Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.
Reese’s Miniature Cups Gift Cube
(Spotted by Caitlin J at ShopRite.)
The Bakery Holiday Thumbprint Cookies
The Bakery Assorted Holiday Cookies
(Spotted by Bob K at Walmart.)
Nestle Toll House Cast Iron Skillet Tree-Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
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Update: We reviewed it! Click here to read our review.
Merry Chocolate, everyone! (Spotted by Robbie at Walmart.)
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I guess it was only a matter of time before Mac n’ Cheetos Flamin’ Hot would show up at Burger King since a freezer aisle version came out this summer.
The fast food side is five pieces of mac n’ cheese in a dark red coating that’s dusted with the flavor of Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hot snacks. The menu item is available for a limited time at participating locations and has a suggested retail price of $2.69. It’s the sequel to Burger King’s Mac n’ Cheetos, which was released last year.
A serving has 390 calories, 22 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 15 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170 milligrams of sodium, 40 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of sugar, and 9 grams of protein.
If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.
Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.
Sheila G’s Organic Raspberry Almond Thindulgent Dark Chocolate Bark
Sheila G’s Organic Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Thindulgent Dark Chocolate Bark
Sheila G’s Organic Wild Berry Almond Thindulgent Dark Chocolate Bark
Sheila G’s Organic Thindulgent Cherry Almond Dark Chocolate Bark
(Spotted by Carla at Safeway.)
7-Select Glitter Gummi Snowflakes, Mini Meltaways, and Rainbow Gems
(Spotted by Bianca L at 7-Eleven.)
Kroger Private Selection Limited Edition Milk Chocolate Toffee Truffles with Sea Salt and Caramel Pretzels with Sea Salt
Kroger Private Selection Limited Edition Caramel & Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters and Cinnamon Sugar Soft Caramels
Kroger Private Selection Limited Edition Dark Chocolate Caramels with Sea Salt and Milk Chocolate Caramels with Sea Salt
(Spotted by Rachel C at Smiths.)
Katz Gluten Free Gingerbread Donuts
Katz Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie Spice Glazed and Cranberry Donuts
(Spotted by Caitlin J at Wegmans.)
Wegmans Organic Mango and Raspberry Fruit Delights
(Spotted by Caitlin J at Wegmans.)
Patti’s Good Life Blackberry Cobbler
Patti’s Good Life Cherry Cobbler
(Spotted by Bob K at Walmart.)
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Do you remember McDonald’s Pizza? If you don’t, you’re apparently not alone. In fact, if you’d Googled “mcdonalds pizza” before March of this year, your resources would have been scarce. Since then, the subject briefly went viral – there’s even a podcast extensively devoted to the subject.
The reality is, McDonald’s Pizza was test marketed in over 500 locations between 1989 and 1991. From the jump, it seems like it was doomed to fail – a special oven was needed that took up precious space, it reportedly took 11 minutes to cook (a lifetime in fast food minutes, obviously), and special drive-thru windows had to be installed so the family-size pizzas could fit through.
In the end, it did indeed meet its demise, for any of these reasons or just because it wasn’t popular enough. But one franchisee refused to get the message, and continued to sell pizzas in two locations – Pomeroy, Ohio and Spencer, West Virginia. Unfortunately, McDonald’s corporate eventually caught wind of this rogue hero, and those two locations shut down pie production in August of this year.
McDonald’s Pizza is now well and truly gone, even if you never knew it was there to begin with.
The pizzas were available in personal or family size, and the toppings offered were cheese, pepperoni, sausage, and deluxe (sausage, peppers, mushrooms, and onions). Here’s the thing – for the first time, I’m writing about a food I never actually had the opportunity to taste.
From all the resources I’ve gathered, feelings about McDonald’s Pizza range from “bland” and “the sauce was too sweet” to fond memories of it rivaling the taste of big chain places like Pizza Hut. For the record, the podcaster previously mentioned got to try it this year, and called it “everything I had hoped for”.
I knew about the two locations still serving McDonald’s Pizza before they were forced to stop, but I just didn’t have the resources to travel 2,000 miles to try it. I sure wish I could have, though, just for the novelty of the experience.
Given the logistics, I doubt we’ll ever see McDonald’s Pizza again, and that’s probably for the best. While I never did get to try it, I doubt it could compete not only with the big chains that deliver today but also with the ability to order from mom ‘n’ pop places that can now deliver via apps like DoorDash.
