Hey hey everyone, yo' boy Alex here with another exciting TGI Friday's "In Your Freezer" product review. Today's product is the Sesame Orange Chicken for one (12 oz. package) that I acquired today along with many other exciting frozen products in Stop & Shop supermarket. I don't know if you know about Stop & Shop, but it's a big supermarket (with 5 or so trailer docks) chain, and there seems to be only 1 door of it in Brooklyn. This place is kinda far from me but I do enjoy shopping there because they have wider selection of product than your average supermarket and they carry hard-to-find item in stock, like Old Spice Classic body wash ($4.49), expanded selection of Hot Pockets (including buffalo-style Side Shots), Newman's Own pizza, wide selection of Kool-Aid packets(4 for $1.00 reg. price) and much more. Their prices are also frequently cheaper than the smaller local supermarkets and they have good promotional sales a lot. I found out that Stop & Shop is having a promo sale this week for the TGI Friday's frozen foods: 2 packets for $4.00 (12 oz. per packet) "Entrees for One" or 2 packets for $10.00 (24 oz. per packet) "Complete Skillet Meals".



The difference between the 12 oz. and 24 oz. is that the first one has the meal on the plate on the packaging and that the later one has the meal on the skillet/frying pan. And if you do the math according to this store's promo then you will be paying $2.00 more if you buy the larger 24 oz. packets/bags.



So like I said, we have Sesame Orange Chicken for one here today. I bought only 1 packet because this product has rice instead of pasta like the previous review had. I am not a big fan of rice, generally I only like the yellow pork fried rice type of rice that you get at the Chinese food joints. I do not like the white or boiled rice, that stuff is disgusting to me, with all that steam and boiling smell going on. I pretty much prepared it in the skillet/frying pan like I did it in the previous review. So basically what you have in this bitch is Sesame Breaded White Meat Chicken (4 pieces of various size, like on the packaging graphic, so don't expect or hope for more), Asian-Style Vegetables (3-4 pieces of broccoli, sliced carrots and sliced red peppers) and White Rice "Tossed in Sweet Orange Sauce". Orange sauce being the brown mystery-looking chunks of matter.

So I prep that shit up and like last time: you don't get much of food in this packet-bag thing. It's probably enough to feed a skinny person like Gia, but for a normal American person 12 ounces of food is just not fucking enough. At first I tried a piece of chicken by dipping it into the sauced rice, and it tasted okay: the chicken looks good outside but inside it is just tasteless white. Then I took another bite of rice with broccoli. I started chewing it and then realized that I hate this kind of rice, so I spit it on the plate. I decided to eat the remaining chicken pieces and broccoli and throw down the toilet the rest (mostly the string beans, carrots and rice). I am not a fan of string beans and carrots either. I threw the stuff down the toilet and then I suddenly realized that the biggest chunk of grilled chicken went down the bowl, luckily I had the fork on hand and forked that good stuff out, cleaned it with warm water and ate it. I don't let the good stuff go to waste.

Personally I did not liked this TGI Friday's Sesame Orange Chicken for one entree and will not buy it again, but I can definitely see someone who is into rice and vegetables enjoying this stuff. It is of premium quality compared to other brands like Banquet and Hungry Man, so it is worth giving a try. I did, but I did not liked it. If you hate rice and veggies then don't buy it, but if you like these kinds of ingredients then be my guest.

I will post the pics in a little while because I gotta resize, crop, adjust the exposure, adjust the brightness & contrast and add some sharpness.

And in the other news: (1) Staples has initiated their shrink ray on the small bubble wrap, bringing to the length of their bubble wrap by 25 squares less (12x175). (2) Snuggle has re-done their Snuggle bear from whitish creepy smile bear to brownish and more classic version of Snuggle bear.

I also came up with the idea of this TGI Friday's stuff checklist, so let's try to collect/eat them all.