Check out this storefront on Dupont Circle. More CUPCAKES!!! The great thing about this new cupcake joint, "Hello Cupcake," is right across the street from Krispy Kreme, so you can hop over for some dessert after breakfast.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
cupcakes everywhere!
Check out this storefront on Dupont Circle. More CUPCAKES!!! The great thing about this new cupcake joint, "Hello Cupcake," is right across the street from Krispy Kreme, so you can hop over for some dessert after breakfast.
Snack sighting
Spotted: Warren Brown, Oprah's favorite entrepreneur and proprietor of DC's first cupcakery, at SweetGreen in Georgetown.
What brings him ALL the way from U Street??
Could it be Georgetown Cupcake, the talked about (and tasty) new SHOPPE right around the corner?? Was he checking out the competition??
SnackManiac is NOT above spreading snack-related rumors, so let the cupcake carnage begin!
an explosive new snack
SnackManiac talked an office full of fellow snackers into sampling a disgusting sounding new snack called "FIZZIX (TM) Carbonated Yogurt." Can you believe it??!?
Here is the snack:
Based on the packaging and description, this is fizzy yogurt that you are supposed to slurp out of a plastic tube at which point you will basically be electrocuted by the intensity of the bubbles. My snack-testers and I were expecting this experience to be similar to eating Pop Rocks. Or being struck by lightening.
Neither of these things happened.
It was pretty tasty though, and if you pressed your tongue against the roof of your mouth, you could sort of feel the carbonation. The flavors the SM focus group sampled were Wild Cherry Zing and Strawberry Lemonade Jolt. [Taste-testers, please share your snacking experience in the comments section!!!!]
By way of helpful snackground information, here is the person who "invented" this snack:
You might have wondered (out loud, probably,) who on EARTH would have invented such a wacky snack???
The answer???
MORMONS!!!!
The "technology" behind Fizzix was developed at Brigham Young University. By this goofy scientist(?) guy. The caption under this picture on the BYU PRESS RELEASE(!) was:
"Lynn Ogden, professor of food science, first tasted the sensation of carbonated yogurt after he threw a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt more than 20 years ago."
Yeah, I could see Lynn "throwing a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt." That sort of thing happens all of time in Utah.
Here is the snack:
Based on the packaging and description, this is fizzy yogurt that you are supposed to slurp out of a plastic tube at which point you will basically be electrocuted by the intensity of the bubbles. My snack-testers and I were expecting this experience to be similar to eating Pop Rocks. Or being struck by lightening.Neither of these things happened.
It was pretty tasty though, and if you pressed your tongue against the roof of your mouth, you could sort of feel the carbonation. The flavors the SM focus group sampled were Wild Cherry Zing and Strawberry Lemonade Jolt. [Taste-testers, please share your snacking experience in the comments section!!!!]
By way of helpful snackground information, here is the person who "invented" this snack:
You might have wondered (out loud, probably,) who on EARTH would have invented such a wacky snack???The answer???
MORMONS!!!!
The "technology" behind Fizzix was developed at Brigham Young University. By this goofy scientist(?) guy. The caption under this picture on the BYU PRESS RELEASE(!) was:
"Lynn Ogden, professor of food science, first tasted the sensation of carbonated yogurt after he threw a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt more than 20 years ago."
Yeah, I could see Lynn "throwing a block of dry ice into a bucket of yogurt." That sort of thing happens all of time in Utah.
west coast snacking don't stop
G was inconsiderate enough to send me this picture of a delicious chipwich he seems to have come across in CALIFORNIA. It appears to be an M&M (made by "global powerhouse" Mars Inc.) cookie and mint chip ice cream.
I WANT THIS SNACK!!!!
G also brags that it only cost $1.50. Well you know what, you can get FREE ice cream at Ben and Jerry's right now and SAVE $1.50 for something else. So there.
Monday, April 28, 2008
chew on this
Now this is what I'm talking about. Snack NEWS on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. (Nice work Rupert, your meddling in the news room has paid off!! Please buy up some more media outlets, like MY BLOG!!!!)
So the big news is that Mars, along with some $$$ from Warren Buffett, bought up Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the manufacturer of all sorts of gum (Juciy Fruit, Doublemint, Orbit,) Altoids, Lifesavers and some weird product I have never heard of called "Airwaves" which promises to "unleash powerful vapors that give you the kick to breathe easy again." I don't know what that means, but it sounds like an unpleasant snack.
The Journal isn't overstating things when it says the deal would "remake the global confectionery landscape." I don't have much to say about all of the "business" aspects of this deal (market share blah blah blah stock premiums,) but what I can say is that more CASH for SNACKS can only be a good thing.
And no, I am not worried about consolidation. The SNICKERS is one of the tastiest snacks, so I trust whatever Mars has in mind for all of that gum.
So the big news is that Mars, along with some $$$ from Warren Buffett, bought up Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the manufacturer of all sorts of gum (Juciy Fruit, Doublemint, Orbit,) Altoids, Lifesavers and some weird product I have never heard of called "Airwaves" which promises to "unleash powerful vapors that give you the kick to breathe easy again." I don't know what that means, but it sounds like an unpleasant snack.
The Journal isn't overstating things when it says the deal would "remake the global confectionery landscape." I don't have much to say about all of the "business" aspects of this deal (market share blah blah blah stock premiums,) but what I can say is that more CASH for SNACKS can only be a good thing.
And no, I am not worried about consolidation. The SNICKERS is one of the tastiest snacks, so I trust whatever Mars has in mind for all of that gum.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
summer snack-age
Delicious afternoon snack time!!!
There is a new yogurt place near my place of business that is a perfect afternoon snack sneak-away. [Please see previous post re: Americans making "special trips" for snacks...] The yogurt is YOGURT-flavored, imagine that!! I don't know why there is not more delicious yogurt like this in snack shoppes EVERYWHERE.
What is even more exciting is the fact that there is a toppings bar, which is one of SNACKMANIAC's most favorite things. My yogurt is on the right, with blueberries, toasted almonds, and some delicious natural-like coconut. Gaelan went with raspberries, coconut and candied walnuts. NICE choice with the fancy nuts Gaelan!! (and thanks for allowing me to commandeer your snack for my photo shoot.)
There is a new yogurt place near my place of business that is a perfect afternoon snack sneak-away. [Please see previous post re: Americans making "special trips" for snacks...] The yogurt is YOGURT-flavored, imagine that!! I don't know why there is not more delicious yogurt like this in snack shoppes EVERYWHERE.
What is even more exciting is the fact that there is a toppings bar, which is one of SNACKMANIAC's most favorite things. My yogurt is on the right, with blueberries, toasted almonds, and some delicious natural-like coconut. Gaelan went with raspberries, coconut and candied walnuts. NICE choice with the fancy nuts Gaelan!! (and thanks for allowing me to commandeer your snack for my photo shoot.)
polling all snackers
I am remiss for having not read this important news bulletin from PepsiCo. (Was this not in the Wall Street Journal? Wha?)
The snack behemoth conducted a SCIENTIFIC study that came to the stunning conclusion that "it's no surprise that the vast majority of U.S. adults (98 percent) can't resist the urge to nosh." I will also bet that 98% of telephone survey professionals vomited on themselves every time they had to say nosh, but I'm no Harris Interactive.
Another fascinating snacktoid, they determined that "people will go to great lengths, with 52 percent of U.S. adults reporting that they have made a special trip for a snack and 23 percent having gone so far as to have eaten a snack off the floor!" (!!!!)
To what end, you might ask, is this snack census??
To sell you cardboard poker chips, of course!
"To answer the tummy grumble when the craving hits, New Quaker Mini Delights, mini multigrain rice cakes drizzled in indulgent flavors [CHEMICALS.]"
NO THANK YOU! Please just continue to sell me snacks through the use of cartoons, check out line displays and bus stop advertising, no FACTS necessary.
The snack behemoth conducted a SCIENTIFIC study that came to the stunning conclusion that "it's no surprise that the vast majority of U.S. adults (98 percent) can't resist the urge to nosh." I will also bet that 98% of telephone survey professionals vomited on themselves every time they had to say nosh, but I'm no Harris Interactive.
Another fascinating snacktoid, they determined that "people will go to great lengths, with 52 percent of U.S. adults reporting that they have made a special trip for a snack and 23 percent having gone so far as to have eaten a snack off the floor!" (!!!!)
To what end, you might ask, is this snack census??
To sell you cardboard poker chips, of course!
"To answer the tummy grumble when the craving hits, New Quaker Mini Delights, mini multigrain rice cakes drizzled in indulgent flavors [CHEMICALS.]"
NO THANK YOU! Please just continue to sell me snacks through the use of cartoons, check out line displays and bus stop advertising, no FACTS necessary.
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