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Don't let the siesta start without me: Oreo Churro's!

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Pretty much every god and gun toting American has had the downright pleasure of eating a Churro. But the question on everyones candy coated lips is this: What the hell actually is a Churro? Our man Julian Assange from Wikipedia tells us that a Churro is "a fried-dough pastry�predominantly choux�based snack. Churros are popular in Spain, France, the Philippines, Portugal, Ibero-America and the Southwestern United States." Cool right? But what the hell is "choux"? Our man takes a break from the Ecuadorian embassy to tell us: Choux is "a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, �clairs, French crullers, beignets, St. Honor� cake, quenelles, Parisian gnocchi, dumplings, goug�res, chouquettes and craquelins. It contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. Instead of a raising agent, it employs high moisture content to create steam during cooking to puff the pastry."  So, Oreos plus fried choux, sounds amazing. I flipped taco bell the bird,...

Magnum Double Peanut Butter ice cream bars!

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Have you ever tried a Magnum Ice cream bar? Josh reviewed them when they first came out a while back.  His review was pretty hilarious but in the end he deemed them mediocre. So it was a while before any of us tried the other flavors. Then one day I decided to give the caramel ones a whirl. They changed my life. If you have never tried them, DO IT TODAY. But somehow, we never reviewed them. I think it was because by the time we tried them they were so old that we didn't think anyone would care. But I've eaten them pretty regularly since. Then, our of nowhere, I walk by the ice cream novelties cooler at my local supermarket and I see something that made me do a triple take. Sweet mother of mercy. MAGNUM DOUBLE PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM BARS.  Rub that dust out of your eyes, this isn't a mirage!  I nearly broke into a dead run on my way home because I wanted to try these away from the prying eyes of the public. But the moment I walked in I snapped a pic and ripped the box op...