The past few years have represented an attempt to find different egg nogs instead of crowning the same two every year (usually local mainstays Wawa or Swiss Farms). This has been fine, but I don't think any of those actually beats our normal champions. This year, we returned to previous champions, and went for some new things too. Not a crazy number of entries this year though: For posterity, the Egg Nogs pictured here are (from left to right):
- Swiss Farms Premium Egg Nog
- Southern Comfort Traditional Egg Nog
- Wawa Egg Nog
- Turkey Hill Egg Nog
- Organic Valley Eggnog
- International Delight Classic Nog
- Upstate Farms Premium Egg Nog
In an odd turn of events, Upstate Farms got under some people's skin and ended up taking the award for worst egg nog. I didn't think it was that bad, but it was clearly inferior to the top two, Wawa and Swiss Farms. Someone mentioned that Upstate had a sorta artificial, chemically character to it. I didn't really get it, but whatever! Swiss Farms took first place, and at this point, remains undefeated. Personally, I still go for Wawa, but that's just me.
It was fun, as usual, but it was a pretty low key year. Perhaps next year will be the year we finally break down and make our own egg nog. If we can get over our fear of making everyone sick, which seems likely? I feel like it should be simple enough, but we'll see. Otherwise, I want to find something I can bring to rival Swiss Farms. It's good, but I don't know that it's quite as dominant as its performance the past few years indicates. Until next year!
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