Category: General Interest

Everything Bagel Ice Cream!?

Hhhuuummm, ice cream and everything bagels (actually ALL bagels) are Fun Food.  Fact. 

But Everything Bagel ice cream that includes cream cheese in the flavour profile seems…. different! And it may be Fun Food however opinions are split in this informative Pure Wow foodie article. If you order/find this brand, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream, do a blind taste test at your next get together as Pure Wow did and be prepared for a range of answers – also have gum on hand as reports indicate a lasting garlic aftertaste…! Jeni’s has quite a few “funner” flavours – Skillet Cinnamon Roll or Strawberry Pretzel Pie or Texas Sheet Cake perhaps!

And for more ice cream news, Baskin-Robbins has created approximately 1,400 flavours since 1945. In it’s 77th year, along with a rebranding, they are creating 3 new flavours!  Thrillist has the details in this article and I am now looking for Totally Unwrapped which combines both chocolate and peanut butter ice cream and has fudge, fudge covered pretzels, caramel covered peanuts AND a salted caramel swirl!! 

The Fasties – Awards for Fun Food!

While I may not 100% agree with these winners, I agree with the awards! Thrillist’s 3rd annual Fasties are a PERFECT opportunity for horizontal eating of some important Fun Foods.

Five competing restaurants per Fun Food category and 15 categories so a total of 75 opportunities of horizontal eating experiences!! French fries, onion rings, tacos, cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets plus more – each are Fun Foods. And perhaps future Fasties will incorporate meat alternative categories to broaden their appeal as everyone’s tastes broaden.

And you can’t beat their perspective – their awards are Fun not serious and perhaps a bit educational!! I’m going to go track down the New Menu item of 2022 – Taco Bell has a new Crispy Chicken Sandwich Taco!! And also Burger King’s Ch’king with it’s award winning “thick-cut” pickles!

Easter Fun Food Extravaganza!

It is the long Easter Weekend and there is an abundance of Fun Food!

This handy summary of key Easter candy comes from a survey by Instacart. Egg shaped candy comes out on top of Bunny shaped candy and chocolate is #1 no matter the shape! I cannot believe that a majority of people believe Easter candy is better than Halloween Candy though…

My fave apple cinnamon hot cross buns from Cobs are popular and hard to find – they will be baking them until approximately Wednesday. AND McDonald’s has an Easter Cadbury Creme Egg McFlurry, I may have to go tomorrow while it is still the long weekend!

Fun & Fat Tuesday – Pancakes on Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday! It is also Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Tuesday – so it is the perfect excuse to have pancakes for dinner!!

This interesting article from The Compass explains the religious origins of pancakes on Mardi Gras and what Shrove means!! It is the eve of Lent as Ash Wednesday is the next day and kicks off the 40 days of Lent before Easter.

One of these years I’ll make it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras – which is SO much more than pancakes. This People article outlines Mardi Gras’s history and origin & PureWow shares 11 Traditions and 34 New Orleans Fun Food ideas.

PS – March 1st is also National Pig Day – for this year’s Mardi Gras, a pancake “pig out” seems appropriate. Esther the Wonder Pig loves pancakes and would agree!

Ants are Fun Food IF…

If you are a Pangolin!  Today is World Pangolin Day and hopefully pangolins everywhere are eating as many ants as they can find – and grubs and termites and other small insects – as they are insectivorous. 

80 million years of existence and holding an unfortunate World Record, there is lots to learn about Pangolins in this World Animal Protection Fact Sheet or, if you feel confident in your knowledge of what Pangolins like as their Fun Food, here is their Pangolin Quiz!

Pangolins need help, both in Africa and Asia where they make their home. As of 2016, CITES has forbidden the commercial trade of pangolin parts to give the strongest protection and stop the over-exploitation of these scaly anteaters. They are now listed on Appendix I due to the threat of extinction. Unfortunately, Pangolins are considered a delicacy & tasty in some nations – Pangolins are NOT Fun Food.

Here is a link if you would like to adopt a Pangolin thru Born Free and help rescue & release orphaned pangolins at Sangha Pangolin Project in the Central African Republic.

Happy World Pangolin Day!

Another Fun Food Occasion

Super Bowl – A Fun Food fiesta that often includes chicken wings – this is quite a statistic, 1.42 billion chicken wings are eaten at Super Bowl celebrations…

OR, here are 65 Fun Food snack ideas for the occasion – this handy PureWow article gives LOTS of choices and yes, there is some overlap with the 75 New Year’s Eve Appis. How about salty, cheesy, & kinda healthy Crispy Parmesan Tomato Chips OR sweet like Cake Batter dip!! Perhaps with a Pineapple Lime Beer Margarita!?

My Loaded Baked Potato “Chips” did not make it to Kick Off…!

More New Years mean more Fun Foods

February 1, 2022 is the Lunar New Year and celebrations = Fun Food!!

The Korean Lunar New Year is a 3 day celebration that starts today, January 31st in 2022. Tonight is a night of fireworks & crackers as tomorrow is the official family New Year holiday in South Korea. The traditional dish of Mandu (korean dumplings!) is always eaten as the various types of Mandus (kimchi!) are a symbol of good luck for the coming year. This helpful article gives history & recipes for this Fun Food.

Tet Nguyen Dan is the Vietnamese New Year and we are currently in day 3 of the 2022 celebration that started Jan 29th! The most popular food is Banh Chung or Chung Cake that takes more than half the day to prepare & cook – this recipe from Sophie at Delightful Plate outlines how much work this cake is – it must be a Fun Food!

PS – 2022 is the Year of the Tiger and to get Tiger luck this year, these colours (Blue & Green) & numbers (1 & 3 & 7) are important for us all.