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I had a loaf of bread last week that I needed to consume. Since I wanted something with bread, I went to 711 and looked for sandwich spreads. I saw this Century Tuna Mayo Spread beside the liver spreads. Naturally, I was curious. I love tuna. I was thinking along the lines of a tuna sandwich, so I was thinking, JACKPOT!

The can has this ring on-top, similar to what canned sodas have, only bigger. Like the ones in vienna sausages. It's easy to open, which is great, since I think I'll die of tetanus if I use the can opener in our office pantry. The downside of the can though was the can structure itself. I used a butter knife to scoop out the spread, which is what we normally use for spreads. It was hard to scoop the stuff out when I was running out of spread.

The consistency of the spread was a little runny. When I saw it, I was dubious with the amount of tuna and mayo in it. I mean, I buy tuna, I buy mayo, I make tuna spreads out of the tuna and the mayo, but it wasn't runny at all. There were very few chunks/flakes of tuna on it. There was actually a point where I was wondering why aren't there much tuna chunks/flakes in it. Makes me think that the tuna in that spread was probably the wasted tuna crumbs they get from flaking the tuna.

The taste of the spread is consistent with how the spread looks like though. It didn't taste anything special. Heck, it tasted like liver spread. And honestly, if I wanted liver spread, I'd buy liver spread, right? I was looking for the "tuna-sandwich" taste but I didn't get it at all. Let alone the "tuna" taste.

On the bright side though, since Century made it, it's a hit for health buffs. It has Omega 3 DHA, low in cholesterol, 0 trans fat and no preservatives. They're also marketing it as a sort of pate. They have recipes in their website. You may want to check it out: http://www.centurytuna.ph/allmayorecipes.php

We usually go to Subic for our family vacation. Everytime we're there, we make it a point to eat at Gerry's Grill. The Gerry's Grill in Subic is a very busy establishment. You can see a line of chairs outside for those waiting to be seated. They have a mini playground at the entrance to keep the busy kids occupied. Gerry's Grill is just a huge square restaurant at the beach front. You can opt to seat at the airconditioned room, bar, smoking area (or general area), and the beach area. They have RnB music playing loudly(I think it's loud because it seems that the sound is muffled by the noise of chatting customers). They have a HUUUUUUUGE Flat screen TV above the bar which has NBA playing on it

Our usual order is Seafood Adobo rice, Grilled tuna, grilled squid, and of course Sisig.

The Grilled Squid and Sisig have nothing special in their flavor. It's just the regular Grilled Squid and Sisig. The Grilled Tuna on the other hand is very scrumptious. You can taste a sort of buttery flavor infused with a grilled taste. They serve a medium sized cut, about 3 in X 3in X 3in.

The seafood adobo rice is a best seller in our family. It's black with squid ink, with bits of mussels, shrimps. I don't know if there's any other seafood mixed there, but all I can say is that it's truly a seafood lover's heaven!

This holy week, of course we went to subic, and of course we went to Gerry's Grill. We added a different viand this time. Crispy Tadyang. When it was served on our table, we can tell that it's delicious. But we were dubious regarding its crispiness. It has a crispy outside and a very moist and chewy inside. It tasted like beef but we were wondering how come it was so tender. We we're really amazed at it's tenderness and crispiness.

For our drinks we ordered Bottomless Iced Tea which is like all the other Iced Teas (probably Nestea); and Fresh Buko.

Fresh buko is buko juice served chilled in it's shell. When you finish your juice, you can have your shell cut in half and eat the flesh inside! yum.

We're 6 in the family and our bill amounted to more or less 1,200.

Here're my ratings:
Food Taste - 22/25
Food Plating - 8/10
Food and drink selection - 9/10
Drink taste - 10/15
Ambience - 18/20
Affordability - 14/20

total: 81/100