Posted by brilokuloj on Mar 21, 2024
Welcome to the first installment of Dreamhopper! This is a series of retrospective articles touring Furcadia, the decrepit furry chatroom from the 90s. I’ll be showing you its rich and zombified culture, the kinds of people who played it – and most importantly, the bizarre architecture and interior design choices of the average mapmaker – all through the critical lens of someone who got seriously traumatized as a child on the platform.
If you want a real look into 90s virtual world nostalgia, smiles and tears and terrifying events and all, this is the series for you. Today I’m exploring the character creator as the means to introduce the platform as a whole.
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Posted on Mar 20, 2024
Hey, we’re back! With a food review! It’s just like old times, isn’t it? Something FINALLY interesting enough to review has dropped in the soda aisles recently: New Coca-Cola Spiced!
This is a “permanent” addition to the Coca-Cola flavor lineup, which means you’ve got about two years to enjoy this before you can only find it in THAT grocery store way too far away from where you live and they don’t always have it anyway. Coca-Cola Spiced is a really weird and new kind of flavor to add to your permanent lineup, though! Sodas described as “spiced” only really come out around the Christmas season and only as LTOs! Coke describes the flavor as a “unique alchemy of our iconic cola, raspberry and spiced flavors”, which to us is surprisingly non-evocative. Is it just raspberry Coke, then? Which spices were used? And how about some herbs?
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Posted on Mar 6, 2024
We are working on transferring our blog’s archives to a new format, away from Wordpress, due to the CEO of Automattic’s recent behavior. All posts under this one are old articles and more will be added as time goes on! We’re still working on new articles, which will be posted ABOVE this post… once we get around to publishing them.
We’re sorry for however much time this takes, both for moving old articles and writing new! This is the cost of a new generation… of Eggware.XYZ.
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Posted on Oct 1, 2015
Taco Bell, compared to most other nation-wide fast food restaurants, has an extremely dedicated following. Like most fast food places, Taco Bell’s menu is regularly changing, adding new items and removing old. This has led to a lot of contention among their fanbase, as cult favorites tend to be the first to get the ax. These include items such as the Beefy Crunch Burrito, the Bell Beefer, the Blackjack Taco - all cut down in (what their fans will claim was) their prime.
But there’s always been one menu item that’s had an especially loud clamor for its return. It wasn’t a taco, or a burrito, or even a real meal in itself - it was a sauce. The Lava Sauce, the foundation of the now-discontinued Volcano Menu, has been widely requested for a return to the proper menu ever since its discontinuation in 2013. It was essentially a spicy nacho cheese sauce, yes, but fans will claim that the spice made the difference. If you were to hear it from a Lava Sauce lover, it could elevate virtually any Taco Bell food into a heavenly experience, a kind of claim that we only hear about Sriracha sauce nowadays. Although the Taco Bell fans cried loudly for their sauce back, Taco Bell stayed quiet… Until now.
Now, the legendary Lava Sauce is back and featured in the Volcano Quesarito, a standard Taco Bell Quesarito with Lava sauce in place of the regular cheese. We’ve never had the original Lava Sauce, but the idea of having such a monumental sauce for a limited time was too interesting to pass up. Will Lava Sauce live up to its volcanic hype or be a stone cold flop?
Find out after the jump.
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Posted on Aug 25, 2015
Taco Bell has been on a roll recently! We didn’t get a chance to review the Bacon Club Chalupa, but we thought it was very good and an excellent bargain in its $5 meal deal. Their latest offering is the Dare Devil Loaded Grillers, a set of three “loaded Grillers” with super-spicy sauce in three heat levels.
Each Griller is wrapped in a grilled burrito and includes Taco Bell’s seasoned ground beef, nacho cheese, and crunchy red tortilla strips. The primary draw is the Dare Devil sauces, however: Chipotle, Habanero, and Ghost Pepper (from least to most hot).
The sauces for the Grillers are all mayonnaise based, with the Habanero sauce also including sour cream. As the sauce for the Chipotle Griller was an already established sauce on their menu, we decided to only review the two new sauces.
After the jump we’ll take the dare and see if these Grillers are red hot or stone cold.
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Posted on Aug 13, 2015
Popeyes is back with another resurrection of one of their previous monthly limited time offerings: the Rip’n Chick’n. We last saw the Rip’n Chick’n in 2011, but the premise has been seen again in 2014’s Beer Can Chicken. As of late July 2015, they’ve brought the concept by itself back.
Popeyes seems to be taking a bit of a hiatus from new concepts: we saw that next month’s offering will be the Bonafide Big Box, which has already happened back in April. This is probably for the best, because their last few offerings (like the Smoky Garlic Chile Chicken and Hushpuppy Butterfly Shrimp) have been less than stellar. Will this semi-retro offering give us a tasty blast from the past, or is it resurrecting what should’ve been left in the grave? Find out after the jump.
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