Day 321 - Brownie Crisp

In my world, brownies are not SUPPOSED to be crisp.  The “crisp” parts of the brownies are the BURNT parts, the RUINED parts.  You know what I mean, the parts on the edges of the pan that are so burnt to a crisp that you can even saw them out with a sharp knife.  The ones that are still stuck on there after all of the GOOD BROWNIE are eaten and you have to soak the pan in the sink to even chip them away.

Yeah – the YUCKY BITS.

So WHY Trader Joe’s felt the need to make a whole bag of the ruined bits is beyond me.

However, this concept excited David, who put a bag of Brownie Crisps in our cart.

It's a given that I won't like these, but will DAVID????

Needless to say, I have recused myself from this review as I refuse to try these abominations.  This review is the sole opinion of David.

David says (in a sad, forlorn voice), “These are okayyyy.  If you need a cookie and you don’t have a cookie it’ll do.  But it’s not what you had hoped for – not what I had hoped for.  It doesn’t have a depth of taste.  It doesn’t have a buttery-ness.  It doesn’t have a richness.  It doesn’t really have….

It even looks SAD on the plate (IMHO)

It’s, it’s, it’s, ummm, it’s CRISP in a way that a stale cracker is CRISP.  Not in the way that the edges of a nice homemade brownie are crisp.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

Don't bust a tooth there, David

I had such HIGH HOPES.  I am not going to take ‘em back, they are EATABLE, but I’m not gonna get them again.  (I clarified – are they EATABLE or EDIBLE?)  Well, they are EATABLE, which is a little different than EDIBLE.  Virtually everything is EDIBLE, but I won’t EAT everything.  These, I will eat. “

We got these in the Dublin, Ohio Trader Joe's where they apparently thought they were
hard enough little cookies that they should change the name to BRITTLE, even though the bag calls them "crisp".  

It takes a lot for a cookie (or cookie-like product) to make David sad, but these Brownie Crisps did it.  L

Price – $2.99

Rating – 2.75

Day 268 - White Ribbon Semillon (white wine)

First, let’s try saying “Semillon”.  Apparently it is pronounced “Seh-meh-YON”.  Say it with me – “seh-meh-YON”.  You’ve got it!  (Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know, I totally had to ask.)

The label says “It has been called Australia’s unique wine gift to the world.  It is a crisp and refreshing wine, perfect with seafood, white meats, and salads.  It is from Australia’s oldest wine region.  It is the OTHER white wine…”

Ahhhh – clever!  I see what they did there!  They ripped off PORK’s big ad campaign about being the “other white meat”.  Clever buggers! 

Simple label.  Australians don't need no stinkin' artwork on their wine.

Ok.  So I was going to use “crisp” as my adjective to describe this wine, too, but now that I read the label to you, you are gonna think I just copied that from the bottle!  I did not.  I wrote down “crisp” before I read the label, I swear.  Of course, I say that about the majority of white wines that we drink…

It is nice.  It sets off whatever it is in your mouth that gets your saliva glands going…  Is that citrus?  It is not TOO DRY – we had it with Chicken Quesadillas (reviewed yesterday) and we also had it one night with a vegetarian meal and it was a good match for that, too.

Check it out - the wine peeps at TJ's also used "crisp" :)

David also used CRISP.  He said, “Nice, fine.  Good.  Crisp.  Pretty dry white wine.”

Oops – I said it WAS NOT all that dry…  Well, if you average our “dry” ratings together it is MEDIUM DRY!  J  And if I read the label better I would have seen that it bills itself as a “Classic Dry White”.  Hahaha!  OK OK IT IS DRY.  (But not tooooo dry, in my opinion.)

It has a screw top so it is easy to open.  We used to think screw tops were a bad thing, but the older we get the more we realize that screw tops are easy!  We would buy and drink this again.

G’day Australia!

Dublin, OH Trader Joe's FOUND GROCERY LIST board!

Bonus photo – I don’t have an “action” shot of us drinking this wine, so I will include a photo of this AWESOME bulletin board I found near the bathrooms of Trader Joe’s in Dublin, Ohio.  LOOK!!!  They pin up shopping lists that people leave in shopping carts!  Isn’t it great??  I would love to stand at the bulletin board and examine them.  What exactly were people coming to the store to buy?  Even more fun would be to compare those LISTS to the RECEIPTS to see what stuff they bought that they didn’t come in for!!  Anyway, I thought it was super cool.

Price – $6.99

Rating – 4.0