Amateur Food Porn: Hans Bites!
Time for a new product.. and this one really IS new, I picked it up at the supermarket this morning, it was just screaming "BUY ME, FROSTY, BUY ME!!"... and so I did.
Call 'em cheerios, lil boys, cocktail franks or wieners, we've all at one time or another had those little red sausages with liberal amounts of tomato sauce. Great for parties, or if you just can't be bothered cooking anything else on a hot day. Everyone loves them!
Well, Hans have come out with "BITES", Mini Deli Sausages that come in a microwaveable cup, with their own little sachet of sauce and a plastic fork. They come in regular or Cheese and Onion flavour, I picked the cheese and onion ones because regular is just..well..boring.
Here is the package:
There was a pretty impressive white plastic seal covering the tub when I took the lid off... (will SCOLD?? NAUGHTY HUMAN!! NAUGHTY HUMAN!! HOW DARE YOU EAT THIS!!!)
Inside were cute little half-sized sausages! They were really very adorable. Also inside was a silver sachet of sauce, and a plastic fork that was attached to the lid.
The directions were fairly fool-proof: Remove white sealing film from tub, Place plastic lid back on cup and place in Microwave for 15 seconds on high, Shake contecnts, then heat for a further 15 seconds and allow to stand for 30 seconds prior to eating.
I opted to drown my BITES in some of this:
as well as the meagre contents of the sauce sachet. Fountain Spicy Red is RED, but not spicy in terms of "OUCH THIS IS BURNING MY TONGUE OFF" spicy. Nice sauce, though, if you feel like a break from normal tomato sauce.
Here were my BITES once drowned in sauce...
Mmmm... saucy. Now for the tasting. The BITES had an oniony flavour.. not overpowering, though. Not much in the way of cheese flavour... But I'm sure it's in there somewhere. My only complaint is that the fork provided in the tub is kinda terrible. The prongs on it are too short to actually be of any use when poking into one of the sausages, and I frequently had to poke harder and almost risked an injury while doing so.
Hans BITES tries, and delivers (with the exception of the fork). They are tasty, quick to prepare (so they would be great for a meal on the go, or a college lunch) and reasonably affordable for the $2.50 something I paid for them.
4 BITES out of 5.
And now, 2 other items I have to post.. one is more Amateur Food Porn! I made up a batch of Muriel's* spaghetti sauce the other night (and I might just post the recipe if you're good :P), and there was enough left over to freeze for another night, though I saved a bit to put in the fridge for the next day. Not sure of what I would do with it, though... But then a thought came to me... cheese on toast with a spaghetti sauce base! And it turned out pretty darn good, I might say.
Mmmm...delicious. Apologies for the lousy plat and network cable in the photo :P Can't win 'em all!
The other picture, is my dearly departed Succulent... Spike. (Or whatever I named the damn thing.) As much as I watered him and sang to him and gave him love... he STILL croaked on me. Frostilicus is just not meant to keep plants. It makes no sense, though... The housemate's cacti live in the KITCHEN and get covered in grease and god knows what else... and THEY are still alive. Meh.
C'est la vie.
* Muriel = The Mother of Frostilicus.
Call 'em cheerios, lil boys, cocktail franks or wieners, we've all at one time or another had those little red sausages with liberal amounts of tomato sauce. Great for parties, or if you just can't be bothered cooking anything else on a hot day. Everyone loves them!
Well, Hans have come out with "BITES", Mini Deli Sausages that come in a microwaveable cup, with their own little sachet of sauce and a plastic fork. They come in regular or Cheese and Onion flavour, I picked the cheese and onion ones because regular is just..well..boring.
Here is the package:
There was a pretty impressive white plastic seal covering the tub when I took the lid off... (will SCOLD?? NAUGHTY HUMAN!! NAUGHTY HUMAN!! HOW DARE YOU EAT THIS!!!)
Inside were cute little half-sized sausages! They were really very adorable. Also inside was a silver sachet of sauce, and a plastic fork that was attached to the lid.
The directions were fairly fool-proof: Remove white sealing film from tub, Place plastic lid back on cup and place in Microwave for 15 seconds on high, Shake contecnts, then heat for a further 15 seconds and allow to stand for 30 seconds prior to eating.
I opted to drown my BITES in some of this:
as well as the meagre contents of the sauce sachet. Fountain Spicy Red is RED, but not spicy in terms of "OUCH THIS IS BURNING MY TONGUE OFF" spicy. Nice sauce, though, if you feel like a break from normal tomato sauce.
Here were my BITES once drowned in sauce...
Mmmm... saucy. Now for the tasting. The BITES had an oniony flavour.. not overpowering, though. Not much in the way of cheese flavour... But I'm sure it's in there somewhere. My only complaint is that the fork provided in the tub is kinda terrible. The prongs on it are too short to actually be of any use when poking into one of the sausages, and I frequently had to poke harder and almost risked an injury while doing so.
Hans BITES tries, and delivers (with the exception of the fork). They are tasty, quick to prepare (so they would be great for a meal on the go, or a college lunch) and reasonably affordable for the $2.50 something I paid for them.
4 BITES out of 5.
And now, 2 other items I have to post.. one is more Amateur Food Porn! I made up a batch of Muriel's* spaghetti sauce the other night (and I might just post the recipe if you're good :P), and there was enough left over to freeze for another night, though I saved a bit to put in the fridge for the next day. Not sure of what I would do with it, though... But then a thought came to me... cheese on toast with a spaghetti sauce base! And it turned out pretty darn good, I might say.
Mmmm...delicious. Apologies for the lousy plat and network cable in the photo :P Can't win 'em all!
The other picture, is my dearly departed Succulent... Spike. (Or whatever I named the damn thing.) As much as I watered him and sang to him and gave him love... he STILL croaked on me. Frostilicus is just not meant to keep plants. It makes no sense, though... The housemate's cacti live in the KITCHEN and get covered in grease and god knows what else... and THEY are still alive. Meh.
C'est la vie.
* Muriel = The Mother of Frostilicus.
posted by FrostilicusFrost at 12:00 pm
2 Comments:
You've made me hungry, and sad for your non-succulent!
just busted the original of the hans bites, not half bad. Definitely comes from the same salty vat of by-products as their ham sticks.
Good for when your nitrite levels are running dangerously low :)
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