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08.14.08 by Widge @ 3:43 am  As everyone knows, I'm a sucker for anything that purports to be packed full of caffeine. And upon hearing about Engobi, little snacky bits "infused with caffeine," I was intrigued. Each single serving bag comes with 140mg of caffeine. They come in two flavors: Cinnamon Surge and Lemon Lift. So they sent me over some samples to try out. The cinnamon variety starts off fairly tasty: there's the sugar and the cinnamon to greet you. They're nice and crispy corn and wheat puff things that are very pleasant to initially chomp into. But then you greet the bane of many a caffiend's existence: sucralose. What's odd is it's the last ingredient on the ingredient list, and yet it's the one that stays with you. Even more than the caffeine taste. And considering the back of the bag states that there's, on average, 66 pieces in each bag--that's around just a hair over 2mg of caffeine per crispy bit. Is the taste of 2.5mg of caffeine such that the sucralose is warranted? I honestly don't know. I don't consume the stuff in such small quantities normally. It's easy to see how you could blow through a bag of this stuff, since I wanted to get that initial rush of cinnamon and sugar not just because it was pleasant but also because that overwhelmed the lingering sucralose aftertaste. An aftertaste that lingered for a good twenty minutes. Categorized as: Food and Reviews
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08.02.08 by Widge @ 2:27 pm  S. Truett Cathy is the founder of Chick-Fil-A, who apart from having tasty chicken sandwiches has pissed off the cow community by implying they cannot spell. But that wasn't the reason for two preteen girls to break into the guy's home, spraying fire extinguishers, throwing eggs around, and more. The total amount of damage? $30K. Those must have been some serious eggs. However, instead of selling the girls for parts on the organ black market in order to cover the repairs (like you or I would do), Cathy went for something else. "In a deal Cathy worked out with their parents, the girls must write 'I will not vandalize other people's property' 1,000 times. They're also banned from watching TV and playing video games and must read a good book." Sadly though, as this verdict was being handed down, the clock ticked over into Sunday, and Cathy, along with all of his Chick-Fil-A shock troops, went into standby mode. The two girls were able to escape and remain at large. Categorized as: Food
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07.04.08 by Cosette @ 2:20 am  In our quest to make yummy things that are quick to make but aren't completely bad for you, we've come up with another "What do we have in the fridge?" recipe. Pizza is always popular here at the Technocave (and its attached compound), but carnivore Widge isn't a big fan of the veggies that I like on it. I have to disguise the veggies as meat, normally. Which is difficult. Because who wants to make costumes for broccoli? So we came up with a bit of a compromise that turned out really yummy. Unsurprisingly, the ingredients are similar to those that we used in our first featured recipe, our New Joe's Special from Coast City, because that's what we tend to have in the fridge. Ready to make some yummy pizza that everyone can enjoy? Of course you are. Otherwise, you would have stopped reading already... Categorized as: Food
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06.11.08 by Widge @ 10:10 pm  As a testament to the staying power of the Adam West Batman series: even in the year 2008, writing up a brief bit about bat-shaped Reese's peanut butter cups without falling back on hackneyed television references is accomplished only by sheer force of will. But it's just amusing to see tie-ins like this: black and blue Bat-colored Reese's Pieces, Kit Kats with the Bat-Signal symbol on them, and the peanut butter cups...especially the DARK chocolate ones. While these are all well and good, why should Batman get all the tie-ins? Why not Two-Face's Fun Dip? Candy sticks that you can lick and stick into sugar pouches. One pouch sweet, one pouch sour. Or Joker's Skybar. Why? Because it's chocolate with four different fillings, just like you never know what sort of madness you get with the Joker. And color it green. It can be done. Or Alfred's Dairy Milk. The Cadbury classic. You wouldn't need to do anything but put Michael Caine's face on the wrapper. Granted, that didn't help Jaws: The Revenge, but even Sir Michael has limits. Do you have any ideas? Categorized as: Food
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06.09.08 by Cosette @ 12:44 am  We get very busy here at the Technocave, but we also like to eat really good food. And since it takes just as much time (and more money and gas) to go out and get good food as it does to make it ourselves, we've been striving to cook more. Last summer, we found a great article in the New York Times with a list of 101 "recipes" for the summer. They can be taken more as guidelines than anything else, and that's how we've been using them. We want to share the more successful of our creations with you. Tonight's meal was a New Joe's Special from Coast City. Granted, it may look a little barfy in the picture, but it was really yummy in person! Categorized as: Food
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