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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Feb 27, 2019 12:21:47 GMT -5
I came across some "flavor vote" M&Ms at Wegmans a few weeks ago. The English Toffee Peanut variety was nowhere to be found, but the Thai Coconut Peanut M&Ms and Mexican Jalapeño Peanut M&Ms were plentiful, so I grabbed a bag of each.
They are stunningly delicious. The Thai Coconut ones taste almost exactly like a curry peanut sauce, only surrounded by chocolate, and the Mexican Jalapeño ones have a really nice kick without being pure capsaicin.
I'm gonna buy more this weekend.
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Post by fab on Feb 27, 2019 12:43:04 GMT -5
I came across some "flavor vote" M&Ms at Wegmans a few weeks ago. The English Toffee Peanut variety was nowhere to be found, but the Thai Coconut Peanut M&Ms and Mexican Jalapeño Peanut M&Ms were plentiful, so I grabbed a bag of each. They are stunningly delicious. The Thai Coconut ones taste almost exactly like a curry peanut sauce, only surrounded by chocolate, and the Mexican Jalapeño ones have a really nice kick without being pure capsaicin. I'm gonna buy more this weekend. these sound incredible, and I'm kinda disappointed that we don't seem to get any weird variations up here. just fairly bog standard ones... although that's probably as much to do with relatively conservative palates up here as anything else. presumably if they're going to produce a mass quantity suitable for distribution, they don't want to lose their shirt, and it might even have to be produced here to avoid incurring huge tariffs and additional expenses at the border...? it would kick all sorts of ass to be able to try jalapeno M&Ms though  |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Feb 27, 2019 15:24:50 GMT -5
I came across some "flavor vote" M&Ms at Wegmans a few weeks ago. The English Toffee Peanut variety was nowhere to be found, but the Thai Coconut Peanut M&Ms and Mexican Jalapeño Peanut M&Ms were plentiful, so I grabbed a bag of each. They are stunningly delicious. The Thai Coconut ones taste almost exactly like a curry peanut sauce, only surrounded by chocolate, and the Mexican Jalapeño ones have a really nice kick without being pure capsaicin. I'm gonna buy more this weekend. these sound incredible, and I'm kinda disappointed that we don't seem to get any weird variations up here. just fairly bog standard ones... although that's probably as much to do with relatively conservative palates up here as anything else. presumably if they're going to produce a mass quantity suitable for distribution, they don't want to lose their shirt, and it might even have to be produced here to avoid incurring huge tariffs and additional expenses at the border...? it would kick all sorts of ass to be able to try jalapeno M&Ms though I don't know how much shipping would be, but they are available on the U.S. Amazon website. If it's super prohibitive, let me know and I can just send you a couple of bags. |
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Post by fab on Feb 27, 2019 21:41:45 GMT -5
these sound incredible, and I'm kinda disappointed that we don't seem to get any weird variations up here. just fairly bog standard ones... although that's probably as much to do with relatively conservative palates up here as anything else. presumably if they're going to produce a mass quantity suitable for distribution, they don't want to lose their shirt, and it might even have to be produced here to avoid incurring huge tariffs and additional expenses at the border...? it would kick all sorts of ass to be able to try jalapeno M&Ms though I don't know how much shipping would be, but they are available on the U.S. Amazon website. If it's super prohibitive, let me know and I can just send you a couple of bags. didn't occur to me to try to acquire foodstuffs via Amazon.com! Some things they will ship cross border, other things, they don't. I can never know which until I check... I may take you up on that offer, after a bit of poking around here. there's a (somewhat overpriced) novelty food shop in the nearby mall, and sometimes they have this kind of stuff. I've never seen the truly exotic bits, mostly just things themed around holidays or stuff that's normally available elsewhere (like UK Cadbury stuff) imported, then marked up to insane prices. |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Mar 2, 2019 14:02:38 GMT -5
Orange Vanilla Coke is actually pretty good!
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 2, 2019 18:46:01 GMT -5
Orange Vanilla Coke is actually pretty good! We're keeping an eye out for the zero version. They also have a blueberry and a strawberry guava diet coke out now, and they're both quite nice. |
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Post by fab on Mar 3, 2019 13:25:44 GMT -5
Orange Vanilla Coke is actually pretty good! I assume it tastes like Coke mixed with an orange cream...? hm. |
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Post by fab on Mar 12, 2019 23:09:33 GMT -5
I came across some "flavor vote" M&Ms at Wegmans a few weeks ago. The English Toffee Peanut variety was nowhere to be found, but the Thai Coconut Peanut M&Ms and Mexican Jalapeño Peanut M&Ms were plentiful, so I grabbed a bag of each. They are stunningly delicious. The Thai Coconut ones taste almost exactly like a curry peanut sauce, only surrounded by chocolate, and the Mexican Jalapeño ones have a really nice kick without being pure capsaicin. I'm gonna buy more this weekend. update: I checked the Amazon.com website, and I thiiiiiiiiink I simply can't see them, b/c it's probably restricted from being sold cross border. (legal requirement of having the nutrition info independently verified as part of the packaging? or a sticker has to be applied, otherwise it can't be sold here.) I bought these on a whim today. they're terrible:  I think the logic is "what if you had something that started out tasting like Flamin' Hots Cheetos (which are good), but you also felt like simultaneously eating Corn Pops in the same sitting! except sweeter." that's seriously what it tastes like. at first I was like, hey, this is really weird and probably not good but it's not THAT bad. nah, it's bad. it's really bad. buy a tiny bag, don't get suckered into buying a full size one like I did. the best thing I can say for it is that it automatically makes me respect portion control since the sweetness is jarring. there's nothing to do with chili in the flavour, they just tossed it in there b/c "chili is spicy! and it'll sound good!" but the only part that applies is the "sweet" modifier. it's Frosted Flamin' Hots. who asked for this? did they have a surplus of sugar in the warehouse? why does this exist? maybe I can pawn it off on my coworkers. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 24, 2019 12:56:53 GMT -5
Tried the Carrot Cake Oreos, and they've done it again the evil geniuses.
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Post by Pastafarian on Mar 24, 2019 12:59:34 GMT -5
 Also tried these. I was excited because how often do you see black garlic used as a flavour in anything you can buy at a regular grocery store? The maple should have deterred me. They are just kinda weird and sweet, not what you want generally when going for a chip. |
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Post by fab on Mar 25, 2019 7:06:24 GMT -5
Also tried these. I was excited because how often do you see black garlic used as a flavour in anything you can buy at a regular grocery store? The maple should have deterred me. They are just kinda weird and sweet, not what you want generally when going for a chip. only lazy garlic approximation in chip form I've had that really worked for me is Parmesan and Garlic? I think that's what it was called. it's a Canadian brand called Miss Vicki's, and none of their chip flavors are bad. only one or two of them are seriously meh, and they made up for their biggest misstep of blandness by coming out with a much better BBQ flavour a few months after to appease my surprise and disappointment. |
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Post by Pastafarian on May 1, 2019 16:39:23 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 1, 2019 17:38:28 GMT -5
They're milk curdingly good! Mmm... chunky |
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Post by fab on May 8, 2019 9:00:04 GMT -5
 this was about as terrible as you'd expect. I got one at the dollar store since the marketing copy was so stupid, I figured I might as well try one. apparently this was released just after legalization came through in Canada, so the cokehead marketing blurb was "for that hunger 5 minutes after 4:20 LOL BROFIST. I honestly think they just had a surplus of that gooey sugar syrup crap that holds the inside of an Oh Henry together. this bar is nothing but that and salted peanuts. 50% of the cost is the packaging, 40% the marketing, maybe 10% of it the floor shavings and surplus sawdust that makes up this bar. I was munching on one while wandering through the dollar store and I had a second one in my basket that I unceremoniously tossed on a shelf somewhere. normally I put things back where I find them as a courtesy to the employees. it was very much a "BEGONE CANDY THOT" moment. I haven't had good luck with weird novelty things as of late, not that I've been around it much. I just remembered courtesy of this thread that I could maybe call up the (overpriced) candy shop in the mall and ask if they have those jalapeno or Thai peanut M&Ms? I haven't seen them anywhere, and Amazon won't / can't ship food across the border. I think it's a restricted item, even for something as simple as not having the nutrition breakdown sticker on the packaging. |
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Post by Pastafarian on May 9, 2019 22:50:24 GMT -5
this was about as terrible as you'd expect. I got one at the dollar store since the marketing copy was so stupid, I figured I might as well try one. apparently this was released just after legalization came through in Canada, so the cokehead marketing blurb was "for that hunger 5 minutes after 4:20 LOL BROFIST. I honestly think they just had a surplus of that gooey sugar syrup crap that holds the inside of an Oh Henry together. this bar is nothing but that and salted peanuts. 50% of the cost is the packaging, 40% the marketing, maybe 10% of it the floor shavings and surplus sawdust that makes up this bar. I was munching on one while wandering through the dollar store and I had a second one in my basket that I unceremoniously tossed on a shelf somewhere. normally I put things back where I find them as a courtesy to the employees. it was very much a "BEGONE CANDY THOT" moment. I haven't had good luck with weird novelty things as of late, not that I've been around it much. I just remembered courtesy of this thread that I could maybe call up the (overpriced) candy shop in the mall and ask if they have those jalapeno or Thai peanut M&Ms? I haven't seen them anywhere, and Amazon won't / can't ship food across the border. I think it's a restricted item, even for something as simple as not having the nutrition breakdown sticker on the packaging. Just an FYI, I have started seeing the Thai coconut M&Ms in Calgary. These days I am super in tuned to food. Also I love sweets and peanuts so when I tried the 4:25 I didn't mind it too much. Not sure I'd get it again, but it was cheap and I had no regrets. |
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Post by Pastafarian on May 9, 2019 22:52:09 GMT -5
 Had these a bit back, and they were AWESOME. I haven't had a Girl Scout cookie in years, but these were awfully close to their thin mint ones. I could inhale a bag easily over a day or two. |
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Post by Pastafarian on May 11, 2019 11:31:12 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of cereal, a huge fan of peanut butter, so when I saw this I just stared slack jawed for a bit  |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jul 2, 2019 11:43:43 GMT -5
I bought the "Hazelnut Spread" m&ms a few weeks ago and it should tell you how just-OK they are that I have not finished the bag yet. They aren't terrible but they lack the contrast and appeal of the peanut butter variety.
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Post by ganews on Nov 12, 2019 16:49:36 GMT -5
Brought back from Iraq by one of my section heads at work; the one on the right was darn good and the one on the left was accurately named.
Seriously why can I no longer drag to resize images
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 29, 2019 9:31:44 GMT -5
I mean, I like vanilla ice cream, I like lemon sorbet, I like Sour Patch Kids, I hate most things berry flavored... but all together? Why? Wouldn't the cold make the Sour Patch inedible anyway?
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Jan 27, 2020 11:21:48 GMT -5
Picked up Raspberries & Cream Kit-Kats and Chocolate Lava Cake Hershey Kisses at the store yesterday, for funsies.
the Kit-Kats are very sweet, but have a good mild raspberry flavor. They're minis, which is just about the right amount. I don't want to eat more than 2 at a time.
The kisses are quite good, actually. It's a dark chocolate shell with a gooey center. I like the slight bitterness from the darker chocolate. I'm actually not a big fan of regular Hershey Kisses but these are solid.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 1, 2020 15:07:29 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 16, 2020 18:26:07 GMT -5
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Apr 28, 2020 10:35:30 GMT -5
Fried Green Tomato Lays: Grabbed these on a whim. I mean, they taste vaguely of buttermilk and spices - they're tasty, but I do not quite feel like I'm biting into a fried green tomato? Still, a good potato chip I would buy again.
Lemon Crisp Kit Kat: Got these in a bag of individually wrapped minis. Very tasty. Lemon is underrated. The white chocolate coating is noticeably thicker than on standard kit-kat, and I think a slightly higher ratio of filling to shell would make these even better, but they're still delicious.
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Post by Trurl on May 7, 2020 19:50:41 GMT -5
Got Swiss Chalet last night, and they had a "Jerk" version of their chicken.
Let me tell you, it was possibly the least spicy thing I've ever eaten. I've eaten oatmeal spicier than that jerk chicken.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on May 8, 2020 15:32:51 GMT -5
Sour Patch Kids: Crush Fruit MixThe flavors were based on four sodas from the Crush people: Strawberry, Grape, Pineapple, and R.E.M.'s favorite: Orange.
These were really good and I'm never going to find them again. Like Starburst jellybeans, the awful pink strawberry flavor is very close in hue to the good orange orange flavor, which annoys me, but even the strawberry isn't that bad. The Grape is also really good although the Pineapple is kind of meh. I haven't had the sodas in forever so I don't know how accurate they are. There was a Peach Crush soda when I was in college and I am sad that they don't seem to make it anymore.
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