PODCAST: The Nosh Show #88 Spray or Nay

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

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

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.)

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REVIEW: Kellogg’s Limited Edition Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows remind me of my fourth grade Stormtrooper Halloween costume.

Like eight-year old Adam in awe of the theatrical release of the Stars Wars Special Edition movies, Tony the Tiger’s latest creation sets out to trick-or-treat with only the utmost respect for the ethos of Halloween.

Problem is, there’s some stiff competition. In my case, it was Luke, who ironically decided to trick-or-treat as a Stormtrooper the same year I did (Like, really? Your name is Luke and you decide to go as a Stormtrooper?)

Anyways, Luke’s costume kicked the crap out of mine. He was the kid with the lights and sound enhanced Stormtrooper carbine, specially crafted armor, and an actual helmet like those people who go to ComicCon. I, meanwhile, had a mask attached with a string, a cheap white smock with some black lines on it, and (because my parents hated weapons) a pillowcase stuffed with candy as my only armament.

In other words, Luke was the Count Chocula to my Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows, which, while okay, are quickly defrocked as an imitator to the chocolaty standard of limited edition Halloween cereals.

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows 2

To Kellogg’s credit, Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows get the job done as a snacking cereal. There’s a savory and sweet thing that goes on with the cocoa-glazed flakes, which still have that crunchy, malted corn aftertaste of original Frosted Flakes. But the cocoa flavor is mild and varies from flake to flake, while the marshmallows are just bad. Sure they look cool; a deconstructed skeleton beats the ambiguously-shaped blobs that Count Chocula claims are bats, but the Frosted Flakes marshmallows lack a sturdy texture ideal for snacking or a long soaking in milk.

And it’s in milk that Tony the Tiger’s Halloween cereal is stripped of its chocolate costume. The cocoa quickly flows off the flakes, but the end-milk, while darkly colored like a Halloween night, tastes nothing like the cocoa-infused milk left behind by Count Chocula, Cocoa Puffs, or other tier one chocolate cereals. Combined with the marshmallows, it’s just a hyper sweet bowl of milk with faraway (far, far away) notes of cocoa powder.

Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows are an okay novelty cereal that will do in a pinch, but like that flimsy Stormtrooper mask and loose-fitting “armored” smock that I wore for Halloween as a kid, the cereal is too easily unmasked. And with the chocolate covered spirit of Halloween in good and cocoa-powder stained hands with Count Chocula, Chocolate Frosted Flakes with Marshmallows probably won’t be making a repeat appearance in my pantry next year.

(Nutrition Facts – 30 grams – 100 calories, 1 gram of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 mg of cholesterol, 150 mg of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of dietary fiber, 10 grams of sugars, and 1 grams of protein..)

Purchased Price: $2.74
Size: 9.5 oz. box
Purchased at: United Supermarket
Rating: 5 out of 10
Pros: Enjoyable cocoa and milled corn flavor when eaten as a snack. Marshmallows provide a needed textural contrast to the crunchy frosted flakes. Creative use of a marshmallow artwork.
Cons: Not as chocolaty as Count Chocula and leaves nonexistent chocolate end-milk. Marshmallows aren’t as sturdy as Count Chocula. Wait, are the skeletons from people Tony the Tiger ate? My stupid fourth grade Halloween costume.