Today, I’m finally wrapping up my coverage of the Sun Cups line. I was introduced to them at Sweets and Snacks and sent home with a bunch of free samples. On Monday,…
Month: June 2012
Banana Slug Noms
Ugly Overload is the awesome and fascinating antithesis of Cute Overload. Instead of squee-ing over the latest baby animals, you get to marvel at the ugliness that evolution has wrought in many…
Sun Cups – Dark Chocolate Mint Cup
This Sun Cup Dark Chocolate Mint Cup was another?Sun Cups?products that I got as a free sample at Sweets and Snacks. Like the sunflower butter cups, they were made from organic ingredients…
German vs American Haribo Bears
I am a horrible person to travel abroad with, as I’m always ducking in grocery and convenience stores to see what’s on the shelves. Learning about the history of cathedrals is fine…
Sun Cups – Sunflower Butter Milk a
Sweet and Snacks was full of booths promoting different kinds of nut butters. Sunflower butter, technically not even a nut butter, was a new one to me, so of course these Sun…
Ritter Amarena Kirsch
This Ritter Sport Amarena Kirsch is a European limited edition summer flavor from last year, apparently. I was lucky enough to get a free sample of one from the Gourmet Grand Dame…
Rummy Bears
In continuing with our theme of news posts about gummies, Serious Eats has a great post about how to make alcohol infused gummi bears. Being extra awesome, as Serious Eats generally is,…
Cinnamon Bun Bites
Is there anyone who’s immune to the smell of?Cinnabon? Something about the mix of sugar and cinnamon and heat is so intoxicating! I’ve never let myself succumb to the siren scent of…
Gummi Bear Combustion
When I was in high school, I did a project testing the 5-second rule by dropping gummi bears on different floor surfaces that I had swabbed with E. coli. For the record,…
Coco Keeno – Coco Goldrush
I got this box of Coco Keeno as a free sample from their booth at Sweets and Snacks. They were sampling all kinds of chocolate-covered things, and I asked for a box…
Guest Post: SladCo Traditional Milk Choc
Here’s the last of this week’s reviews from Neil, my globe-trotting expat friend. ~Rosa No joke about the title; that’s what the first bit of the English translation of this bar says. SladCo,…
Serious Eats Double Dark Chocolate Grani
It’s been nice to be back in the south after two years in upstate New York, but holy cow it’s sure hot down here. Perfect time of year for some delicious cold…