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FAST FOOD NEWS: Baskin-Robbins Trick Oreo Treat Dark Ice Cream

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Baskin Robbins Trick Oreo Treat Dark Ice Cream

For years, Baskin-Robbins’ Flavor of the Month for October has been the Trick Oreo Treat Ice Cream that features vanilla ice cream with orange créme-filled Oreo cookies, Baby Ruth pieces, and Butterfinger candy pieces. This year, the ice cream chain decided to change it up a bit by offering a chocolate version of the flavor.

Trick Oreo Treat Dark Ice Cream is made up of chocolate ice cream, Oreo cookies with orange crème, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger pieces, and a dark fudge ribbon.

A small scoop has 180 calories, 9 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 20 milligrams of cholesterol, 105 milligrams of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 17 grams of sugar, and 3 grams of protein.

Baskin Robbins Halloween Polar Pizza

Also, to celebrate the Halloween season, Baskin-Robbins is offering a seasonal version of their Polar Pizza that features a double fudge brownie crust topped with M&M’s Mini’s, candy corn, and drizzled with hot fudge.

If you’ve tried either one, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Baskin-Robbins’ website)

SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 10/3/2016

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Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by us and your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

Bud Light NFL Limited Edition Cans

Bud Light NFL Limited Edition Cans

If there are 32 NFL teams, why are there 36 limited edition cans? Okay, as you can see on the box, there’s one for the NFL shield. Maybe there’s one for the NFC and AFC. So that leaves one can unaccounted for. (Spotted by Robbie at Walmart.)

Hershey's Kitchens Sea Salt Caramel Chips

Hershey’s Kitchens Sea Salt Caramel Chips

If I baked, I’d use these for cookies or brownies. But since I don’t, I’d just eat them straight from the bag. (Spotted by Carla at Safeway.)

King Size Kit Kat White

King Size Kit Kat White

That’s a lot of Kit Kat fingers to share or to gobble one after another like a woodchipper. (Spotted by Anonymous at Walmart.)

Milk Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Snappers

Milk Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Snappers

(Spotted by Amanda Y at Target.)

Wholly Guacamole Sriracha Flavored and Margarita Flavored Guacamole

Wholly Guacamole Sriracha Flavored and Margarita Flavored Guacamole

Dip it, top it, spread it down, oh, no! Sorry, 90’s flashback. (Spotted by Amanda Y at Walmart.)

Gorton's Seafood Appetizers (Potato Crusted Cod Bites and Thai Coconut Shrimp)

Gorton’s Seafood Appetizers (Potato Crusted Cod Bites and Thai Coconut Shrimp)

At Red Lobster, these would probably be entrees and all-you-can-eat. (Spotted by Amanda Y at Kroger.)

Campbell's Slow Kettle Style Spicy Thai-Style Chicken & Wild Rice Soup

Campbell’s Slow Kettle Style Spicy Thai-Style Chicken & Wild Rice Soup

Campbell's Slow Kettle Style Mediterranean Vegetable Soup

Campbell’s Slow Kettle Style Mediterranean Vegetable Soup

(Spotted by Amanda Y at Walmart.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email ([email protected]) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

WEEKEND READING – 10/1/2016

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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week or so. Enjoy.

Via NPR’s The Salt: Our Robot Overlords Are Now Delivering Pizza, And Cooking It On The Go

Collins and I are standing inside Zume’s solution: a delivery truck that looks standard — like something from FedEx or UPS — only it has 56 mini-ovens. They’re neatly stacked into two racks on wheels.

Via Eater: All Hail the Pizza Saver

Pizza’s most essential topping is a piece of plastic

Via The Daily Beast: Who Actually Created Buffalo Wings?

While reporting his buffalo wings story, Trillin met a black man named John Young who claimed it was he who by all rights deserved credit for inventing buffalo wings.

Via Quartz: How unsanitary is double dipping anyway?

Double dipping—practice of dipping a chip (or cracker, carrot, or anything other food that can be dipped) into a dip, then biting onto it, and dipping it again with the bitten side down (dipping a non-bitten corner of a previously bitten food does not qualify as double dipping)—is widely frowned upon and considered, aside from plain gross, unhygienic. But how bad is it, really?

Via Food.Mic: The true — and truly creepy — history of Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald is a creepy dude. Not only is he a clown, which is chilling enough, but he’s a ghost-white, sketchy character who literally lures children into eating junk food.

FAST FOOD NEWS: Jack in the Box BLT Cheeseburger (2016)

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Jack in the Box BLT Cheeseburger

Back in 2012, Jack in the Box offered for a limited time the BLT Cheeseburger. It’s back, but it’s slightly different this time around.

The 2016 version has a beef patty, hickory-smoked bacon, two slices of American cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on a buttery bakery bun. While the 2012 version had a beef patty, hickory-smoked bacon, one slice of American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onion mayo on a sesame seed bun.

The updated burger has 675 calories, 46 grams of fat, 16 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of trans fat, 100 milligrams of cholesterol, 1253 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, and 35 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried the new BLT Cheeseburger, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Jack in the Box’s website)