The common practice round here
whenever updates have been sparse is to blame whatever extraneous
thing has been eating up my time. Lately, that's become difficult as
for the life of me I can't quite figure out where November went!
While most of this year has gone at a fairly steady pace, this month
has just been melting away at breakneck pace. I feel lucky that I've
accomplished a good deal of my recent to do list but even that still
has eight or so items left to wrap up before December. I suppose it's
a blessing then that there have been a few moments calm enough to
allow tastes of the new holiday treats. Let's give em a look before I
turn around to find out it's new years.
Another day, yet another Oreo flavor.
This one comes as part of a marketing push since the company recently
released their own hot coco mix. While I've yet to try the drink, I'm
happy to report that these cookies mark another victory for the
companies ever expending line of flavors.
Let's keep it simple; these smell like
hot chocolate, they taste like it too. If you hadn't thought of it
that's not much of a stretch from normal Oreo flavor. This is no wild
trip into bizarre territory like Swedish Fish or Peeps. It's a fairly
basic flavor executed very nicely.
Here's the odd part. Usually whenever
I bring home a new Oreo variety, everyone in the house soon voices
their opinion be it negative of positive. With these, hardly a word
was said about them and yet they had vanished in less than 24 hours.
I'd definitely call them a hit, just something of a quiet one.
A treat that has provided plenty of
loud opinions are Peppermint Twinkees. And the common verdict around
here is that these are gross, though I can't say I fully agree with
that sentiment.
Right out of the package these are
bright, cinnamon candy red. The sort of red that makes your mouth
hurt just looking at it. It's such a cartoonish looking item it could
have jumped straight out of some animated Christmas special. That
effect if further amplified by the odd pinkish cream.
Flavor wise.....well..it is minty but
not a refreshing mint. This is the kind of situation where the flavor
naturally clashes with the type of foodstuff. Mint seems nice when
it's coming out of a hard candy or maybe even some refreshing
cucumber water, but a fatty snack cake is another matter entirely.
Perhaps they're better frozen but I've yet to try such an experiment.
While I can't wholeheartedly recommend
these Twinkees, I very much enjoyed my time with them. Sure they're a
little gross. At the same time they're the sort of ridiculous novelty
that makes life more fun.
Cheetos Snowlfakes isn't some new
right wing insult, it's simply the winter variation on the popular
Cheetos Bones. If you've had those before than there's nothing much
to say here. You either enjoy cramming your mouth full of somewhat
dry cheese puffs or you don't. I do, which earns these a pass.
Of course you need something to wash
down all this festive food and what better way than crazy high sugar
soda? That's right, Mtn Dew has come up with their own Holiday Brew
which I'd heard nothing about before beholding a massive end cap of
this cheery concoction. That sort of surprise is rare in this day and
age when everything is spoiled or reported within mere seconds of
release. Major props to Dew for sneaking one out.
Oddly enough after the fun new gamer
fuel flavors, this yuletide variant is simply regular Dew mixed with
Code Red, cause red and green equals Christmas, get it? Soda
mathematics aside this is a solid brew. The experience reminds me of
the old juice and sherbet punches my mother used to make for holiday
gatherings. Sure it's not quite as foamy but that nostalgic taste is
there. It makes one wonder what might happen if this were used to
make one of those punches. The results would most likely be diabetes
but man what a trip it would be.
I think this will easily be one of the
highlights of the season for junk food lovers so run out, buy a case,
and give your friends a sugar high.
The other new holiday soft drink is
more of an eyebrow raiser. Salted Caramel is already one of those
flavors that gets tossed into far too many items with greatly
differing results. The idea of drinking a Pepsi flavored in this
fashion seemed like a surefire way to ruin a good night, especially
after the horrendous Pepsi Fire.
I made certain to make a group
experience out of this one by parceling a bottle among shot glasses.
The shock heard round the living room was that this honestly wasn't
too bad. Imagine Buttershots and Pepsi without the alcoholic burn and
this is the result.
While the flavor turned out to be ok,
it still didn't seem like the sort of thing I'd chug down on my own
until one night yielded sinus drainage and an irritated throat. This
being the only fizzy drink on hand made it the only option to clear
out the congestion, and wouldn't ya know it made for an enjoyable
time. Not saying you should stock the basement with 12 packs but at
the very least give Salted Caramel Pepsi a go.
Given that this was just a handful of
this years snack offerings I'd say we're in for a spiffy December.
Now the trick is to accomplish something, anything before we get
there. Time permitting you'll be seeing another post here this week,
I'm thinking something with ruffles.
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