Snack Review: Trader Joe’s Crunchy Oats and Honey Granola Bars
I have no idea why I bought these. I never, ever met a granola bar that I liked. I don’t know what I was thinking.
I might hate granola bars because I never met a granola I liked, either. But lately, I have found one exception, which is a Trader Joe’s Maple Pecan Granola with Flakes. They have the same cereal in several other flavors, but when I tried another – hated it. So there is really only one single granola on earth that I can eat.
That wouldn’t seem to bode well for these: they are not Trader Joe’s maple pecan granola bars. So when I put them in my basket, either I had lost my mind at the moment or… gained psychic powers?
Actually, I have occasionally had premonitions. They are always about something fairly useless. The earliest one I can remember, when I was a child, was in fact snack-related: I foresaw the closing of a particular ice cream shop. Nice if you want to grab one last ice cream cone, but no lottery number or horse race winner, you know?
Well, maybe this was another. Maybe I somehow foresaw that, against all odds, I was going to open the box, tear open a little package of two bars, take a bite… and actually LIKE it.
I think that what I like about them is that they are as close to a crunchy oatmeal cookie as a granola bar can get. They taste like oats and sweetness and that’s about it, not even much like honey specifically. They don’t have all kinds of other junk in them. Nothing snuck in for extra healthiness, nothing to make them chewy. They are exactly what they say on the box: crunchy, oats, honey – or, at least, sweet. I am the sort of person who doesn’t like different foods to touch on my plate, so maybe this simplicity is what pleases me.
I am betting that these are so much unlike other granola bars that everyone else who actually likes granola bars will try them and hate them. And, of course, people like me – or, those who, like me, hate granola bars, but who lack psychic snack powers – will not buy them in the first place. So these will be a failure and, like so many things I have liked in my life, will be taken off the market.
So: go try these. But if you like them, stock up. I have a funny feeling….
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