Pepperidge Farm may be best known for making Goldfish Crackers, Milanos, and those big soft cookies named after American towns and cities—basically anything that comes in that strange, milk carton-shaped bag. But they have a whole world of other baked goods as well, from puff pastry to lemon blueberry swirl bread to frozen garlic bread. These people truly do have everything—including dinner rolls and stuffing mixes, so it actually makes a whole lot of sense that their newest release for the 2024 holiday season is Pepperidge Farm Stuffing Seasoned Dinner Rolls.
In theory, this sounds great—stuffing is bread and spices, and stuffing-seasoned dinner rolls are also bread and spices. But believe me when I say that there are some key differences here that would lead me to encourage you to just make stuffing (we actually like Pepperidge Farm stuffing!), have dinner rolls on the side instead, and call it a day.
- Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Stuffing Seasoned Dinner Rolls
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Pros: I was not a huge fan of these, but they do have some redeeming qualities, namely, texture. These Pepperidge Farm dinner rolls are very fluffy, much like King’s Hawaiian-style rolls. The texture was pillowy and soft, at least for the first hour or so I had them out of the bag. They are also slightly sweet and a bit oniony, two things I found to be positives. To be honest, if you told me these were just dinner rolls and not “stuffing seasoned” dinner rolls, I’d probably have very little issue with them.
Cons: Unfortunately, these don’t taste particularly good. Fortunately, they don’t taste particularly bad either. They truly don’t taste like much at all, except for a subtle dried sage flavor that I found a little off-putting. The package says these are seasoned with onion and sage, and the rolls do taste a little like sage in a perfumy, incense-y way—almost like wood mixed with dried sage. I thought there was, in general, a bit too much of that generic dried leaf flavor that you get sometimes with a large amount of dried herbs to the point where they tasted bit like…well…leaves. Or sage tea? Anyway, I can’t recommend you buy these for the stuffing flavor, but if you like sage and/or dried herbs a whole dang lot then I say go for it!
