Dear Target: Your comment form is too short.

Sorry I'm using the generic comment form, but I couldn't find one specifically for Archer Farms.

I'm surprised to find myself writing today about some Archer Farms Lunch Bowls I had yesterday and today.  I've never felt so strongly about food that I actually had to complain to the company about it.  First time for everything, I guess.  I get that I'm complaining about something that cost me less than $1.50 each, but I'm mostly irritated because I work on one side of Minneapolis and Target is on the other, and I don't have a ton of time for lunch so now I have to go back across town to Target (the only grocery store in the area) and buy more food for lunch.

Yesterday I tried the Vegetable Masala bowl.  I'm not going to beat around the bush -- it tasted like burnt dish soap.  I didn't even know what burnt dish soap tasted like before yesterday.  Also, rather than being called "Vegetable Masala," it should be called "Rice, Four Lentils, and About Half of the Vegetable Content of Bowl Noodle Masala".  I took about three and a half bites before I had to throw it away.

I am right now torturing myself with the Kung Pao Noodles.  Seriously, did anyone actually taste this before rubber stamping the production?  It tastes like sweet, insipid, stale weirdness.  This is not kung pao.  It's not even imitation kung pao.  And I loves me some kung pao.  To top this all off, the peanuts are actually, for real, rancid.  Not even stale.  Rancid.  Another four bites.  Into the trash.

In general I've been quite happy with the quality and taste of other Archer Farms products, but something must have happened in the QA process here.  I have a Couscous Primavera bowl in my cabinet and I'm considering taking bets around the office over how many bites I can choke down before I give up in defeat.