5 CENT CANDY

Dear Valued Members

The BTS Management Committee has sanctioned the release of the following information regarding the Tasting to be held on Saturday November 7, 2009 at 8:30pm. The Theme will be 5 CENT CANDIES. The Tasting will be a member’s choice event. The rules and regulations are as follows:

• Members who wish to attend must RSVP by Thursday November 5th at 5:00pm
• All attending members must bring at least one type of 5 cent candy (10 to 15 units each)
• The attending member can use his or her discretion in their 5 cent candy choice. However, a by-law enforcement official with the BTS Independent Evaluation and Adjudication Commission will evaluate the eligibility of all submissions.
  

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

ICE CREAM

Dear, Valued BTS Members

The Chair of the Ice Cream Follow-up Committee would like to thank all the valued BTS members who attended the September 12th tasting. Seven ice creams were tasted, discussed and evaluated. 100 points were allocated for each ice cream based on taste (50 points), texture (25 points), visual appeal (20 points) and packaging (5 points). The official results are listed below the pictures of the ice cream tasting.

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 85/100 - President's Choice Loads of Caramel Cashew Toffee


BTS member quotes:

• Doesn't taste like real ice cream
• Tasteeeeeeee
• Well distributed
• Tastes really fatty ... good in small quantities
• Delish!!!!!!
• Every bite is different

2nd 83.7/100 - Mapleton's Organic Ginger

BTS member quotes:

• Very surprisingly light and delicious
• Good subtle ginger flavour
• Refreshing
• mmmmmm ... ginger
• Taste mouth-washy but surprisingly good
• Wonderful taste of ginger
• Palate cleansing
• Could eat lots

3rd 74.1/100 -Ogranic Meadow Coffee Creme

BTS member quotes:

• Don't drink coffee
• More icy then creamy ... could have more coffee flavour
• Watered down
• Too watered down
• Tasty, simple, nice
• Cool, smooth, refreshing
• New font please
• Watered down but good in large quantities

4th 66.9/100 - President's Choice Cream First Vanilla


BTS member quotes:

• Very nice
  
• Basic
• Bland packaging
• Looks like plastic
• Good refreshing watered down vanilla flavour
• Boring!
• Chemically
• Classic ... would be good with brownies

5th 57.3/100 - Magnolia Jackfruit

BTS member quotes:

• Very, very interesting ... too sweet
• Jackfruit flavour disappears to quickly ... chucks of jackfruit are not good
• Fruity
• Like bad mango ice cream
• Taste like vomit ... sweet and gross
• Too subtle
• Not a fan
• Subtle flavour

6th 55/100 - Breyers Banana Cream Pie

BTS member quotes:

• Very nice
• Seems to have real banana taste
• Odd bits of grit inside
• Okay ice cream texture
• Gross!
• Not very Bananay ... kind of gross
• It made me spasm ... it is gross
• No thanks!
• Dissapointing

7th 54.8/100 - Tropical Treets Rose Faluda Kulfi

BTS member quotes:

• Awful!!!
• Like eating flowers and berries together ... odd
• Interesting taste
• Disgusting
• An unidentifiable taste
• Odd tasting ... yet I had to eat it all
• Too pink
• Super chemically

The Chair of the Ice Cream Follow-up Committee would like to extend its appreciation to all the valued BTS members who made the culinary exploration of ice cream a success.

Sincerely,

Permanent Chief Secretary
Media Relations Directorate
Broadview Tasting society

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