Tag Archives: sesame

Jano06

Linda

7

Japanese Snack Review: Every Burger

Every Burger Box

Over the holidays I took my annual pilgrimage to the Mitsuwa marketplace in Edgewater, New Jersey. Now, I don’t want to hear from you West Coasters, taunting me about how you live right near one of these or some other equally large Japanese market. For me this is a big deal.

The biggest snacking news there was that one of the stands had black sesame soft ice cream. While you can now get a few ice cream products in that flavor that are made in this country - I’ve got one in my freezer that I’ll review for you as soon as I forget the soft ice cream, because the comparison wouldn’t be fair - I’ve only had it in soft ice cream in Japan. And somehow it’s just so much better that way than in any other ice cream type. So delicious that I did not know whether to jump up and down, or cry; I seriously considered moving to New Jersey instead of both of those, but unfortunately that is not a realistic option.

As for things I could buy and take home in a bag rather than my stomach, the market disappointed me by a lack of Crunky, and I remembered my vow not to buy any other Japanese chocolate snacks. But these Every Burger things - OK, there is some chocolate in them, but that is clearly not the point. The point is that they look like little tiny hamburgers.

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Octo07

Allissa

12

Snack Review: Bumble Bar

Bumble Bar

Confession: I’m a die-hard Burt’s Bees fan. I know this probably makes me a yuppie-in-training, but I just can’t resist their folksy packaging and quality balm product.

So when I saw Bumble Bars in the organic aisle of my grocery store, I knew I had to try them. It’s genius, really. Imitate the look of a product that your target demographic already loves, and watch your latest vegan creation fly off the health food shelves. I swear, even the words “Gluten Free” could not dissuade me from buying this snack.

But, as the sages have taught us, thou shalt not judge a snack by its wrapper. Just because something LOOKS like it will be folksy and traditional, does not necessarily mean it will be. Had I remembered this credo, I probably wouldn’t have gasped (literally, gasped) upon freeing my Bumble Bar from its sleeve.

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Augo26

Rachel

4

Cheapee Snack Roundup: International Cookies on Parade!

Cheap Cookies Roundup
We all have guilty pleasures. Some, such as closets of Saban-canon costumes or piles of “forgotten” CDs from New Kids on the Block and Vanilla Ice, remain unknown to all but our inner children and blackmail-equipped friends and relatives. There’s another category of pseudo-guilty pleasure, though, and as much as we’d like to feign embarrassment about enjoyments which fall into the second group, we’re secretly quite proud of them.

For me, visiting dollar stores (or 99-Cent, or 98-Cent stores – tomato, tamahto) is a member of the latter interest-group. Maybe it’s due to my Jewishness, but I really can’t resist a bargain. Especially a decent-looking and utilitarian bargain on a household item that looks decidedly non bargain-priced. Usually my dirty little shopping “secret” does not extend to food. On my latest trip to Ye Olde 99-Cent Store, though, I was hungry – so I perused the snack aisle, in search of something cheap and edible.

The sight was incredible: surrounding the yawning chasm of an aisle, yards of shelf-space granted refuge to misplaced snacks of all stripes. Local snacks which had never managed to find their niche markets shared space with imports from around the globe. Every imaginable flavor was represented, with a trend toward the obscure (at least to the lion’s share of staid American palates). Benevolent spirit that I am, I decided to adopt four kinds of super-cheap cookies from less fortunate nations and give them a comfortable home in my stomach. Here are brief opinions on my new cross-cultural cookie friends:

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