Quaker

Update Review, 2024Quaker, along with their obviously popular cereals and granola bars, also makes a fairly large product line of rice snacks.  Large format standard rice cakes, smaller, crunchier Rice Crisps, super thin and even crispier Rice Thins, and triangular Rice Chips.  All come in a variety of flavors.Rice Crisps"'With so many crunchy ways to snack, you might not be able to pick just one. They’re a great lunch time sidekick, after school snack or...

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Dairy Queen

Update Review, October 2024I finally visited a Dairy Queen!Yes, I, the girl who eats ice cream (or some kind of other frozen ice cream adjacent dessert component) at least once a day, had never actually visited a Dairy Queen before.  I simply have never lived where one is located, and thus, the opportunity has never been there for me.The astute reader will remember that I did have my first ever Dairy Queen about a year ago when I ordered quasi-failed...

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Urban Ritual

Urban Ritual is a tea/coffee shop with locations in San Francisco, San Mateo, and San Jose.  I've been aware of the business for a few years, drawn in by some of their more unique bubble tea adjacent drinks (like the mango sticky rice drink with rice milk and coconut milk, the black sesame rice ball drink with drinkable mochi in it, another with pandan & corn milk (!), and others with brûlée of all sorts).  They do of course make more traditional...

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Tucson Marriott University Park Concierge Lounge

A recent short business trip took me to Arizona for the first time ever, to Tucson.  I was there to help with recruiting at the University of Arizona, and wanted to stay somewhere within an easy walk to campus, and thus, the Marriott University Park was my home for 4 nights.I had a generally enjoyable stay, and was impressed with the friendliness of the staff, and the low key vibe overall.  I had access to the Concierge Lounge, located on the same floor as...

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