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N THE WORLD of frozen snacks, some score
a touchdown and others are sacked harder
than Joe Theismann. Now that
football season is here, we don’t
want you to disappoint your ravenous game-watching friends,
so we’re here to help you separate the good from the bad in the
world of game-day snacks.
Being food editors, we tend to
go a little overboard — caramelized onion dip, grilled sliders,
fondue pots, all from scratch —
but we know what’s really going
on in the rest of America. In the
land where food snobs don’t prevail, people want convenience.
They want things frozen, and
they want them microwaved.
Well, this one’s for you guys.
We rounded up a collection
of all-natural, frozen game-time
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snacks that are meant for your
microwave. Though it was tempting to include oven-baked snacks
like mozzarella sticks and samosas, comparing microwaved and
oven-baked food is like entering
Honey Boo Boo as a contestant
in the Miss Universe pageant. It’s
just not fair.
You may be wondering what
“all-natural” means. It turns out,
so is the rest of the world. Though
there’s no legal definition of “allnatural,” the term is used in food
labeling to imply that it’s minimally
processed and doesn’t contain
manufactured ingredients. There
aren’t too many standards enforcing this label, but hey, we’ll take it.
We averaged the votes of our
tasters, helping you figure out
which brands are worth buying
and which brands you
should avoid at all costs.
HUFFINGTON
10.20.13