FAST FOOD NEWS: Dunkin’ Donuts Sweet & Salted Cold Brew and Vanilla Truffle Donut

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Dunkin Donuts Sweet and Salted Cold Brew Coffee

Last year, Dunkin’ Donuts debuted their Cold Brew coffee, and now the brand has created a new way to enjoy it. Sweet & Salted Cold Brew features the chain’s ultra-smooth Cold Brew that’s sweetened with liquid cane sugar and topped with a special new, proprietary salted whipped topping.

If you’ve got a minute or two to kill, you can read more about how Dunkin’ Donuts created it by clicking here.

A small Sweet & Salted Cold Brew with cream has 170 calories, 8 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 25 milligrams of cholesterol, 160 milligrams of sodium, 23 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 20 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.

Dunkin Donuts Vanilla Truffle Donut

Along with the Sweet & Salted Cold Brew, Dunkin’ Donuts is also offering the new Vanilla Truffle Donut. It features a yeast shell donut filled with vanilla-flavored buttercreme, frosted with chocolate icing, and topped with white and dark chocolate curls.

A Vanilla Truffle Donut has 390 calories, 22 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 370 milligrams of sodium, 46 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 26 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein.

Both items are available for a limited time at participating Dunkin’ Donuts locations.

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

(Images via Dunkin’ Donuts’ website)

REVIEW: Ben & Jerry’s Oat of this Swirled Ice Cream

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Ben & Jerry's Oat of this Swirled Ice Cream

Many people know Ben & Jerry’s for their clever flavor names. Take a commonly used phrase, change a word or syllable into an ingredient’s name, and BAM, a new ice cream flavor name is born.

Empower MINT.

Clusterfluff.

Cake My Day.

Americone Dream.

Karamel Sutra Core.

Oh, I could spend all day listing them and confusing my computer’s spell check.

But the brand has done it again with Oats of this Swirled Ice Cream. So is this ice cream out of this world? Let’s find oat.

The flavor features buttery brown sugar ice cream with fudge flakes and oatmeal cinnamon cookie swirls.

Ben & Jerry's Oat of this Swirled Ice Cream Top

The ice cream base has a mild buttery flavor, but it was hard to taste the butteriness by itself because it seemed like cinnamon permeated through the ice cream. That reads like a complaint, but I assure you it’s not. Cinnamon and butter is a combination I love seeing together, like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. I would buy the ice cream base without anything else, if Ben & Jerry’s sold it.

While the ice cream itself is great, what makes this flavor wonderful is the oatmeal cinnamon cookie swirls. It has a fine gritty texture that’s a pleasant contrast to the creamy ice cream. However, its flavor makes me think more of a snickerdoodle than an oatmeal cinnamon cookie. Again, that reads like a complaint, but I assure you it’s not because I love this swirl. But if you can taste the oats, let me know because I don’t taste or see them.

Of course, seeing oats is a good thing and a bad thing. I don’t want to see the oats because that’ll mean dealing with the chewy texture of the oats, but at the same time seeing them will help justify in my mind that maybe I’m getting some benefit from eating ice cream with half my daily saturated fat in one serving.

As for the fudge flakes, their snap added a third texture to the ice cream and there were a lot of them. When I got a spoonful with the buttery ice cream base, cinnamon swirl, and the fudge, I thought it tasted more like a spiceless Mexican hot chocolate than any cookie. Once again, that reads like a complaint, but I assure you it’s not because this pint is wonderful and really hard to put down.

(Nutrition Facts – 1/2 cup – 310 calories, 180 calories from fat, 20 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 70 milligrams of cholesterol, 110 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 28 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein.)

Purchased Price: $5.99
Size: 1 pint
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 9 out of 10
Pros: Ice cream base and swirl taste more like a snickerdoodle than cinnamon oatmeal cookie. All three parts taste more like a spiceless Mexican hot chocolate. Clever name. Hard flavor to put down.
Cons: Don’t get the oats. Doesn’t bring an cinnamon oatmeal cookie to mind. Having to teach my computer’s spell check Ben & Jerry’s flavor names.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Lemon Lemon Sparking Lemonade

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From the makers of Mtn Dew, Mtn Dew Label Series, Mtn Dew Kickstart, Aquafina, Izze, and Pepsi, comes Lemon Lemon, a sparkling lemonade in a skinny can. It’s so lemony nice that they named it twice. Oh, you were supposed to read the previous sentences in the movie preview voice. (Spotted by Carla at Safeway.)

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FAST FOOD NEWS: Burger King’s New Crispy Chicken Sandwich

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Burger King New Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Goodbye, Burger King Tendercrisp Chicken Sandwich!

Hello, Burger King Crispy Chicken Sandwich!

Yes, Burger King has replaced their flagship chicken sandwich with a new one that has a simpler name.

BK’s Crispy Chicken Sandwich features a seasoned and breaded 100 percent white meat chicken filet that’s topped with lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on a soft potato bun. It’s available at a recommended price of $4.39.

It has 670 calories, 41 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 60 milligrams of cholesterol, 1070 milligrams of sodium, 54 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of sugar, and 23 grams of protein.

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

(Image via Burger King’s website)

REVIEW: Hostess Limited Edition Shamrock CupCakes

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I don’t eat green treats until after Valentine’s Day. But come February 15, I’m all about everything mint, pistachio, apple, lime, and even avocado.

(Seriously, mint is my favorite flavor, but why does “shamrock” have to mean mint? Why don’t other green flavors get to shine during March? Once I was talking about this with a college roommate, and he said, “Lime isn’t a St. Patrick’s Day flavor!” When I asked him to explain why mint was more relevant, he said that limes make him think of tropical places, whereas mint makes him think of…the Northern Hemisphere. I could tell he was just making things up at that point.)

On February 1, when I saw these Limited Edition Hostess Shamrock CupCakes, I had to have them, especially since they were the only box on the shelf, and especially since St. Patrick’s Day goodies are much rarer than their spooky, jolly, amorous, and hippity-hoppity cousins. I tucked them away until February 15 in my special drawer where the out-of-season treats wait their turn.

I love how pretty these are: the familiar white squiggle on top, and this time it’s on a lovely chartreuse, with a beautiful filling to match!

I’m glad these are actually a unique flavor, not just a unique color. Only the filling has a mint flavor, as far as I can tell, and it’s subtle. You can tell it’s there, but it takes a backseat to the chocolate cake.

That might be good if you don’t like mint, but if you don’t like it, you probably wouldn’t buy these anyway. Toothpaste-strong wouldn’t be good either, but I would have liked a mintier kick. The cake is just what you’d expect from a Hostess CupCake, soft but a little dense. The frosting is a waxy, flavorless substance.

Hostess products are hit and miss for me. I love the Pumpkin Spice CupCakes and the oft-maligned Sno Balls, but other products disappoint. They are so cute that I forget that they don’t always taste as good as they look.

So it is with this St. Paddy’s Day version of CupCakes. It’s a nice variation on the standard chocolate CupCake, but unlike the stereotypical March kite-flying weather, it won’t blow you away.

(Nutrition Facts – 1 cake – 160 calories, 50 calories from fat, 5 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 220 milligrams of sodium, 27 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 19 grams of sugar, and 1 gram of protein..)

Purchased Price: $2.99
Size: 12.7 oz. box/8 cakes
Purchased at: Smith’s Marketplace (Kroger)
Rating: 6 out of 10
Pros: Tastes like a standard CupCake with a bit of mint. Seasonal flavors. Lovely green.
Cons: Tastes like a standard CupCake. Mint is subtle. Waxy “frosting.” Bad puns in closing paragraphs. Why does it have to be mint for March, instead of other green flavors?

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