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You can do 5 stars, 1/10 - 10/10 - whatever rating outta ten, or whatever.

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So today at the food bank (where people with low income can get help by getting food from stores for free, kinda hard to explain), we got 2 small cans of something called Peace Tea.

I've heard of it before, and we tried it. It's okay. I wouldn't go crazy for it (like root beer), but it's okay. This flavor is called Caddy Shack or something. On the top is says Tea + Lemonade.

It tastes like a mixture of Lemonade, Ginger, and some kind of tea. It's... odd. Would I buy another flavor? Maybe. It's a tiny can. Not those one's that look crushed, it's odd. For 50 cents, yes. 99? No. I'd rather save that for a thing of root beer.

6/10 I've had worse things to drink.

Well, a little while back, my cousin (read: not actually my biological cousin) was making these tostadas (read: toasted tortillas with stuff on top) out of like the most random things, and I was like, "What the hell is that?" and she was all, "Try it, it's good, here I'll make you one."

Ingredients: 1 tostada (read: toasted tortilla), mayonnaise, crab, pico de gallo (read: tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and some other stuff mixed together like some gross vegetable cocktail salad), and some traditional Mexican cheese to top it off.

I was reluctant to eat it at first. I generally stay away from seafood like the plague, and I despise pico de gallo with a burning, fiery passion. However, when I took my first bite, it was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. It was like, the most random things, but it actually tastes good when put together, which is really weird. However, I'll definitely eat lots of 'em when she makes them again.

Rating: 9.5/10

Sweet chestnuts, bought from my local supermarket. Frozen, horrible and disgusting when cooked.

None out of ten.

I'm not much for seafood or avocados, so I'd never tried sushi. Then at my girlfriend's birthday, with all of her family present, they had sushi for lunch. I thought, what the hell, I loved ceviche once I actually tried it, maybe this'll be the same.

No, it wasn't. I had to suffer through five rolls so as not to appear rude. Next time we had sushi, I just ordered like a pound of teriyaki chicken.

Tried diet Mountain Dew for the first time this morning.

Wasn't bad, and while I drink Mt Dew for sugar when I need it, I'll likely buy some just because it actually has a decent taste in contrast with some other diet drinks I've tried.

I'll give it a 4/5 for actually making me want to get more.

Had tempura this weekend. It just tastes great no matter what it was on. 9/10

Steak sandwich from the cafeteria at work:

1 bun, 1 grilled steak, 1 slice provolone, grilled mushrooms, unidentified sauce.

First of all, it was REAL STEAK! Tasted good for the most part, even the mushrooms, which I normally don't like. Only thing was, the steak was kind of tough and stringy (presumably out of fear of serving employees undercooked meat), but overall better than the usual fare, which rarely strays beyond "passable."

8/10

Afghani-style Chicken Korma.

Creamy, smooth, large chunks of chicken in the sauce, sultanas to give it a wee bit more sweetness.

So good I want another one right now, damnit.

10/10

Carte D'Or salted caramel flavour ice-cream. Utterly lush. 9.5/10.

Well, I misread that as "Date Rat Food".

I once had a shrimp burrito at a small restaurant near my home. The shrimp were all nice and juicy and so well grilled and the whole thing was dripping with this wonderful cheese-sauce.

It was among the best things I've ever tasted. 10/10, totes.

Chicken cacciatore (sp?), what I made myself for Thanksgiving. Not glamorous by any means, but a solid 6/10- covers all the bases while being quite tasty.

Kellogs Corn Flakes with semi-skimmed milk. Not bad. seven out of ten.

This... beef stew thing. It tastes like the beef noodle soup they serve at a local chinese fast food chain, only without the noodles. It's great. 8 out of 10.

edited 1st Dec '13 7:19:29 AM by Kookje

Healthy sounding chicken, sweetcorn and veggie soup from Tesco. Low fat, or it was till I drizzled some grated mature cheddar cheese and some semi-skimmed milk into it.

Absolutely lovely, and I have three more tins in the cupboard. 9.3 out of 10.

Merba Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies. It tastes like Nutella, and with that I predict that this will be a hit to hipster girls and 9gag's brainwashed drones everywhere. 9 out of 10, would eat again.

Bag of barbecue chips from the gas station: tasted great but a bit spicier than I would have liked. 8.5/10

Evolution dried fruit, strawberry, melon, and mandrin oranges: 9/10 would and will eat again. They are beyond delicious and I need to start adding ot to my tea.

Zoet Chocolate in three flavors:

57% cacao (medium dark) with pear and almond (really tasty; gonna be one of my go-to flavors) 9/10

57% cacao with blackberry and ginger (meh. no real flavor of either the blackberry or the ginger. 5/10 probably won't get again

57% cacao with orange and almonds (in between the other two. Hard to go wrong with dark chocolate and orange, but the almonds didn't really add anything.) 7.5/10

Some Habanero crisps made by a company called "Hot-Headz" and some hot sauce called "Colon Cleanser" which I bought because of the name.

The crisps were astonishingly good. 9.5/10

The Colon Cleanser was nice, but the name promised more spice than was delivered. 6/10

Asda Cod Fillets in Breadcrumbs. Nice. Bit of garlic sauce, bit of heinz (i.e. the only) ketchup, some olive oil spready stuff and four slices of kingsmill white bread makes a lovely butty.

8.95/10

Had a fourth flavor of Zoet chocolate: milk chocolate with toffee and sea salt. Very, very nice! Will definitely buy again. 8.75/10

Campbell's Tomato Soup - 8/10: Tasty. I can definitely see why you'd revolutionize the art world for it.

Mini chocolate cookies - 9/10: They really are small, and sooooo good. "NON STOP!", the packaging says and they ain't lying.

Taco Bell's XXL Nachos. I dunno what's different vs. the Bell Grande, but something seems to be of higher quality. Maybe it's the chips; maybe it's the guac; maybe it's something else. Overall, it tastes more like something I'd get at Red Burrito/Green Burrito, and that's a good thing. 9/10.

Store brand bruschetta toast ("Our Family"): Garlic, olive oil, tomato, mozzarella. I taste it all, and it is good. Store brands are usually meh, but not this time. Only downside is I left it in the toaster oven a bit too long. 9/10.

Sprecher root beer: Only root beer I'll drink now. It has a sweet, almost cream-soda quality to it, but still balanced with the "kick" that a good root beer should have. 10/10.

Pan fried beef udon. This was some good stuff. Some vegetables in there as well. And a tasty salad on the side.

8.5/10

Baked kabocha squash. Oh my God, where have you been all my life? Put some butter on it and it’s like going to heaven. People keep telling me, “Add some syrup or brown sugar, it’s really good!” My response, “I’m eating this because it DOESN’T have refined sugar in it!”

Anyway, 8/10. It would be higher, but cutting through a squash is a total pain in the butt! I wound up covering the blunt side of the knife with a kitchen towel and hammering on it with the teapot. Easy to prepare otherwise: scoop out seeds and fibrous innards, stick halves face down on a glass baking pan in a 400° oven for half an hour. Scrape off the peel and enjoy.

edited 31st Jan '14 7:12:53 PM by Bananaquit