I'm going to admit it; I was highly swayed by advertising. The phrase "Green Tea" caught my eye, and I believed that for once, I could buy a green tea flavoured cookie from a non-specialty store!
I was so upset when I realised that these sandwich cookies do not taste like green tea. Green tea is actually the last ingredient on the list. In fact, if it weren't for the placebo effect [after chewing on the cookie for simply ages and thinking, oh! Perhaps that bitter note was the green tea!], I would honestly just say that they are normal sandwich cookies.
Compared to Oreos, however, they are much more flavourful. The cookies are crunchier, more chocolately, and more crumbly textured [instead of the uniform texture of Oreos]. The vanilla filling isn't that waxy, actually tastes vanilla-ful, is less sweet, and really melts well in my mouth. It has dimension, unlike the Oreo cookie filling.
Of course, I may be swayed [yet again] by the fact that these are organic and reputedly made by one family [although how they get each cookie to look perfect with the indents and stuff is beyond a "one family operation", in my opinion, and as the website states that this is all cooked up by one mother, she should understand that other mothers/people in general don't like spending 2x the amount of money to buy something that is already unhealthy. Except for the mental-chillness of eating cookies, they are physically not really healthy, no matter what people say.
You don't think you're biased at all just to hate Oreo's since its such a substantial staple in so many peoples' diets today? And that it's run by Nabisco?
ReplyDeleteOf course I'm biased! A blog is a person's biased opinion/judgments. I don't hate Oreos. They're yummy and cost efficient [but I don't like the cream part as much as I like the cookie part]!! I'm just comparing this expensive version to them because they are similar products.
ReplyDeleteNabisco makes Wheat Thins which are one of my favourite crackers ever, so I'm not dissin' on them.
I hope you know that you're reading a blog, which of course will be opinionated. And Oreos should not be a staple in anybody's diet unless they're trying to be morbidly obese.
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