Dinosaur Dracula!

Im not sure ifjunk food has ever been as interesting as it is at this very moment. Everywhere I turn, Im deluged by multicolored artificial things that work in sickly sweet pseudo-sugars the way Sirens work in song. Its great!

Below are five new or newish junk foods that struck me as being just interesting enough to buy, eat, photograph and write about on a 450 degree Tuesday afternoon. Enjoy, however vicariously.

Cotton Candy Oreo Cookies!

I think were past the point of thinking that every wacky new Oreo flavor is a major event.

Okay, Im lying. Of course Cotton Candy Oreos are a major event. Jesus, this is huge!

What I love most is how Nabisco perfectly encapsulated summer without ever using the word. I look at these, and all I can think about are swimming pools and ice cream trucks and Roman candles. The sun shines brighter, or maybe thats just the blazing yellow cookie bag.

The two-tone icing looks like the background in half of my grade school photos, too. Another plus.

I dont know how Nabisco pulled it off, but the cookies really do share a smell and flavor with cotton candy. Its a dead-on match. Even has that lingering cotton candy aftertaste. (You know, the kind thats still in your mouth five hours later, when youre eating chicken and potatoes? That uh that might not be a plus.)

Recommended? Yes. Cotton candy is already kindaspace food, but if it wasnt, this would be cotton candy space food. Read More

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Dinosaur Dracula!

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero