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PRIZE DRAWING: Little Caesars Gift Cards to Try Their New Cheese-N-Pretzel Dippers

July 22, 2015January 3, 2021 Marvo 200 Comments

Little Caesars Cheese N Pretzel Dippers

Little Caesars recently introduced their Cheese-N-Pretzel Dippers and brought back their Soft Pretzel Crust Pepperoni Pizza.

Their Soft Pretzel Crust Pepperoni Pizza has a buttery, soft pretzel crust made fresh daily in store. It’s topped with a creamy cheddar cheese sauce, a blend of 100% real cheese, and pepperoni, and then finished with a blend of Asiago, Fontina, Parmesan, and White Cheddar cheese. Their Cheese-N-Pretzel Dippers are 16 savory pieces of buttery, salty, toasted, soft pretzel bites served with a side of warm cheddar cheese dip.

To celebrate the two pretzel products, the pizza chain is holding a sweepstakes going on at PretzelCrustNation.com. There you can enter for a chance to win a GoPro Camera and Little Caesars gift cards.

But we’re also helping them celebrate because the nice folks at Little Caesars sent us three $15 gift cards to give away to TIB readers, who will be able to stuff themselves with pretzel goodness.

RULES:

To enter The Impulsive Buy’s Little Caesars Gift Card Prize Drawing, leave a comment with THIS post. Please don’t forget to fill out the email field because we’ll be emailing the randomly selected winners for their mailing addresses.

We will stop accepting entries on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. Only one comment allowed per person, and it’s only open to U.S. residents 18 years old or older.

Good luck!

FINE PRINT:

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SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 7/22/2015

July 22, 2015January 3, 2021 Marvo 7 Comments

Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by us and your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

Duff Goldman Premium Biscuit Mixes (Bacon Cheddar, Spicy Chipotle, and Beer Biscuits)

Instead of “Biscuits,” I would’ve called them “BisDuffs.” And that’s why I no longer work in marketing. (Spotted by Amanda at Target.)

Oscar Mayer P3 Teriyaki Grilled Snackers

If you need a portable protein pack and don’t care for teriyaki, there’s also a Grilled Hickory Chicken Breast Strips with Sweet Barbecue Dip and Grilled Hickory Chicken Breast Strips with Lite Ranch Dip. Or you could buy a pack of peanuts from the convenience store. (Spotted by Kevin at Walmart.)

Kellogg’s Special K Cranberry Granola

Cranola! (Spotted by Sylvia at Ralphs.)

Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet Golden Mustard Barbecue Sauce

Here’s some Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce porn. (Spotted by Rebecca at ShopRite.)

Freschetta Gluten Free Single Serving Signature Pepperoni Pizza

Gluten-free pizza for one for $9.49! (Spotted by Marvo at Target.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

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REVIEW: McDonald’s McCafe Oreo Frappe

July 21, 2015September 4, 2023 Trevor 19 Comments

It took 27 years but I’ve finally learned you can’t always have your cake and eat it too. Sometimes you just get to have the cake, and you can’t eat it, you just get to possess it. We all have to settle at times.

Like how the escaped prisoners in New York had to settle for eating Pop-Tarts without a toaster. Cold Pop-Tarts?! Bleh! You’d have to be pretty desperate to eat those. Oh…yeah…escaped prisoners on the run. Ahem.

Or how in a fantasy draft you have to settle because the jerk picking before you takes the player you had your hopes and dreams set on, and you have to instead draft your fallback option. I cringe just thinking about the time Buster Posey was picked right before I could get him, and I panicked and blurted out John Axford. Please don’t laugh at me too hard, baseball fans.

My most recent case of settling came when I tried to save a few extra bucks by opting to go to McDonald’s for a tasty frozen beverage instead of Starbucks. I know what you’re thinking…life can be a real bitch! Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing!

But McDonald’s Oreo Frappe ended up being so good that I didn’t have to settle for anything. And being cheaper than a Starbucks drink it’s a win in both taste and price. Of course it’s also a win in the sense that I get to say “small” like a normal person, instead of “tall” at Starbucks, which sounds like it’s a large drink, but as most of us know it’s the smallest size.

At first glance it’s clear there are Oreo cookies blended throughout the drink. It also has Oreo chunks on top of the whipped cream. I suggest stuffing the whipped cream and cookie chunks into the drink and then mixing it, but that’s just my style. You do you, faithful TIB reader.

The cookie taste is strong with this one. Right away you’ll get a heavy chocolate cookie flavor. Along with frappe, I also noticed notes of vanilla. The drink is made with a cookies & crème syrup, and the crème flavor is definitely noticeable. To put it into fractions, it’s 3/5 Oreo cookie flavor, 1/5 frappe flavor, and 1/5 Oreo cream flavor.

I got a small since I was headed for a Dibella’s sub right afterward, and though my intentions were to sip on it so there would be some left to have with the sub, the Oreo Frappe was so good that it lasted only about a minute and thirty seconds.

There were a couple of issues with the drink. It has a thinner consistency compared with other Frappe flavors. It also has a higher calorie count and much higher fat count than my normal Starbucks choice, the always trusty Green Tea Frappuccino. Normally this would be a huge turnoff for me and I wouldn’t get the drink again but the taste is such a win that it easily negates these issues.

We all do have to settle at times, but when it comes to the Oreo Frappe, there isn’t any settling involved.

(Nutrition Facts – Small – 540 calories, 180 calories from fat, 20 grams of fat, 12 grams of saturated fat, 1 gram of trans fat, 60 milligrams of cholesterol, 170 milligrams of sodium, 82 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 68 grams of sugars, and 7 grams of protein.)

Item: McDonald’s McCafe Oreo Frappe
Purchased Price: $3.01
Size: Small
Purchased at: McDonald’s
Rating: 8 out of 10
Pros: Great Oreo flavor. Can taste both cookie and crème flavors. Cheaper than Starbucks. Possessing cake. Not having to say “tall” when asking for a small drink.
Cons: Thinner consistency than other Frappes. Not the healthiest drink. Panic picking John Axford.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES IN CANADA: Sweet & Salty Caramel Bugles Remix Popped and Cheddar Bugles Remix

July 21, 2015January 3, 2021 Marvo 6 Comments

I don’t know if it’s just me, but these sure looks like a ways to ruin Bugles. (Spotted by JunkFoodDog at Food Basics in Canada.)

If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you’ve tried the product, share your thoughts about it in the comments.

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SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 7/21/2015

July 21, 2015January 3, 2021 Marvo 5 Comments

Is a cookie crossover in our future? One side is an Oreo chocolate cookie and the other is one of these round Nutter Butter with the its creme. (Spotted by Marvo at Safeway.)

Within the past three years there’s been Crush and Hawaiian Punch gum, Crush and Hawaiian Punch liquid water enhancers, Crush and Hawaiian punch candy twists, and now Crush and Hawaiian Punch candy bites. (Spotted by Sylvia at Ralphs.)

Well, well. It seems these small containers sold well enough that they deserve to be in large resealable bags. (Spotted by Avery at Target.)

Also, if you’re wondering if we’ve already covered something, search our Flickr photos or use the Google Search box on the right (or below if you’re on a mobile device) to find out.