The Pop Tart

For a while I was contemplating starting my own website devoted to junkfood reviews. Then I realized it'd already been done - Taquitos.net - and my fabulous idea became just another one killed by my own inertia.

In honor of the site that could have been, I'll review a new product every now and then. Today's new junkfood is the new Reece's Cookies. If you've seen the advertisements you know each one is a chocolate cookie (like an Oreo) covered with the Reece's peanut butter filling and then the whole thing has a milk chocolate coating. Sounds good? It certainly did to me since chocolate and peanut butter as a taste combination is my absolute favorite. Call me a connossieur even.

To the cookie. First impression is of the packaging. Nice size box in the familiar Reece's orange. Can't tell how many actual cookies are in the box, though I'm guessing not as many as I'd like. Once the box is opened, my first surprise. The plastic covering the inner package is the same as what you'd find on a Hershey candy bar, what? Okay, not to panic, I realize that Hersheys and Reeces are owned by the same company and this is the result. I haven't gotten a box of Hershey's cookies (though I'm not averse to the idea, it just wasn't what I wanted in the moment).

Okay, I gently rip open the Hershey plastic and pull out my tray of cookies. Hmmm. Looks alot like the peanut butter cookies sold by the Girl Scouts in the Spring. Each has an individual slot in the plastic base and there are about 18 cookies in the box. I know that's not very precise, but I ate them last week the box is gone so I can't refer back, sorry.

As to the cookies? Well they tasted a lot like the Girl Scout cookies too. Not that that's a bad thing (I always buy a couple boxes), but there wasn't anything particularly exciting about them either. Will I buy them again when I need my peanut butter/chocolate fix? Probably not. And that's a big indicator right there - because as a consumer of junkfood I'm easy.