Tried a new product
On a side note, before I begin, did you know that Dr. Pepper concentrate is prepared kosher? Found that out today, interesting tidbit, no?
Anyways, within is a summary of consumer products that I have tried recently, and my impressions of them ...
Soft drinks
Diet Dr. Pepper Berries and Cream
I have previously found that Diet DRP is one of the few diet drinks that truly tastes reasonably close to its sugary counterpart ... How they manage to do it? Don't know ... extra sweetner, superior engineering, satan inc.??? Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm not complaining. As part of their new line of fountain classic sodas, they have brought out a Berries and Cream version. It's good, but very sweet tasting -- an interesting combination of flavors, like cream savers and DRP. I may just go back to drinking regular Diet DRP, but this version is definitely worth a try for those who like cherry or berry flavor added to their sodas
Food cannot possibly go faster
On a side note, it has really been a bad month of dietary choices on my part, so here are my impressions of some of the newer offerings at your local fast, fat-n-greasy
BK Stacker
Not that you should really need it to be BIGGER, but it is not as big as you see in the commercials ... yet it is priced as if it were a bigger burger. Essentially it's a two, three or four patty cheeseburger with cheese and unique tasting special sauce ... with lotsa bacon. Best description of the sauce is like those bbq remoullade type sauces. Overall, tasty yet expensive -- I can see people eating it as a weekend hangover remedy -- definitely not something you should routinely eat, but to me, this tastes better than the UC at JITB
Outlaw Burger
Curse you, Carl's Jr. for brainwashing me into liking cheeseburgers with BBQ sauce and onion rings!! Before there was a CJ franchise here, when JITB would do their western style cb's, it was like the best sub for a CJ western bacon. Well, JITB was back with this for a limited time, and it is what it is ... still not really that great of a western cb. Recommend CJ's version, much much better -- that is, if you like this sort of thing
Spicy Chicken Crunchwrap Supreme
Okay, I am a big fan of the cheap and delicious spicy chicken burrito and taco at TB. From those annoying G2G commercials, I tried the plain crunchwrap supreme. It could not have been any more tasteless and odd ... and I was not really into doing the take it apart and see the gross underbelly thing to sauce it up. However, I gave it another chance in the spicy chicken version .... and you know what, not bad, kind of like a chicken taco salad in a wrap, still crunchy, with flavored nacho style cheese goo. Again, I'm not sure I would eat it again -- thinking that I will probably simplify and go with just the spicy chicken value items
Misc.
Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD
It's not a good purchase value, because if you are like me, you have versions in all kinds of formats -- more like a rent, if curious. The lowdown is that it is finally the original cuts on DVD, it is in letterbox and Dolby 2.0 -- so it's like having an old laserdisc version or something. It was cool to watch for nostalgia ... the more I watch SW stuff in recent years, it becomes more evident that I am really close to being over the whole thing. May have to boycott for a few years to just let it rest
iTunes version Seven
Let me count the ways in which I think the new version of iTs sucks ... or let's not. Just not happy with everything from way too many tabs interface, org of the libraries, slow as sh, etc.
Heroes on NBC
I had heard a ton of good buzz about this show in the run-up leading to its premiere. And, after two eps, I think that me and SD will be regularly watching this one. If you don't know, the basic premise is that people from all over the world start discovering latent superpowers; a mystique about the powers that is xmenish, in other words, common elements to why the powers arise; a helping of bizarre circumstances ala X-files; and mostly likeable characters
I have two gripes so far ... one is the crash TV approach of the show to show several storylines at once, trading off, but never dedicating enough time to the individual arcs. The other gripe is typical of any show of this type, too much explanatory dialog, not enough just damn show me. A pic is worth a 1000 words, this is something lost sometimes on the creators of SF/fantasy/superhero shows