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The Pink Tax

Posted on by Charles F-M

I have a great new item to review and this is a super overpriced chocolate bar. I bought this at Sobey’s for $2.99. It is the Pink Cocoa Kit Kat bar.

This bar was a little bit smaller than the typical flavoured Kit Kat bars. It was a weird shade of pink to make it have the appearance of being natural. It tasted a lot like white chocolate but with an unusual sweet berry side favour. My rating is 1.5/10. Like most pink items it is overpriced for what you get. If you are considering it, go for the green tea version. You won’t regret it.

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A Disappointment with an Italian Name

Posted on by Charles F-M

Tonight, I’ve experienced the $1.49 special Tim Hortons take on a Tiramisu style donut. My opinion is that it is the biggest disappointment I have ever seen.

The traditional tiramisu as 2 distinguishing characteristics that any cake and variations of it are basically the same, and experience of heaven. The name itself means ”pick me up” or ”cheer me up”. Those ingredients are whipped mascarpone cheese and coffee liquor soaked cake.

The variation that I was served does neither and is a ”let down”, or ”scoraggiare” in Italian. This donut is made from their standard filled yeast base donut with a coffee flavoured Venetian cream centre. The top is dipped in white frosting with a chocolate zig-zag crossing the top and powdered chocolate and one or two coffee bean halves.

Those coffee bean haves are the worst part of this donut as you have to pick them off as they are terrible to crunch on.

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Russell Stover Cookie Dough Confection

Posted on by Charles F-M

This is the first of an eight-part weekly series that I am going to try out unusual foods and review them.

This weeks item is from Russel Stover Cookie Dough in Milk Chocolate. It was about a dollar from Giant Tiger. It consists of one 28g piece of candy. Nutritionally it was (past tense since I have already eaten it 😉)130 calories, has 5g fat, 17g sugar, 3g other carbs, 1g protein, and 2g other.

As I open the package the item is a weird shaped glob without the pre-told story of the packaging is not anything corresponding with Christmas beside reindeer guano.

It was nice and soft to bite into but the glob of cookie dough became overwhelming and hard to finish.

I would not recommend this flavour, I would suggest solid chocolate or marshmallow varieties. As it is a marshmallow world at Christmas time.

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IG: Food Instagrams

Posted on by Charles F-M

This is a collection of Instagram posts over the last 5 years involving food.

  • It appears that Raspberries float. #mindblown
  • #bigtide #nocaptionrequired
  • I have an extra due to a bogo coupon.
  • Cooking my 1st bird and the package had no instructions. #wtf
  • An attempted #local breakfast. Eggs, Cheddar, mushrooms, and onion. Not sure where the salt and pepper are from.
  • Last St. Hubert meal. The SJ location closes forever today. #weekofchange
  • There is probably a rule about not making Poutine with British Cheese but it was all I had.
  • I need to find where I can get more of this!
  • Breakfast time.
  • Canadianized version of Bangers and Mashed. Maple Sausage and boiled potatoes w/ curds and poutine sauce.
  • Quick and easy dinner. #greatfood #food
  • No Easter dinner can compare to my tender Goulash.
  • Meal prep for lunches.
  • The @burgerweeksj #birthdayweek has commended @YorkBistro
  • The 2nd @burgerweeksj #birthdayweek burger is @eastcoastbistr0
  • Let the Birthday begin! German cake and beer!
  • Actual Birthday @burgerweeksj burger is @mexicali_rosas #birthdayweek
  • Quick and Easy supper tonight #foodies
  • It’s Canada Day, let the timbit pumbeling begin!
  • Brunch and World Cup Football!! @bigtidebrewing
  • Nothing beats a great fresh goulash!
  • My vacation began with a visit to Billy’s in the market for the 1st time. #latergram
  • Breakfast to with fresh NB blueberries!
  • Local Blueberries, Local Cream, drizzled with Local Honey.
  • Breakfast!
  • Lunch #CWTS2014
  • Dried Basil anyone?
  • Making supper. #hooterphotobomb
  • Lay’s Wavy Milk Chocolate Potato Chips are terrible!
  • It’s salmon night!
  • Having an early access pass to a PSL is a great start to a long weekend! @bsqcentre @starbucks
  • It has been 2 years too long since I had one of these!
  • @bearzmoke This is what canned pulled pork looks like.
  • Supper is ready!
  • Months supply of rice to freeze.
  • Lazy super baked chicken and Teriyaki Rice. #foodporn #meals #food
  • Clam Chowder #meals #food #seafoodisawesome #seafoodlover
  • Dinner #foodporn #homecookingrocks
  • Smoked Salmon Omelet with Coffee
  • Dinner time.
  • Mango Waffles!!! #homecooking #sundaybrunch #foodporn
  • I have a large pot of Blueberry Rhubarb, looking for ideas of what to do with it.
  • A slow cooked very thick pancake with Blueberry-Rhubarb topping. #foodporn #outsidetheboxcooking
  • Ketchup on waffles? #foodfail
  • This is the Danish I ate in Copenhagen Denmark. What shall eat in Hamburg Germany? #travel #travelfood #travelproblems
  • Burger Week is my favourite week. Hula Burger from Mix Bistro #sjburgerweek
  • My final meal of 34. I will be so glad for this year to be over. Cavendish Fries, Fritesauce, and 0% beer.
  • Made it to Denny’s 😍
  • With a little dessert 😍
  • The Wurst! #meaningoflife
  • Waffle Sticks dipped in custard. #healthybreakfast #foodporn
  • Home cooked waffles, with real fruit, and maple 🍁 syrup. #foodporn #healthybreakfast #greatfood
  • OMG! Tim’s brought the Dutchie back for #canada150
  • Mexican Rice #healthyfood
  • RibFest #healtyfood
  • So good
  • The #nbday #roadtrip #heathyeating dinner! 😍
  • Raspberry Sour Pie!!! ❤️😍❤️
  • Dinner
  • Not half eaten food.
  • Purity Jam Jams fresh from Newfoundland.
  • It’s #PSL time of year again! 😍 Grande with extra shots of Espresso!!! ❤️❤️❤️
  • Yum some good Chinese food from Manchu Wok
  • Seriously chicken
  • Tim’s Pumpkin Spice Muffin is so good but more expensive this year $1.69!
  • Ukrainian Breakfast looks so good!
  • I had to organize the chocolates. I’m not OCD.
  • Canned Kale… the Super Food. Better than Popeye’s canned spinach.
  • Good breakfast at Billy’s
  • ‪Everyone stop what you are doing and go to @sjcitymarket and get a fresh stroopwafel! You have not lived without one!‬ #livelifeuptown #saintawesome #healthyfood
  • Yum
  • Breakfast #saintawesome
  • Bacon and Donair Pizza!
  • The Saint John River breakfast is so good. #healthyfood
  • Dinner time! #healtyfood #freddyfoodie
  • It’s free Root Beer Day @awcanada #healtyfood #portcityfoodies #saintawesome
  • Teriyaki Veggie Rice, Steak and, Chow #homemeals #healthyfood #heathyeating
  • Which isle has more salt. The one with canned soup, meats, and veggies. Or the baking isle where you buy salt. #youchoose
  • Dinner on the work
  • Dinner on the way to Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates. #CanadaDay150YOW2YSJ #canadaday150
  • #roadtrip Fresh blueberries
  • Num Num
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MoCo Downtown– The Best Italian Style Restaurant in New Brunswick

Posted on by Charles F-M

The following is a repost of my review for MoCo Downtown that appears on TripAdvisor.

I was there for the first time on Saturday and I was floored by how wonderful this gem of a place was. I ordered the Sussex Sausage Risotto and for a side paired it with the Sliced Brussel Sprout with Prosciutto and Pine Nut side.

It was so creamy and spicy and flavourful that it blew me away. The Brussel Sprouts we very salty, but that is exactly what you would get in Italy. Unlike many Italian restaurants that simply mimics what you would get in various parts of Italy, this place cooks like a Tuscan or Venetian chef would with access and highlighting of New Brunswick ingredients.

The food was so good but I would not want to not mention how friendly the wait staff was and how efficiently the kitchen was putting out plates. Definitely going to go back and explore more of this menu.

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S’more Oreo Cookies

Posted on by Charles F-M

Today I went to Wal-Mart to buy some clothes and decided to reward myself with a pack of cookies. I had 4 of them and then I must have blacked out because the next time I went to look at the bag there was only 2 of twenty left.

That made me sad.

So I ate the last two.

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A Cheezy Post

Posted on by Charles F-M

Today I went to the local grocery store and wanted to try a new cheese. I decided on the Mango Ginger flavoured White Stilton cheese. I only got a small block because you never know with unknown cheeses if you will like them. I brought it home and unwrapped the plastic wrapping and placed it on my tongue and let it set.

OMG! The flavour was incredible! It was not to strong or mild and had the nice mango and ginger flavour, and crumbled in my mouth since it has a low moisture.

It was so good that I had a flavour blackout an when I came too again the whole block was gone. It gets a 4.5/5 from me.