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Most of the BEST from Las Vegas NV Restaurants I’ve been to 2025

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This is most of the best from this past 2025 year. (I said most because I might have forgotten a few or a few of the best were so recent that I didn’t get to add them in yet)

Maybe the best Ceviche I tried was the Ceviche Pescado from Moia Peruvian Restaurant.

One of the very best plates that I tasted this year was the spicy chicken won tons from Din Tai Fung a Taiwanese Restaurant that is located in the Aria Hotel/Casino.

The sauce is FORKING AMAZING is a YUM BOMB!

The Best Bread that I tasted in Las Vegas this year was from Monzu Italian Oven & Bar.

The bread is made from a 300 year old natural family starter from apricots and the bread takes five days to prepare. They serve it was house made ricotta and seasoned oil.

One of the BEST Vegetable Dishes was The Winter Squash from The Pepper Club that kept changing their menus and is no more as of December 20TH 2025.

The Squash were embellished with brown butter, sage, pomegranate molasses and gorgonzola dolce cheese.

The Salmon Katsu from Ton Shou Katsu & Izakaya was Spectacular!

Their Pork Katsu was just as spectacular so I heard.

A really great unusual dish was the Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar by Jose Andres.

Japanese Baby Peaches from Bazaar Mar

One of the Best Pastrami Sandwiches was this house made one from Wild Fig BBQ.

The other best Pastrami Sandwich was the one from Wexler’s in the food court in The Aria Hotel/Casino.

I do note that I had the Wexlers three times over the past year and each time it differed some. The Wild Fig Pastrami sandwich only differed in the amount of fat in the pastrami on different visits.

The Goat Cheese in spicy tamarind sauce with pistachios and fried pita breads are so darn tasty that I have to get it every time I go to Flecha Cantina. (Just thought of the Goat Cheese with onion Jam that French Restaurant Oh La La French Bistro makes. That one is also Bomb Delicious)

Another FORKING Tasty appetizer is the Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime.

Golden Pouches
FAMOUS Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen

The other most amazing Thai Appetizer is the Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen….It’s the spicy limey bright sauce with cashews that so crazy good.

Maybe the best Thai Entrees came from What’s Zaap Thai Food.

What’s Zaap Thai Food was Amazing. Best Spicy Basil and surprisingly Great Green Curry Salmon

The Salmon was so darn masterful in a great green curry sauce and the Pad Gra Pow was the best I’ve tasted in Las Vegas So Far.

(Just remembered the fish dish from Skye Thai should be here with the crispy basil)

Another BEST was the 4 course dinner from Ferraro’s Ristorante. Every Plate was spectacular and perfect.

The Wagyu Beef Sker from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

The Wagyu Beef Skewer from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant was flavorful and melted in the mouth like no other…..(but the pork belly Skewer was all dried out)

Chicken Francese from Ciao Vino Ristorante
The Bundino from Ciao Vino

The Bundino was extra delicious and flavorful from Ciao Vino

Best Salmon came from Matteo’s in the Palazzo Venetian

best Salmon – Silky moist fresh medium prepared and Skin that was seasoned and cooked down like a tasty potato chip that stayed crisp. – From Matteo’s Italiano’s Italiano Ristorante. There were a few really great salmon plates but this one was the very best of all.

Also from Matteo’s –

Ligurian Focaccia from Matteo’s Italiano Ristorante

This is like a ballon bread filled with melted Crescenza cheese. It was amazing and light as air from Matteo’s Italiano Ristorante. This might be the most amazing plate of the year. Too bad that it is only periodically on the menu.

Shawarma Vegas is one of my favorites for casual Mediterranean Food that happens to be kosher.

So far they make the BEST falafels, Best fluffy Pitas, BEST Beef Kabobs, and every Chicken dish was as GREAT as Possible.

The other great Mediterranean (also kosher) makes the best steak and ultra good chicken came from a kosher restaurant called Tikva’s Grill.

They both had delicious deep flavors, were tender and so darn juicy. (Oh and the fries were notably great too!)

BEST Indian food came from Taste of Gujarat.

The other best Indian-ish Contemporary Food came from Tamba Contemporary Indian Restaurant.

Now I am spoiled. I want all Indian Food to be this perfect and layered with flavors.

Best Plates of the year from a Special Dinner Event from Crossroads Kitchen. It was their Vegan Italian 5 course Dinner with guest Chefs Michael Voltaggio, Rocco DiSpirito, and Tal Ronnen.

The Pasta Nero was insanely SCRUMPTIOUS! with Morel calamari, Sea Bean Powder, and Arrabiata emulsion.

Even the Eggplant Milanese deserves a spot here.

The flavors were so unexpected. Even the lemon was juicy like no other.

And the Croccante Alle Nocciole was such a layered amazing dessert like no other.

A Special Mention must go to Rang’s Cocina Moderne. We go there regularly and all the dishes and all the service is VERY GOOD each and every time we go there.

These were most of the VERY BEST Plates of 2025 from Las Vegas NV.

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2025 Horrific Foods – Las Vegas NV

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These are most of the BAD Plates from This Year. I may have forgotten a few?

These are the most Horrific Foods I tried since last year.

Louie Louie Fried Chicken Sandwich

The Louie Louie Fried Chicken Sandwich was over sauced and made with chicken that was so dry it could make you choke. (maybe that is why they over sauced the sandwich?)

This Coconut Chicken from Hawaiian Barbecue (pictured below) had a sauce on it that made me gag and the better chicken nuggets were dry and stingy. The dryer ones were hard as rocks.

The Potato & Cheddar Pierogi from Pierogi Village

The Potato & Cheddar Pierogi had unknown meats in it from Pierogi Village – BLECH!

Caesar Salad from Balla Italian Soul

The worst Caesar Salad was from Balla Italian Soul. Because NOBODY wants their Caesar Dressing to taste like Ranch Dressing with an anchovy garnish.

Broccolini from Balla Italian Soul

Also from Balla Italian Soul the spicy broccolini is very over seasoned and MUSHY…..NOBODY likes mushy smelly broccoli.

Reheated macaroni and cheese, red beans and rice without sauce Jerk Chicken and the toughest beef in the whole world came from Taste Budz Creole Kitchen. (Dang even a crocodile would have trouble here)

Also from Taste Budz Creole Kitchen was from the can deteriorating sweet potatoes and salmon that a fork can’t cut that is crusted with something like grill residue and taste horrible and is so hot and spicy that it is inedible. Maybe this restaurant is called Taste Budz because the owner lacks Taste Budz?

Ick! It taste how it looks – from NORMS

This next one doesn’t look bad but it was BAD. It was suppose to be a $24. ground in house prime rib burger …………But instead they served an over cooked nasty fast food tasting type burger from Carve Prime Rib at the Cannery Hotel/Casino.

From Chabelito’s Mexican Grill #3 I tried the Birria Ramen.

Birria Ramen from Chabelito’s

Then I almost turned into a pillar of salt from this non-edible salt bomb birria ramen.

Hot Garlic Szechuan Chicken from China Kitchen

So SWEET you can pour it on pancakes.

Kung Pao Beef from China Kitchen

The beef was so tough that you could BREAK YOUR TEETH.

When you need a steak knife to cut threw you snapper Florentine is pretty darn bad. (and they served it with a broken sauce too1)

Snapper Florentine Special from Bistro 57
Unseasoned hard as tire rubber chicken from Sushi Neko
Dried Out Beef Bulgogi from Sushi Neko

This next one doesn’t look bad but it was……The Hamachi Kama from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant was over cooked to the point where it was dry and stringy. (but their wagyu beef really was very good)

Hamachi Kama from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

Also the Chicken Karaage was maybe the worst I ever had anywhere……..because it tasted unseasoned and floury and that you can see!

Chicken Karaage from Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

Cooper’s Kitchen & Tap served me the WORST Stir Fry Dish that was chuck full of Raw Dry Kale and a sauce that might have been created by a toddler.

The Stir Fry from Cooper’s Kitchen and Tap was awful and full of Raw Kale

Went back to the Hawaiian Barbecue because it actually used to be reasonably good and got this in my Maui Maui Healthier Salad.

It was scary awful and disgusting. If was like fried the fish and dripped oil all over the salad and egg. And WTFork is that BLUE on the egg?

Grizzle and Chicken joints from all the meats I tried from 8282 Korean BBQ

Those were the 2025 Horrific Foods of Las Vegas.

Just awful and NOT WORTH A FORK!

Not Worth a Fork
This is Forked Up!
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My Trip to Pierogi Village – Las Vegas NV – Not for Everyone!

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Pierogi Village is a small Polish Restaurant that specializes in serving Pierogi and other Polish Style Foods. It’s very homey inside with lots of Polish dolls, pottery, and other Keep Sakes all over.

My husband tried the Pierogi Sampler Plate of ten pierogi. He tried sausage, beef, potato & cheddar, and potato & cheese pierogi. He said it came with a green sauce that tasted minty and they were embellished with some diced caramelized onions. He said they had little flavor and couldn’t tell the difference between the beef and sausage pierogi. He also said that the pierogi that were suppose to have jalapeño in them didn’t taste like they had any jalapeño in them. He also said that he was still hungry after eating the pierogi (and one of mine) since the pierogi here are very small (about teaspoon sized).

I tried six potato and cheddar pierogi.

I was kinda surprised that they don’t come with sour cream. The pasta is nice and thin and none of them leaked. It might be hard to tell by my photo but they are very greasy. (and that turns me off). I ate four……..but I didn’t enjoy them……….they kinda turned my stomach because they were greasy and just didn’t have any good flavors to them……….The onions didn’t really taste like onions and instead had a cheap smoky lunch meat flavor and were too greasy for me. Even the inside wasn’t seasoned nice. I didn’t really taste any cheddar. It just was greasy and had that cheap lunch meat flavor. Then I scraped the onions off of one to give to my dogs. I was going to eat a fifth one but when I cut it open there was a big piece of some kind of meat in it so I gave it to my husband to eat since I didn’t know what it was.

WHAT THE FORK!

This was in the potato and cheddar pierogi.

BLECH!

My dogs didn’t mind.

Pierogi Village is not for everyone.

Latter I found out that Pierogi Village puts bacon in their potato and cheddar pierogi with no mention of they on their menu. That is very unkind and disrespectful to vegetarians and to people who don’t eat pork. I did mention this to the owner and Margaret eventually agreed with me. She said that she would change her menu and add bacon as an ingredient to her potato and cheddar pierogi. As of yesterday I did not notice any changes to her on-line menu.

Pierogi Village

8540 W Lake Mead Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-735-2095

www.PierogiVillage.TheFoodieGram.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

Taste Budz Creole Kitchen North Las Vegas NV – Toughest Beef of the Year

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I heard positive things about Taste Budz Creole Kitchen on Eater Las Vegas so I wanted to give this restaurant a try. It’s a casual mostly Cajun type restaurant with two locations in North Las Vegas Nevada.

I read on Eater Las Vegas that the Chef is someone known as Celebrity Chef Trish. (Her likeness is painted on the wall below.)

It is very casual. You order and pay at the counter.

Lots of bright paintings on the walls to look at while you are waiting for your order.

I tried to eat the Jerk Salmon Entree with Macaroni and Cheese and Sweet Potatoes.

There is gross black stuff on the fish that might be leftover crud from a flat top or pan. The fish has a weird texture and is almost impossible to cut with a fork. But the taste is worst. It is so hot that it is not edible. The macaroni and cheese was re-heated too many times so it’s not so good. The sweet potatoes are like canned and are turning to mush.

The Cajun steak is so tough that even an alligator would give up on trying to eat it…. The food served to us I would consider it to be below standard and I would not recommend.

The toughest beef of the year came from –

Taste Budz Creole Kitchen

1917 N Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas NV

702-245-3067

www.TasteBudzCreoleKitchen.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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The Absolute FORKING WORST Potato Chip Ever – FORKING THOUGHTS

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The ABSOLUTE FORKING WORST POTATO CHIPS that I ever tried were Christie’s Sweet & Spicy Habanero super natural potato chips.

YUK!

They taste burnt and are too FORKING HOT and burn and are painful to eat.

The bag I got was not edible to me. I honestly don’t think anyone would ever manufacture something so horrible. Maybe that is why Sprouts Grocery was selling them for .99cents a bag?

Those were my FORKING THOUGHTS I doubt anyone’s Forking Thoughts will differ.

The Forking Truth

Halloween Horrific Food Edition 2024 Las Vegas NV

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Halloween is when my claws come out and I complain about some of the lousiest food I tried here. (I drew the picture below for a restaurant I used to work for)

Our local food critic always raves about an Italian Restaurant called Cipriani. This restaurant was also on Eater Las Vegas as one of the best for lunches in Las Vegas so I had to try it. We got the three course menu. The FORKING Truth is that two of the three courses were horrible.

I started with the lentil soup that completely lacked any depth of flavors….For the most part it tasted like a bowl of wet dirt.

Lentil Soup

For our mains we both tried the branzino with pasta. The pasta was perfect but possibly they forgot to season this dish? The only flavor was the fishy bloodline that they might have also forgotten to remove from the fish.

The North Las Vegas Location of Servehzah Bottle Shop and Tap Room might serve good beer but food is another story. All the tacos…even the fried tacos were served cold. The fried meat tacos also were coated in a wet cold (what seemed like thawed from frozen?), possibly raw batter and didn’t taste good. I had a protein bowl that is their signature specialty dish. The chicken was served cold and had this unappetizing taste. The dressing didn’t pour and was hard like cold cream cheese. I think it is possible that it might have been a health violation.

Some things from Izakayo Go were indeed very good but raw fish is usually very good from Japanese restaurants. The big eye tuna steak was NOT EDIBLE. It was raw inside and not tender at all. It was like trying to bite into a raw turkey leg.

I heard mostly good things about Fat Choy. They were even featured on Drive Ins Diners and Dives. The chef also has great experience working at very fine restaurants such as Robuchon. My server recommended the salmon teriyaki so I gave that a try. My fish was slightly over cooked and slightly fishy tasting maybe from being over cooked but my husbands Crispy Korean BBQ Rice bowl was even worst (see it pictured below).

Crispy Korean Beef BBQ Rice Bowl

I tried a small piece of beef. WOW……It’s not developed with any kind of flavor and has a dehydrated beef jerky kind of texture. This is really awful.

We went to MRKT Land and Sea. This is a luxury restaurant at Aliante Casino. I tried the salmon dinner.

Salmon from MRKT

They over cooked the salmon till it was dried out and crumbly.

I sent it back and then they made me raw salmon that was partially over cooked on the ends. They said that they were going to try again but after waiting another 40 minutes we decided that they couldn’t cook salmon. I didn’t have dinner that night.

Incase you don’t know how salmon should be cooked I added a picture from how Bouchon serves salmon.

Salmon from Bouchon

We all should get something like the above from a luxury restaurant.

The Harvest Cafe is sort of a budget restaurant that offers a large menu with lots of variety including breakfast. The prices are very low so you go in not excepting the best. But I made the mistake of expecting the standard or just ok.

This is a very sad plate. I picked the grilled cod because I thought it was the easiest plate on the menu to get ok. I don’t know how they made it but I can imagine frozen fish sticks that got the batter removed and the fish got drenched with four. They grilled it well on one side with the other three sides tasting like raw flour. In the process they over cooked the fish sticks till they were tough and chewy. The green beans were dropped in a nasty tasting oil and served soggy. The rice just tastes gross. You go here when you have a cold and can’t taste your food. Or you go here when you are dieting and are trying not to eat.

And the mediocre or non-honorable mention

Prince’s Pizza

We tried four different slices..None of them looked bad but all four supposedly were made with a different sauce…????……All four were made with tomato sauce that was as sweet as candy.

Uncle Paulie’s

Hated the pastrami sandwich.

Pastrami sandwich from Uncle Paulie’s

Weird tasting pastrami with crunchy ends on not so great bread.

From Greens and Proteins Restaurant –

Just awful tasting and mostly everything was over cooked.

Thai Chicken Peanut Bowl from Greens and Proteins

The Chicken Peanut Bowl was missing the mushrooms and the asparagus. Chicken was dry and chewy. Rice was mushy. My husband’s plate was Chewy steak, hard rice and just didn’t taste good.

Spiedini Fiamma Italian Bistro –

Here almost everything was either over cooked or undercooked. The chicken was under cooked and also had rubbery skin. Dessert there had a frozen center.

Chicken from Spiedini Fiamma Italian Bistro

This was the 2024 Horrific Food Edition from Las Vegas NV.

(below is another one of my artworks)

Happy Halloween!

The Forking Truth

My Forking Thoughts on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s – Oy Veh

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I used to love M&M’s Candies. I grew up enjoying the original and peanut varieties and latter I enjoyed the almond variety. Over the decades these candies changed things up and also introduced new flavors. Some I liked and some I didn’t care for……It’s been a very long time since I found a new flavor so I gave these Pumpkin Pie M&M’s a try.

WOW! It says on the front of bag ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR ………how good can that be?……..

Anyways

The M&M’s are different colors (Orange, Brown, White) and different sizes? Regular and mega?

I taste some…….I taste some more……

These are just too fake tasting to identify.

They sure DON’T TASTE ANYTHING LIKE PUMPKIN PIE

But even worse……

They don’t taste like chocolate either….

They are kinda sweet but not too sweet like some of them….

They just don’t taste like anything familiar.

Those were my FORKING THOUGHTS on Pumpkin Pie M&M’s I do note that YOUR FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

Halloween Special Edition – Frightful Horrifying Foods Served in Las Vegas NV 2023

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This is a collection of the most frightful horrifying foods served to us in Las Vegas Nevada in no particular order. OK my claws are out and here it is…….

At Casa Don Jaun downtown besides cold chips that seemed purchased and oregano laced salsa I tried a chicken fajita salad. I got an uninspired warm salad that was topped with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and chicken that was drowning in salty soy sauce. Oh and a glob of guacamole. YUK! It tasted like they used half a bottle of soy sauce to make this.

The chicken ramen was made with good chicken but the broth was below standard. It tasted like some sort of instant broth with added salt. This was absolutely terrible and most of the ramen they offer at this restaurant is made with this too. I had the chicken ramen. Not all but most of the ramen they offer is a combination of pork and chicken broth.

At Victories Cafe in The Cannery besides being served over microwaved rolls that turned hard……I tried the Asian Chicken Salad. The chicken had a weird texture…..It was tender but unusually dry??????But it was the sauce on it that made me gag….It was very sweet…It just didn’t taste good.

The rice was good from Little Hong Kong but everything else was below standard……My husband tried the Szechwan beef that was hard and chewy in a sauce that we didn’t care for….Sadly we tried Mandarin hot braised vegetables and they were in the same exact sauce as the Szechwan beef. Maybe the worst dish we had there was the vinegar marinated milkfish…..I had Caribbean vinegar marinated fish before that was delicious. The fish dish from Little Hong Kong has all dried out and chewy and only tasted like old fish and vinegar…….

Sometimes you get bad food at food festivals.

Recently at the USA Today Wine and Food Festival I tried this piece of beef from Kusa Nori……Somehow they made this saltier than salt….I thought I was going to be sick after tasting it..

Same thing happened at the Great Las Vegas Taco Festival.

I wasn’t able to eat either of these tacos from El Fuego. They were so over salted that to me they weren’t edible.

Back to restaurants

EllaEm’s Soul Food won a Best of Vegas Award so I thought they’d be good. OK maybe it’s my bad for trying the fish…..(not the best) but you can clearly see problems with most of the sides. I had mixed vegetables that look like from frozen that have nothing added to them. In the middle are sweet potatoes that are sweet beyond belief. To the right is macaroni and cheese that is all dried out. My husband also had a very dried out chicken fried steak.

Bob Taylor’s Ranch House might be one of the oldest Steak Houses in Las Vegas. My husband found out that his burger was thrown on the grill from frozen. He asked for medium – rare but he got grey in the center and all dried out. I tried the BBQ chicken salad. They did give me tender chicken but it was covered in a cloyingly sweet bbq sauce and was served over warm soggy iceberg lettuce.

We had a good visit to Secret of Siam Thai Restaurant so I wanted to go back because they offer a lot of different fish dishes on their menu. I tried the green Apple Pompano……The slaw that came with it was delicious……..but……

The fish was horrifying…….It came out like they boiled it in glue. I dug and dug with my fork and it was next to impossible to get flesh to eat….But when I managed to get a small morsel……..ICK!

It’s FORKING gross…..It’s that old fish taste.

That was The Halloween 2023 Special Edition of The FORKING Truth where I shared the most frightful, horrifying foods served to me in Las Vegas NV.

Have something good and don’t go hungry on Halloween.

I drew this….

Every THING is subject to change.

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My FORKING THOUGHTS on Hershey’s Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses –

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I noticed these Limited Edition Hershey Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses at my local Safeway Supermarket. I hesitated …….should I….or shouldn’t I?……..As a Youngster I used to like Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Bars…..So I was hoping that these Hershey’s Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses might taste similar…….????? Well lets see…..

Eeek! They are flesh colored with little red rashes.

I try it and it is gross. WTFork is this? Not sure if I can finish……..

It just taste very artificial ……Doesn’t taste comparable to anything.

As it’s melting I got a crunchy lump. The crunchy lump is ok….It’s sort of cookie like in taste……

But The kiss is still there and terrible. My tongue is burning from it….YUK!

Now I got a weird aftertaste…..It’s something like hops from beer…ICK…GROSS!

On the bright side I won’t be getting fat from them.

I can not recommend them…..Actually I am surprised that they can pass a taste test from Hershey’s…..

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Limited Edition Hershey’s Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses but I also must note that YOUR FORKING opinion may indeed differ.

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Where The FORK is the Peanut Butter in New Russell Stover Joy Bites? Joy Bites? More like OY bites.

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I came across these NEW Russell Stover sugar free peanut butter chocolate bars at my local Safeway grocery store. I didn’t even read the package but I thought the chocolate bar looked very appetizing in the picture. LOOK at all that peanut butter in the picture below. It looks so scrumptious!

I normally would never buy this brand of chocolate because I used to not like it but I thought this must be a new recipe because it looks so delicious on the package. Then when I got it home we cracked it open and ate two of the sections of the chocolate bar.

It really isn’t bad for sugar free chocolate. It melts in the mouth and can pass as sweetened with sugar…..but……….

…..Where The FORK is the Peanut Butter?

Joy Bites?

More like remove the “J” and you get OY bites. In addition to NO SUGAR added there is NO PEANUT BUTTER ADDED.

I contacted Russell Stover on Facebook and Instagram on this matter and got nothing from them…..Just like the same amount of no peanut butter that I didn’t get from them.

Where the FORK is the peanut butter in Joy Bites?

Remove the “J” from Joy Bites and you are left with oy bites.

And that’s The FORKING Truth.

The Forking Truth