I voted for Coffee Nut. Did you? (Spotted by Robbie at Walgreens.)
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I’m going to guess “Caribbean Citrus” contains lime. (Spotted by Junk Food Dog at Costco.)
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A short list of things I never imagined I would do in my lifetime:
So full disclosure, numbers one through four have not happened…yet. Number five, unfortunately, did happen.
Usually the single man’s trip to Domino’s ends with a medium pizza that will get finished in one night. It usually has ham and pineapple on it and it is usually eaten in the company of Wes Montgomery albums and good vodka. Sometimes, though, you have to switch things up.
The Domino’s salads come prepackaged, and when I say prepackaged, I mean factory sealed and then shipped to Domino’s stores. At least that’s what I read.
Factory fresh salad…YUM!
Besides being factory sealed, it is also a salad you have to put it together yourself. How dare they make us do work!
This isn’t the worst tasting salad, but for the price, it didn’t seem worth it in the end.
The main culprits are the spring mix and the chicken. I know greens aren’t supposed to be flashy but the greens in this salad, even with the Ken’s Lite Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing, just weren’t good. I think the factory seal takes some of the freshness away.
The chicken didn’t seem to lose freshness but it didn’t matter, it was like that semi-grizzle-y chicken Subway had years ago. Tastes like nothing and you get those pieces you can’t chew cleanly through, and nobody likes those.
Nothing was really wrong with the cheddar cheese and apples. Those probably had the freshest taste to them, and if those are your freshest ingredients, your salad is in trouble. The cranberries were few in quantity and you won’t complain about it. The salad didn’t need them.
Cover all this with Ken’s Lite Balsamic Vinaigrette and the result is just so underwhelming. The dressing doesn’t have a strong enough sweet-tart taste that a normal balsamic would, and in the case of this salad, more flavor was needed to cloak its shortcomings.
The only part of the salad that stood out was the pecans. I would buy the salad again just for those, no joke. They were so sweet; I think they may have been candied. They reminded me of pralines you find in ice cream.
If I were you, I’d fork over the extra two bucks and get a salad from Panera that you will actually enjoy.
(Nutrition Facts – 1 serving (2 per salad) – 190 Calories, 40 calories from fat, 4.5 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 40 milligrams of cholesterol, 350 milligrams of sodium, 23 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 14 grams total sugars, 13 grams of protein.)
Purchased Price: $6.49
Size: N/A
Rating: 3 out of 10
Pros: Pecans are otherworldly good. Crazy low in calories.
Cons: Spring mix and chicken leave much to be desired. Dressing isn’t flavorful enough. Not meeting Hulk Hogan at a rave.
I could put one of these on a skewer and eat it like an actual caramel apple. (Spotted by Chris N at Kroger.)
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Here are a few interesting junk food-related stories from the past week. Enjoy.
Why the Purple Skittle Tastes Different Outside America (via Atlas Obscura)
I ate nothing but vegetarian fast food for a week (via Business Insider)
The Unrecognizable Genius of Guy Fieri (via Esquire)
9 Things You Might Not Know About Sbarro Pizza (via Mental Floss)
Image via flickr user Luke Gray / CC BY SA 2.0
