 Welcome back to our channel. My name is Howard and I'm Andrea and we're with Foodimentary Adventures in Food and we are here today with a taste test from Shader Joe's. I went there recently picked up some new items and thought you guys might want to see how they taste so we are gonna jump in. I will say we do have an 11 month old baby and he is behind us playing so you may hear him from time to time. You probably will hear him from time to time. So we're gonna jump in. The first thing that we are going to try are these French onion soup bites with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese and I baked them according to the package directions. You bake them for about 20 to 26 minutes in the oven and Howard is showing you what they look like. Looks good to me. Yeah that would kind of flattened out a little bit but it's kind of like a cup. Yeah it's a cup. It's like a puff pastry kind of dough I think. So you ready? Cheers. Cheers. I taste the onions. I actually like it. I don't think I like it. So. It reminds me of French onion soup. It does. I mean you know it's a French onion soup bite so it does taste like French onion. Definitely a lot of caramelized onions and I guess maybe I don't like caramelized onions as much as I thought. They're sweet. Yeah they're very sweet. I mean it's not bad. Would I buy would you buy it again? I would. I like it. Yeah so if you like it if you really like French onion soup then this is for you. Yeah then it takes you just like it. Next thing I got these for Howard because he is a corn fanatic. These are called hold the corn appetizers and they kind of look like a trisket. Oh yeah I didn't notice that on the the outside. It's like a little ice cream cone to me. Yeah and it says netted rice cones filled with a savory combination of sweet corn and vegetables. Some of the vegetables are it actually has green onions, coconut, water chestnuts, mushrooms etc etc. Okay let's give it a try. Okay cheers. There's the flavor I'm taking. I don't like the texture of the cones because they're kind of chewy. Um there's something in there that tastes green. Well there's green onions and lemongrass and there's cilantro and you don't really like. I don't like cilantro too much and I really like taking it away for you. That's probably what I taste the cilantro. I like cilantro but I don't like water chestnuts and there's some pretty big hunks in here but I mean I like the flavor of it but I don't like the texture of this cone. Would you buy it again? Uh because of the cilantro no but it wasn't that bad for me. I don't like that texture but I don't know did you see the inside? I did show. You did show. Okay all right so the next thing that we have. Wash that down. Yeah it's this sugar pop plum sparkling beverage. It says plum and white grape juices and this is just a seasonal item and so already poured some juice for us. Cheers. Cheers. So I taste the sparkling stuff. I can't say I taste plum over. Say there's grape in there. White grape and plum. Okay the plum must be hiding somewhere but it's a hint of plum with some white grape. Yeah I mean it doesn't taste any different than any other sparkling juice that I've had because I was afraid I was telling Howard I was like I hope this isn't prune juice and it's calling it plum juice but it doesn't taste like plum or prunes it just tastes like a regular sparkling. Sparkling with the mild mild flavor of something. Yeah would you buy it again? No I would skip it but I know you're more a sparkling person than I am. Yeah I probably wouldn't buy it again and that's special. Okay you want to go next? Okay next up we have cashews. They're caramel coffee cashews. I know you don't like cashews, you don't like coffee. This is all me here. Yeah cuz he loves cashews and coffee and he loves coffee. Not to be done with caramel though. I love caramel. Okay this is what it look like. They don't look bad. I got one here. Okay I don't smell any. Do you smell anything? Coffee or caramel? A little coffee. Cheers. It's a coffee. I do taste a coffee. There's that little coffee bitterness I wish I liked but I'm not sure you'd like this at all. For one you don't like cashew, you don't like coffee. I don't mind it. No you definitely if you don't drink if you're like me and you don't drink coffee you'll definitely taste the coffee. I don't particularly care for these but I do like coffee candy cuz coffee candy is kind of like creamy. Okay but this is not doesn't have that creamy taste. It does taste like coffee and it has that bitterness to it so I probably wouldn't buy it again would you? I wouldn't cuz I prefer cashews with plain with maybe salt and roasted. Okay and what's up next? This is English toffee something. English toffee bites. So they had these this is like a small sample pack but then they also had the like a larger tin of these toffees and I think it's kind of like almond roca so when I was younger my mom used to buy almond roca all the time. It's very small. Let's see. Is that dark chocolate? It's buttery. I like it. Which is unusual because he doesn't really like chocolate. I don't get chocolate from here at all. So what is it that you like? The buttery part I guess. To me it's very reminiscent of almond roca. That's what it tastes like to me. It's pretty good. Not bad but it's very it's lighter to me than almond roca. Pretty tasty. What's next? Up next is this holiday decorating cookie kit. Yes so of course I didn't decorate all the cookies but I did do one. You know I'm no decorator. There you go. Actually that's pretty good. So I will say that if you are not into food dies if you don't like that artificial stuff the thing about this cookie kit is it comes with three of these. It comes with you want to show the other ones. It comes with a red one, a green one, and a white one. And it doesn't have artificial colors in there so like the green one for instance has the spirulina, the red one has beet powder. I don't like beets. I don't either but that's what the red one is and then so that's just an FYI in a side if you're into that kind of thing. It came with different little bags of decorations. I had two bags of sprinkles and then it also came with these little foil strips here which I think are to hang them. Yeah there's a little hole in the cookie which you'll see and a couple different shapes of cookies. So here's a little gift cookie. There's a little hole right here. Yeah right here. But I think these things go through. Yeah okay so let's uh gonna break it in half for us. Let's break the cookie. Is it hard? Let me try and cut the cookie. Okay then do a good job but it doesn't matter. So I will say this green icing is kind of so it's not like a it's like a lime green. It's like a lime green. It's more like a gel not an icing. It's not it doesn't look appealing to me. Cheers. How did you taste first? How does it taste? I don't taste beat. Well that's that's good. So I don't think there's anything special with the cookie or the icing or anything. I would agree with you. I think the icing is very sweet. It is sweet. Like really sweet and the cookie tastes like a like butter cookie. Would you would you say you know those butter cookies that come in the tin at Christmas? Oh I wouldn't say it tastes like that. No? No. Those are much better than this. It tastes like um like a cheap cookie. I don't know how to explain it. It's not anything special. It doesn't taste rich and buttery or anything like that. Well you know I said that because you know I don't like those cookies in the tin. Yeah but are they meant to be eaten though? Because if you're gonna use them as decorations. Yeah they're meant to be eaten. So if it's hanging on your tree for a couple weeks. You're not supposed to actually put it on your tree. Then why do you hang why would you have this to hang them or whatever? It's it's just part of the fun. Holiday ornaments okay. I know what you're not supposed to do. Sorry I don't understand. I just eat it. All right so the next few items that we have to have to try are um some frozen desserts so I am going to go grab those and I will be right back. So we're back. These are cheesecake cones and it says almond florentines almond florentine cones filled with the creamy cheesecake filling and so I had to open these ahead of time because you actually are supposed to let them come to room well not room temperature. You're supposed to let them thaw out. So they come in a tray that looks like this and then I pulled out to it says you can either thaw them in the fridge for 90 minutes or you can thaw them on the cabinet and so I thawed them on the cabinet and as you can see hopefully they've kind of started to melt a little bit and the shell on the top I don't know if it didn't have the shell all the way around but as you can see there's just like nuts and stuff so looks good to me it really does look good so we're gonna try some taste so oops I think I took too big a taste that is not a taste maybe half geez cheers it's good mm-hmm I didn't get any shell the shell I don't think I think the shell melts yeah I get melted maybe it's just the coconut I'm not coconut sorry the nuts and whatever got some kind of caramel sauce with the nuts it's very sweet but it's nice it's good I do like it you do like it mm-hmm would you buy it again I would so the shell doesn't stay intact like that and don't think the shell is going to be crunchy because it's not it's very soft I thought the shell was like pastry or something like it looked to me like a cannoli that's what I was expecting like a cannoli shell with something in the middle but it's not it's not it's very soft and then I think we have one last thing so we have ice cream bonbons which I've never seen those before at Trader Joe's well I'm not sure I'm a bonbon person but I'll try I haven't had a bonbon in a long time so it comes in a tray and you're gonna try a bonbon yes and they're dark chocolate and it says oh it's vanilla with chocolate cookie crust yes okay cheers it tastes like dark chocolate got that it's dark chocolate for sure but it's not I'm not a huge dark chocolate person but this is not really bitter bitter no it's not too bad mm-hmm it's not bad it's not bad I like the cookie crust but the ice cream is not very creamy it's it doesn't have a strong flavor it's supposed to be vanilla ice cream but it's not mm-hmm a strong vanilla taste or anything it's just mild mm-hmm very mild and the ice cream isn't like really creamy it's more like an ice milk if you will but still good yeah it's pretty good I would would you buy it again the bonbons because even though you said you're not a bonbon person even though I'm not a bonbon or a chocolate person yes yeah I would definitely buy those again those are pretty good all right but I do like the cheesecake though yeah cheesecake was pretty good I think that's it right yeah that should be it yeah so thank you guys so much for watching I hope you all enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel we certainly hope you'll do so thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time bye bye