Time To Hit The Road In Syracuse

This episode of Junk Fud on the Road was recorded right after our first exploration across the boarder to America since the Covid shutdown. It was great to have some American classics and to see all the fun things we'd missed before.

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Lucky Lollipop

Lolliest of the Lollipops T-Shirt
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Time to lick your t-shirt problem.

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When Vegetables Collide

When I come across a snack like these Lay's cucumber potato chips, I wonder. I wonder if snack companies come up with their ideas on paper, or in the kitchen. I wonder if someone writes down all of the weird ideas they can think of when it comes to flavour combinations, or if a food professional taste tests millions of ideas only choosing their favourite. I feel like the creative team at companies like Lays might be made up of more writers than cooks. It's not that I didn't like these chips, it just doesn't seem like something a sane person would develop in a kitchen.

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When Company Mascots Don't Make Sense

I really wonder how this got beyond the ideas round.

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Dip It

Some Aid You Can Lick T-Shirt
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This shirt is a fun thing for you to dip.

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Tony's All Week

I feel like it's fair to dedicate an entire week to Tony's chocolate bars. For me in North America, they seem to have shot out of nowhere to become a really strong independent brand of candy bars. Since this appears to be a European thing, it was difficult for me to get my hands on one of these bars, but now that I've tried one (actually 3) I can see why the world is going bonkers over this bar. They're so great that I'm dedicating this week to reviewing all three of the bars that I have.

Check out the first review and discover a bar that broke a rule and made it work so well.

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Strange Candy Commercial

This commercial is both strange and very heart warming... then it gets strange again.

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That Corn Snack Makes Me Blue... Literally

In this episode of Chris, Why Would You Eat That?!! I eat a blue corn chip, only it's not made of blue corn. This chip is likely made of regular corn but for some reason the makers thought it would be a good idea to cover it with very unnatural looking blue dust.

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Bean There, Done That

Jelly Bean Madness T-Shirt
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If you're full of beans then this is the shirt for you.

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Does Colour Matter?

 

This week's new review proves one thing to me, colour does matter. When I was a kid, I used to visit the Toronto Science Center on a fairly regular basis. One of the exhibits they had looked at sense and perception. In one case they would sell you a little plastic egg filled with gummy candies. The candies would come in two colours, one would be appropriately coloured to the flavour it was representing, the other would not. The one that was off coloured would always taste weird, and you'd have a hard time telling what flavour it was supposed to be. The gummy candy that match its flavour to the colour was easily identifiable. These Takis are proof that this theory works in the real world, and that corn chips should not be blue.

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Very 80s

I keep remembering things in the 80s differently than many of the younger folks out there. Then I see this commercial and I realize how truly weird it was.

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Be Cool Fool!

I Scream!!!! T-Shirt
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Chill out and check out this awesome ice cream t-shirt.

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All In A Name?

It's weird, there's a certain line that you must cross in order to get me to buy a candy bar because of the name. I feel like that line is pretty far, but every so often I come across a treat like the Whozeewhatsit and I'm pretty much sold. To qualify as a bar worth trying for your name alone, you must be creative, and just being a different language doesn't count most of the time. There have been a few exceptions when a treat has had a name that made me giggle because in English it meant something totally different than what it means in the native language where it's made. So for the most part I don't buy candy for the name, unless you're creative enough to call your bar Whozeewhatsit.

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Just 7-Up?

I'm not sure if the creators of this commercial were just drinking 7-Up.

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Give Me Gummy Bears

Gummy Bear Fun Times T-Shirt
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Who doesn't love a good gummy bear t-shirt?

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Time To Geek Out... Or Nerd Out.

It's not often that I write a review that has almost nothing to do with the candy and everything to do with the package. When this does happen it goes one of two directions, either the package is so amazing that I can't help but talk about it, or it's such a disappointment that it actually lowers the quality of the candy. Let me just say that I wasn't impressed with the way this candy was presented.

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How Do You Like Your Coffee?

Until recently I forgot about this tag line for the Coffee Crisp bar.  I realise that the commercial is only so funny, but the tag line lasted a really long time.

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Time To Talk About Snack Facts On Another Episode of Junk Fud and You

In this episode of Junk Fud and You I look at each issue of Snack Facts and point out a few secrets with a peek behind the curtain. I look at each issue and what makes them special to me.

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Clever Little Gumdrops

Goody, Goody Gumdrops T-Shirt
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 For some reason, I believe that if gumdrops where alive, they would be very clever.

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Grape Is The Best?

Whenever I'm given a selection of candies to review, the one question that always makes it difficult is which flavour to choose from. The soda themed caramel corn from this week's review is a great example. There were at least 4 or 5 different flavours to choose from, and I had to make that choice in a busy supermarket with a lot of other groceries on my mind. I don't have a favourite flavour when it comes to sodas or at least one that I know I'll always pick. In cases like this I just go with instinct. I feel like the thought process in this case was that I don't seem to remember trying too many other candies that are themed to grape soda. There are plenty of grape flavoured treats, but not so many that are grape soda flavoured. In hindsight maybe it would have been better to go with a more classic soda flavour, like root beer or cola. Having said that, I don't regret trying this caramel corn and maybe it will encourage me to get the other flavours too.

Find out why this grape soda themed caramel corn grabbed my interest with my latest review.

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