Cheetos Crunchy

For you corn haters it would best to turn away now. Nothing about Cheetos is found in nature. That said it is not as fake as you would think. Corn meal is shaped and baked and covered in cheese and artificial color.

These are a bit salty yet for me taste better than the regular Cheetos. Then there is the staining factor. These snacks are so powerful your finger will be stained for hours and god forbid it lands on your white shirt.

 

At $3.49 for a 9-1/2 ounce bag they are a bit expensive, here I though corn was subsidized. These cheese snacks are something you can pass up, most things that are labeled cheese flavored snacks can be passed up safely.

Recommendation: Try it for yourself.

McDonald’s Mighty Wings

There is no reason to buy these wings in NYC. I have been to the cheapest dive bars in the city and they have better and cheaper wings than McDonald’s Mighty Wings. Intrigued by the glowing review at The Impulsive Buy I decided to pick some up.

Packaging is nice but a big for only 5 pieces. The "BONE-IN" description is just silly, I get that is the point but it sounds ignorant. A worse description is Spicy, Bold, Delicious.

Not limited to wings there are also tiny drumsticks, hehe. Each bite is uneven. One bite is almost flavorless while a another bite gets you a mouthful of hot and spicy crumbs. Now my batch may have overcooked since they were very crispy and would crumble at the slightest touch.

Do not be fooled by the grease glistening on the surface the meat was dry. All the pieces were not juicy and the creamy ranch dressing included did help but then all the uneven flavor gets masked. Judging by the black marrow burn at the side I think my patch may have overdone.

I will not be trying a second batch since the $4.99 price for 5 pieces, plus tax is steep. I can get a dozen juicy wings at any dive bar for the same price. I am not one of those anti-fast food people but I have yet to find crispy wings from one of these joints that taste great.

Recommendation: Avoid for goodness sake.

Bloody Eyeball Gum

It is Friday the 13th so here is a piece of Halloween candy I still have from last year.

Individually wrapped they were given out at the end of a Halloween party in 2012 because all the real food was gone.

Not very detailed but looks a eyeball.

Inside is a gooey syrup meant to be blood.

The gum is very hard even when it was fresh. It had about 5 minutes of sweet sugary flavor until it lost all of it. Then 5 minutes after the flavor was gone it becomes ridiculously hard and must be spit out. Half the time the oozing bloody center had soaked into the gum so you were left with a hollow gum.

I do not know what company made it but they should be ashamed. At an average price of $0.05 per gum these are still not worth it.

Recommendation: Avoid it for goodness sake.