I picked out the green. It is the same shade of green that the Soviet summer retreat camp had. The same shade of the color of tranquility.

Okay so today we have another brand new review. I gotta tell the truth and confess that I actually made and ate this meal yesterday, but I remember it very well, because today I made the review that I will post tomorrow. Today's TGIF frozen foods flavor of the day is Chicken Broccoli Alfredo. MMmmmmmmmmm, that's right, because starting today(yesterday) we(I) will make these packages using the double(2x) of ingredient. On other words instead one 12-ounce packet there will be two 12-ounce packets to the total of combine 24-ounces of belly-filling food. They(manufacturer) say on the packaging of the 12-ounce meal that it will feed 1 person, little person maybe. And on the 24-ounce single packet they say "feeds 2". What they really out to say is "feeds 2 skinny people or 1 American citizen".



So I started with 2 packets of frozen Chicken Broccoli Alfredo on the frying pan, and I was concerned that there is too much stuff on the pan, but 3-5 minutes later the frozen chunks of alfredo sauce have melted and the ingredients have nicely settled down. Stirring the stuff periodically is key function is making these TGI meals, whether you do them on the pan or in the microwave oven; both instructions call for stirring.

When the stuff was done, I put it on plate and let it sit so the heat would come down. Overall the stuff is pleasantly good: the stuff that makes this meal special is the alfredo sauce that binds all other ingredients (chicken cubes, broccoli and pasta) in heavenly delight. Chicken cubes were soft and tender, and most likely marinated in somekind concoction to add the taste to otherwise bland processed chicken cubes. Broccoli was okay: nothing special but nothing bad, flavor was a bit lacking, most likely because of the thawed moisture. Pasta was alright; combined with the sauce and other stuff, I could not say that the pasta was bad and also can't say that it was great.

As always; pics soon to come.

anyone gets tired of this^ idiots bullshit just say so....

I was tired of it eight days ago.

I look forward to each review. Alex, let us know how the frozen onion rings and jalapeno poppers work out. Oh, and the chipotle chicken pasta. I'm curious.

you want him to post shit pics don't ya?.

I plan to review all the TGI Friday frozen foods items, that's why I have the checklist under every review. Then I will try the Panda Changs meals and maybe even Stouffers, because their stuff sells for less than Changs and has like 1-ounce more per bag.

Here are the images for last review:

this^ fucken guys account was made for usenet. i wish we could dump everything he's ever done there.

Alex, I took another look at the pics of your horribly crowded kitchen. Does your blender have its own Cone of Silence over it?

Yes it does. Its more like dome than cone. The motor is like 3.5 horsepowers so it is loud.

Note how he pads this shit out; listing each and every step like he's padding one of those godawful term papers he used to post. There's a fucking Kingsborough Community College Education at work:








BTW, if anyone needs a sig:

Just got the letter from Kingsborough 2 days ago: they want my money:







I am giving them nothing! I still remember those days how I used to run from one office to another without any help because of their bureaucracy. I remember how their indifferent staff used to send me to one place only to be sent to another. And I also remember those daily catering carts that used to go around the executive offices. They will get nothing from me!!!

Also, here is another except from one of my projects just for you JB since you like them so much:

Introduction

I am Alex and my import project consists of importing sunflower seeds (roasted and flavored) to United States. Ukraine is one of the top producers of sunflower seeds in the world and the prices for sunflower seeds are low here. Sunflower seeds are classified as technical crop in Ukraine, and this is because most of the sunflower seed output in Ukraine is used to make sunflower oil. For the year of 2006, Ukraine has produced over 4,700,000 tons of sunflower seeds.

In the United States, roasted sunflowers seeds are popular among urban, suburban and rural customers alike as a tasty and affordable snack. Currently the market is dominated by the David brand of roasted sunflower seeds which can be found in most major retail chains as well as in small mom-and-pop/hole-in-the-wall convenience stores.

Product Description

The products will consist of 5.0 oz. (5.039 oz.) bags of roasted sunflower seeds that will be available in the following 3 popular flavors:

-Classic
-BBQ
-Ranch

Classic flavor is the basic roasted sunflower seeds with no additional additives.
BBQ flavor is the basic roasted sunflower seeds plus BBQ flavor seasoning/dusting.
Ranch flavor is the basic roasted sunflower seeds plus ranch flavor seasoning/dusting.

The 5.0 oz. (5.039 oz.) bags pretty much equal 7 bags to a kilogram (35.273 oz.)

The HTSUS number for my product is 1206.00.00.61
and description for it is - Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken, Other: For human use: In-shell
and the applicable duty rate is - Free
This can be found in the Chapter 12 - OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER

I am also taking advantage of manufacturer’s discount of 15% from the total product cost by placing an order that exceeds 80,000 tons of roasted sunflower seeds.

The product (sunflower seeds) is planned to be sold at $0.99-$1.19 to end consumer on a retail level.

The brand name that I will use for my roasted sunflower seeds will be called Blazin’-Amazin’ Value.

Target Market

The target market for my product is value-conscious customers who prefer products that provide a lot of quantity for low price, while not sacrificing the taste quality. These customers shop at big club chains like Costco, BJ’s and Sam’s Club. These same customers also shop at chains like Dollar Tree, Dollar General and Deal$. These stores generally offer products that are priced at $1.00 price point.

Why Ukraine?

I choose Ukraine because I knew that they produced a lot of sunflower oil, and to get sunflower oil you have to have sunflower seeds. I also lived in Ukraine and remember the endless yellow sunflower fields in the summer outside the city of Kiev. Agriculture has always played an important part of Ukraine’s history, and production of different grains is a serious industry in the Ukraine that is vital for it and neighboring nations. The only thing about Ukraine that is bad is the location of it, which required the transportation of products by trucks into European ports that can have the cargo ships to travel to the United States. Trucking industry is very modern in Ukraine and there are many freight companies in Kiev (capital) that can fulfill different kinds of freight-based problems. With all this in mind, it made sense to me to choose Ukraine as supplier of the sunflower seeds.

I have to say, this shit hits home for me. Nothing used to piss me off more than having to pay $4 for a shitty frozen hamburger on campus, and having to pay tuition, plus all the other shit, while working a lousy job. And then I'd see these empty suit assholes eating catered lunches that I paid for. Them and the niggers with athletic scholarships who also got a free meal ticket subsidized by me in more ways than one.

BTW, that last thing you cooked looked pretty good. I never thought I'd say that.

It's pretty easy to ignore as long as he keeps it confined to the same thread. Much easier than dealing with H2C and Brandon Iron playing pattycake with each other on every other thread.

The notion of anyone asking Panzer for money is enough to make one question their intelligence. The fact that it's a college president ought to be beyond the realm of possibility. Until you realize that it's Regina Peruggi. She's the cousin Giuliani fucked, married and divorced. Anyone of a mind to inbreed with that guy is capable of anything.

Before he deletes it...

Old news. Panzer finally confessed his Liger desires !

I'm proud of Panzer for finally coming out of the closet. And I found out the board doesn't support Cyrillic characters.

he didn't come out he just got tired of defending his genetics.

alex...whats on the christmas fridays menu for ole mum and dad?.
pretty sure your dad would like something from the cream sauce side of the entree list, yes?.

Ooh, try the Loaded Potato Skillet with Chicken, Alex, and add a side of the Yuletide favorite Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers. The Potato Skillet entree is a larger-sized entree "for two"; you've previously commented that 12 ounces of food is not enough for an American citizen, and the Christmas meal is traditionally a larger one, so have at it!

I am very much looking forward to your next TGI Friday's frozen meal report.

Alex,

I took a look at your sunflower seeds business plan, and have some suggestions for you.

First off, you're missing the point on price. The secret in business is to find a way to charge a high price for very little product, so that you may earn a profit. The Soviet Union has been dead for 20 years, Alex. It's okay to earn a profit. So if I were you, I'd consider a way to package not more than one and a half to two ounces of sunflower seeds for 99¢.

The best way to do that with "alternative" snack foods is to tell some bullshit story to make the product seem exotic and luxurious. I'm not sure how that's to be done with something so prosaic as sunflower seeds. Maybe the health angle or something.

Second, I liked your awareness of transport costs, but... Did you know that trucks are ten times more expensive than ocean freight, and almost as expensive when compared to rail? If I were planning to take 80,000 tons of bulk cargo out of Ukraine, I'd avoid trucks like the plague. A large truck is only going to be able to carry about 20 tons maximum, and that would be on good roads.

Eighty thousand tons of sunflower seeds would best be shipped by dumping them into railcars, and having the railcars dumped into a bulk carrier vessel. A Handysize bulker will ship 10,000 to 35,000 tons at a time.

But here's where the logic is missing from your business plan: 80,000 short tons is more than 2.5 billion ounces. Even at your five-ounce bag plan, you'd have to sell five hundred million bags of sunflower seeds to shift all the product you plan to buy.

where can i get that at^.the grocery store?i love any restaurants loaded skins and chicken with them sounds tits.

Actually, frankie, the other reviews of the TGI Fridays frozen meals I've found on the net have all been quite positive. I tend to cook for myself or eat in restaurants, so I'm not well-informed on supermarket freezer fare, but it's surprising to see such favorable reviews.

Looking at what's in those bags, I have to imagine the margins are pretty good for the manufacturer, even while the customer price point remains acceptable. A potato, a chicken breast, a strip of bacon, some broccoli (this is the cheap stuff, which I think they are using as filler), salt, pepper and some cheese sauce doesn't add up to even 75¢ worth of ingredients, probably even including the labor and packaging.

I'm glad that you like my reviews and the next one is coming in the next hour. I am busy for the last several days with all kinds of stuff (downloading, cleaning, organizing, scanning, etc.) but I have 4 reviews in the works (just gotta write the text).

I have the profits all figured out and stuff. Since my brand is about value then it has to deliver reflectively: lots for less, while not sacrificing quality. Once the trucks will get to Norway then its a breeze. Only way on the ship from Ukraine is pretty much to Russia and Turkey.

Here are more excerpts from the paper:

Customs Broker

I chose the following customs broker to handle my order:

Straight Forward Custom House Broker
http://www.straightforwardchb.com/

Because they are located in Brooklyn and have knowledge plus experience in importing agricultural products into United States. Another critical factor that played role in my decision is that they also do freight forwarding and insurance, so it made sense for me to choose one company instead of several ones.
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Freight Forwarder

The freight forwarder will be the same company that will do the customs broker duties. This company (Straight Forward Custom House Broker) is a one-stop-shop for all the importing and customs needs. Straight Forward Custom House Broker will also clear the US customs for my project.
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Distribution

1) Kiev warehouse to Netherlands (Port of Rotterdam) via truck
2) Netherlands (Port of Rotterdam) to NJ (Port of Perth Amboy) via cargo ship
3) NJ (port) to Camden, NJ warehouse

1) The order will leave from the UkrAgro Solutions (seller/manufacturer) warehouse in Kiev, Ukraine on trucks to the Port of Rotterdam (port # 42157) in Netherlands.

2) In the Port of Rotterdam the containers will be laded on the Maersk Kalamata container vessel, and will travel to Port of Perth Amboy (port code 4602) in New Jersey, United States.

3) After the containers will be cleared by US Customs, they will travel by trucks to my company’s warehouse, where they will await shipping to retail stores.
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Marketing

The marketing will be done by retailers. Big stores like Dollar Tree, Dollar General and Deal$ can advertise sunflower seeds in their weekly and monthly circular. Retailers can also place the seed packets at the counter as an impulse purchase item. The main aspect of my product is low price for 5.0 ounces of sunflower seeds.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Costs

Here is the breakdown of the manufacturing costs that are associated with the product:

Seeds - $1.56/kg.
Roasting - $0.12/kg.
Flavor Dusting (Seasoning) - $6.82/kg.
Packaging $0.03/packet

There is a total discount of 15% from the manufacturer if the order is over 80 tons, so I will use it to my advantage.

For my project I will place an order for equivalent of 4x 40-foot containers of Classic seeds, 1x 40-foot container of BBQ flavored seeds and 1x 40-foot container of Ranch flavored seeds. The total number of containers will be 6x.

Each container has a total of 2,395 cubic feet of usable area.

28x packets (5.0 oz. each) can fit into 12”x12”x6” box, or 28x packets per ½ of cubic foot. One cubic foot equals to 2x boxes or 56x packets. Using these numbers I calculated that 134,120 packets of seeds can be transported in one 40-footlong container. Multiplied by 6x containers, this equals to 804,720 packets of seeds.

Do you have union payoffs factored in, if you are bringing it through the docks in Perth Amboy? How will you write off the tranny hookers you certainly will be frequenting in the Newark area?

That stuff is done through the company expenses and workers comps. It has nothing to do with customs duties.

Today's TGI Friday's frozen food review will focus on the Prime Rib Strogonoff. I wanted to do this review for a while but I did not have much free time, but I did it anyway. As always I am making two 12-ounce packages into 1 and Prime Rib Strogonoff comes in plastic trays inside cardboard boxes rather than in plastic bags. The reason for this is that TGIF wants you to prep this meal only in the microwave oven, and not on the frying pan. But I went my way and defrosted the meals for 1 minute one at a time and then layered them on top of the frying pan.













After the meal was ready, I let it sit for 2 minutes and began eating it. The frying pan approach definitely paid off here since everything was stirred uniformly, and you can stir like that while prepping it in the microwave over. I tried the similar pasta/meat/sauce meals by Banquet before in the microwave and they just don't cut it when it comes to frying pan cooking and premium TGIF taste. The first things that I forked into my mouth was strogonoff-drenched pasta, I always try it first in the kinds of meal. To my surprise the sauce-pasta combo was very tasty, but I bet that the included pasta on it own would taste average. This is quality pasta none the less. Then I tried the cube of beef and it taste pleasantly somewhere in the middle; the meat itself was very soft and tender, most likely marinated in some liquid to bring up the taste. The only thing that was a turn-off here is a lot of cracked pepper bits: the meal is loaded with them and I definitely felt it. I often had to spit the pepper bits out and at the end when I was done with the meal, I wanted to lick the plate clean (I don't let the good stuff to get wasted) but the remaining pepper bits in the sauce was an obstacle for my intent, so I just washed the plate clean.

My verdict on Prime Rib Strogonoff is that it is very good and worthy meal except for the fact of excessive use of cracked pepper. Maybe the lots of cracked peppers was just a "sour" batch that I happened to buy, but maybe the guys in the lab thought that Americans would love the idea of lots of cracked pepper; I don't know the answer for sure. The pasta, meat and most important the sauce was a very good combination and I will definitely buy this meal in the future again. Give it a try and tell me what you think about it.

Part 2 of review.

I'm telling you, dive into those chicken fajitas.

Do you have the chicken and pasta carbonara? I'm interested if that is tasty.

Tommorow I will go to food store and get more TGIF items, so I will review Chicken Fajitas at some point. I plan to cover/review all TGIF products. I don't know about chicken and pasta carbonara, if it is in store then I will get it. Next TGIF review will be on Loaded Chicken something.

Also, stay tuned for the Frozen Pizza Reviews thread, I will start it in the next 30 or so minutes.

The only demographic I know of that consistently consumes sunflower seeds is "urban" middle-schoolers. Let's say Panzer actually does manage to squirrel away $217,000 in cufflink money. He takes it and buys up a shit ton of Ukranian sunflower seeds, which, knowing Panzer, will be cheyrnobyl/radioactive, and peddles 'em in the hood as "mad healthy, yo!" thereby finishing the process already begun by decades of lead paint in the projects.

It's one of the most Machiavellian things launched in AWOP. Well done, Admiral. I was wondering where you were going with all that encouragement.

It was just a school project.

lmfao

I know that I did not do any reviews lately, but this time there is a double review that is coming up just inch away: TGI Friday's Spinach & Artichoke Cheese Dip and Mozzarella Sticks: Buffalo Sauce edition. I had the dip in my freezer for several weeks now, and I knew that another product needed to go with it, so the mozz sticks were on sale yesterday and I decided to pair them together to this 1st review of 2012.










Lets start with Spinach and Artichoke Cheese Dip first: you open up the box and get the microwave container with film on top that indicates that this food is made in microwave only. 3 minutes in the nuke box, stir and 1 more minute again. I let it stand and cool down for around 4 minutes before I gave it a try. I have no idea what you should dip into this dip and there are no suggestions anywhere on the box, so it was logical for me to dip the Mozzarella Sticks into the Spinach & Artichoke Cheese Dip. The dip by itself is just not that exciting because of the greens (spinach & artichoke), but together with other stuff like mozz sticks, it goes great.







Now the Mozzarella Stick Buffalo sauce edition: 9 sticks prepperd in the gas oven while the buffalo sauce packet gets warmed in the bowl of hot water. The instructions called for 8 minutes in 450-F oven, but I kinda missed the time and the cheese popped-out from the sticks. These are really tasty and quality mozarella sticks when you compare them to the alternative brands mozzarella sticks in your average frozen foods isle.



They are even better than Burger King's mozarella sticks, I don't know if BK still sells them. The cheese is very chewy while tender and juicy (from all those baked fats juices). The crust or the actual stick with panning is tasy as well, and juices fron the mozzarella lubricate the taste quiet well. These are solid 4 out of 5 stars mozarella sticks that are tasty and enjoyable, but the buffalo sauce on the other hand sucks.



At first I thought that TGIF would include a quality sauce, but when I opened the packet, I could smell the fake butter scent. It also tasted very cheap with fake butter scent, so I dumped it down the toilet and used the mozzarella sticks with the spinach & artichoke cheese dip, that together tasted great because of the double cheese.



My verdict is: Dip is pretty good but not as good as the mozz sticks. Together they go great, so try the Spinach & Artichoke Cheese Dip and Mozzarella Sticks by TGIF. Let me know what you think about the TGIF buffalo sauce.

As always, your boy, your friend - The Tasty Food Master

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^^^

I got a bag of Chicken Fajitas at Wegmans the other day. I may hijack your review thread sometime this week.

When I worked construction there were alot of guys who ate sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds through the course of the day, especially in the summer.

Panzer I know you're stupid but how difficult is it for you to resize the images before you upload them here? Do we really need a whole thread with 1MB or larger images? Stop watching the trannie porn for a minute and do it.

^^^Second. I am hating the jumpy page loading while I try to read a response.

It is so you can see all the details and not be fooled by those graphics on the box. I even ran the sharpen filter twice on every photo.

Don't expect anyone to pay the ransom.

I ate them last night. Didn't take any pics. Stuff was good though. WAAAAAYY better than the steak ones they sell.

Where are the fucking reviews?

I'm with Jigaloo. In fact, I was lured back to this thread by the new-message indicator, which made me think Alex was back with another review. I am so chagrined to find no new TGI Fridays frozen-food review.

I am really busy with school: 2 schools, 5 courses. And a secret blog that I run, where I have to post every single day. That's 96- or 97 posts that I have to make.

I wouldn't count the wm4bts section of BackPage as a blog but it's up to you.

Is that a Gorodetisky brand toilet that you use?