Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Dr Oetker Ristorante Vegetable Pizza




Looks: Fairly close.The distribution of toppings isn't as even, but the amount pictured looks accurate. The flecks of spice on the cheese aren't as numerous on the real one. There is not nearly as much cheese, and it does not extend as close to the edge. There is also very, very little sauce compared to the pizza on the box. However, the colour of the crust looks right, and the vegetables are the right colour, with the same amount of fresh glossiness as pictured. 3.5 out of 5.

Taste: Wow, for a pizza that came out of the freezer, this is excellent! The toppings are absolutely delicious - the peppers have just the right amount of crunch, the tomatoes are tasty, the olive bits are pleasantly olive-y, and the flavour of the onion stands out just like it should. They all taste about as fresh as they look, which can't be said of most frozen pizzas. The crust is just the right thickness with the perfect amount of crunch, with an ideal bread flavour, which is far better than I can say about most pizza crusts. You can also taste a little bit of spice - very subtle, but it complements the other flavours very well. I have only a few minor complaints: the cheese was quite thin, there was VERY little sauce, which had almost no flavour, and just a smidgen too much salt. Overall, I'm very impressed. 4 out of 5.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Kelloggs Fibre Plus Chocolatey Peanut Butter Bars






Looks: Mediocre. The bar is much wider and flatter than pictured on the box, and rather than being nicely pressed together with rounded edges, it looks like it was cut sharply out of a large sheet. The distribution of the peanut butter chips is also very uneven; they all seem to have huddled together on one end of the bar. On the box, the chocolate at the bottom of the bar is a deep brown and looks lightly melted - but as you can clearly see, the real stuff is a duller brown, and again the edges look like it was cut out of a sheet. The oats are also very pale in color, not like the appealing gold in the box picture. 2.5 out of 5.

Taste: As exciting as it looks. The dominant overall taste struck me as sickeningly, overpoweringly sweet - not a chocolatey sweet, but a sweet that makes your teeth scream in agony, telling you that they used far too much sugar (likely because corn syrup is the second ingredient listed, which also explains why the oats were glued together so strongly that it was very tough to bite and chew). "Chocolatey peanut butter" is rather misleading, since there isn't very much of either flavour - the chocolate layer is very thin and the taste of it is quite lackluster (and not of very good chocolate quality), and obviously you can't taste very much peanut butter on the whole thing, since the peanut butter pieces are all at one end. Also, the oats are very heavily diluted with tasteless pieces of puffed rice. I found the overall texture to be very, very dry. 2 out of 5.