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December 14, 2010
Linebackers become team leaders
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- The cold weather continued in South Carolina on Tuesday but Mother Nature was a little friendlier to Shrine Bowl players, with temperatures above freezing and the wind chill a bit higher. However, the cold still slowed things a bit, especially for the offense and each team's passing game.
The defense is another story as each side is led by an energetic, enthusiastic linebacker that has set the tone with his mouth and his motor. Kris Frost and Lateek Townsend have each taken a leadership role on their respective team's defense.
"I just love to talk out there and the coaches wanted someone vocal to take the reins and make the play calls and I just sort of took it on," said Frost, the 6-foot-3, 210-pound linebacker for the North Carolina squad. "Any of our linebackers could do it. This is an unbelievable group we have here, but I guess I like to talk a lot and it just happened that way."
Finding Frost on the field isn't difficult. Just follow the sound of chatter and watch for a blue coming off the edge. His energetic style is clearly contagious as the North Carolina team has been loose from the start with plenty of friendly banter.
"We're having fun," said Frost, who plays at Butler in Matthews, just outside of Charlotte. "It's fun to talk back and forth and it makes for a better practice. Our defense communicates really well and we have such a strong group of players that we play with a swagger a bit. But our offense is really good and when they get the best of us, they certainly let us know."
Frost and fellow Charlotte-area stud Marquise Williams have had an especially interesting rivalry going. Frost can often be heard chirping "Quise" and whenever he hears his name, Williams is sure to chirp back. The best line of the day came when Frost was blocked out of a play that led to a big gain by the NC offense and Williams quipped "Go back to Wendy's Frosty" in reference to the fast-food restaurant's soft dessert. Frost takes it all in stride.
"We respect each other and we know each other from playing in the same area," said Frost. "It's just fun, especially when someone can give it back as good as he gets it. When Saturday comes, I'm glad he's on our team."
Frost is certainly not a one-man show when it comes to North Carolina linebackers. He is flanked on the outside by Asheville A.C. Reynolds standout Ben Councell while the middle is manned by Wadesboro Anson 'backer Stephone Anthony and Jacksonville White Oak star Tremayne McNair.
"It's hard to find a better group of linebackers, I'm blessed to be playing with these guys and to be selected to the Shrine Bowl," he said. "We push each other hard and are competing to make plays so we're all arriving at the ball at the same time. That's what we hope to do Saturday. I'm not sure about the other team, but we're having fun."
Things are a bit quieter on the South Carolina side overall and at linebacker. Townsend, of Bennettsville Marlboro County, has been a less vocal leader for the SC linebackers and has set the tone with his play more than his mouth. On the first day of practice, Townsend tackled nearly everything in sight despite a non-contact practice setting.
"I tried to set the tone," he said. "I wasn't out there to hurt anyone and I pretty much laid off guys for the most part, but part of me couldn't stop taking someone down when I was in striking range. That's kind of how I get myself going and I wanted to get everyone else going. Fly to the ball, hustle and make the play. I toned it down a bit (Tuesday). No one really told me to stop tackling, but I knew I wanted to do that on the first day."
For Townsend, a 6-foot-2, 197-pounder who is super aggressive and tends to gamble, slowing himself is more mental than physical.
"I have to slow things down in my head to make sure I don't over-pursue or over-run something," said Townsend, who still did plenty of both but also made a ton of plays the first two days. "My body wants to go 100 miles per hour all the time and doesn't want me to read and stay patient so I remind myself to slow things down at times. I'm still working on it because in high school I didn't have this kind of talent around me so I felt like I needed to do everything. With these kinds of players on my team, I have a lot of help."
In addition to Townsend, the South Carolina team boasts Williston Elko 'backer Dexter Staley, who was also very energetic on Tuesday, as well as Winnsboro Fairfield Central standout Ralph Cooper and Greenwood sleeper Quinn Backus.
"Saturday will be fun," said Townsend. "Playing in this defense with four linebackers allows us to fly around and make plays so we'll come after it."
A few of the aforementioned linebackers have yet to make their college decisions, but each is getting closer. For Frost, time is of the essence as he will enroll at the school of his choice in January so he needs to make a decision around the holidays. He is down to Michigan, Auburn and LSU with the Wolverines thought to have a slight edge over the Tigers from Auburn and LSU gaining ground. Frost admits that his room is filled with Michigan memorabilia and he has always dreamed of playing in Ann Arbor, but that he will make this decision with his head and not his heart.
It appears that he will have to make a decision before Michigan makes its own decision on whether or not Rich Rodriguez returns as coach.
While Councell is committed to Notre Dame (solid following a recent official visit) and McNair is a Georgia Tech pledge, Anthony is another big name who hasn't made his decision. While he hasn't talked much on the record regarding recruiting, sources say that Virginia Tech has emerged as a leader over Clemson and N.C. State with Florida fading.
In fact, the Gators were fading before Urban Meyer stepped down, according to many due to distance. Some feel that this could come down to which school, if any, offers his best friend and teammate Jonathan Hough. Hough is a 6-foot-1, 188-pound receiver who has been hearing from N.C. State, Clemson and Virginia Tech of late. Anthony is supposed to take an official visit to Florida the first weekend of January but he hasn't heard from anyone at Florida since Meyer stepped down and Will Muschamp took the job. Clemson is set for Jan. 14, Virginia Tech is Jan. 21 and N.C. State is Jan. 28.
On the South Carolina side, Townsend is down to five schools - USC, LSU, Tennessee, Clemson and South Carolina - but this is likely to come down to an in-state battle. Townsend has already visited the Trojans but sources say that distance is a real issue. He also taken an official to South Carolina and will certainly take an official to Clemson as well. LSU and Tennessee could get visits as well, but if it comes down to the Tigers and Gamecocks in the Palmetto State, many feel South Carolina could win out due to parental preference.
While Cooper is committed to Illinois and Backus is looking for his first offer, Staley is uncommitted and has offers from East Carolina, Illinois, Michigan State, South Carolina and others. However, it's unclear right now which school would take his commitment because he will be a sign-and-place or possibly just head off to junior college and start the process over again. South Carolina seems the most likely to sign him and perhaps put him at Georgia Military Academy.
Ohio State isn't giving up on the nation's No. 1 player, defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. While Clowney didn't list the Buckeyes in his top five (South Carolina, Alabama, FSU, LSU and Clemson), sources say that coaches from OSU will make the long trip down to Rock Hill, S.C., to meet with South Pointe head coach Bobby Carroll. However, it is unclear whether those same coaches will be able to do an in-home visit with Clowney. Based on the big defensive end's reaction to the bitter cold on Monday morning, it's hard to picture him playing his college ball in Columbus.
North Carolina running back Justus Pickett has taken an official visit to Wake Forest and the Deacons lead right now over Maryland and possibly Texas A&M. Pickett might take an official visit to Maryland before making his decision and the Aggies have shown recent interest, but right now he appears to be headed to play for Jim Grobe and his staff. His teammate at Charlotte (N.C.) Ardrey Kell, tight end Drew Owens, isn't at the Shrine Bowl but an intense battle between NC State and South Carolina is in full gear. Owens took an official visit to South Carolina on Oct. 29 and was at N.C. State on Nov. 12. He also took an unofficial visit to N.C. State this past weekend and was supposed to be at South Carolina bowl practice sometime this week as well. While many feel N.C. State is the team to beat, don't count out the Gamecocks, who will get the last visit and have been recruiting Owens much longer.
Another player not at the Shrine Bowl is Asheville, N.C. defensive end Jeoffrey Pagan, who was selected to the NC squad but is not participating due to an injury. While Pagan isn't present, rumors regarding his recruitment certainly are. Pagan took an official visit to Georgia this weekend and most people expect this to come down to the Bulldogs, Clemson and Tennessee. Clemson is thought to be the leader by most sources at this time but no one has really heard from Pagan since his visit to Georgia.
The good news was that Clowney was dressed and warmed up for practice both in the morning and in the afternoon. The bad news is that he didn't participate in practice at all beyond standing around and watching in the cold. It was clear he wanted to get out there and play, but he was under orders to rest his injured ankle. Clowney also had a stinger on Monday but that appears to be fine now.
Fayetteville (N.C.) Jack Britt defensive tackle Devonte Brown was back in action Tuesday after sitting out Monday's afternoon practice with turf toe and he returned with a vengeance. Brown was all over the field in team play and was dominant on inside run. He also won almost all of his one-on-ones including a few against fellow four-star Jarrod James. Both James and Brown also worked extra after the morning practice on Tuesday with James, knowing he would be going against Clowney, saying "I don't want to be part of anyone's highlight film." Both players are solid commitments to North Carolina although Brown's teammate, Eric MacLain, said he's still working on Brown to join him at Clemson.
Marquise Williams threw the ball much better on Tuesday and was arguably the best quarterback on the day for either side. He and T.J. Thorpe hooked up on a few big plays and the future UNC duo (If Williams sticks with the Heels over Virginia Tech) have developed very good chemistry.
Defensive back La'Quavas Watt had two interceptions at the end of South Carolina's afternoon practice.
Wide receiver Shamier Jeffery from Calhoun County in South Carolina had a strong afternoon practice, consistently getting open and making big plays.
Mann defensive back Pat Martin missed most of the afternoon practice with a neck injury. However, it wasn't expected to keep him out of action for long. Martin, a Tennessee commitment, said he is working on Townsend to get him to take another visit to Knoxville. Townsend has been to see the Vols once for camp.
North Carolina commitment Travis Riley was a late addition to the Shrine Bowl roster and is big and quick. The 6-foot, 210-pounder from Kannapolis (N.C.) Brown hasn't been able to show his physical style and downhill running ability with very little contact, but he will be a key for NC on Saturday especially in short yardage.
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Mark 13:34-37New International Version (NIV)
34 It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
35 "Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'"
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Went on a little hike last week and never posted an update. We had quite a hike as the holidays have definitely gotten me out of shape. It was a wonderful day, a little sunny in the lower 70s with a light breeze. We went up Douglas springs trail and looped around and came down Garwood trail. There was a surprising amount of wanter and we stopped to eat lunch by a running stream.
The following weekend went on a new trail, Hope Camp Trail. This was a nice hike on an old road back to some old Wind mills and cattle areas.
This last weekend we went to Garwood dam. It was a nice overcast day and there was water up higher. We ate cheese and crackers at the damn. Alex also got to explore Wildhorse Canyon which is right behind the damn. He also got to test to see if the marketing people calling his boot waterproof was true. As it turns out, they were… at least up to his socks :)


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WASHINGTON – The argument for D.C. statehood is decades old, but Mayor Vincent Gray says that local support for the idea is reaching new heights, and got a national boost this week.
Speaking at a gathering of business and community leaders this week, Gray moved the topic from jobs to statehood, saying, "It's time for the people of this city to get their hearts into this endeavor. … Nobody is going to fight our battles for us."
Gray also says a statehood rally during last weekend's commemorations of the March on Washington, attended by several thousand people, only inspired him further.
"We've never gotten to this point before," Gray says. "We had more people down to the statehood rally than we ever had."
President Carter added to the discussion during Wednesday's commemoration of the March anniversary, saying, "I think we would know how Dr. King would have reacted to the people of the District of Columbia still not having full citizenship rights," to cheers.
WTOP's Megan Cloherty contributed to this report. Follow @WTOP on Twitter.
A look at winter weather news from around the D.C. area.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
All Natural Necco Wafers
It's hard to believe that I've never reviewed Necco Wafers. In the early years of Candy Blog I tried to concentrate on candies I'd never had before, but it became apparent that in order to discuss things that were new (or new to me) I had to cover the classics as well. So I'm slowly adding those.
Necco Wafers were introduced in 1863 by the Chase and Company candy makers. They were known for their hard candies (boiled sweets), lozenges and "Oriental style" sweets including Turkish Delight. They also innovated machinery and techniques to create confections like the wafers. Chase later merged with Ball and Forbes and Bird, Wright and Company to become the New England Confectionery Company in 1901. By the time they'd been around for almost fifty years they finally settled into their present day name, assortment and packaging style in 1912. Necco Wafers were available in different sizes and were a popular penny candy of the time.
The wafers are lightly flavored and colored disks of sugar. The product is rather unusual for the modern era of confections and is more similar to breath mints than regular candy. They're not fussy but perhaps a little homely and dated.
To make them, a dough of sugar and corn syrup is mixed up and stabilizers and binders such as gelatin, tragacanth, xanthan and gum Arabic are added. Then after the base is created it's customized with the flavors and colors. The whole mass is loaded into a roller like it's some sort of infinitely long pie crust then the disks are cut and stamped with the Necco name. They're not baked, just air dried.
What's created is a beguilingly crunchy lozenge. Crisp, thin and sweet.
The classic roll of Necco Wafers contained eight flavors and has always been a random assorted stack sealed in a glassine wrapper. I know most folks who like them also searched the store shelves for one that had just the right mix of colors they preferred.
This year marks a new generation of Necco Wafers now with all natural flavorings and colors. Because of the new restrictions Necco placed on itself, they dropped one flavor from the original that could not be replicated adequately: Lime.
The current flavors are chocolate, cinnamon, clove, lemon, licorice, orange and wintergreen. Since no artificial colors are used I was hoping that the flavors would be truer. (I've always had a problem with the pink ones having a bad bitter aftertaste.)
I haven't been able to find the large two ounce rolls in the stores near me, but I did finally find this package of the mini rolls at CVS in the Halloween section. (I visited about a dozen stores in two states in a month looking for them.)
The colors are quite a bit more subdued, as if Necco Wafers weren't already a bit washed out. They're so muted that I have trouble telling the pale yellow, lavender and white apart. And for folks that like to preview a roll before they open it, it's quite hard to tell the light colors apart. The new wrapper also sports an updated logo ... though I find the logo to look more like something from 1998 (when the titled oval was all the rage in logos) than a modern candy, but not quite a reflection of its classic past.
Clove - I always avoided the clove for two reasons. I don't like clove flavor and I didn't like the food coloring aftertaste. In this case the clove (faint lavender) is much more mild and less caustic than before. Of course there's no weird aftertaste either. I still didn't like it much and was a little irritated that it was so hard to pull them out of the mix in anything other than bright sunlight.
Chocolate - the easiest to spot and one that needs no coloring. I found the cocoa flavors to be overly sweet, but at least true. It was like an old piece of dried chocolate frosting. A little pointless if you really want chocolate, but it has a freshness to it that doesn't leave me thinking of cardboard.
Wintergreen - I was so happy about these. The color is still a teaberry pink, so they're easy to spot. It's exactly like a piece of teaberry gum if it was a crunchy piece of sugar (and a stale piece of gum can be like that). The flavor starts out rather soft and quaint, but builds up to a bit of a Ben Gay burn later. There's a lingering buzz in the mouth. The best part of the finish is that it's all flavor and no food coloring mess. My tongue looks like when I started (normal pink) and no metallic aftertaste.
Cinnamon - this white piece lots its mojo in the conversion to all natural. It's sad how lacking in cinnamon punch it is now, it's not that it's bad, but I just don't feel like picking them out and eating them first any longer.
Licorice - the color is so much lighter on these, it took me a while to realize that they weren't the clove ones. They're a light putty color that sometimes has a lavender cast to it. The flavor is quite a strong anise note. It's sweet and has an aromatic and slightly menthol quality to it. It reminds me a little bit of the Fisherman's Friend lozenges.
Lemon - the lemon flavored Necco Wafers were never spectacular and they haven't changed one way or the other. Sweet and with only the slightest hint of lemon flavor, there's no tartness (thank goodness - if you've had the SweetHearts Sour Conversation Hearts you'll know what I mean), no zest.
Orange - this faint orange colored one has a little orange peel note to it. It didn't seem as sweet as the lemon one, but that's not saying much about it. It was mostly inoffensive.
I don't miss Lime, but I did enjoy the flavor. As an assortment, I've found myself munching through the bag of minis without any problems. I've picked out most of the clove, but find all the other flavors enjoyable. So I consider the new mix a definite winner. The only issue was the strength of the flavors varies - the clove, licorice and wintergreen were very strong and left a distinct burn in the mouth while the rest were pretty mellow. So after a licorice, I could barely tell that I was eating a lemon.
Each roll of 9 pieces has only 50 calories. They take a while to eat and of course there's the variety, so it's a nice snack that's easy to take anywhere. I do have a problem with the little white powder that seems to get everywhere though. (I tend to wear a lot of dark colors.)
I think this is a great development and I'm actually looking forward to see if the classic SweetHearts Conversation Hearts will also go all natural. They do still have gelatin in them, so sadly no good for vegetarians and they're not Kosher/Halal. I really like my candies to taste like candy, not artificial colors.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
World's Largest Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Go big or go home is kind of a mantra in the snack world. Bigger, bolder, stronger, faster, louder, saltier, fattier, sweeter, higher, longer, brassier, sourer and crunchier all grab market share. They draw our attention because we seek novelty and claiming to be the mostest of something is, well, at least some kind of claim. Things like taste, satisfaction or quality are irrelevant.
So that brings me to the World's Largest Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. It looks like an amped up version of the regular package. Same proportions, just bigger.
Hershey's has been making variations on the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup for over 50 years. Big Cups, Miniatures ... shapes for different holidays like the Eggs, Trees and Pumpkins. (And of course all the other flavors, chocolate coatings & inclusions.) But this, is obviously different.
The package is 10.5 inches long and 5 inches wide. Inside are two peanut butter cups, each is 8 ounces. So for $9.99 at CVS I was able to buy a pound of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. (Actually, a careful shopper would just buy the 40 ounce "Club Size" bag of miniatures for about $8.99.)
Inside the wrapper is a white paperboard tray that holds the two cups. The cups themselves differ from their un-endowed originals in that they are not contained by a brown fluted paper cup. These are structurally coherent enough to need no containers. (Though they still have the classic fluted sides.)
They're 4" around on the top and 3" around at the base. As you can already imagine there are some strange proportions at work here when dealing with gigantism. In order to structurally contain the peanut butter I found that they'd fortified the chocolate. I tried biting one but found that the sides and corners were quite thick milk chocolate. Almost a half an inch thick in some places.
It's really not a product for nibbling on. (Mostly because I simply don't just munch on pieces of candy that weigh a half a pound. Like giant chocolate Easter rabbits, there's a sanitary issue.)
This violates one of my primary rules of candy, which is that it requires some sort of tool. In this case it's a knife to portion it. Most large chocolate bars are scored and can be broken into pieces. There is no other way to eat this other than huge bites ... which pretty much means you're not sharing or you're intimate enough with the other folks or so wasted you don't care.
When sliced though, I have to say it's rather charming. The triangles are like little slices of pie. Since each cup is 8 ounces, it's easy to score it into 1 ounce slices ... or just quarter it for hefty 2 ounce pieces. Technically the nutritional panel suggests that a single serving is 1/6th of a cup, but I've always found cutting things into sixths harder than quarters/eighths.
The chocolate tastes much sweeter and slightly cool on the tongue than I get from a regular Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. The center peanut butter filling is dry and crumbly with a good salty note and only slightly sweet component.
My issue ultimately that there's a lot of chocolate surrounding a large bulk of peanut butter. In the end I ate the top & bottom of the slice as well as the dense and grainy peanut butter filling but couldn't bring myself to eat the super-sweet edge crust of chocolate.
I admit it's a fun novelty and kind of a no-brainer inexpensive gift for a Reese's Peanut Butter lover. I see it as a great option for social events, but hard to present as a "real" Reese's peanut butter cup, since there's no branding on it. (Maybe a disk to serve it on.)
In the end though it's no replacement for the tried and true classic. So all it really does in the end is prove that the regular cups are ideal.
From the reports from the dear readers who alerted me to this monstrosity, they seem to be exclusive to CVS ... anyone else see them? (I'm hoping they'll stick around for Christmas, as I think they're a fun gag gift that's actually functional.)
UPDATE December 2010: These are now in much wider distribution. I've seen them at 7-11 (for $12.99, I think) plus Target has them along with one pound Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
House Brand Creme Eggs
While some folks find the Cadbury Creme Egg to be the ultimate achievement in Easter confectionery, be warned that there are some pretenders to that throne. At the stores this year I found two such "knock offs."
I found Walgreen's and CVS had their own eggs this year. The CVS brand is called Absolutely Divine and comes in gold foil with a purple and black logo ... which made me wonder if they were a dark chocolate product. The Walgreen's version is in primary/secondary colors and comes in both the Creme Egg and Caramel Egg.
What could a store brand have to offer? Well, the first thing I noticed about these CCE simulations is that they're bigger. In fact the shelf box for the Walgreen's said that they're 14% larger. These eggs are like the once powerful Cadbury Creme Eggs in their original 1.38 ounce size (CCE are now 1.2 ounces).
Walgreen's had these generic looking Creme Eggs on sale this past weekend for 40 cents each, which is not much less than an actual Cadbury Creme Egg. What I found so surprising is that I've been to that Walgreen's at least twice before during this Easter season and these weren't out on the shelves.
It was tough to read the wrapper. What I did get was that these are made in Canada and the chocolate shell is made of real chocolate.
The shell has a little line design on it, not the same as the Cadbury Creme Egg, so at least they're using different molds.
Biting into the egg was a bit tough. It's a thick shell and I was greeted with a creme that resembled a cordial more than the fondant than I was used to.
The difference between the egg white and egg yolk wasn't quite apparent, though the best I could tell was there were two different colors of fondant in there. The center was sticky and inconsistent. Sweet, flavorless with little patches of clotted graininess.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
The Walgreen's Caramel Egg comes in a purple wrapper. It was pretty easy to unwrap, but it felt quite heavy.
Biting it was similarly difficult to the Creme version - the shell is thick and almost solid on either end with only a minor void for the caramel at the center.
The caramel isn't chewy or flowing. Instead it's more of a pudding-like goo. As far a flavor though, it's like a good caramel pudding, it's very smooth and has some toasted sugar flavors. The chocolate shell is a bit hard, a little grainy and very milky tasting.
As far as this brand goes, I rather liked this Caramel Egg ... not enough to buy it again, but as a simulation of the venerable original, it at least meets expectations.
Rating: 4 out of 10.
The CVS Absolutely Divine Creme Egg didn't look like much in the store. There was no explanation on the display box, and actually finding the "creme egg" part on the wrapper was pretty tough sleuthing that involved carefully flattening the foil after unwrapping.
I fully expected these to be made in Canada like the Walgreen's counterpart ... that they just came spilling off the line to be randomly divided into different groups for different foil wrappers. This was more shocking when I read that they have identical ingredients and molding. But origins aside, the important part is how much they cost and how they taste.
I paid 50 cents each for these.
The egg was similarly thick-shelled.
The creme center was also similarly inconsistent, though not quite as flowing as the Walgreen's version.
The chocolate shell was disgusting. It tasted like roasted cardboard. Musty, grainy and overly sweetened, perhaps steamed cardboard.
The sweet filling was completely overpowered by this too-much-bad-shell. And the name, well, they're absolutely not divine.
Rating: 2 out of 10.
I have one other piece of not-so-shocking info. These are all sticky. Not something to be eaten while using a keyboard.
What I came away with is this: if you love Cadbury Creme Eggs, buy Cadbury Creme Eggs. If you don't like Cadbury Creme Eggs, these aren't going to persuade you that they're a great candy. Spend the extra eight cents or whatever the price difference is and get the real stuff.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Reese's Enigma & Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Eggs
It's not often that I'll stop my fast forward through commercials to watch something. I definitely did when I saw the Reese's: Perfectly Easter advertisement.
I'm not only a huge critic of candy (because I love it so), I'm also rather fond of breaking down advertising, but I'll save that for another time.
The important takeaway I got on that advert was that Spring is in the Air and Reese's Eggs are a chocolate covered peanut butter product.
Candy Blog reader, Peloria, has been wonderfully helpful in helping me track down these two versions by leaving comments on my original review of the perfect Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs (2006 version). I got a hold of eggs for 2009 from three stores with two different wrappers. For the most part single Reese's Eggs are sold with the package that doesn't say that they're milk chocolate. But I also found the six pack that says Milk Chocolate above the Reese's logo.
Whether they say Milk Chocolate or not, the ingredients are the same. So I did a little digging.
The classic Reese's Peanut Butter Egg ingredients were (2005 source):
The current 2009 ingredients:
For reference, the standard Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ingredients are (in 2009):
There are a few changes there, but nothing that definitively says that these aren't a real chocolate product any longer. But they're different enough to change the nutritional profile. There's more salt (they've gone from 140mg to 150mg), and 11 grams of fat now instead of 10.
So I tasted them (after all, at this point I had 9 of them). The chocolate coating looked a bit chalky, not glossy (and some looked a little swirly and uneven in color). They're soft and the peanut butter overwhelms any chocolate flavor anyway. The peanut butter center is crumbly and nutty, not completely smooth but not crunchy, just a little more rustic than the stuff in a jar. Salty, sweet and satisfying. The chocolate coating feels cool on the tongue and seems to melt pretty well, but it also melts in my fingers pretty quickly too. It's a good time these come along in the spring because they'd never make it in a Los Angeles summer.
I'm not sure why Hershey's has removed the Milk Chocolate part from some wrappers, I fear it's because they're planning something for next year ... kind of easing us into crappy candy instead of a sharp shift that causes an uproar like the true & mockolate Kissables being on the shelves at the same time. I still consider them a winner. The prices appear to have gone up. I got the six pack for $2 on sale, but buying the individual ones, the best sale I could find was 75 cents each.
Hershey's has a bunch of other candies for Easter in the Reese's line, too. There are Fudge Covered Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs and Reester Bunnies, which are just a molded version of the RPBC in various sizes. They're more chocolate than peanut butter. Then there are the Foil Eggs, the Reese's Pieces Eggs (in beautiful pastels),
Then there's this strange monstrosity which is also called Milk Chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Egg but unlike the 1.2 ounce version, this one is molded. It's also 6 ounces (so five times as big but twice the price per ounce).
The box is ridiculously oversized for the product - it's 6.5 inches long. The egg itself is 4.5 inches long, 1.5 inches high and 3 inches wide at the broadest part. That means one inch of space on all sides ... feels like more than just protection, feels like a bit of fakery. (Though it's easy to see the entirety of the product through the cellophane window.)
The ingredients are pretty much the same as the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup - erring on the chocolate as the first ingredient, not peanuts.
I get the sense that these are supposed to be like those deluxe slicing candy eggs that have always puzzled me. Candy, in my opinion, doesn't need any serving implements. It's meant to be eaten with the fingers and needs no preparation or tools. Either I bite into this one and eat it all by myself, of I slice it up. Which I did.
Looking at the slices there, I think you can tell that this is not the same center as the 1.2 ounce egg ... it looks and feels a bit oilier (which is not a bad thing, just a different thing).
The interesting experience with these slices is that the amount of chocolate shell varies so much depending on where the slice comes from. The ends, of course, are mostly chocolate. But even in a center slice, the chocolate shell is especially thick, much thicker than any cup I've ever had from Reese's, as thick as a regular Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar.
The chocolate flavor was completely lost on this product, it tasted like peanut butter fudge, though it was pretty smooth and sweet with a slight milky flavor to it. The peanut butter center was stellar. It was relatively solid, had the crumbly texture and didn't taste as sweet as the regular eggs. I liked the clear distinction between the chocolate shell here and the peanut butter filling, instead of the unclear margins in the smaller egg. But sometimes the chocolate had a coconut flavor to it that I can't quite explain nor say that I cared much for.
However, the silly over-packaging and price tag would certainly keep me from buying these ever again. But if you're looking for something for a peanut butter obsessed person's Easter basket instead of a pile of the small eggs or the standby bunny, it might be fun. Portion control was a lot easier than I thought, I sliced up rather logically into five pieces, though I can't be sure that they were actually the same weight. The package says that it serves four (which means each serving is more than a single regular egg).
I feel like downgrading the 1.2 ounce Reese's Eggs to a 9 out of 10, but maybe that's an emotional response, a response out of fear, not one based on my actual tasting (though there was some throat burning from the sweetness I don't remember from the past). As for the giganto one, it's not something I appreciate, though I guess it's okay. I give it a 7 out of 10.
UPDATE 3/30/2009: Thanks to Peloria's continued documentation, I kept looking for these other non-milk chocolate labeled eggs. I finally found them at the 99 Cent Only Store near my house. The packages were 2 for a dollar.
Sure enough the ingredients indicated that they're really not chocolate (I know, the photo looks like all the other photos, but trust me, this is what the reverse says):
Peanuts, sugar, dextrose, vegetable oil (cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), chocolate, nonfat milk, contains 2% or less of milk fat, lactose, salt, whey, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, soy lecithin, cornstarch, glycerin, TGHQ & PGPR, vanillin.
They look a little flatter than the milk chocolate eggs (labeled or not). As for the taste, well, this one seemed really salty to me, but maybe that's what happens when I have peanut butter eggs for breakfast. (Hey, eggs are a breakfast food!)
The mockolate coating wasn't bad, it wasn't any worse looking than the current eggs. It has a similar melt and cool feeling on the tongue, it's sweet but I didn't taste any milky component to it.
I still don't know what's going on. I don't know why they've have both on the market at the same time, why they'd make two versions and ruin something that was perfectly good and perfect. As for the ruining part, well, they're not that bad but I'm not fond of eating palm oil when I could be eating cocoa butter.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fling: Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut
Someday I may write a long(er) article about public relations, marketing and product launches. I have a few case studies. Well, not really case studies, perhaps they're just essays where I make fun of PR. Mars' new Fling would probably be at the top of the list.
(If you just want a review of the candy, skip down to the photos of the actual candy bars out of the package, because I'm gonna go on here for a while with liberal use of parentheticals.)
The Ranting about Marketing & Press Spin
Fling is a new candy bar being test marketed in Los Angeles. The tag line is naughty but not that naughty (tm).
It's geared towards women, and even more specifically towards women with food issues.
But it's packaged like tampons (the individual fingers sold in stand up boxes moreso), so maybe it gives women who are embarrassed to be seen with a chocolate bar a more discreet package to disguise it. (If I were a child or man searching through someone's handbag for a snack, I'd certainly think at first glance that this was some sort of feminine hygiene product and not a sweet consumable.)
The press release that accompanied my single sample (yes, I requested samples since I hadn't seen it in Los Angeles, yet and I was overnighted a huge box with a too-small tee-shirt, press release and one package of the milk chocolate ... no samples of the other flavors, which is pretty much what I do here, eat all the flavors and then provide oodles of description & photos) is filled with fascinating stuff that defies logic:
There was no accompanying Venn diagram to show me what the overlap of that was. Is that 75% that enjoy passionate kissing a subset of the 77% of all women that enjoy chocolate? (The footnotes did provide me with the information that these surveys were conducted in Los Angeles and San Francisco, so perhaps this is only the leanings of 500 California urban women who were willing to talk about items so personal?)
The only fact contained in the release that I think will be of interest to retailers is that "California women claim they are less likely to give up chocolate and splurging on clothes than other indulgent flings, such as drinking gourmet coffee, having girls' night out and spa treatments." So with the current economic situation, this product will thrive. I have to say, I am not these women! (I don't drink gourmet coffee, I don't have girls' night out, spa treatments or splurge on clothes ... really the only thing that I fling my money at is chocolate.)
The other threats contained in the press release include a marketing campaign that will include innuendo-laden headlines. (Just when I was starting to recover from the Herbal Essence commercials - as long as they don't become the GoDaddy of candy.) Oh, I could go on and on about the things that I found insulting about the press release. But hey, consumers don't get to read it.
There's a companion website as well, which actually contains information about what the product actually is (there is an accompanying fact sheet that does have some additional scant info with more marketing-speak).
The marketing mentions that these are 85 calorie treats, but they're sold in packages that are pairs. So each package, each serving size is 170 calories. They come in three flavor varieties: Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut.
The Actual Candy Review
The Fling Milk Chocolate is meringue plank with a layer of chocolate cream covered in milk chocolate. The milk chocolate has an iridescent/pearly finish to it.
The marketing calls this premium chocolate, yet careful reading of the ingredients reveals that it has PGPR in it. Odd.
The fingers are rather like a Twix bar, about 4.25" long in a mostly half-round log. There are little squiggles that distinguish it from the Hazelnut variety.
They smell sweet and a little milky. The bite is quite nice. The meringue is crispy and has a very distinct crunch. It's a very smooth meringue, not like a honeycomb. The vaguely sweet and toasted meringue is set off by the truffle cream, which is silky smooth and a little salty. The milk chocolate coating is a bit milkier than the rest of the bar and gives it a little malty punch and pulls it all together.
It's a rather nice bar, wonderful blend of textures and delicate flavors. A bit on the sweet side for me when eaten alone, but with some strong tea or a cup of coffee, it's a good break.
The Fling Dark Chocolate is meringue plank with a layer of chocolate cream covered in dark chocolate (which contains milk, milkfat and lactose) but no PGPR.
The iridescent coating on this was more noticeable and frankly, more disturbing to me. What is that stuff? Eyeshadow? Crushed gemstones? Powdered mussel shells?
The smell of this bar reminded me a lot of Dove Dark Chocolate. It has a woodsy and slightly acidic/milky scent to it.
Again, the snap of the bar was really refreshing. It releases a little waft of toasted marshmallow flavor from the meringue. The darker chocolate gives it a dry finish and a bitter bite towards the end, leaving me feeling a bit more satisfied.
The Fling Hazelnut is the same meringue plank with a layer of hazelnut-flavored chocolate cream covered in milk chocolate. (The zig zags are doubled on these.)
I thought this one was the most innovative. Hazelnut isn't a common flavor in the United States for candy found in single packs at grocery & drug store checkouts, so they've found a unique selling proposition right there.
The bar smells like a flavored mocha drink. Sweet, with a toasted nut scent like hazelnut "flavor."
The crisp bite still pleases me in this version, but the overly fake hazelnut flavor doesn't do much for me. I would have preferred an actual giaunduia instead of the truffle cream, but I recognize that the coffee drink culture owns this hazelnut flavor thing.
There are a lot of things to like here. It's a completely new style of bar, they're really well made. The attention to detail is great (even the imprinting on the bottom of the bar is little flowers & swirlies like the package design).
I think the use of meringue, the mix of textures and the finger format is excellent - perfectly proportioned. It was crisp, it was creamy and overall, two bars was satisfying. The dark chocolate was my favorite of the three, but all were definitely good and different enough that I can see people having favorites.
The calories controls stuff is a little disingenuous (as most stuff regarding dieting and portion control is). The packages only hold 1.11 ounces. The caloric density is actually higher than most other candy bars on the market at 153 calories per ounce ... just a smaller portion. Twix, which is their own product and perhaps the target audience for this is only 140 calories per ounce, 3Musketeers is about 125, KitKat is about 150. The big difference here is that it doesn't look small. (I think this was a similar hurdle with the 3 Musketeers Mint.)
To bring this back to my earlier assessment of the marketing and positioning of the product, I think it's a huge error to launch this as its own product line. I think it should be part of the Dove products, which are already about indulgence (and strike me as less likely to alienate men) and have a recognizable package & logo design.
The other striking thing is that Fling is not new to planet Earth. It's been around in Australia for two years. (Candy Addict had a review of it on its launch.) The packaging there was less feminine (no pink) and though still aimed at women it had a quirky campaign that used the tagline, forever is overrated. Here's an animated commercial. (Thanks Sera!)
They're only available in Los Angeles in stores right now, but if you're convinced this will be your new secret love, you can order online.
UPDATE 2/15/2009: A couple of other blogs have picked up on this marketing campaigns & have commented on it. Read more views on Mother Jones (picks up on women with food issues) & Jezebel.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
ReeseSticks (Revisit)
I went on a strange little odyssey. It all started with an interview I was prepping for with NBC's Today show. Hershey's was changing some of their products, swapping out real milk chocolate for coatings that used other oils instead of the native cocoa butter in chocolate.
I gathered up all the products I could find, including the ReeseSticks (previous review here). I found the single serve package at the drug store, but it was expired and I didn't think that was fair, so I found this Reese's Lovers Assortment (photo here) at CVS's freshly stocked Halloween aisle. I found exactly what I wanted ... but I was a little surprised because the front of the package said that the ReeseSticks were crispy wafers | peanut butter | milk chocolate.
Well, that didn't match what I had. This is happy news, right? The milk chocolate is back!
But when I opened up my Reese's Lovers Assortment I was more than disappointed. The little single finger packages of ReeseSticks were quite clear, they said only crispy wafers | peanut butter. What are they pulling?
Well, I've already bought them, so I may as well try them and add them to my list of re-reviewed items.
Flipping over the bag, they do list all the ingredients for the products separately and though the front and both sides of the package mention milk chocolate, the ingredients tell the full story:
The old ingredients (courtesy of Mike's Candy Wrappers) from 2003:
The little sticks in the assortment are a little smaller than the regular twin pack. These are .6 ounces each, but are still pretty substantial feeling.
The possibly-chocolate coating (well, the ingredients say that there may be cocoa butter in there and no other oils) looks pretty good, a little greasy but a nice medium color. It smells like peanuts and Easter grass. Sweet and artificial and, well, comforting.
Unless chilled the coating was pretty soft and sticky. The crunch of the foamy and flavorless wafers allowed the peanut butter to come through. Without much chocolate flavor, these reminded me of Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch, without all the sharp mouth-wounding bits. It's pretty salty though, saltier than I would like. (135 mgs in a current twin pack versus 110 mgs in the original one.)
Overall, I prefer the memory of the real chocolate one - less salty and I recall it having some chocolate flavor input. I don't like ingredients lists that tell me what might be in there in there. I don't want to eat palm oil, I want cocoa butter. But it's still a pretty good candy product and not as noticeable a change as the Kissables.
Final note: Though the package deceptively promised me milk chocolate in my ReeseSticks, it also said that the Fast Break was not real chocolate on the outside ... but on the inside and the reverse of the package it was.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Nips: Butter Rum & Peanut Butter Parfait
I found two more flavors of Nips to add to my growing collection.
The series seems to be color coded, peanut butter is accented with orange. I think orange is the universal color for peanut butter (though I could see yellow working too).
The Peanut Butter Parfait Nips didn't sound that appealing to me. I wasn't sure what the peanut butter center would be like. The picture on the box makes it appear as though it's some sort of caramel sauce flavored with peanut butter.
These seemed more regular than the Dulce de Leche ones that I had before, not as much leakage.
After cracking one open (yes, with a nutcracker) I found out why these weren't leaky. The center isn't gooey, it's a dry and crumbly partially defatted peanut butter.
The shell was like the Caramel Nips. Sweet, creamy and toasty tasting.
After a while I got kind of tired waiting for the peanut butter flavor, so I crunched it a bit. The peanut butter innards are very sweet, a little greasy (thank goodness for the defatting) and really peanutty.
The combination is nice, but completely overpowers the caramel at this point. Then the peanut butter dissolves away and I'm left with shards of caramel Nip (well, that's my fault for crunching). Not really much of a winner for me.
Rating: 5 out of 10
The Butter Rum Nips sport a medium purple banner across the box and on the little wrappers.
Though I enjoy rum as a spirit, I don't drink it straight and rarely in mixed drinks at all. I think it's best in sauces and baked goods, so putting it in a candy seems like a pretty good idea to me.
They don't smell like much in the box. Kind of like box.
If you've ever wanted Butter Rum LifeSavers to be more creamy, and I mean actually have milk in them instead of being milk flavored, this is the stuff.
The caramelized flavors, the smooth texture and the oh, so fake rum flavor all combines to make a really satisfying treat. I was dubious, but these won me over on the second piece.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Reese's Select Clusters
It sounds great. Reese's Select Clusters feature Peanuts, Pecans, Peanut Butter and Caramel wrapped in Milk Chocolate. It's like a peanut butter turtle.
Reese's Signatures line is supposed to fancy up the standard Hershey's fare, like the Bliss line is doing for their regular chocolate pieces. They were announced last fall at All Candy Expo and last I heard were supposed to come out late this summer. Imagine my delight seeing them at CVS over the weekend. Imagine my shock seeing myself pay $4.29 for a half a pound of Hershey's!
The clusters are individually wrapped in a pleasant orange, maroon & mango colored wrapper. Each chocolate is a bit different in shape, but they're mostly a half ounce each and mostly 1.5" in diameter. The little zig zags in the chocolate shell give them a rather handcrafted artisan look. The lumpy exterior teases that there may be real pecans in there. Each piece contains approximately 75 calories.
Biting into it, it's rather soft. Unlike a turtle that has nuts and caramel to work through, these "nuts" are not quite abundant and certainly not whole - think chunky peanut butter. The caramel reservoir is centered under the little dome, a peanut butter layer with some nuts mixed in. The peanut butter is a bit salty, which balances the sweetness of the milk chocolate and caramel. The caramel is far too gooey and without any actual flavor of its own ... no buttery component, not burnt sugar flavors.
I thought maybe I was just not keen on the texture, so I froze a few. Instead of making a chewy caramel, I just made some sort of similarly tasteless toffee. The peanut butter remained soft and salty, but the caramel bit just never developed a chew, it was like hard candy.
They're simply not a cluster. I consider a cluster to be something that has distinct items clumped together. In the case of a confection, I expect to be able to discern each of those items. I never really got any sense of pecan in this whole thing ... and come to think of it, I didn't get much caramel.
It's appealing, but not something that I've found myself reaching for. (I have, however, been reaching for the dark chocolate Bats.) Rebecca at Sugar Hog also found them early and has a review (and paid far less then I did, grrr.).
The list of ingredients is exhaustingly long. The chocolate is real but contains both corn syrup solids & PGPR, the caramel contains high fructose corn sweetener and the whole thing is noted to have less than 2% of pecans. It also lists that it contains macadamia nuts & almonds (though much farther down on that less than 2% less). They call it Select but I don't think it means selective. (Also, unlike most other Reese's products, these are not Kosher.)
The final thing to note from the package: Reese's Select Clusters were made in Mexico. These must be the first items coming off the lines for the American market. While it's not a replacement for a product that we're accustomed to from the US factories (so I can't do a one-for-one comparison like so many folks do with American Coca-Cola & Mexican Coca-Cola).
Many folks have expressed dismay (and outrage) about the closing of the Oakdale, CA Hershey's plant and have said that you'll never buy another Hershey's product because they've opened factories in Mexico. Contrary to some rumors, Hershey's is not moving all production out of the United States (in fact, one of the greatest losses of jobs was not in the US but was in Canada at the Smith Falls, Ontario factory which employed 400 people directly.)
Here's a statement from Hershey's:
So if anyone wants to send a message to Hershey's about their restructuring, an idea to consider is to continuing buying the candies made in the USA (it's very clearly marked on the package) and eschew the Mexican produced ones. A complete boycott abandons the remaining American workers.
If this is an important issue for you, then I also encourage folks to look at the origin of all of your candy. Many "American" products are not made here. A few examples: Wrigley's LifeSavers (Canada); Nestle Chunky (Brazil) & Wonka Gobstoppers (Mexico) and Starburst Jelly Beans (Mexico).
The reason I probably won't be buying the Reese's Select Clusters is purely because they weren't good enough to warrant that price. Perhaps the name Select and Signatures set the bar too high (oh, and the tease that there were actually pecans in there). If this was just promoted as a new version of Reese's cups, I would probably be more amenable. But for $7 to $9 a pound I'm more likely to splurge on some See's Pecan Buds (okay, those are $15 a pound). And for an everyday treat, a simple Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or for a more textured treat: Take 5 (really, this is just a Take 5 without the pretzel!).
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:21 PM GMT on December 19, 2006
The hurricane season of 2006 has a new tropical storm. No, it's not one of those rare December tropical storms. The new storm occurred back in July, according to a post-season analysis released by the National Hurricane Center Friday. The unnamed storm formed about 240 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts on July 17 from the remains of a cold front that had pushed off the East Coast on July 13. The unnamed storm started off as an extratropical storm, then passed over the warm 28-29 C waters of the Gulf Stream, which helped it make the transition to a warm-cored tropical storm. At its peak intensity, the unnamed storm had winds of 50 mph at the surface. As it moved northeastward, it passed into much colder waters, and died 24 hours after becoming a tropical storm. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Figure 1. Unnamed tropical storm of July 17, 2006 (labeled "Extratropical (subtropical?) low" in my blog from July 17).
It is often difficult to be certain in real time if a short-lived storm is fully tropical and deserves a name. If the storm is not a threat to land, NHC will usually play it conservative, and rely on an end-of-season post-analysis using data that is not available in real time to determine if a borderline system was a tropical storm or not. In my blog from July 17 of this year, I noted, "To my eye, the system is probably a subtropical storm, and technically should be classified as Subtropical Depression Two. However, is it difficult to tell for sure, and the NHC is conservatively not naming it, since it is headed towards colder water and has little chance of becoming a full tropical storm." This is the second year in row NHC has analyzed a new tropical storm after the season was over. Last year, "Should have been Tammy" got rooked out of name; this year's storm--"Should have been Beryl"--brings the statistics for the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season exactly to average for named storms--ten--and one below normal for hurricanes, five.
For information about Tropical Cyclone Bondo near Madgascar, which is near Category 5 intensity, see Margie Kieper's excellent View From the Surface blog. The cyclone passed only 37 km south of Agalega, Mauritius, today.
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It's been a long, frustrating wait with plenty of starts and stops but free safety Oshiomogho Atogwe finally returned to the practice field on Monday.
Atogwe has been out of action because of a hamstring injury since the opening days of camp. Aside from a one-day return, Atogwe has not been on the practice field since.
"You kind of forget the veteran presence that he brings to the back end," coach Scott Linehan said. "He really has been, obviously, coming on the last couple years for us at safety and I've said it all along, he's been one of our most improved ascending young players we've had since I've been here. We've kind of missed that here this camp and I think he looked pretty sharp."
The return of Atogwe is only more good news for a defense that has been particularly effective in the past two weeks.
The Rams are taking an approach similar to the one they are using with running back Steven Jackson in order to get Atogwe back up to speed. Atogwe won't be staying late for a form of simulated workouts but he did take extra repetitions with the second and third defense after working with the starting group.
"It's a trying situation whenever you are being prevented from doing something you want to do," Atogwe said. "It's a little challenging but you learn stuff in that and come back stronger. I have been the No. 1 cheerleader on that sideline. The boys have been playing great, making a lot of plays, stopping a lot of guys, playing with a lot of mental toughness and a lot of energy and it's just encouraging for me for when I do return to jump on board and just be a part of that."
Atogwe missed the team's minicamp in May because of a hamstring issue. He believes that something didn't heal right at that time and that's why he played so little before hitting the sidelines again.
Since he was unable to play, Atogwe has spent plenty of time working on the sidelines and riding the bike to keep his legs strong.
"It was a little hamstring hiccup," Atogwe said. "It's probably a little left over from some scar tissues that didn't quite go away like I wanted to but it just came back and crept up on me. It's good to go now."
It remains to be seen whether Atogwe will play in the preseason finale against Kansas City. The Rams have only one more practice scheduled (tomorrow) before that game and two practices might not be enough to get Atogwe on the field.
For his part, Atogwe says he'll take any chance to get on the field and get re-acquainted with collisions.
"That's up to the coaches," Atogwe said. "I love playing. If they want me to play this week I am going to go out there and play. If they don't want me to play, I won't play. Anytime I get the opportunity to play, I am going to play."
BENTLEY VISITS: Perhaps unsettled by an uncertain center situation, the Rams brought in accomplished veteran LeCharles Bentley for a visit on Monday.
Bentley has not been offered a contract and any potential deal did not seem imminent. Bentley took a physical in the morning and got a tour of the training facility.
Bentley is recovering from a series of leg injuries that have kept him out of football the past two seasons. He asked for and received his release from Cleveland in June.
As it stands, the Rams have Brett Romberg competing with Nick Leckey for the starting job in the middle of the offensive line. Romberg has been dealing with a broken hand the past three weeks while Leckey has taken most of the repetitions and made the past two starts in preseason games.
JACKSON WORKS: Jackson got his second opportunity to participate in a full team practice Monday afternoon and continued his accelerated work load.
Jackson got carries with the first, second and third team offense in an effort to get him as many plays as possible.
"You know Steven's got three real strong days on the mental and physical," Linehan said. "We've done a lot of workouts prior to now. He came in at such a time where we were in game mode and walk-through mode that we had to accelerate that. He's really had four straight days of some pretty physical workouts, at least on the conditioning side. Haven't been able to play tackle football yet with him, but we'll put the pads on him tomorrow and keep pushing that."
Like Atogwe, no decision has been made on his status for the Kansas City contest, either.
"I haven't decided yet; I'd say the chance is low," Linehan said. "Right now he's still in exempt status and that could effect what we do for Thursday as well so we don't have to lose a roster spot for the game if we weren't going to play him much."
INJURY REPORT: Atogwe wasn't the only injured Ram back working Monday. Left tackle Orlando Pace (bicep soreness) and Brian Leonard (shoulder) also returned to the practice field.
Tight end Joe Klopfenstein didn't participate in the work out because of a reaction to some medication. Klopfenstein suffered from a leg infection late last week. He was given antibiotics after he re-opened the infection and had a reaction to it. His return is expected in short order.
Cornerback Fakhir Brown (shoulder) is still out but Linehan thinks Brown is closer to a return though that could still be a week or so away.
"He's still a little uncomfortable and we're evaluating what to do this week to make sure we do to everything possible to make him feel comfortable with where his shoulder is at," Linehan said. "I know he feels better. He's not 100 percent. He's getting closer, but he's been really working hard. I bet he's in about as good of running shape as he's been in a long time. He's running extremely hard here in the last couple of weeks."
Receiver Drew Bennett (strained groin), returner Dante Hall (sprained ankle), linebacker David Vobora (ankle) and Will Witherspoon (groin) also sat out Monday's practice.
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