NEWS: McDonald’s Japan Tries To Encapsulate The Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Broadway, and Beverly Hills With Their 2012 Big America Burgers

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Big America Grand Canyon Burger

Thank goodness for the creative minds in Japan who come up with their limited time only fast food menu items, and thank goodness for the creative minds at Google who came up with Google Translate so I can read about the latest fast food items in Japan.

Here’s how Google translated the descriptions for the 2012 lineup of McDonald’s Japan’s Big America Burgers.

Distinctive “Grand Canyon Burger” is filling beef and steak Patti overlap. Vans and the image of a three-stage rock of Grand Canyon World Heritage Sites in the western United States, strata, cheese, two types of color difference (cheddar cheese and mozzarella cheese), eggs, beef towering Patti, is a dish of punch marks. Decisive source of steak taste, feel and flavor combination of onion ingredients, soy sauce, smoke flavor, and the Japanese steak favorite flavor was finished.

“Las Vegas Burger” was expressed by a rich combination of beef slices and beef Patty, the glittering city of the United States gorgeous, a luxury. To 1/4 pound Beef Patty McDonald’s beef is 100% proud, put the beef and onion in spicy seasoned, was entwined luxuriously rich cream cheese sauce. Reminiscent of a fine dinner in Las Vegas, is the taste of rich flavor.

“Broadway Burger” with bacon and impressive about protrude, exciting harmony of cream cheese sauce. Colorful vegetables, including color, a combination of cream cheese and a rich source of sticking to pastrami bacon, mustard sauce that complements the unique material, I expressed the streets of musical talent from all over the world gather various.

“Beverly Hills Burger” enjoy meeting and cheerful avocado, rich source of Caesar. We have developed the concept of California there is a Beverly Hills home of the “Caesar Salad”. Fresh lettuce and onion taste favor, and is characterized by succulent beef. Avocado and McDonald’s as a product source you want to use for the first time, is expressed in the Caesar salad dish a rich source, the image of an exclusive residential district of longing class celebrities.

The first 2012 Big America Burger released was the Grand Canyon Burger on January 4th. Next was the Las Vegas Burger on January 27th. The Broadway Burger was released on February 17th. As for the Beverly Hills Burger, it will be released sometime this month.

The only nutritional information I could find was for the Broadway Burger, which has 585 kilocalories, 31.5 grams of protein, 36.8 grams of fat, 32.1 grams of carbs, and a whopping 3 grams of salt (3,000 milligrams).

But the Big America Burgers aren’t the only new burgers on McDonald’s Japan’s menu. Today, the company introduced their Lettuce & Pepper Burger. The Google translated description is below:

“Lettuce & Pepper Burger” is 100% Beef Patty-producing New Zealand from Australia juicy was baked Kobashiku, is a dish to enjoy harmony exquisite by Caesar source of sticking to the secret ingredient of pepper is heard and lettuce, crunchy.

The Big America and Lettuce & Pepper Burgers are available for a limited time at McDonald’s Japan locations.

[via Foodbeast]

Image via flickr user Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0

REVIEW: Kellogg’s Original Simply Eggo Waffles

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Kellogg's Simply Eggo Waffles

Since Kellogg’s new Simply Original Eggo Waffles boast they have no preservatives, artificial flavors, or artificial colors, I shall brag about how this review has no semicolons, onomatopoeias, or eponymous puns involving Jeremy Lin.

Now here’s the part where I bore all of you with ingredients and chemical compounds. Well, maybe not those of you who are into chemical compounds, like chemists and meth makers.

Here are the ingredients for Original Simply Eggo Waffles: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin B1], riboflavin [vitamin B2], folic acid), water, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, and/or canola oil), eggs, sugar, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda), salt, buttermilk, and soy lecithin.

And, here are the ingredients for regular Homestyle Eggo Waffles: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin B1], riboflavin [vitamin B2], folic acid), water, vegetable oil (soybean and palm oil), eggs, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), sugar, calcium carbonate, salt, whey, soy lecithin, yellow #5, and yellow #6.

For those of you who skimmed over or bypassed the previous two paragraphs, and I wouldn’t blame you because they’re like visual Ambien, the Simple Eggo Waffles lack calcium carbonate, which is a food preservative, and the food dyes, yellow #5 and yellow #6.

Kellogg’s Eggo Low Fat Homestyle Waffles Closeup

If you’re a regular reader of this semipopular product review blog, you might be thinking the photo above is from our review of Kellogg’s Eggo Low Fat Homestyle Waffles. And you would be absosmurfly correct. To be honest, I reused the picture because toasted Simple Eggo Waffles look exactly like the waffles in the photo above. Also, I reused it out of pure laziness.

As for Simply Eggo’s flavor, it’s missing what makes Eggo Waffles taste like Eggo Waffles, which I’m guessing is the artificial flavor it brags it doesn’t have. Because of it, Simply Eggo Waffles were a little blander than regular Eggo Waffles, which was kind of surprising since I thought the buttermilk added would help with the flavor. But, topping it with butter and drowning it in syrup helped cover up the flavor difference.

In terms of flavor, Kellogg’s Simply Eggo Waffles are simply unimpressive. However, if you’re one of those people who really care about things like preservatives, food dyes, and artificial flavors, Kellogg’s Simply Eggo Waffles are simply uncomplicated.

(Nutrition Facts – 2 waffles – 210 calories, 70 calories from fat, 8 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 20 milligrams of cholesterol, 450 milligrams of sodium, 55 milligrams of potassium, 30 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 4 grams of sugar, 4 grams of protein, and a bunch of vitamins and minerals.)

Item: Kellogg’s Original Simply Eggo Waffles
Price: $3.00 (on sale)
Size: 12.3 ounces/10 waffles
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 6 out of 10
Pros: Looks like regular Eggo. Toasts like regular Eggo. No preservatives, No artificial flavors or colors. Fortified with vitamins and minerals.
Cons: Blander than regular Eggo Waffles. More calories, fat, sodium, and sugar than regular Eggo Waffles. Without calcium carbonate, Simple Eggo Waffles provide no calcium.

NEWS: More Chips Ahoy! Varieties Ahoy!

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Two new Chips Ahoy! varieties will be hitting store shelves soon — Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey Caramel and Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

The Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey Caramel is similar to the tasty Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey cookies we reviewed in 2011. Except instead of fudge, this latest variety has its center filled with gooey caramel. Well, at least, I hope it’s gooey, because the fudge in the other varieties weren’t. As for the Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, it’s just the chewy version of this extremely delightful cookie we reviewed in 2010.

Two Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey Caramel cookies have 140 calories, 5 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 125 milligrams of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 13 grams of sugar, less than 1 gram of fiber, and 1 gram of protein.

NEWS: Kellogg’s Festival Fun Frosted Vanilla I-Scream Cone Pop-Tarts Sound Like The Greatest Pop-Tarts Ever

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On the Kellogg’s website, they describe their new Limited Edition Festival Fun Frosted Vanilla I-Scream Cone Pop-Tarts as follows: “Vanilla ice cream-flavored filling surrounded by a waffle cone-flavored crust, topped with chocolatey icing and rainbow sprinkles.”

Holy hell! I don’t know about you, but that sounds frickin’ awesome, especially the waffle cone-flavored crust. I don’t have a glucose monitor, but believe my blood sugar level has risen by just thinking about this new Pop-Tarts variety.

One Festival Fun Frosted Vanilla I-Scream Cone Pop-Tart has 190 calories, 4 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 1.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 1 gram of monounsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 220 milligrams of sodium, 37 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 16 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Festival Fun Frosted Vanilla I-Scream Cone Pop-Tarts are available in boxes of eight.

REVIEW: SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic

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SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten happiness from SunChips, or sunshine from them, if you will. Potato chips have made me happy (and heavy), but never SunChips.

I do enjoy SunChips, but it’s just that they aren’t as gratifying and addictive as regular potato chips. I don’t know, maybe fried potato has a certain place in my heart…probably the clogged part.

Although there was a time when I regularly bought SunChips, but I did so more for the bag than the snack inside. It was when they came in those compostable bags that everyone complained about because they were too loud. I’d use them to get off the phone with someone I didn’t want to talk to anymore by touching the bag to create static noises and telling the caller, “You’re breaking up. I’ll call you later.”

I thought after eating SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic, SunChips would bring me happiness because I love garlic, but these don’t quite do it for me.

This isn’t the first SunChips 6 Grain Medley flavor. The line was originally a Target exclusive and came in two flavors — Onion & Thyme and Parmesan & Herb.

So what are the six grains found in these chips?

You’ll find corn, wheat, oats, brown rice, buckwheat, and quinoa. All these grains provide 21 grams of whole grain goodness per one ounce serving. However, it’s mostly corn, wheat, and oats, which are three of the first four ingredients listed. As for brown rice, buckwheat, and quinoa, they make up three of the last four ingredients listed.

SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic Moneyshot

As for the chip’s garlic flavor, I was hoping for something strong enough to ward off Twilight fans who are on Team Edward and make it uncomfortable for someone to have a conversation with me in a Fiat 500, but it had a disappointing garlic flavor. Actually, I wouldn’t really consider it garlic. The three different cheeses (cheddar, Romano, and Parmesan), spices, and roasted garlic on the chips created a flavor that tastes more like ranch seasoning. Also, the chips aren’t heavily seasoned. I expected to have a lot of powdery goodness on my fingers to suck off, like with many other Frito-Lay snacks (Doritos and Cheetos), but my fingertips were just lightly dusted with seasoning.

The SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic was disappointing, and I don’t ever see myself craving them, unless my body evolves into a baby making machine. Then, I could experience pregnancy cravings that may involve me wanting these SunChips, and other weird foods to crave, like pork rinds, mustard, pickles, and mustard pickle sandwiches.

(Nutrition Facts – 1 ounce/about 15 chips – 140 calories, 60 calories, 6 grams of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 1 gram of polyunsaturated fat, 3.5 grams of monounsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 150 milligrams of sodium, 18 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 1 gram of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.)

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Item: SunChips 6 Grain Medley Creamy Roasted Garlic
Price: $2.99 (on sale)
Size: 9 ounces
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 5 out of 10
Pros: Crunchy. Not horrible. 21 grams of whole grains per 1 ounce serving. No artificial flavors. No preservative. Getting to eat something called quinoa.
Cons: Weak garlic flavor that tasted more like ranch. Too lightly seasoned. Not addictive, like potato chips. Doesn’t come in noisy compostable bag. Having a conversation with a garlic lover in a Fiat 500.

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