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Restaurant Reviews

  • Buc-ee's Rockingham County
    • We take a trip to a newly built Buc-ee's to see just what all the hype is about. We still don't know...
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
    • We share our lackluster experiences with this once-pretty solid chicken joint.
  • Chicano Boy
    • We take a look at a fast casual Mexican joint that doesn't suck.
  • Chicago O'Hare Eateries
    • Lord Fizzlebeef wanders the food courts of the Chicago O'Hare airport looking for a place to eat.
  • Cho Phra Ya Thai
    • A smaller Thai eatery in Northern Virginia packs more food than I was expecting into a simple lunch.
  • Emporio: A Meatball Joint
    • We check in with some food options at Pittsburgh, PA, and a selection of meatballs on offer.
  • Golden Garden Asian Cuisine
    • A solid, local Asian restaurant serving a good mix of Chinese and Japanese flavors.
  • KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot
    • A fun hot pot place in Roanoke provides an enjoyable, soupy experience.
  • Napa Thai
    • This restaurant, local to the Lexington, VA, area, provides delicious Thai food in a nicely crafted atmosphere.
  • Panda Express
    • It might not be real Chinese food, but there's something so right about this place.
  • P.F. Chang's
    • When you're looking for the dressed-up equivalent of mall food, this is the place for you.
  • Pizza Hut
    • Having lucked into a stuffed crust pizza, we take a look at that pie, along with other items I like to get from the Hut.
  • Seoul Korean BBQ & Hot Pot
    • I venture into a hot pot place to try the soup and get very full. It was delighful.
  • Silver Diner
    • We go for a classic diner experience but are left underwhelmed by the whole affair.
  • Sugarfire Smokehouse
    • We take a few trips to this downtown Indianapolis BBQ join (not sadly closed).
  • Twins Grill & Bar
    • Lord Fizzlebeef has another airport adventure, with another sad restaurant experience.
  • Umai Ramen and Rice Bowl
    • We grab a selection of offerings from this Japanese fusion restaurant as poart of the SG Live 2024 food tour.
  • Victoria & Albert's
    • We review the seven courses (and counting) in a meal at this five-star restaurant.

Specials

Spicy Chickens

Meals

Cereals

  • Breakfast Cereal
    • We take a round-up of cereals found in our local grocer to see what weird madness kids are subjected to.
  • Breakfast Cereal II
    • We review even more cereals are we slowly go insane from sugar.
  • Breakfast Cereal III
    • We take another trip down the breakfast cereal aisle to find the sugar-coated oddities for our milk-laiden bowl.
  • Captain Crunch Fun Flavors
    • We sample three boxes of the Captain's delights to see if they were worth they hype.
  • General Mills Loaded Cereal
    • We try these new icing filled cereal puffs and discover some flavor and texture combinations do not work well together.

Drinks

  • Coffee Shop Brews
    • We grab a few cups of coffee during SG Live 2024 to see if any of them are worth drinking.
  • Martinelli’s Cider Selections
    • We take a sampling of the various Martinelli's cider offerings to see how the flavors stack up.
  • Spiced Coke
    • Coca-Cola launched their next big flavor of cola, a raspberry spice sensation, that then was canceled six months later.
  • Warheads Soda
    • Warheads brings us soda that promises a sour slap in the face, but can these cans od candy-colored sugar really deliver?

Salty Snacks

Sour Snacks

  • Sour Snack Roundup
    • We sample a selection of sour treats to see if we can actually find something that makes us feel the sour burn.
  • Sour Snack Roundup II
    • Another collection of candies to pucker your mouth and make your tongue cry.
  • Sour Snack Roundup III
    • We have another batch of sour candies, but this time they're filled with nothing by dissapointment.
  • Sour Snack Mega Roundup
    • We dig through a massive bag of various sour candies to see what measures up and what isn't worth sampling.
  • Sour Snack Roundup V
    • The sour candies keep on coming, and we keep on puckinger up, in this fifth edition of our series.
  • Sour Snack Roundup VI
    • More sour oddities, this time found in the bargain area of a craft store... and I ate them.
  • Sour Snack Roundup VII
    • Easter candies give us more sour snacks to attempt... and not all of them all that edible.
  • Sour Snack Roundup VIII
    • It's another slap of sour flavor, right into your tongue holes.
  • Sour Snack Roundup IX
    • We dive in again, with strips and gummies and even horrible cookies.
  • Sour Snack Roundup X
    • A Wal-Mart run leads to sour in my mouth, and I accept the consequences.
  • Sour Snack Roundup XI
    • We hit the road for another sour excursion, this time with some surprising results.
  • Sour Snack Roundup XII
    • We have three more candies with sour bite, from Shaqs to Strips, that we must consume.
  • Albanese Sour 12 Flavor Gummi Bears
    • Albanese makes great gummi bears, but are their sour bears as good as one would expect from the company?
  • Halloween Sour Treats
    • We sample three sour, surprising Halloween treats to see if any come out as winners.

Sweet Treats

  • Chocolate Treats
    • We take a look at three new varieties of classic candies to see if any of these deserve to stick around in the chocolate pantheon.
  • Halloween Snack Roundup
    • With the spooky season upon us, it's time to get into the spirit with tasty treats.
  • Holiday Treats
    • The holidays are here and that means we get to eat oddly themed candy treats.
  • Charms Blow Pop Berries
    • Blow Pops are back and they have some new (and reissued) flavors. But are they any good?
  • Girl Scout Cookies
    • We bought a bunch of cookies and, once our sugar haze lifted and we woke up months later, we're now ready to discuss them.
  • Krispy Kreme Thanksgiving Pies Doughnut Collection
    • We try these doughnut makers special treats but find they just don't rise to the holiday occasion.
  • Oreos Coca-Cola Flavored Cookies
    • These chocolate cookies are interesting, but not something that's truly worth the hype.
  • Skittles Gummies
    • Skittles tries its hand at true gummies (which isn't the weirdest idea), but the results are far from great.
  • Welch’s Jelly Beans
    • We take a taste of these chewy treats from Welch's, just in time for Easter.

Recipes

  • Casseroles
    • We start sharing recipes and we start off with a trio of casseroles.
  • Tex-Mex
    • The cooking continues, this time for a fun fiesta on taco night.
  • Stews
    • Time to get your soup on as we do another trio of recipes to make on a cold night.
  • Italian Feast
    • We prepare an Italian feast, from appetizers to main dishes.
  • Fry-Up
    • I fry up a bunch of tast foods and let my arteries scream in delicious agony.
  • Thanksgiving
    • I prepare a holiday feast, and we go over how to make it all happen.

Further Reading

  • Bananas: Bananas are gross. That is all.
  • Food Etiquette: When to buy, how to choose what to buy, and what's a fair way to meet everyone's needs in a food-party situation.
  • Food Delivery Racket: We take a look at food delivery services and why these companies are simply awful for consumers.
  • A Failed Visit to Burger King: What a ruined trip for fast food means for employment and staff wages.

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