BTS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION

Dear, Valued Members

The BTS Historical Foundation, a volunteer supported division of the Broadview Tasting Society (BTS), has compiled a list of tastings which took place prior to BTS’ electronic documentation program. They are as follows:

• Canned foods
• Cereal
• Lunch snack cakes
• Non-vegetarian dried protein
• Chips
• Popsicles
• Gum
• Chocolate bars
• Spreads
• Baby food
  

Sincerely,

Deputy Chief Archivist
BTS Historical Foundation

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear, Valued Members

The BTS Legal & Constitutional Affairs Committee, with advice from BTS' in-house counsel, has sanctioned the release of the theme for the upcoming tasting. The theme will be ICE CREAM. Please note this does not include sorbets.

The Executive Commissioner of the Scheduling & Planning Commission would like to inform valued BTS members that the next tasting will begin at 9:30pm instead of 7:30pm. The BTS Management Committee would like to extend its apologies for any inconvenience caused by the last minute schedule change.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear, Valued Members

After a long unscheduled summer hiatus the Executive Commissioner of the Scheduling & Planning Commission would like to inform valued BTS members that the next tasting will take place on Saturday September 12, 2009 at 7:30pm. Due to strict BTS requirements the theme of the tasting cannot be released at the present time. Please refer to section 13.1.3-C of the BTS constitution.

The BTS Management Committee would like to extend its apologies for the lack of summer tastings.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

MEAL REPLACEMENT BARS

Dear, Valued BTS Members

The Chair of the Individually Wrapped Meal Replacement Bar Follow-up Committee would like to thank all the valued BTS members who attended the February 18th tasting. 10 meal replacement bars were tasted, discussed and evaluated. 100 points were allocated for each bar based on; taste (50 points), texture (20 points), visual appeal (20 points), packaging (5 points) and originality (5 points). The official results are listed below.

The official results tabulated by the BTS Independent Evaluation and Adjudication Commission and reviewed by the BTS Audit Board have been sanctioned for public release. They are as follows:

1st - 78.7/100 - President's Choice Trim Plan - BTS member quote "Taste sensation"


2nd - 77.9/100 - Luna S'mores Flavour - BTS member quote "I wish I was a women"


3rd - 74.6/100 - Slimfast Optima - This 225 calory meal bar is chalky and delicious!


4th - 71.1/100 - Pure Protein Marshmellow Eclipse - A late entry but a solid score.


5th - 63/100 - Nutribar Original - BTS member quote "Definite improvement over the blueberry flavour"


6th - 58.5/100 - Nutribar Fruit & fibre - Mmmm ... fake blueberry taste!!


7th - 54.9/100 - Organic Food Bar - BTS member quote "So much potential..."


8th - 42.8/100 - Nutrilean Express Waffle & Berry - BTS member quote "A good concept, poor execution"


9th - 36/100 - Life Shapers - The packaging says it all.


10th - 31.1/100 - Ultra Meal Bar Rice - BTS member quotes "Taste like Play-Doh". "The nerve of them to make a bar like this."

The Chair of the Individually Wrapped Meal Replacement Bar Follow-up Committee would like to extend its appreciation to all the valued BTS members who made the culinary exploration of the meal replacement bar world a success.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear, Valued Members

The Director of the Research & Policy Coordination Directorate would like to inform valued BTS members that the ad-hoc committee in the Office of the Chairman of the BTS Management Committee has, after an in-depth feasibility study, sanctioned INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED MEAL REPLACEMENT BARS as the theme for the February 28th tasting.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

HOT POWDERED BEVERAGES

Dear, Valued BTS Members

The Chair of the Hot Powdered Beverage Follow-up Committee would like to thank all the valued BTS members who attended the January 16th tasting. 12 hot powdered beverages were tasted, discussed and evaluated. 100 points were allocated for each beverage based on; taste (50 points), texture & smell (20 points), visual appeal (20 points), packaging (5 points) and originality (5 points). The official results are listed below.




The official results tabulated by the BTS Independent Evaluation and Adjudication Commission and reviewed by the BTS Audit Board have been sanctioned for public release. They are as follows:

1st -73.8/100 - Nescafe Caramel - Poor packaging (circa 1987) did not stop Nestle's 71 year old powerhouse Nescafe brand from coming out on top.


2nd - 72.8/100 - Lavender Milk Tea - Sounds bad, taste delicious!


3rd - 71/100 - Maxim Mocha Gold - Great taste, great texture, great smell but neither maxim nor gold enough to come out on top.


4th - 70.1/100 - Maxwell House French Vanilla - The French vanilla flavouring of this Kraft Food's flagship coffee brand earned America's largest food manufacturer a respectable position.


5th - 60.3/100 - Maxwell House Maxiccino - Maybe "Mexiccino" would have tasted better.


6th - 60/100 - Ovaltine Chocolate - A long time favourite, but not with the BTS.


7th - 50.3/100 - Drink Me Chai, Vanilla Chai - This UK import could not hold its own in sugary world of hot powdered beverages.


8th - 48.8/100 - Milo - Another benchmark of the hot powdered beverage world has been disgraced by the culinary acumen of the BTS.

9th - 48.2/100 - Orzo Bimbo - One never knew powdered barley could taste like really good, bad coffee.

10th Place - 44.4/100 - Poma Almond Powder - In concentrated form this Chinese import tastes liked liquefied marzipan, hence the score.


11th Place - 28/100 - Horlicks - Yet another mainstay of the hot powdered beverage world put to shame by the BTS.

12th Place - 27.3/100 - Edo Pack - A healthy soy based beverage. Enough said.


The Chair of the Hot Powdered Beverage Follow-up Committee would like to extend its appreciation to all the valued BTS members who made the culinary exploration of the hot powdered beverage world a success.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear, Valued Members

The Executive Commissioner of the Scheduling & Planning Commission would like to inform valued BTS members that do to upcoming scheduling complications tastings will no longer be taking place on Friday. All future tastings will take place on Saturday. The Commission has sanctioned Saturday, 28 February 2009 at 8:00pm as the date of the next tasting.

The Director of the Research & Policy Coordination Directorate would also like to inform valued BTS members that an ad-hoc committee in the Office of the Chairman of the BTS Management Committee has been established to undertake a pre-feasibility study into the theme of the upcoming tasting. Themes under consideration are as follows;

• 5 cent candies
• Individually wrapped hard candies
• Individually wrapped ice cream snacks
• Crackers
• Microwaveable entrees
• Yogurt

All valued BTS members are asked to submit advice and recommendations through the secretary to the Director of Research & Policy Coordination as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society