Since we have no Krispy Kreme’s within 8 miles of us, we usually save getting a dozen of their lovely chocolate iced cream filled for an every once in a while treat. Sure we could get them at the local grocery stores but let’s face it, they’re nowhere near as good and almost always stale and not worth the money. Today we made the journey and when we got home we were miffed to day the least. Before, you would barely have enough room for the donuts to fit. Now they practically look like appetizers. They’re roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the size they used to be and yet they’re still charging $7 per dozen. Do you think we don’t see they are visibly smaller? Do you think we don’t realize we’re getting financially raped by yet one more friggin’ company who has decided to charge the same price for less product?? Yes because with the economy in the crapper we enjoy yet one more company being financially greedy and taking advantage of the little money we have left after paying our mortgage, higher utilities, higher taxes, etc. So we’ll either stop going there and find another donut place who doesn’t relish in giving us less for the same price or make our already infrequent visits there even less frequent. Corporate greed sucks.
I’m a fan of Italian subs and I’m always up for trying someplace new. Our friends told us Penn Station subs were really good. So we drove about 20 minutes away to the closest one to us. I stayed in the car while the manus went inside. I asked for a small Italian sub and fries and asked for ketchup. He got a chicken cordon bleu. I’m all for freshness and such but he was in there long enough for them to kill, cure, slice and cook the animals as well as grow the potatoes. Halfway to our destination to “picnic” he tells me he forgot ketchup and got me a regular sized sub. It put a twist in the underoos. It took 3 bites before I could get to the meat. Then when I did I regretted it. I don’t purposely eat salted foods, I mean I know sodium is in everything but I don’t use salt. It tasted like a salt lick. I couldn’t even eat all of it. I had a fry and they were fine but I still had said knot in underoos so I kept them in the bag. Hubby said he’s never had a more tasteless sub in his life. We both got their “fresh squeezed” lemonade and it was good and tart. (Think a tart lemon shake up from a fair) So $21 later we crossed another place off our list of places to go.
I was excited to try the new Burger King Steakhouse Burger because it looked so good on their commercials. Seen ‘em? No? Well regardless I think you should go to BK’s website so you can see what they tell you you’re going to see. Really, click the link, I’ll wait…
Looks good doesn’t it? Wanna see what it really looks like when you actually go get it?
Is it me or does that not quite look like the luscious Angus burger they’ve been promoting?? Now how does it taste? You like salsbury steak? You know, the stuff in TV dinners you might’ve eaten as a kid? Then you’ll like this burger. If not, you might want to steer clear. The pic is of hubby’s “loaded” Steakhouse burger. Loaded means they puree some kind of potato mixture and slather it on the bun and add some limp, chewy bacon to the regular burger which includes the “Thick and Hearty” A1 sauce (which is like Heinz 57), cheese and these “crunchy onions”. Now let me tell you about these onions. You know the reconstituted onions Mickey D’s uses for their cheeseburgers? It’s like BK took those and batter fried them. They’re so small you can’t even tell they’re there. You can see them if you look REAL close on the pics. On the regular burger they don’t list it but there is mayo all over it and for a non-mayo girl, this was an unwelcome surprise. I ate just over half of mine before I threw it and the pathetic tater sticks they call fries went back to the bag from wence they came. I’d write more but my stomach is now churning so I’m going to lay down.
This weekend we decided to make our food choices based around some new products that came out. I can honestly say I should get paid for this given some of the things I had to eat or at minimum reimbursed.
KFC’s Smoky Chipotle 2 pc meal. We were both really looking forward to this because it harkened us back to the days of Sisters Chicken and Biscuits Spicy Chicken from our childhood. We should’ve known KFC would screw it up. First off just the name alone is annoying because there’s a big “chipotle” craze sweeping this nation and KFC thought it would be lucrative to cash in on that craze. The texture of the chicken breading looked promising, as it was a darker red color in comparison to its Crispy and Original Recipe counterparts. It took quite a few bites before we even tasted any flavor much less a hint of smoky anything. For anyone who likes spicy food, you’ll laugh heartily at this weak attempt at adding “smoky chipotle” to expand their menu. I won’t even go into their generous 3 tablespoon portion of macaroni and cheese being congealed yet again. I’d love their schedule as to when they make fresh mac and cheese but that is obviously rare these days. Overall, stick to the tried and true chicken if you’re a KFC fan because this new addition is a definite miss.
Arby’s Texas Toast Sandwich Meal. Should I be worried when I don’t even find the item that’s been hyped on TV all week on their online menu? The answer is yes. This is a Texas Toast roast beef sandwich and I got the double cheese. First off, the cheese sauce is just gross. Tastes as artificial as it is. Second, when the words Texas Toast are in the title, I expect to get both pieces toasted not one pathetically toasted on one side and the other piece plain. If I wanted roast beef on square Wonder bread, I can make that at home thanks. I’m not a fan of the curly fries either and them being ice cold at 11:30am when your lunch rush starts doesn’t make me anymore of a fan. I took two bites of each and threw it all away. The best thing I got from them was the drink. So there’s $4 down the drain.
If you go to the websites of some of your favorite restaurants to peruse their menus, you may be missing out on some ways to get freebies from them. Many restaurants have little clubs that you can sign up for and a lot of them will give you a free appetizer or dessert for joining. The ones that have you enter your birthday will usually send you a coupon for money off or a free meal or dessert.
One of the best ones out there is Max and Erma’s Good Neighbor card and you’ll get certain free items typically over the summer. A lot of times it coaxes us over there when we wouldn’t have normally gone. We’ve signed up for a ton of them like Dairy Queen’s Blizzard Club, On the Border, O’Charleys, Champps, Potbelly Sandwiches, TGIFridays and others. In this day and age where it seems that everything is shooting through the roof, why not put up with a stray email here and there to save some dough when you do go out? You could even set up a free mail account specifically for those kinds of sign ups if you don’t want to receive them in your own mail though I’ve never had a problem with a particular restaurant overdoing it on the frequency of emails.
As we speak, the other half is getting our free Wild West Shrimp appetizer from Longhorn! (It’s also a great way to try appetizers you may not normally have spent your own money on!) You should note that some places will give you a time limit for your “welcome” coupon, usually 2 weeks, so plan to sign up when you’re ready to make a trip to that restaurant.
If you’re like me and you were looking for the brownie recipe from the National Body Challenge episode with Vanessa and Fiona, look no further! This brownie has 88 calories and 1 gram of fat per serving. I haven’t tried them yet but plan on it soon…minus the espresso powder…yuk!!
Click here for the recipe.
So I thought I’d make a better food choice by getting the baked talipia dinner at Long John Silvers. I wanted to try it to see if it would be a new healthier option when dining on the run. I get a piece of over-spiced talipia on a bed of bland rice, a veggie medley of some kind of unidentifiable yellow thing, green beans and carrot slices swimming in butter and spices and a dry corn cobbette. I had to put ketchup on the rice to make it palatable. I ate the green beans and carrots and immediately regretted it because the butter sauce made me queasy. The fish was okay…not the best I’ve had, not the worst either. Then there was the breadstick. Now I’m a carboholic, if there’s bread to be eaten, I’ll eat it. I took one bite of this breadstick and immediately put it back in it’s paper sheath. How do you screw up a breadstick?? It had NO flavor and I’m talking if you’d been blindfolded you may not have been able to identify it as bread. It did however have an aftertaste of fried LJS fish. Yum…not.
I should’ve known when I not only couldn’t find this dishes nutritional info on their website but the dish period on the menu that this probably wasn’t a good idea. I only hope it vacates my system asap.
I was watching a Quizno’s commercial and it was for their new Lobster salad sandwich. Well if you look at the bottom in the small print at one point it says “contains 51 percent lobster.”
This begs the questions…what’s the other 49%? Just sayin’.
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