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Don�t Front is an occasional Meal Ticket feature in which we explain to you why you should not hate on the many terrible food items we enjoy.
Stroll down your local cereal aisle and it's easy to gather that we're in the thick of Boo Berry/Frankberry season. (All apologies to any healthful seasonal produce items that may be reading this right now.) But turns out these delicious monsters have influence over more than just breakfast � they've got massive teeth-rotting candy game, as well. We picked up these Boo Berry and Frankenberry Fruit by the Foots at Pathmark the other day for a ridiculous $2 a box, and ate somewhere in the range of 24 to 30 feet of the stuff before our dentist kicked our door down and pummeled us into submission. Here are our tasting notes: Frankenberry is sugary on the nose, with bright notes of sugar; lingering sugariness on the finish. Boo Berry, on the other hand, touts a classic sugar backbone, but you may be surprised to find that the eloquent sugar characteristics so common to candies produced in this� particular appellation are reinterpreted � reimagined, even � through a lively, youthful sugar lens.
Excellent tasting notes. Could you suggest a wine/cocktail pairing?
Banker's Club
You don't think the sugary essence of Bartles & Jaymes would be a good accompaniment here too?
I suggest the electric-pink strawberry Boone's Farm -- up.
[...] We know, we know: Few things appear douchier to the average person than watching a bunch of people taste wine. But y’all oenophobes should know that all the sniffing and the swirling and the holding it up to the light stuff is imperative to the process. The dumping of perfectly good vino into classy silver spittoons, however? I could take it or leave it. This is probably why the only tasting notes I ever really write are about Fruit by the Foot. [...]
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