SPOTTED: Takis Waves Fuego
These wavy potato chips only come in Fuego flavor. Sorry, Nitro and Blue Heat. They also come in two bag sizes — 2.5 oz. and 8 oz. (Spotted by Robbie at Walmart.)
COMING SOON: Nestle Toll House Funfetti Cookie Dough with Rainbow Sprinkles
Wait a minute…Funfetti is made by Pillsbury, and Pillsbury makes cookie dough. But this is a Funfetti-branded cookie dough made by Nestle Toll House, who also makes cookie dough. I’m so confused. Please don’t get ideas, Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker!
Anyhoo, Pills…I mean, Nestle Toll House Funfetti Cookie Dough with Rainbow Sprinkles features vanilla cake-flavored dough filled and topped with rainbow sprinkles. A 14-ounce package makes 12 cookies and has a $2.99 suggested price. It’ll be popping up on the refrigerated shelves in June.
Oh, it turns out this is the second Nestle Toll House and Funfetti collaboration, with the first being edible cookie dough.
(Thanks to Nestle Toll House for the info and images!)
REVIEW: Ben & Jerry’s The Tonight Dough Chunks
Full disclosure: This review will be partially about Ben & Jerry’s The Tonight Dough Chunks, but mostly a new product pitch to the folks at Ben & Jerry’s.
But before I present a PowerPoint slide deck of my idea, I should probably get the review out of the way.
If you’re not familiar with the ice cream flavor, it features caramel and chocolate ice creams with chocolate cookie swirls and gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and peanut butter cookie dough. But the pouch above has a mixture of chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolatey coated peanut butter cookie dough chunks.
Is this two cookie dough chunk combination delicious? Absolutely.
But having had almost every single type of Ben & Jerry’s dough chunks, I have to say there’s nothing that really makes it stand out from the other varieties. The two are pretty much the combination of others but in one pouch.
Yes, if you want to get technical, there’s no chocolatey coated peanut butter cookie dough chunks variety. But the peanut butter chocolate chip dough chunks are basically the same thing. If you like those two, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t like this. Although, when I snacked on this, I popped into my mouth one of each simultaneously, and sometimes there was be a solid nutty punch, and other times it’s hard to notice the peanut butter flavor.
But with that said, as much as I enjoy edible cookie dough, I can’t help but feel myself getting bored of it. Yes, there have been several flavors, but how many more different dough chunks are there left? Maybe it’s time to change things up a little.
Now let me get to that PowerPoint I promised…Wait, this projector only has a VGA port. Seriously. Am I in the 90s? Does someone have a VGA to HDMI adapter? No one? Well then, I guess you won’t be treated to my 85 slides about what I’m about to propose to Ben & Jerry’s. Instead, it’ll be 85 words.
Ben & Jerry’s should sell bags of its edible cookie dough with its non-dough mix-ins. It could be called Mix-In Mashups (feel free to use that, Flavor Gurus). For example, I think it would be great to combine the fudge-covered waffle cone pieces in Americone Dream with the company’s chocolate chip cookie dough chunks. It would be a contrast of textures with the cone’s crunch and the cookie dough’s squish. Or maybe have a bag with cinnamon bun dough and fudge brownies.
I might never get my Mix-In Mashups, so I guess I’ll have to settle for the perfectly fine Ben & Jerry’s The Tonight Dough Chunks and all the others in the edible dough bites line.
Purchased Price: $4.59
Size: 8 oz pouch
Purchased at: Target
Rating: 6 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2 tbsp/28 grams) 120 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 5 milligrams of cholesterol, 60 milligrams of sodium, 19 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 11 grams of sugar, and 1 gram of protein.
SPOTTED: Popcornopolis Fried Pickle & Ranch Popcorn
I’m SUPER disappointed this doesn’t come in a pickle-shaped bag. I guess cones are the extent of Popcornopolis’ packaging prowess. (Spotted by Robbie at Sam’s Club.)
COMING SOON: Dulce de Leche Toast Crunch, Ghostbusters, and Lucky Charms Galactic Cereals
I have to admit Dulce de Leche Toast Crunch wasn’t on my future Toast Crunch cereal bingo card. I was expecting a hazelnut chocolate, mocha, or Vegemite flavor. (Yes, I will never get bingo on my card.) But here we are with a cereal that combines the taste of caramel with the crunch of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. And, yes, the endmilk will have a little Dulce de Leche flavor. The new variety is a permanent addition to the Toast Crunch line, and it’s rolling out to stores as you read this. It’s available in two sizes — Family Size ($4.99 MSRP) and Mid-Size ($3.99 MSRP).
Ghostbusters Afterlife cereal is a tie-in with the upcoming movie premiering later this year. If you guessed this cereal comes with marshmallows because 97 percent of cereals that have a movie tie-in do indeed come with marbits, then you are absolutely correct. The cereal features fruity flavored sweetened corn puffs with ghost and ectoplasm-shaped marshmallows. It’s available for a limited time and should be showing up on shelves very soon. It comes in two sizes — Family Size ($3.99 MSRP) and Mid-Size ($2.50 MSRP).
If you guessed Lucky Charms Galactic comes with marshmallows because 100 percent of Lucky Charms cereals do indeed come with marbits, then you are absolutely correct. It comes with your standard charms, but it also comes with, according to General Mills, three new magic charms with special powers. There are two planet charms that have the power to duplicate and a rocket charm that has to power to race through space. The cereal is now rolling out to stores and is available for a limited time. Two sizes are available — Family Size ($4.99 MSRP) and Mid-Size ($3.99 MSRP).
(Info and images via General Mills.)