Hi, I'm Emily. I have always been the person who picks up the box nobody has heard of yet, just to see if it lives up to the packaging.
In 2024 I moved to Nashville, TN, and I have been eating my way through it ever since. New city, new grocery stores, new snack aisles to raid, plus every import shop and candy counter I can get to.
A pretty box is marketing. The score is what it actually tasted like.
I spend my days in marketing, so I know exactly how a bag is designed to get you. That is half the fun of writing these. Every review gets the same treatment: a score out of five, a buy or skip verdict, and one honest line you can read in a hurry standing in an aisle.
Nothing here is sponsored. If a product was sent to me, I say so at the top. If something is bad, I say that too, because a review that likes everything is worth nothing.
Makeup still sneaks in now and then, from drugstore finds to the occasional splurge. It gets scored the same honest way.
Be true to yourself.
You do not need the most expensive thing on the shelf to enjoy it. Buy what you actually like, skip what you do not, and let me waste the money on the misses.