Welcome to Walking backwards Through Chicago, a series of posts in which I detail the food joys of my recent Chitown trip in reverse order. Why in reverse order? Because one, some of the pictures from the early trip may take a while for me to get at, and two, the more sleep I get, the more I'll be able to remember.

So our first stop is a gas station somewhere in Wisconsin, because between caffeinated drinks and orange juice, my body was spraying like the Bucking ham Fountain. Every hour, on the hour. There I pick up some road snacks, including something I'd never seen before: Twix Java, the coffee-flavored Twix.

I should have loved this. I love coffee flavor. I love Twix. A coffee-flavored Twix bar sounds like a great idea, if they don't fuck it up. Of course, this paragraph is inexorably heading toward the conclusion that, yes, they fucked it up.

The coffee flavor is mild, and slightly crappy. It's purpose seems to be solely to make the chocolate taste worse. You know how on something like Top Chef, and they use the word "muddled", and you think they're full of shit? Well, Twix Java is muddled like crazy.

The chocolate and the coffee flavors mash together into an indistinct lump of bad coffee and worse chocolate. It wasn't entirely inedible, but it WAS entirely disappointing. Much less nice than the weird Japanese choco-coffee cookies I bought in Chinatown the day before.

Next: the anxiously awaited post about GABUTTO BURGER!