Name: Bourbon Kikori No Kiri Kabu
Origin: Japan
Found at: Freshia, Tustin
Cost: $2.49
Ingredients:
Sugar, Wheat Flour, Milk Powder, Cacao Mass, Shortening, Palm Oil, Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Wheat Meal, Wheat Germ, Lactose, Wheat Bran, Creaming Powder (Milk, Cream, Lactose, Butter), Honey, Salt, Emulsifier (soy), Leavening, Artificial Flavor.
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Tasting Notes:
Besides the cartoon, there is much to enjoy inside the box. These are wonderful cookies with crunch similar to graham crackers complete with tree rings and dipped in chocolate that's supposed to represent the bark. The aftertaste is pleasantly milky and malty. The flavor and attention to detail is as impressive as the cartoon is hilariously confusing.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.