Michigan has some of the highest hot dog standards in the country, disallowing the use of mechanically separated beef, an excess of fat and offal, and limiting the amount of water a hot dog can contain to just 10%. The best come in natural hog casings to offer snap and spring with each bite. Question is: in a state full of great dogs, who makes the best? More
Jan Norris of the Palm Beach Post: "We got sticker shock, seeing 'premium' jars of red sauce, ranging from $5.69 to $10.29, prominently displayed at the supermarket, while the $2.07 Ragú sat on the bottom shelf. So, if they cost nearly five times as much — and contain, on average, 2 ounces less — these pricey pasta potions must be nearly five times better than Ragú, right?" Norris got five Italian grandmothers to blind taste test 16 different sauces—they thought the most expensive sauce was the worst of the lot and gave the highest rating to Barilla's Tomato and Basil, the cheapest of all the sauces at $2.50!... More
The SF Chronicle tried out some frozen pepperoni pizzas in a blind taste test last week and lo and behold, not only did DiGiorno's entry come out on top but also scored high enough to make into the Taster's Choice Hall of Fame, "an honor reserved for products that score 80 or more out of 100 points in blind tasting." (It squeaked in with 81.)... More
