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wednes ([personal profile] wednes) wrote2006-04-08 05:38 pm

Bad for you, but delicious:

It's been awhile, I know, but happily it's time for another edition of Consumer Product Watch:

I happened to taste this grape alcohol drink last week or so, and it was really good. Didn't taste boozy at all. Of course, my tolerance for alcohol is so low, that this one bottle was making me feel drunk. Reason # 908 why I drink almost never. Sadly though, I forget what it's called. I think it was a Smirnoff thing; it was not a wine cooler. Those are for losers. Anyway, it comes in a clear bottle shaped like a beer bottle and the stuff is as grape as grape can be. Purple grape candy, not real grapes. Dang...what's is called?

Doritos is doing it's best to make you crave them. Of course, I have always revered the Potato Chip over the Corn Chip. But some of these new Dorito flavors are hard to resist. The Black Pepper Jack is very yummy and flavorful without tasting like the same damn "nacho" dorito you've been eating since you were 10. By the way, what exactly is "nacho" cheese? Is it a type of cheese, or is it simply what happens to cheese when you involve it with corn chips? Taco Bell uses nacho cheese. I could ask them, and they'd probably have to tell me--with a smile. At Taco Bell, smiles are free. Anyway, the Firey Habanero chips are quite remakably hot for being mainstream. This is rather a recent trend in commercial foodstuffs: actually making things HOT. I support it. Really, I do.

Chocolate Avalanche Payday. Hershey has always led the US in terms of developing delicious candy bars. Who among you remember the joy that ensued after the Nutrageous was invented? My buddies were practically dancing in the street. The Payday bar was something of an anomaly because it contained no chocolate. It's ad campaign used to tout that it didn't need chocolate to be delicious. Well, that philosophy has gone the way of 7up, with chocolate covered Payday. I daresay it's the most innovative chocolate enrobing since the Chocolate Covered Twinkie.

And finally, if you still dont' own a tiny replica of The Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile, you can buy one here.


Happy Holiday to all my Thelemite friends who are celebrating today. I intend to do a bit of merrymaking myself. For the rest of you, here is a tiny snippet from The Book of Law, Chapter Three:

Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything.
Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly,
nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth.

[identity profile] rivetkitten.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It was probably Smirnoff Twisted V in grape. Personally, I prefer the sour apple & mandarin.... mmmm, fake boozy orange... *drool*

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2006-04-08 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that sounds right. Mandarin, eh...

You know, when I was drinking (in college and such) there was pretty much only wine coolers and boones farm as far as affordable drinkables that weren't hard liquor or beer. If Mikes hard Lemonade had been availible then, I probably would've become a huge alcoholic.

[identity profile] rivetkitten.livejournal.com 2006-04-09 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I shall drink Mike's like water come my 21st birthday. I would now, but I don't have a car/connection who will answer their phone. Rahr to them.
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[personal profile] groovesinorbit 2006-04-08 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Chocolate covered Twinkies? I've never heard of such a thing!

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2006-04-09 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, they are called Chocodiles and they are fabulous!

[identity profile] gifgal.livejournal.com 2006-04-09 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
its their (smirnoff's) wild grape, a new flavor :)

tis what im trying to WEAN myself off from ! lol

and yeah...totally grape kool-aid!

ive tried the black cherry, thats ok, ....the watermelon tastes like the jolly ranchers, and i coudlnt drink more than 1/4 of one, was TOO sweet.

yeaaaaaaaa i know my smirnoffs hehe.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2006-04-09 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I knew someone of the partiers on my flist would know it. It is absurdly tasty.

[identity profile] stranger-tales.livejournal.com 2006-04-10 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
They actually produced chocolate Paydays some years back. Apparently it wasn't successful enough at the time and was discontinued. I guess what with all the caramel added to this and peanuts added to that and white chocolate, dark chocolate and coffee flavors hitting every which way, they decided to give this another go.

While I've always been fond of Payday, I didn't care much for the chocolate version. The exception being the snack size bars which seemed to have a bit more salt in them. Like I really needed that.

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2006-04-10 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I know a lot of people who like Chocolate with plenty of salt. That's why that pretzel candy bar is doing so well...not with me though. I don't like pretzels or beer; because I am not as German as people think. ;-}