Best ever Potato Salad (more…)

Best-Ever Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip Cookies (more…)

Fresh Mango Salsa (more…)

Veggie Pasta in Sesame Peanut Sauce (more…)

1) Passion Fruit
2) Raspberries
3) Avocados
4) Huckleberries
5) Peaches

Being self-employed has its perks. Yesterday we had a company party and went to see Ratatouille. While larger tech companies rent out theaters for Pixar movies we could only muster 12 people (five of them being small children) so logistics were limited to simply getting tickets online earlier in the day.

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Hey, I promised to tell all of you guys when our chocolate was for sale. Well we now have them for sale. Right now just the Madagascar bars are for sale but we’ll have the Ocumare at our shipper either the end of this week or beginning of next week.
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1) Snickers
2) Butterfinger
3) Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
4) Twix
5) SKOR

1) Double Double - In-and-Out
2) The $6 Burger - Carl’s Junior
3) The Whopper - Burger King
4) Big Bacon Classic - Wendy’s
5) Sourdough Jack - Jack-in-the-Box

Ever since I posted my updated Diet Coke rankings, I’ve been wondering about the differences between foreign and domestic Coca-Cola. On my most recent vacation, I made a point of bringing home a bottle of Coke Light for comparison purposes. (My Coke Light happened to come from Belize, though I doubt that there’s any difference between Mexican Coke Light and Belizean Coke Light.) (more…)

I bought a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine at work today and noticed that the retro-styled can (pictured to the left, courtesy Wikipedia) has a seal claiming an “authentic blend of 23 flavors.” Indeed, go to DrPepper.com, find the FAQ section, and you’ll be informed that “Dr. Pepper is a unique blend of 23 flavors. The formula for Dr. Pepper is proprietary information.” (Dr. Pepper also has a web-based promotion called “Get23″ centered around the 23 secret flavors. The promotion has to do with finding “flavor icons,” but it won’t reveal what the flavors are. Because they are—you know—secret.) Apparently, this claim has been a part of Dr. Pepper lore for a long time—something like the Colonel’s Eleven Herbs and Spices, but I was ignorant of it.

So what are the 23 flavors? I’m guessing one is not “cherry-flavored cough syrup,” though “cherry” seems a safe bet. (Vanilla, or some version of vanilla, seems a given, too.) According to Snopes, the company has repeatedly denied the persistant rumor that prune juice is one of the component flavors. Any guesses?

UPDATE: According to AdAge, Cadbury Schwepps (the owner of the Dr. Pepper brand) spent $5 million on a “mash-up” marketing campaign based on the 23 flavors concept before killing the ads earlier this year.  Click through the link to see the commercials that never aired.

I love Funyunsâ„¢. They are a deliciously different snack that’s fun!

Funyuns may be fun, but they are also disgusting. They smell like onion-flavored 409â„¢. And they can cut up the roof of your mouth if you’re not careful - like Cap’n Crunchâ„¢. But I love crushing up the final three or four “yuns” in the bag into tiny crunchy cornmeal pieces and tipping the bag on its end so that the yummy, yellow starchy goodness slides right into my mouth. Niiiiiiice. (more…)

New York is the greatest city in the world for pizza. Even the worst street pizza is better than Pizza Hut. There is something so delicious and wonderful about getting a slice of cheese, folding it (because we like our crusts thin here), and feeling the grease drip down our throats. MMMmmmmmm…

Grimaldi’s and Lombardi’s always get the most ink, for good reason (delicious pizza and quaint location), but there are better. My personal favorite is the focaccia de nona from La Villa (right down the street here in Brooklyn). Amazing. We also like grandma’s pizza for its crushed tomatoes and garlic/oil/basil combo from Pizza By The Park a couple blocks further away.

I’ve never been to Chicago and had the deep dish there so I can’t really compare it, but I’m having a difficult time imagining it better than my de nona. And Supergenius, please don’t try to tell me that the super ultimate stuffed-crust cheese explosion from Dominoes is a contender.

Last week I returned home from the grocery store with some rhubarb that I had purchased as an impulse buy. I saw those dark red stalks clustered there in a display near the front of the produce section and decided that I had to have it. I figured I could decide what to make out of my rhubarb once I got it home. Today I washed it and put it together with some recently purchased strawberries and made pie.