Week of January 2, 2005

January 8 2005 -- Uncle Tom's McGriddles Well, maybe not Uncle Tom but just as good, Aunt Jemima!



Walking through my local grocery store I came across this new gem of an item. Imagine, McDonalds McGriddles in the comfort of your own home! That was the idea at least, did it deliver? Lets find out.

Opening up the box we find four small frozen nonMcGriddle McGriddles. Pancakes as buns, egg, cheese and sausage.



They seem pretty small compared to what everyone is used to in their McGriddle breakfast sandwiches but that isn't that big of a concern considering there are 4 of them. According to the box there is two ways of making these things. A minute in the microwave or a whopping 35 minutes in the oven. 35 minutes! I sure feel sorry for people who don't have microwaves.

Anyway, we (PatBoyX) and I decided to try one from the microwave and one from the oven and compare.

The microwave one came out pretty good, much better then a lot of other microwave crap that I have had before.



For the most part it tasted just like one from McDonalds. One problem I tasted was that the whole maple syrup flavor that was supposed to be present was very minimal. This was easily fixed by pouring over some more Aunt Jemima maple syrup found in the fridge. Once we did that it tasted pretty good.

Then came the oven trial. I think the 35 minutes is long enough for most people to not bother with it. It actually tasted worse then the microwave version, a total shocker for us. When we took it out of the oven the pancakes had become quite brittle, sort of like toast. I wouldn't reccomend this way at all. Poor poor people.

So, rating?

Microwave way gets 3 out of 5 before I put on the extra syrup and 4 out of 5 afterwards.

So that's uh, 3.5 average.



Oven way gets 2. Don't bother with it.

Posted by LordJezo

January 2 2005 -- New Fun!

If you guessed "lube" you're not far off! At first I thought it was lube as
well. It comes in a discreet, thick glass tube with the word "VOSS" on it. Only
after I got it home did I realize that Rich spells his last name Vos and that
the chances for it being a marital aid were pretty low. I guess the fact that I
grabbed it out of the fridge in a kosher deli should have clued me in. But now
that I think about it, I didn't grab it...but I'm going to take credit for
discovering it because I took the time to write about it. (take that, lazy
girlfriend)


I promise to open it and sip on it and try to review water, in as much as
water can be reviewed but I warn you that I have no idea what the hell "artesian
water" (as it is labeled) is and my ability to describe and compare other forms
of water may be lacking. All you really need to know about VOSS is that artesian
water apparently is worth 50 cents more than Poland Spring, people in Short
Hills were less likely to spit on me while I held it and the bottle that this
thing comes in is as close to the badass bottles of Pepsi in Back to the Future:
Part II as mankind may ever come. And it took a Norwegian to give it to us.
Nobel Peace Prize? Oh I think "yes."


By the way, it tastes like water.

Posted by PatboyX

January 2 2005 -- 2k5 Happy 2005!

Posted by LordJezo