Taste Tests
BaconFest Taste Test
January 20, 2012 | Author admin
Bacon Bacon Everywhere
My entire house still smells like bacon. And by “entire” I mean including the TOWELS in my bathroom. And I have no desire to eat bacon again for a really long time, although there are 8 partially scavenged bags of bacon still in my freezer. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Taste Tests | 
Tags: Apple-Smoked Bacon, Applegate Naturals, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Boar’s Head, Farmer John, Gelson's, Hickory Smoked Bacon, Hormel, Nueske’s, Pederson’s Farms, smoked bacon, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate, sodium phosphate, Trader Joe’s | 
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Poking Around in Lasagna Layers
January 11, 2012 | Author admin
Nobody Does It Better
I knew if I asked my mom to help me with this taste test that at least one comment would be made about “MY lasagna…” Fill in the blank with “tastes better” “doesn’t need flavor enhancers” “has a lot more ricotta cheese”. But that’s alright – she’s correct on all accounts. We tasted 4 frozen lasagna dinners: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Not as Pictured, Taste Tests | Tags: BHA and BHT, bleached flour, Caramel Coloring, lasagna, Marie Callender's, Michael Angelo's, monosodium glutamate (MSG), Propyl Gallate, sodium nitrate, Stouffer's | Comments Closed
Restaurants On Ice: Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie
August 27, 2011 | Author admin
All-American Comfort Food
It could be a Midwestern thing or a 50′s thing that prompted my mom to always keep Swanson’s chicken pot pies in the freezer when we were growing up. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Taste Tests | Tags: Comfort Food, hydrogenated soybean oil, interesterified soybean oil, Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie, monosodium glutamate (MSG), Soy Protein Isolate Product | Comments Closed
Talking Smack about the Mac: Kraft Velveeta Macaroni and Cheese
August 2, 2011 | Author admin
I’m not a big cheese fan, or I should say I’m not a big greasy orange cheese fan, and I especially have no urge to indulge in weird liquidy cheeses that aren’t actually cheese; so I’m thinking I should get extra brownie points for being brave enough to taste these. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Not as Pictured, Packaging Problems, Taste Tests | Tags: Kraft, Kraft Shells and Cheese Original, Kraft Velveeta Rotini And Cheese Broccoli, Kraft Velveeta Shells and Cheese Less Fat, macaroni and cheese | Comments Closed
Bean Me Up Scotty – Transporting into the World of Baked Beans
July 24, 2011 | Author admin
I didn’t much like hotdogs as a kid – which is probably a little weird – but I would definitely eat them if they were cut up into a ginormous bowl of baked beans, either made from scratch or from the canned brand du jour, VanCamps. Not to be confused with Van de Camps – which I did – which apparently sells frozen fish; Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Labeling Trickery, Taste Tests, Weird Ingredients | Tags: Albertsons Baked Beans, B & M Original Baked Beans, Baked Beans, Blazing Saddles, Bush’s Best Baked Beans, Campbell’s Pork and Beans, Caramel Coloring, high fructose corn syrup, hydrolyzed soy protein, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, Ralph’s Original Baked Beans, Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate, VanCamps Pork and Beans Maple and Brown Sugar | Comments Closed
