Bloghungry is making his first trip to New York this week with Popmuse. We will be pretty busy on our trip, but I have opted to forgo any tourist foolishness to eat the best of what New York food has to offer. My concept is New York street food. I want the best bagel, the best pizza, the best bakery, etc.. Please help a brother out with some suggestions.
Popmuse and I have been together for 5 years today. Here's to eating on the couch together for the next 5..
I can no longer be silent. What happened to 7-Up and what the fuck is a "Sierra Mist"? Admittedly, I grew up in a Sprite-drinking household and prefer ginger ale to all soda. However, 7-Up had a good campaign, taste, and packaging going for it. Who didn't like the red dot? Sierra Mist is just a Sprite knock-off and is clearly a bastardization of Sprite and Mountain Dew campaigns that took a turn for the generic. Every time I see Sierra Mist at a restaurant or movie theatre I feel like I am being forced to consume the product of a corporate hack who is still hung up on "XXXtreme sports" and targeting customers with zany Southwestern furniture sets or Bed Bath and Beyond color-blocked bistro paintings. Shame on you corporate hack. Haven't those people suffered enough? Every time I pass by your product I shed a tear for empty robotic soul.
I am finally getting around to posting the results of the cereal rainbow competition. Here is the official CR bracket from the weekend. It took 2 days and 3 types of milk to get down to a final 3 and ultimately revealing Cinnamon Toast Crunch as the judges' overall favorite. Through this process I learned a lot about myself and the composition of cereal. I found that cereal texture, cereal flavor(s), and milk flavor to be the most important factors for judging any cereal. Cinnamon Toast Crunch offered all of these in spades.
Also, after the competition with what little hunger for cereal that I could muster, I began to make cereal combos. After some experimentation I recommend Honey Comb/Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch/Apple Jacks, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch/Golden Grahams. I will also say that the Cocoa Puffs/PB Capn' Crunch combo is not as good as Reese's Puffs.
After last Thanksgiving's success with Pie Rainbow, we decided to expand the concept to other foods. Cereal Rainbow was born. This time the process was more involved than cutting slivers of pie to join together for the ultimate piece of pie. Cereal Rainbow is a long process of cereal selections and competitions where only one cereal can rein supreme. This is the journey of Cereal Rainbow.
1. A list of all cereals available was compiled.
2. Cereals were nominated by receiving a 3/4 majority vote from the judges.
3. The nominees were narrowed by allotting each judge 12 votes to disperse in any way to their chosen cereals. Judges were allowed to give 1 vote to 12 chosen cereals or more than one vote to a fewer number of chosen cereals.
4. The cereals receiving the most judges votes were put on the list of elected cereals. Cereals with equal amount of votes continued in a run-off election until a top 12 list was elected with 2 alternates.
5. The elected cereal boxes were lined up in order of the color spectrum and paired off into a bracket of competing cereals.
6. Cereals were judged two at a time and rated on a scale of 1 to 3 by each judge. The cereal with the highest cumulative rating went to the next round.
7. The the bracket of competing cereals continued until one cereal reigned supreme.
Top 12 Cereals
1.Special K w/ Strawberries
2. Post Raisin Bran
3. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
4. Fruity Pebbles
5. Lucky Charms
6. Count Chocula
7. Peanut Butter Capn' Crunch
8. Honey Comb
9. Golden Grahams
10. Frosted Flakes
11. Apple Jacks
12. Cinnamon Life
Alternate Cereals
1. Pops
2. Cocoa Puffs
The results will be posted soon.
In Cereal Rainbow, only one cereal can reign supreme.
Since I have been in Los Angeles, I have been to some pretty fancy-pants restaurants. Overall the food has been very good, but the menus are also filled with dishes straight out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. To be a cultured foodie is to face a survival challenge filled with fish heads, organ meats, and bone marrow. To order sweet breads is to eat the thymus gland or pancreas of a young animal. The ever-popular pate de foie gras is a gelatinous loaf made from the fattened livers of force fed geese. Whatever happened to a nice cut of beef and a buttery pastry. Rich people are so desperate for cuisine that will separate themselves from lower classes that they have decided to eat the inedible. My guess is that this organ-eating drive is the same force that motivates the them to vote republican.
As you can tell I'm a big list maker and the trip to Chicago was a long one. Here is my list for my favorite candy choices. Also, it should be noted that Milky Way midnight would have been higher as would other caramel-filled candies if they hadn't changed their caramel to "Better Tasting" caramel that is more sweet syrup than buttery creaminess. I'm onto you Milky Way/Mars Co.!
1. Harbo Gummi Twin Cherries
2. White Chocolate Covered Lemon or Lime Peel
3. Chocolate Covered Orange Peel
4. Reese's Peanut butter Eggs
5. Fast Break
6. 3 Musketeers
7. Red Vines
7. Twizzlers
8. Milky Way Midnight
9. Heath Bar
10. Buttercream-filled Chocolates
Here's my second desperate airplane activity list. This was a difficult list for me because I love so many pastries and dessert flavors. I am a huge fan of fruit flavors, cinnamon, and caramel. I almost went to pastry school a couple years ago to explore my love further. However, after some soul searching I settled on more classic homegrown standbys for my list. A pear custard tart with salted caramel glaze and sherry cream reduction just isn't satisfying my inner child as much as chewy cookie. There are two #9's because I really can't choose between my favorite childhood cookies.
1. Southern Caramel Cake
2. Hot Fudge Sundae with Salted Peanuts
3. Fudgy Browne with Ice Cream and Hot Fudge
4. Key Lime Pie
5. Apple Pie a la mode
6. Ice cream Sandwich with chewy cookies
7. Southern Banana Pudding
8. Apple Turnover Coated with Chunky Sugar
9. Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies
9. Chewy Buttery Sugar Cookies
10. Fudge with Pecans or Walnuts
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