Taste Test – Medley Hills Farm Dried Mixed Berries

These dried mixed berries from Medley Hills Farm are some of the best I have sampled. In my earlier years when I used to frequent the hiking and canoeing trails I would make my own trail mix and dried berries were a favorite. This batch contains cherries, blueberries, cranberries and my favorite strawberries.

This was a delicious mix not as sweet as many others that I have tried, my only complaint would be not enough strawberries

9 out of 10

A good recipe idea is to include them in your stuffing mix for chicken or turkey

Taste Test – Snack Crate (Road Trip – USA)

This month’s Snack Crate is a USA box entitled “Road Trip”. These should be snacks we are somewhat familiar with, let’s see. A total of twenty three snacks this month including the drink.

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The drink this month is a standard ginger ale from Kentucky. Alex liked it but I do not care for soda. Alex-8 Joe-5

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Cougar Mountain Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookie from Washington State was a classic case of something looking way better than it tastes. We were both anxious to try the cookie. I found the peanut flavor to be too strong for my taste and I just did not enjoy the texture or flavor. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Sifers Valomilk from Kansas were chocolate cups with a gooey marshmallow filling. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Better Made Barbecue Chips from Michigan – I do not like barbecue chips but Alex does. Alex thought they were way too salty. Alex-7 Joe-6

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Owyhee Idaho Spud Candy Bar – fluffy chocolate nougat infused with coconut flakes. OK but I would have preferred without the coconut. The nougat was extremely soft almost marshmallowy in texture. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Salt Water Taffy from New Jersey – typical of the type Alex-7 Joe-6

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Cactus Candy fro Arizona were delicious gummy like candy with a delicious flavor. Flavored with real prickly pear cactus flavoring. Alex-8 Joe-9

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Pumpkin Spice Moon Pie from Tennessee were graham cracker and marshmallow filling flavored with pumpkin spice. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Joey’s Black and White were soft cake like cookies coated with a rich chocolate and vanilla icing, out of New York. Alex and I both quite liked these, the icing was very rich. Alex-8 Joe-8

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Blu Monday candy out of Kentucky – Chocolate coating with a sweet filling. Think of a peppermint patty but without the mint flavor. Alex-6 Joe-7

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Marsha’s Homemade Buckeyes from Ohio – chocolate covered peanut butter balls; delicious like a high end peanut butter cup with the proportion of peanut butter much higher Alex-8 Joe-9

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Anastasia Coconut Patties from Florida – Key lime flavored coconut nougat Alex-7 Joe-7

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Berger Cookies from Maryland had a thick fudge coating on a vanilla cookie. The fudge was very rich with a nice chocolatey flavor Alex-8 Joe-8

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Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll – this crunchy candy bar with nougat center and covered in caramel and peanuts is from Michigan. Alex-7 Joe-7

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Aunt Sally’s Creole Pralines from Louisana cluster of caramel and peanuts Alex-6 Joe-6

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Annabelle’s Abba Zabba from California is a chewy taffy surrounding a peanut butter center Alex-6 Joe-6

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Goo Goo Cluster – Candy from Tennessee caramel, peanuts and marshmallow coated in chocolate Alex-7 Joe-7

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Little Boosie’s Louisiana Heat Chips – these rapper themed chips from Miami, Florida were actually not very spicy and were an OK rippled chip with very mild spice flavor.

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Chesapeake Crab Chips from Virginia were crunchy nice tasting chips. I did not detect any crab flavor more of a crab seasoning flavor. Alex-7 Joe-8

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Garrett Popcorn – a delicious popcorn mix, both the caramel and the cheese flavored corn were top notch. Best in Box! I don’t know if this is typical but the cheese corn outnumbered the caramel 5 to 1. Alex-9 Joe-10

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Asia TransRainbow Belts from Hawaii sweet and sour sugary candy Alex-7 Joe-7

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Tuna Jerky from Hawaii – The fish flavor hits you as an after taste, when you first try them the appearance and texture is like a piece of beef jerky Alex-6 Joe-7

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Elk Jerky – Tastes like any other slim jim type of meat stick. Good but nothing unique, this one was from New Mexico Alex-9 Joe-8

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This was our highest Snack Crate box and one of our highest overall boxes for both Universal Yums and Snack Crate. Maybe it is because it has flavors that we are more used to being from the United States. Be sure to check out our previous posts on Universal Yums and Snack Crate Boxes under Taste Tests.

Alex 7.22 out of 10
Joe 7.13 out of 10

Alex favorite snacks – Elk Jerky and Garrett Popcorn
Joe favorite snacks – Garrett Popcorn

Taste Test – Honeyrun Farm Honey

We purchased a series of different flavored honeys from Honeyrun Farms in Ohio. Alex loves honey so we were looking forward to the taste test.

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First up were the three seasonal harvests.

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The seasonal honeys became darker with a more pronounced flavor as the year progressed.
The lemon verbena was mild in flavor and most similar to traditional mass market honey.

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The lavender infused honey had a very pronounced flavor but not at all off-putting.

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The tulip poplar honey was darker in color and very tasty with a unique flavor.

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The buckwheat was Alex’s least flavor with a strong flavor. I quite liked it the dark colored honey had a flavor you will recognize if you like buckwheat pancakes.

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A nice variety of honeys with some unique flavors not at all like the supermarket product.