{"id":3804,"date":"2009-02-25T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2009-02-25T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:41:18","slug":"review-annies-original-bbq-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/02\/review-annies-original-bbq-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Annie’s Original BBQ Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last summer, Scott and I decided to cut HFCS<\/abbr> out of our lives as much as possible.\u00a0 This resulted in us realizing that a lot of our favorite products and condiments were now on the banned list and thus got tossed.\u00a0 I found myself having to restock my fridge and pantry.<\/p>\n

One thing I need on hand at all times is BBQ sauce. You just never know when you need some BBQ goodness, it can strike at any moment.\u00a0 Taking the time to read labels, I realized that most sauces had HFCS<\/abbr> in the ingredients and typically it was the second or third ingredient.\u00a0 This sort of made me cranky because I thought, “If Bob is sitting at home looking to make some BBQ sauce, something tells me he doesn’t have HFCS<\/abbr> sitting around in his cupboards and it probably isn’t the first thing he’s gonna grab to make some sauce with.”\u00a0 Am I right?\u00a0 Jeesh.\u00a0 So why the smaller label sauces had HFCS<\/abbr> in them boggled my mind.\u00a0 I was sort of edging on a BBQ rage when I was searching for a new sauce.<\/p>\n

I will tell you right now that I’m picky about BBQ sauces.\u00a0 I like them thick with a nice smoky aroma.\u00a0 It must be sweet at first with a nice tangy finish.\u00a0 I am not a Carolina BBQ sauce fan because I prefer not to drink straight vinegar.\u00a0 I prefer my BBQ sauce to have a thicker consistency, like I want to be able to spread it.\u00a0 I don’t want them too sweet but if there is no brown sugar or cane sugar to be had, then that’s bad too.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 I said I was picky.<\/p>\n

I tried the Annie’s Original BBQ sauce because it seems that Annie’s products and Food bloggers have a special kind of love going on.\u00a0 If so many people like it, it can’t be too bad right?<\/p>\n

Annie and I don’t get along very well.\u00a0 I know all the food bloggers are probably passing out of their office chairs and gasping for air right about now but it’s true.\u00a0 I’m sorry food bloggers, don’t hate me.\u00a0 How Annie chooses to flavor her products does not please my very picky palate.<\/p>\n

I opened this jar and gave it a sniff and sort of reeled back trying not to cough because that wouldn’t be polite.\u00a0 I had to give Annie a fair shake.\u00a0 Just because I found her Sour Cream and Onion bunnies (which I tried months before) to taste like cardboard someone ran over five times with sludge encrusted tires, does not mean that her BBQ sauce would taste the same way.<\/p>\n

And I was right!\u00a0 It did not taste like that at all!\u00a0 However, it did sort of taste like how sometimes you burp a little, and some bile comes up and hits the back of your throat?\u00a0 Yeah like that.\u00a0 But I tried again because I apparently don’t mind punishing myself.\u00a0 And again I was struck with the burning bile taste in my mouth.\u00a0 I may or may not have yelled, “Hot damn, I don’t know what the hell this is but it’s not BBQ sauce.”\u00a0 It’s debatable as that doesn’t really sound like something I would say, does it?<\/p>\n

I asked Scott to try it before I dumped it and he agreed it was, “Ew”, to quote him directly.\u00a0 He did not have such a strong aversion to it like I did, but he did not like it.\u00a0 I dumped the contents and the bottle hit the recycling bin, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n

But all is okay because my favorite brand of BBQ sauce has since gone HFCS<\/abbr> free (or at least all the sauces I like from them are HFCS<\/abbr> free) and I’ll do a review on them at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

You are free to try Annie’s Original BBQ sauce and see what you think.\u00a0 Me, I think it’s probably for the best that Annie and I just go our seperate ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, Scott and I decided to cut HFCS<\/abbr> out of our lives as much as possible.\u00a0 This resulted in us realizing that a lot of our favorite products and condiments were now on the banned list and thus got tossed.\u00a0 I found myself having to restock my fridge and pantry. One thing I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-Zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}