Snack Review: Cream Collon

Our friends over at Candy Addict have mentioned Collon, but apparently were afraid to actually try it. But hey, I’ve eaten coconut-flavored maggots for this site. It takes a lot more than a funny name to frighten me off.

Collon is not a candy, it’s more of a filled cookie. My theory is that the name relates to some more innocent English word like ‘cone’ or ‘crown’ which has been transliterated into Japanese and then back, not entirely successfully. They seem like a sort of mini-interpretation of a common Japanese baked good which is a cone-shaped bread/pastry roll with cream in it.

I admit, I tried the vanilla flavor rather than that chocolate. Without a brown filling, the association to the more unfortunate English word is a lot weaker.

There’s a very strong aroma of not entirely natural sweet vanilla when you open the interior foil packet. The cookies are browner than in the picture on the packet. They’re pretty weird little objects. One is temporarily stopped by the foreignness of it all.

But hey, at least they don’t look like maggots! So I forge ahead. They are not bad at all. The outside cookie-tube is very crispy. How do they do that, when it’s got all that cream inside it? Why doesn’t it get mushy? I’m not sure I want to know the mysteries of industrial food science that are involved, but it’s a nice effect.

The cream inside, it’s different. One of the ingredients is cream cheese powder, which is probably why it’s not exactly like any American cookie cream I have had. But that’s not as weird as it sounds – think of the filling of a cheese danish, which is a very good thing, right?

I can’t decide if I would buy these again. But now I am interested in trying the chocolate ones. Or maybe buying them for a proctologist friend.

• Collon Homepage (in Japanese)

Buy Cream Collon Online:

• at Amazon.com
• at JBox

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