Taste Tests
Feeling Sauce-y: 6 All Natural Spaghetti Sauces Compared
May 12, 2011 | Author admin
Woo hoo! I have enough spaghetti sauce to last me a REALLY long time – all 6 of them are now in little freezer containers, packaged with some homemade meatballs. The added meatballs were required because in order to get 6 spaghetti sauces that were similar I had to buy all the plain marinara ones. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Taste Tests, Weird Ingredients | 
Tags: Barilla Marinara, Calcium Chloride, Canola oil, Classico Sweet Basil, Emeril’s Chunky Marinara, Newman’s Own Marinara, Prego Traditional, Rao’s Marinara sauce, soybean oil | 
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Restaurants on Ice – T.G.I. Friday’s Loaded Potato Skins
May 4, 2011 | Author admin
It scares me a little bit when the FROZEN version tastes better than the REAL version at the restaurant; is it because we are so used to the added chemicals in processed food that we’re starting to like them? Or maybe for this challenge we just enjoyed the ginormous amount of cheese on the frozen T.G.I. Firdays loaded potato skins compared to the real restaurant version. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Taste Tests | Tags: loaded potato skins, sodium nitrate, T.G.I. Fridays | Comments Closed
Restaurants on Ice: Claim Jumper’s Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes Dinner
April 16, 2011 | Author admin
The Gold Rush May Be Over
On our quest to compare frozen meals with their live counterparts, we were a little concerned about being able to find Claim Jumper frozen meals or even actual restaurants. Read the rest of this entry »
Jelly Bean Jubilee with a Little Titanium Dioxide Mixed In
April 14, 2011 | Author admin
Brachs Ruled the World
It used to be that the only Jelly Beans around were Brachs and maybe a store brand and they all came in normal flavors – except for licorice – licorice is just not normal. Luckily my mom Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Taste Tests | Tags: Brachs, Easter Candy, Food Dyes, Instructional video, jelly beans, Jolly Rancher, Lifesavers, Starburst, Titanium Dioxide | 2 Comments »
Is Honey Baked Ham Worth Standing in Line For? The 2011 Easter Ham Challenge.
April 12, 2011 | Author admin
Well, we had a bit of a raucous taste testing group – at least for a bunch of library people 
The conversation went from tattoos (rifles and cowboy boots vs. anchors and beach scenes) to doctors visits and underwear (not necessarily together or in that order) punctuated with Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Taste Tests | Tags: Albertsons Ham, Costco Ham, Golden Baked Ham, ham, Honey Baked Ham | Comments Closed
