It’s the end of summer, and that means freezer pops are on sale. So we went to the corner store and found the two weirdest kinds they had — which turned out to be two supposedly candy-flavored types: Skittles and Extreme Sour Warheads freezer pops. TribLive Taste Test squad member
TribLive Taste Test team member Patrick Varine tried the Shamrock Shake in sixth grade. And he did
not like it.
Would the result be any different more than two decades later? Find out in this week’s TribLive Taste Test!
But before you do, the shake itself has quite an interesting history, with a connection to Pennsylvania.
Prior to the shake’s launch in 1970, Philadelphia Eagles tight end Fred Hill’s 3-year-old daughter was being treated for leukemia, and the Hill family regularly spent the night at the hospital during her treatments. The family saw others in the same predicament, and wondered if there was some way to help them feel more comfortable.
This Sunday, Jan. 24, is National Peanut Butter Day! And what better way to celebrate than buying most of the major store brands of peanut butter to figure out which is the best? TribLive Taste Test team members were originally hoping to do a blind taste test to try and