Snack Review: Whole Foods 365 Organic Chocolate Chip Cookies
You may wonder why I keep buying cookies at Whole Foods, given my past experience. Which is at best indifferent (think Crummy Brothers Chocolate Chip Cookies) and at worst, infuriating (Late July, I’m looking at you).
The fact is that I live basically right across the street from a Whole Foods. Whereas the Safeway is five blocks away. And given the total lack of meal planning in my household I am in the Whole Foods most days of the week. And given that I crave a snack every day of the week… well, you see the inevitable result.
I am determined, therefore, to find something that will work to fulfill my chocolate-chip cravings without walking all the way to another supermarket. My chocolate-chip craving is usually looking for either a completely homemade cookie, or for Chips Ahoy, which is the brand I have been eating all my life. The in-store bakery has something that will do for the homemade thing. But what about that all-American craving for a cookie made in a huge factory by an enormous corporate conglomerate?
The package made it seem like that’s the goal these were trying to achieve, with the tray wrapped in plastic, the size and shape and manner of display, the restrained design. No personal stories or cute name like Crummy Brothers, no outlandish flavor claims or dumb name like Late July. Could these be what I was looking for?
Well, they are pretty darn close. The cookie tastes fairly plain, the chocolate isn’t too crazy over-the-top dark chocolate, the texture is hard and makes crumbs when you break it. It is a decent, middle-of-the-road supermarket chocolate chip cookie. Such a relief.
There is a problem with these, though, which is that they taste better when they are not dunked. Dunking brings out a slightly weird flavor that I don’t care for. I can’t tell what it is, but I suspect it’s whatever the fat is that they use. I’m sure I’m looking for the taste of some industrial trans-fat that Whole Foods would never allow to darken their factory door, and I’m not getting it.
Also, they quickly dissolve to mush when dunked too much, unlike a Chips Ahoy, which retains its structural integrity. Not only is this messy, it verges on gross. In fact, it makes me wonder whether maybe the whole act of dunking cookies in milk is perhaps rather disgusting. It is not the job of a cookie to make me feel this way, so they get severe points off for this. I am afraid that the quest must continue.
Candy Addict » Snackerrific Weekly Roundup 8/25-29 on September 5th, 2008
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