{"id":15085,"date":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2023-08-25T20:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:10:25","slug":"review-armour-syrup-flavored-vienna-sausage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/16\/review-armour-syrup-flavored-vienna-sausage\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Armour Syrup Flavored Vienna Sausage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Armour<\/a><\/p>\n

There are certain cravings that make sense. <\/p>\n

I want an ice cream cone on a hot summer day. Watching Chris Davis go yard at the Yard<\/a>, I feel a sudden urge for peanuts and Cracker Jack. <\/p>\n

Other cravings are a little more “out there,” but understandable given extenuating circumstances. It\u2019s what excuses adding pork rinds to your milkshake after a night at the bar, or what allows pregnant women to justify eating Pillsbury brownie mix right out of the bowl<\/a>. Some cravings, though, just make no sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Take me and canned meat. Growing up with a bountiful supply of, well, your typical American upper-middle class food, I always had the blessing of fresh meat to eat during my formative gastronomic years. Likewise, in college, I enjoyed an all-you-can-eat dining hall which, despite being a young man with a plan, did not leave me with a necessary reliance on any sort of can. And having never lived through a natural disaster, been subjected to a dinner party at a Doomsday Prepper’s<\/a> home, nor decided to engage in any kind of cross-oceanic voyage that would make canned food a necessity, you might surmise that I should have no attraction to the canned meat aisle to begin with.<\/p>\n

You, my friend, would be wrong.<\/p>\n

Quite the opposite, really. My fixation on canned meats knows no limits, which is probably why the 53 cent can of the new Armour Syrup Flavored Vienna Sausage captured my imagination.<\/p>\n

First, a word on perspective. My romanticized version of canned meat aside, I\u2019m still a realist when it comes to these kinds of products. At less than a pack of the really cheap gum (you know, the one with the multicolored striped zebra), I realize I\u2019m getting something which probably has no taste whatsoever of the chicken, beef, and pork which I\u2019m told make up each sausage. By the same token, I can dull my expectations of full bodied maple flavor when it comes to “syrup type sauce.” Just a quick recap of the hierarchy of syrup and such:<\/p>\n

1) Maple Syrup<\/p>\n

2) Pancake Syrup<\/p>\n

3) Syrup-Type Sauce<\/p>\n

Clearly we fall below the gourmet line. Actually, we even fall below the school cafeteria line, but who\u2019s judging? Well, besides me. Now, about this aroma. There really is no experience short of a career as a dump truck driver that will prepare you for the initial waft of a freshly opened can. “Fresh” is the operative word here. <\/p>\n

Overall, the smell strikes boldly of truck stop leftovers. Not just your generic Route 66 truck-stop leftovers, mind you. I\u2019m talking Western Pennsylvania scrapple drowned in a weak corn syrup liquid which proudly claims a hue bordering on Diesel brownish-yellow and “if your pee is this color, please consult a doctor immediately.” Yeah, that kind of leftovers.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never had a Vienna sausage, the best way I can describe it is like a cheap hot dog, only the size of your thumb. It\u2019s a bit slimy on the outside, with an initial rubbery bite and a bit of pasty consistency on the finish. It doesn\u2019t really taste like meat, but bad smell and all jokes aside, it\u2019s not completely objectionable. <\/p>\n

\"Armour<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not averse to eating highly processed meats you might even find it “meh.” That said, you probably will need something to jazz it up. That\u2019s where the “syrup type sauce” comes in. But who are we kidding? Calling this stuff a sauce is like calling watered down Pepsi a sauce. The consistency is that of water, with no body in texture and little, if any, flavor to the sweetness. It\u2019s just kind of there, and what\u2019s more, only has seeped into the sausages in moderate amounts. What it creates is a mildly sweet-salty combination, but only one on the atomic level. All things considered, it tastes exactly like you\u2019d expect; a mini cheap hot dog with some sugar poured on it.<\/p>\n

\"Armour<\/a><\/p>\n

While the epicurean toothpick method is highly preferred in most “snack from the can when nobody is looking” occasions, consider that the fine folks at Armour want you to remember that these are “Great with Breakfast!” To this end, I must admit, they are not<\/b>. <\/p>\n

\"Armour<\/a><\/p>\n

And should you take it upon yourself to whip sliced pieces of Syrup flavored sausage into your favorite waffle batter, you will in fact yield an utterly insipid waffle with burnt pieces of said Vienna Sausage. Unless you prefer your waffles burnt on the outside, chewy on the inside, and just kinda weird tasting all over, I recommend passing on this cooking application of the product.<\/p>\n

At 53 cents a can, Armour\u2019s new Syrup Flavored Vienna Sausages might be the most economical way of getting your sweet and salty fix on this side of pouring a Splenda packet and salt packet in your mouth simultaneously. Nevertheless, the latest and greatest creation from Armour serves as a tried and true reminder that you get what you pay for. <\/p>\n

I can forgive highly processed meat that doesn’t taste like meat. I mean, that’s what canned food is all about. But I was really expecting more from the syrup. to this end, I have to proclaim this bold innovation in canned food a failure. Oh well. I guess there’s always SPAM.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts \u2013 3 sausages with syrup \u2013 120 calories, 70 calories from fat, 8 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 40 milligrams of cholesterol, 510 milligrams of sodium, 8 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of sugar, and 5 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Armour Syrup Flavored Vienna Sausage
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> 53 cents
\nSize:<\/b> 4.75 oz. can
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Walmart
\nRating:<\/b> 3 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Not completely detestable. Extremely cheap. Has kind of the salty-sweet thing going on, albeit in a leftover truck-stop diner food kind of way.
\nCons:<\/b> But, why? Syrup looks like gasoline. Not desirable by any means. Syrup lacks body, depth, or noticeable flavor outside of high fructose corn syrup. Sausages taste like cheap hot dogs out of a can, which technically they are. Cravings that make no sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are certain cravings that make sense. I want an ice cream cone on a hot summer day. Watching Chris Davis go yard at the Yard, I feel a sudden urge for peanuts and Cracker Jack. Other cravings are a little more “out there,” but understandable given extenuating circumstances. It\u2019s what excuses adding pork rinds 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