Review: Arby's - Double-Stacked Reuben Sandwich

Arby's Double-Stacked Reuben is the limited-time meatier cousin of their regular menu Reuben.

For an extra buck, you can double the amount of meat on the sandwich. The rest of the sandwich includes Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island, between two slices of toasted marble rye bread.

I picked one up for $5.99 at my local Arby's restaurant.

News: Subway - April 2013 Featured Subs

This April sees Subway continuing to offer a selection of Featured Value Subs, but also brings back the $5 Featured Footlong.

Oven Roasted Chicken continues to be offered as a $3 Six-Inch Select Sub, but is joined by Black Forest Ham.

News: Dairy Queen - April 2013 Blizzard of the Month

Dairy Queen's Blizzard of the Month for this April is a bit of a mouthful. It's the Choco Covered Pretzel with Peanut Butter Blizzard.

The Choco Covered Pretzel with Peanut Butter Blizzard is made with choco (i.e. fudge) covered pretzel pieces, peanut butter, and choco chunks blended into vanilla soft serve.

Review: Burger King - Turkey Burger

Burger King's new, limited-time Turkey Burger features a ground turkey patty, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions and mayo on an artisan-style bun.

It cost $3.99 at my local Burger King.

News: Little Caesars - New Deep! Deep! Dish Pizza

Little Caesars introduces their first new product in a long time with new Deep Deep Dish pizza (stylized as "DEEP!DEEP! Dish pizza"), a rectangular Detroit-style pizza in a nod to the chain's hometown.

For you crust lovers out there, the pizza has 8 corners for twice the crunchy crust. In the Detroit-style, the pizza is cooked in a modern adaptation of assembly line part trays that are considered essential to the method. The pans are coated with olive oil.

Around the World: McDonald's Taiwan Cuckoo Clock Tower

Photo credit: McDonald's Taiwan

In a bit of over-the-top marketing, McDonald's has come up with this cuckoo clock tower atop an elevator in a train station in Taipei.

When the clock strikes 12, instead of a a cuckoo bird, an oversized Sausage McMuffin pops out.

Apparently, it's a new attraction for McDonald's fans to see.

What do you think? Too much or brilliant?

Review: Nutkao Snack

Nutkao is an Italian brand that makes a spread similar to Nutella. The Nutkao Snack is aimed at "young people" according to their website and features little biscuit sticks with a cocoa-based spread in individual cups.

I picked up a 5.5-ounce package of three cups for $2.50 at Big Lots.

News: Ben & Jerry's - 2013 New Flavors

Ben & Jerry's has unveiled their new flavors for 2013. In addition to the Liz Lemon flavor that I wrote about earlier, the rest of the line up includes Chocolate Peppermint Crunch, Pineapple Passionfruit, Vanilla Honey Caramel, Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz, and Candy Bar Pie.

Chocolate Peppermint Crunch is chocolate ice cream with peppermint and fudge swirls and mint chocolate cookies.

Review: Fresh & Easy - Kettle Corn

Fresh & Easy Kettle Corn is kettle-cooked popcorn made with a mix of sugar, salt, and oil. You'll usually find kettle corn at county fairs or farmer's markets, but it's nice to pick up a bag at a market.

An 8-ounce bag is $1.99

News: DiGiorno - New Pizzeria Pizza

DiGiorno's newest pizza offering is Pizzeria (stylized "pizzeria!") pizza, which aims to bring a pizzeria pizza taste that bakes up in your oven in a little more than 20 minutes.

The tagline on the box says "pizzeria style crust. created with care." But not capitalization.

What's on the Menu: Domino's Pizza Nigeria

Nigeria is probably best known here in the US as that place where someone has a million dollars to give you, but needs some of your money to get it i.e. it's known for email scams. But did you know that you can get bananas on your pizza at Domino's there? Me neither.

Let's take a look at what's on the menu at Domino's in Nigeria...

Frozen Friday: Trader Joe's - Danish Pancakes

Trader Joe's Danish Pancakes (aka aebleskivers) are basically pancake balls. They're typically made in a special pan that looks a bit like a cast iron round muffin tin but with hemispherical indentations.

A 19.5-ounce bag of frozen pancakes sells for $3.49.