I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Pasta and Lentil Bolognese Baby Food. mark February 5, 2013 I Try It So You Don't Have To 1 Comment Baby food has not changed much in the past couple hundred years. At its roots, it is just mashed-up or ground-up adult food. (As an aside the Tumblr page for grinder is a pretty disturbing mix of...
Review: Charles Chips mark January 29, 2013 Reviews When Eick sent out a request for someone to review these guys I jumped at the chance. As a kid every house had a Charles Chips can on the counter, regardless of whether it had been re-purposed as a cookie...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Peanut Punch mark January 22, 2013 I Try It So You Don't Have To I was milling around the store today, trying to find something gross, and after giving up and checking out with my regular purchases I found a display of Nestle Peanut Punch right at the cash...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Chicken Feet mark January 15, 2013 I Try It So You Don't Have To 5 Comments Around the world there are many ways to cook and consume chicken feet. Some cultures like them completely soft, cooked for a long time with many seasonings. There is apparently an art to...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Convenience Store Burrito mark January 8, 2013 I Try It So You Don't Have To 2 Comments We have all been there, it's 2:30 AM, you are heading home from the bar and the munchies have settled in. Nothing else is open between you and your home other than the 24 hour convenience store. You make...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Scrapple mark January 1, 2013 I Try It So You Don't Have To 8 Comments Growing up I always heard about scrapple, and in some locations in the Southern Tier of NY state it even showed up on menus. I was always too chicken to try it. Not anymore. Being New Years Day I figured that...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Fish Eyeball mark December 25, 2012 I Try It So You Don't Have To 3 Comments Christmas Eve is a pretty big deal in my house. With all the delicious food around I wasn't sure I was going to be able to find anything to write about. Suddenly,there it was, staring right at me as I pulled...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich mark December 18, 2012 I Try It So You Don't Have To 5 Comments I know, I know, "who the heck has to try that" you say. Apparently it's a thing that people really enjoy. From salted caramel everything to good old fashioned kettle corn, sweet and savory is...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Ika Shiokara (Raw Squid In Squid Liver Sauce) mark December 11, 2012 I Try It So You Don't Have To Once again my reputation as the guy who eats weird food was a huge asset in finding this weeks item. Some of my co-workers arrived in NYC before me and found a place called Sakagura that served Ika Shiokara...
I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Salted Duck Eggs mark December 4, 2012 I Try It So You Don't Have To 5 Comments My last egg tasting was a pretty serious miss. While I have vowed to try to them again in case I got a bad batch, I have not been able to bring myself to do it. The biggest feedback I got was that century eggs...
