavours

















pudding and yogurt

















false advertising

















This is what the boiled peanuts look like inside the can.  They were super weird.