Product Review: Fruttare Fruit Bars

  When I blended fruit and milk together with grandma's hand-held blender at the age of 10, it was a bland and tasteless mess that needed to be doctored up with sugar and ice cream. When the folks behind Fruttare throw fruit and milk together, it actually tastes good. Tempted by a commercial I saw on television a few days ago, curiosity made me put the fruit bar on my list. No longer wondering what my next product review will be, I bring to you Fruttare Strawberries and Milk--the creamy dreamy treat that made my afternoon. (Without all the sugar, shame, and calories....)

Crayola's Big Colorful Birthday Adventure

  Crayola is turning the big 110, and the eight originals that started coloring our world all those years ago are having a birthday celebration at the Crayola Experience in Easton, Pennsylvania. It's a four floor, interactive and family-friendly attraction full of exhibits and creativity for the kids (and hopefully the kids at heart! ;) ). It's happening May 24th of this year, and there's a contest for anyone interested in taking four people for the grand opening! Sounds like a sweet deal, too. Three nights, all expenses paid? CRAYONS?! Sweeet.

 Wanna be the first to experience this amazing place? Here's how to enter the contest:

1. Go to Crayola's Facebook page. make sure you like the page, so you can enter the contest. 
2. click the "enter now" button.
3. If you're a new user, click "register". For returning users, click "enter again."
4. Fill out all the info, then you're all done. Click that "register" button!

   Make sure to stick around to learn more about each color, and spread the word on Facebook and other social media sites. Everyone likes crayons, and I'm sure we've all got a special memory with Crayola. :)

Good luck!

  Disclosure: The wonderful people at Crayola emailed me with this information to share with my subscribed community, and/or those who are random visitors. I swirled bits and pieces from their email and Facebook page to create my blog post.

Product Review: Lay's Chicken And Waffles

  Two words--Good Lord. Not "Good Lord, these are great", either. I mean "Good Lord" as in--what fool let this flavor become one of the finalists? I didn't think it could get any more strange after the interesting Sriracha chips, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. THIS is the flavor that made me chew each chip slowly. My taste buds were confused. My mind couldn't wrap itself around the flavor concept. These were flat out awful. Lay's, Do us ALL a flavor flavor and keep the Chicken and Waffles in the vault. Lock them away, drop the vault key in acid, and let us never speak of this atrocity again. Yes, it's that serious.

  I got my mitts on the third and final flavor about two weeks ago. Having seen a product review from an old classmate on YouTube, I figured it was at least somewhat edible. I was wrong. But I agree with him "where's the chicken!?". (Csandreas is so funny, though. Watch his vids.) These were terri-bad and tasted a lot less like fried chicken, and more like somebody made bacon and syrup flavor come together on a stale potato chip. The savory and sweet element of actual chicken and waffles was missing. If I try to reach for a deeper explanation as to how they taste, I really can't. It honestly tasted like somebody dipped their chips into syrup on accident, let them dry, and then said "put some bacon salt on 'em" for taste. That's it.

  There's a lot of strange sweetness going on with these chips. Maybe if you like the flavors of potato, syrup, and "chicken", these chips will appeal to you. You'll vote for them, and all will be right in your world. I personally will be devoting my love to the Cheesy Garlic Bread Chips. I think they're a disaster flavor that falls directly into the "novelty chip" category. Were there no other flavors worthy of the final spot? Goodness. Well, I suppose someone out there will love them. I personally would rather go to the park, sit on a bench, and watch the hungry city birds fight over ever morsel. Lay's Chicken and Waffles are an oral tragedy. Waste of potatoes!

  Remember kiddies, Vote on Facebook for the flavor of your choice. Can't find the flavors? Hit eBay and Amazon. Call your local stores. I highly suggest the latter, because people are out of their dang minds charging 23 dollars for a bag of chips. Just because we can't find them, doesn't mean ya gotta overcharge. Don't be a dork. Meanwhile, I'll be sticking to that Cheesy Garlic like glue. Voting every day for the cheese!!

(Pic credits go to SOMMAI of Free Digital Images.)