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At the Shipps'

Brookside dark chocolate: these are like Raisinets in size
and shape with somewhat higher quality chocolate outside
and blobs of fruit-juice-based jelly inside. Both idea and
execution are okay, but a bit too much is made of the
antioxidant health benefit - it's not cricket I think to
claim these benefits without pointing out that the badness
of the effects of all that sugar far outweigh them.

In order of my preference:

 acai blueberry - a pronounced rather appetizing blueberry
 aroma, insubstantial blueberry taste. Nobody knows what
 acai by itself tastes like (except me), so the fact that
 there's not much other flavor shouldn't bother anyone; B;

 goji raspberry - the most true to life flavor, but I
 prefer blueberries to raspberries in general. Wolfberries
 (goji) have a mild flavor in real life, sort of like
 sugared unripe tomatoes, so their absence except for the
 prestige of the name is not bothersome; B;

 pomegranate - tasted like cherry Kool-Aid. Unconvincing, C.

Divine dark chocolate after dinner mints - these appear to
be knockoffs of After Eight candies. There's no real
competition, though, as the chocolate is not as good (it's
supposed to be fair trade, though), and the mint filling
is grainy and sort of strange tasting. The texture might be
accounted for by the fact that these were past their sell-by
date, but the chemical taste is hard to explain away. C-

Taste the Spice Buffalo wing flavored Wheat Thins (Nabisco)
- I liked these pretty well, the vinegary "Buffalo wing"
seasoning gracefully giving way to the expected mild nutty
sweetness of the crackers. I found the level of spice
insignificant and disappointing, though; when I mentioned
this, Dale commented, "To you, maybe," which I took to
imply that the heat was sufficient to please your typical
consumer; I doubt it, though. B+

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At various Maple Leaf Lounges on the way to and from YK Jim's

Mott's Clamato, in regular and extra spicy. I hadn't had
this brand in a long, long time; I expected sort of a thin
and lump-free version of Manhattan clam chowder. These were
really more like stale tomato juice cut with salt water,
quite disappointing even though I didn't expect all that
much to begin with. The spicy version seemed a little
more metallic and just a tad spicy - not enough for my
taste buds to notice but enough to irritate my throat. D/D+

Heinz Canada Fancy tomato juice - somewhat better than the
above, as you could imagine it actually having come from
a tomato harvested within this millennium. B

More Miss Vickie's chips:

 smokehouse bbq - a standard chip but not overdoing it on
 either the tomato ketchup or the smoke. I don't like this
 style but will give these a B- for freshness.

 jalapeno - quite hot, some green peppery flavor that resolved
 into an onion-garlic aftertaste. Fresh and not bad, B+.

Kellogg's strawberry fruity snacks: just say no. The texture
was stick-in-your-teeth gummilike, perhaps to be expected but
still unpleasant. Aroma like artificial fruit. I tried to find
these on the company site but could get ingredients only for
the Mixed Berry version; I presume the strawberry-specific
are pretty much the same, which means that you are getting
corn syrup, sugar, and apple puree with an insignificant amount
of other stuff but enough to give you a nonnegligible dose of
Vitamin C. D.


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