Reviews Filed Under 'Three Points'
Price: $0.99
Serving: 1oz.
Servings Per Container: 2.5
Calories: 150 per serving
Fat: 12%, 8g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 11%, 270mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 17g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Frito Lay says: With 2 BOLD flavors in 1 bag, you control the ultimate DORITOS flavor combination. What COLLISIONS combo will you unleash? Also try HOT WINGS & BLUE CHEESE flavors.
We say: We’re supposed to get these because they offer a choice? A choice between the two types of Doritos that come in one bag? Somehow, that doesn’t feel like a choice so much as a damning declaration that we will be stuck with half a bag of unsatisfactory chips.
Snack Lounge has a not-so-secret love of Doritos. Knowing this, we don’t buy them. For one, we enjoy self-denial. And two? We like fitting into our pants. This means that all Dorito enjoyment takes place at barbecues. But with Labor Day approaching, DC’s barbecue season will end and we’ll have to resist the corn chip siren call emanating from every convenience store.
Fortunately, this bag of Doritos Collisions has cured us of liking at least one flavor in the Doritos clan. Our suspicions were originally placed on the Chipotle Ranch. Regular ranch is terrific (mmmm, powdered buttermilk), so do we really want spicy ranch? No. We hate change. Also, we love tacos, so Spicy Taco was a perfect match for our vaguely Hispanic heritage.
Oh how wrong we were. The Chipotle Ranch offered just slightly more zip than regular Ranch flavored (our favorite) Doritos. However, the Spicy Taco chips featured such astrigency that during the time elapse of chewing the second chip we were consumed with the pain one feels from a million canker sores.
Okay, not a million. Maybe four or five canker sores. But really, do you want to feel like you have mouth sores because these Doritos are both strongly flavored and a bit scrapey? No, you don’t and neither do we. In an act of utter out-of-characterness, we picked out the non-Chipotley Chipotle Ranch version and tossed the Spicy Taco Doritos in the trash.
What a depressing way to begin the holiday weekend.
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Posted on August 31, 2007
Categories: Chipotle, Ranch, Taco, Doritos, Frito Lay, Tortilla Chips, Two Stars, Three Points, Corn Chips
Price: $2.99 for 1lb.
Serving: 16 crackers, 1 ounce
Calories: 150 per serving
Fat: 9%, 6gg
Sodium: 11%, 260mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 7%, 21g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Points Per Serving
Nabisco says: 5 grams of whole grain per serving!
We say: In our youth, Nabisco’s Wheat Thins had a firm place as the favored cracker. They are slightly sweet, wonderfully salty, and contain the perfect amount of nutty wheat flavor.
Plus, the serving size of 16 crackers ensure that we can eat a couple of handfuls without worrying about waistline ruination. Sure, it is possible to plow through an entire box of Wheat Thins, but that’s not the cracker’s fault.
We at Snack Lounge recommend pairing these with some Cabot Chipotle Cheddar, Danish Havarti with Dill, or a nutty Swiss. And if possible, avoid the boxes slathered with the image of Rachel Ray. You may not think it is a big deal at the grocery store, but just wait until you’re craving some cheese and crackers late and night and you open to cupboard door to this:
RACHEL RAY IS COMING TO GET YOU! Yeah, we know that they’re Triscuits, but having learned a purchasing lesson we’d already tossed the box of Wheat Thins she’d graced.
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Posted on August 29, 2007
Categories: Three Points, Nabisco, Wheat Thins, Four Stars, Crackers
Price: $2.99
Serving: 2 Cookies, 1 ounce
Calories: 130 per serving
Fat: 11%, 7g
Sodium: 3%, 65mg
Protein: 1g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 16g
Fiber: 3%, <1g
Sugar: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 1.5 per cookie
Pepperidge Farm says: A refresher course in the finer points of indulgence. Between the exquisite cookies of this classic Milano awaits a refreshing duet of cool mint creme and rich, dark chocolate. Very cool indeed.
We say: We have four reasons for why a person might dislike this cookie. The first reason is that you might be allergic to mint. The second is that you are from a cookie deficient culture. Third, you abhor sentence fragments and have thusly abandoned all Pepperidge Farm products. And fourthly, you may be dismayed about the nipple-like protrusion from the biscuit portion of the cookie.
For those of you that could care less about whether or not your cookie has mammary resemblances, we’d like to recommend the Pepperidge Farm Mint Milano. The biscuit is crisp, the chocolate decadently dark, and the minty part neatly invigorating. Plus, the sandwich design means that you probably won’t get chocolate on your hands. Unfortunately, you are almost guaranteed to get little cookie crumbs everywhere. And boy do we mean everywhere.
Oh, you think you’d do a better job of eating this cookie? Come back and see us when you find crumbs in your cleavage.
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Posted on August 29, 2007
Categories: Mint, Three Points, Chocolate, Pepperidge Farm, Five Stars, Cookies
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