Christmas isn’t Christmas without a belly full of mince pies. Of course we all like a home baked mince pie fresh from the oven, lid lifted to insert a blob of brandy butter. But, what with the all the working and present shopping, making mince pies is quite low on our list of priorities at the moment, so we decided to test the best the supermarkets have to offer.
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As the work experience girl at MCG, I expected to be making endless cups of tea, and alphabetically organising hundreds of files, so I was delighted when Rachel asked me to run their weekly taste test.
The food in question today was raspberry flavoured yoghurts. I know what you’re thinking; can eight products made up of milk and raspberries really taste that different? As we found out, the answer was yes, very!
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Dating back to the 13th century, hummous, in its various forms, has become a favourite dip the world over – in this office there is very rarely fewer than two pots festering in the back of the fridge.
So, after some heated debate about what was allowed in the taste test (Sharan’s favourite is a red pepper pesto hommos, but that was NOT allowed), the final list included; Morrison’s, Tesco, Tesco Organic, Sainsbury’s, Sainsbury’s Be Good to Yourself (this one had to be snuck in), Waitrose, M&S and a homemade version made by Sarah’s fair hands.
Read moreBaked beans are big business with over 1.2 million cans of Heinz Baked Beans alone being consumed in the UK each day. And that doesn’t take into account those who sit in baths full of them to raise money for various charities up and down the country. With such brand domination will MCG’s crack team of taste testers pick them as their favourite?
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The last taste test, in attempt to start 2011 on a healthy note, focused on smoothies, with Sainbury’s own brand beating established smoothie brands Tropicana and Innocent into second and third place respectively. However, inevitably, it didn’t take long for normal service to resume at MCG towers and this taste test focused on the far-less healthy option of ready salted crisps. Sadly, they are not included in our five-a-day.
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With the start of a new year we thought it was time for another taste test at MCG. As the ‘new boy’ currently on work placement, it was my duty to carry out the test and make sure there was no infringement of rules from, well, most of the participants.
As January is the healthiest month of the year and with me personally finding MCG the healthiest office I have ever worked in, with all the soups and salads, we soon decided to taste a healthy smoothie
We opted for strawberry and banana flavour as it crops up in most ranges. We chose to test five scrumptious smoothies and as a surprise for the team I added a sixth contender…a repeat sample of one of the initial five. The brands that were fighting for the title of MCG’s favourite were:
Read moreDave our current work experience summed it up perfectly last week: “I know never to get between a girl and her chocolate!” With this is mind, we decided to fine tune our tastebuds ready for the inevitable onslaught of chocolate this Christmas and put milk chocolate to the test.
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After the resounding and quite frankly, overwhelmingly shocking results of MCG’s last taste test, we decided to hold another in honour of one of Britain’s best traditions; the humble chip. And what does one use to grace the humble chip? Why tomato ketchup of course.
Ketchup, red sauce, tommy k; we had them all and settled on the six brands which we thought best represented the current market:
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We launch our Friday tasting panel series with the serious business of a jaffa cake-off. Which brand won and which was chemically? Whose was the most citrus?
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