Big Tex from Mission, Texas. The orange pineapple juice was good. While I usually only drink orange juice, I found this to be good tasting and refreshing. It had a nice taste of pineapple juice that didn’t over power the orange juice. I enjoyed this enough to buy another. Rated 4 out of 5.-D

Big Tex Orange Pineapple Juice. This juice is so tasty. It’s my new favorite. Each flavor is strongly pronounced and surprisingly do not overpower the other. Its 100% juice and 120% of your daily value of vitamin C! This has been the best tasting pineapple orange juice I have ever had!-5 outta 5-A

DL Jardines located in Buda Texas, The heart of Texas Hill Country. The Killer barbecue sauce was good. It had a good amount of heat to it but not too much to overpower. It has more peppers and spice than their other bbq sauces do. It had a nice hickory smoke flavor. This sauce is a medium thickness. DL Jardines Killer bbq sauce goes great with anything you want a little more Texas heat on. Another fine product by DL Jardines. Rated 4 out of 5-D

Blue Bell ice cream out of Brenam, Texas. Blue Bell Butter Crunch tasted amazing. The vanilla ice cream matched perfectly with the chocolate and peanut butter candy pieces mixed in, Imagine a chocolate covered chick-o- stick candy crushed in with vanilla ice cream. It was smooth and had a lots of pieces of chocolate and peanut butter candy. This rates as one of my favorites so far. Blue bell continues to be the best ice cream in Texas… Rated 4.95 out of 5,-D

Blue Bell Butter Crunch Ice Cream. I LOVE this flavor! My new favorite among Blue Bell (even though each new flavor ends up being my favorite!) at the moment, this one takes the cake! Chunky remnants of delicious chick o stick type candy with chocolate and an always creamy vanilla ice cream. It was really hard to put this one down folks, so good! As usual, Blue Bell never ceases to amaze me on how delicious they make their ice cream! If you have not tried this flavor, please give it a try and let us know what you think! Rate 5 outta 5 - A

Meyers Smokehouse out of Elgin, Texas. Reviewed the Smoked Sausage with Garlic. This sausage was average; If I wasn’t told it had garlic in it I would have never known. I couldn’t taste any garlic. The sausage was ok tasting but nothing special. It did have a nice casing and the meat was ok. Couldn’t taste any smoke flavor either. Was hoping to like this sausage but was kind of let down. Hopefully their other products are better. Rated 2.5 outta 5-D
Meyers Smoked Sausage with garlic. Unfortunately, not a fan. Maybe it was the batch we had gotten, but I couldn’t taste any garlic in it. For the most part I agree with D on this one. Really wished this sausage had a better taste. We will give it a try once more to see if it was just the sausage we had bought that day. Rated 2.5 outta 5

Southern Star Brewery out of Conroe, Texas. Pine Belt Pale Ale. This Pale ale was very refreshing. It had a nice copper color and tasted great. The British crystal malts and hops have a great hop flavor and aroma. The Ale had a creamy taste to it. The Piney hops give the pale ale a slight sweet taste. It also had a slight note of citrus. Made from deep ground water from the Evangeline Aquifer. This Non-filtered, non pasteurized ale is packaged into cans to ensure a great fresh quality. Rated 4.8 outta 5-D

Best Maid out of Fort Worth Texas. This Texas based company started in a small town called Mansfield Texas. Mildred Dalton and Jessie Otis Dalton started this company in their own home and expanded to his grocery store in Fort worth Texas in 1926. This company has many products. The Best Maid Dill Pickles were great tasting. They have a good crunch to the pickled cucumber and this inside was soft. The flavor of dill and salt was very prominent. The taste was refreshing and had a slight garlic flavor. Best Maid is the official pickle of the Dallas Cowboys. I really liked this product and look forward to trying more of Best Maid products. Rated 4.25 out of 5-D

Garland Jack’s Secret Six Hickory Spice Barbeque Sauce. Haven’t been disappointed yet with Garlands. Great price and great taste. Good amount of hickory flavor and it meshed well with the spices. A hint of sweetness in it as well. It’s not my personal favorite sauce out there, but it’s a great go to sauce for any meat. Haven’t found anything that it doesn’t go well with, even put it on a hot dog in place of ketchup! Rated 4.5 outta 5-A

This is the second sauce we reviewed from this Garland Texas based company.Garlands Jacks Hickory spice bbq sauce was good. It was a little more thick of a sauce than I usually like. It had a good hickory flavor and a slight spiciness at the end. It has bold flavors and a good inexpensive price. Not a “gourmet” sauce but still would go well with any grilled or smoke meat(if needed) Rated 3.95 outta 5-D

Blue Bell Cookies and Cream Ice Cream. Ah, Blue Bell, can’t knock it and there’s never any reason to. Have yet to be disappointed with this Texas Company. Basic flavor, almost every ice cream company makes cookies and cream. But what sets Blue Bell aside is the quality, homemade ice cream made the old-fashioned way. The richness of the cookies and cream flavor were phenomenal ( as usual). There wa s a cookie piece in every bite (the way a cookies and cream ice cream should be). Beautiful, strong taste of vanilla that complimented the cookies perfectly. It is said that Blue Bell was the first to come up with the cookies and cream ice cream, though many others have tried taking the credit (I believe Blue Bell). Rated 4.9 outta 5. -A

DL Jardines is located in Buda, Texas. The Salsa Bobos is a salsa that has black beans and corn. This salsa was very good. I liked the taste. I usually don’t like black beans, but this salsa was the exception. It had a nice slight heat to it. The corn and the black beans tasted good together with the rest of the traditional all natural salsa ingredients. This salsa would be good as a dip or over meat or fish. This is another good product from the DL Jardines special edition line of salsas. Rated 4 out of 5. -D

Kiolbassa Jalapeno cheddar beef smoked sausage based out of San Antonio, TX! This was some of the best sausage I’ve had. Tender, succulent, and perfect casing. Unlike some other brands this sausage had a lot of jalapeno chunks to where you could taste it in every bite! Perfect. Beautiful smoked flavor that didn’t overpower the rest of the flavors. Tasted great on its own, and with BBQ sauce. Definitely give it a try if you haven’t already, it won’t disappoint! Rated 4.8 outta 5. -A

Kiolbassa Sausage Company out of San Antonio Texas. The jalapeno cheddar smoked beef sausage tasted great. It had a good smoked flavor and lots of finely diced jalapenos in it. It had a nice jalapeno and cheddar taste, It wasn’t over powering. The casing was nice and wasn’t too tough. I think this may be on the top of my list for Jalapeno cheddar sausages. Rated 4.85 outta 5.-D