Wasabi Oreo & Hot Chicken Wing Oreo
Those in-the-know can write reams about
the way American Snack-Food Imperialism has adapted products like Kit
Kats for foreign markets. It's that way across the world, on every
continent (fyi the Kit Kats out of Europe are the absolute bomb). For
Western tongues the flavors that emanate out of China and Southeast
Asia are particularly legendary. Japan, for instance, has Rum Raisin,
Green Tea (which are great), Blueberry, and Grape Kit Kat bars. Good
shit.
Oreo has taken awhile to get on the
bandwagon, at least in terms of advertising their geography-locked
flavors globally to build up hype. Last August's announcement of
Wasabi and Hot Chicken Wing flavors spread across the internet like
wildfire, but getting them was still pretty difficult. I was holding
off – at $10 a pack, getting both would be a real price to pay for
what sounded like horrible cookies. Thankfully my friend Danitza got
them for me for Christmas.
They arrived today, 1 / 2 / 2019 in a
package that looked somewhat suspicious to my wife. Turns out it was a transpacific flavor bomb.
I opened them as soon as I arrived at
home, taking one of each and placing them on a plate for ocular
appreciation. They're thinner than regular Oreos, ever-so-slightly
smaller and less creme filled.
Time to dig in.
Wasabi Oreos
Back in Junior High some of my friends
would snack on Wasabi-flavored chickpeas. I was never a huge fan of
the snack but I would eat pretty much anything back then, and they did the trick. I have wasabi in other dishes from time to time. The idea
of Wasabi flavored Oreos wasn't terribly odd.
As always chocolate Oreo flavor
once again sucks and can't really go it alone - it has to mesh with the creme. That's a problem with most of the bad Oreos. The blunt 'chocolate' of an Oreo cookie does not mix well with the Wasabi
flavor. It's terrible. Not life-changing terrible, but bad enough
that I couldn't think of a reason to finish an entire cookie.
Thinking positively, I think there may well be an audience for this cookie. If you love Wasabi flavor, and don't mind
mixing it with chocolate, you may actually enjoy it.
Hot Chicken Wing
what the fuck did we expect?
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