{"id":20057,"date":"2016-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20057"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T07:14:24","slug":"week-in-reviews-5142016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/14\/week-in-reviews-5142016\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK IN REVIEWS &#8211; 5\/14\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"text-align:center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/19971069432\/in\/album-72157631669772663\/\" title=\"Starbucks 007\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/540\/19971069432_323f1c5af7_z.jpg?resize=640%2C458&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" alt=\"Starbucks 007\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>Here are a few product reviews posted this week from other blogs we follow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.brandeating.com\/2016\/05\/review-starbucks-smores-bar.html>The taste was good but I wouldn&#8217;t say it was any better than heating up a graham cracker, a piece of chocolate, and a marshmallow.<\/a>&#8221; <i>(via Brand Eating)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.cerealously.net\/review-annies-organic-frosted-oat-flakes-cereal><\/a>Annie\u2019s Frosted Oat Flakes would be the wise hermit sensei that Tony the Tiger studies under to improve his Frosted Flakes from &#8216;Grrreat&#8217; to &#8216;Grrracing the ethereal plane of nirvana.'&#8221; <i>(via Cerealously)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.travellingmcds.com\/2016\/05\/alfredo-chicken-burger-taoyuan-taiwan.html>Served with fried chicken and on a bun, it wasn&#8217;t terrible. But if this was served on Pasta, there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;d call it Alfredo, nor would it be something I&#8217;d probably want to continue to eat.<\/a>&#8221; <i>(via Travelling McD&#8217;s)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.sometimesfoodie.com\/2016\/05\/chocolate-strawberry-batman-cereal.html>This tastes like I&#8217;m eating cereal coated in novelty chocolate and strawberry flavored lip gloss.<\/a>&#8221; <i>(via Sometimes Foodie)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=http:\/\/junkbanter.com\/2016\/05\/10\/review-little-debbie-zebra-plus-nutty-bars><\/a>Now, let\u2019s be real: Little Debbie Zebra Plus Nutty Bars are almost definitely the regular Nutty Bars with a sexy paint job and nothing more.&#8221; <i>(via Junk Banter)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few product reviews posted this week from other blogs we follow. &#8220;The taste was good but I wouldn&#8217;t say it was any better than heating up a graham cracker, a piece of chocolate, and a marshmallow.&#8221; (via Brand Eating) &#8220;Annie\u2019s Frosted Oat Flakes would be the wise hermit sensei that Tony the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-on-shelves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26630,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/16\/review-lucky-charms-frosted-flakes-cereal\/","url_meta":{"origin":20057,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes Cereal","author":"Marvo","date":"January 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"If you think Lucky Charms Frosted Flakes Cereal is some kind of epic Marvel\/DC-like crossover between General Mills and Kellogg\u2019s, hold your horseshoes, hearts, stars, clovers, blue moons, rainbows, and balloons. 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