REVIEW: Trader Joe’s Gingerbread Everything
Gingerbread! One of the lone holiday flavors with any staying power in junk food land. Here’s a brief history of gingerbread cookies: Santa eats them. That’s all you need to...
Monthly Archive: November 2016
REVIEW: Hostess White Peppermint Twinkies
Apparently ignoring all of my literature on the subject, Hostess continues to release weird-sounding Twinkies that nobody asked for. Hostess White Peppermint Twinkies are the latest offender, following other gross-sounding...
INSTA-BANTER: All our latest product finds, reviews, and more!
When we’re not updating the blog, we’re extremely active on social media. Here you’ll find our Instagram feed (@junkbanter) where we post new product discoveries, upcoming product announcements, short reviews, and other...
REVIEW: Lay’s Chicken & Waffles Potato Chips
Chicken & waffles is a weird combination. Nobody knows the exact origin of the dish, but I suspect somebody was drunk when it was conceived. It might not sound like it makes sense...
REVIEW: Great Value Stuffed Donut Bites (Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough)
Surely you’ve played Fantasy Donut before. You know, that game where you sit around by yourself and imagine all the crazy things that you would stuff inside of donuts if you...
REVIEW: Double Chocolate M&M’s
Mars has examined the data: we love chocolate, and especially around Christmas. Here are some astounding facts about how fat we all are, courtesy of Mars: In 2015, consumers spent...
REVIEW (x3): Sugar Cookie Pringles, Salted Caramel Pringles, Pecan Pie Pringles
Every holiday season, Pringles release a bunch of flavors that shouldn’t be Pringles. Years past have brought us Pumpkin Pie Pringles, Milk Chocolate Pringles, White Chocolate Pringles, and even White Chocolate...
REVIEW: Milka Oreo Big Crunch Bar
What do you get when you combine the world’s best-selling cookie with an international powerhouse in chocolatiering? An oversized weight-gain supplement that retails for $3.98 at Walmart. The drug’s name? The...
REVIEW: Shimmery White Chocolate M&M’s
White Chocolate M&M’s – such a simple concept that it’s impossible to understand why we haven’t had them yet. It’s particularly impossible because we have had them. White Chocolate M&M’s have...
REVIEW: Brightside Skittles
Darkside Skittles were discontinued in 2015, but look on the bright side… I kind of dread these reviews. Accurately breaking down Skittles flavors is challenging. Sure, there is a point or two that...
REVIEW: Trader Joe’s Sticky Pumpkin Cake with Hard Sauce
I need an adult, I need an adult! Trader Joe’s Sticky Pumpkin Cake with Hard Sauce makes me uncomfortable on multiple levels. This product is filled with so many sexual innuendos...
REVIEW: Girl Scout S’mores Cookies (The Chocolatey Coated One)
I won’t pretend for a second that I know what the Girl Scouts actually do. Here’s what they do according to Wikipedia (with an addendum by Junk Banter): “The Girl Scouts...
