Rebisco Combi cookie crunch review

As I hold the cookie for the first time, the first thing I noticed was how thick it is. It is uncommon to see biscuits these thick, even when Oreo made Double Stuf Oreo the concept of a thick cookie. The next I noticed was how asymmetrical it was. Some cookies don’t look like squares, sometimes they look like rectangles. Some cookies have their wafers sticking out too much and some had uneven cookies. Normally I like randomness in my snacks like in potato chips but this randomness is unwanted.

The cookie design is uninspired too. It looks like a rose in the middle of a pot with its leaves and grass sticking out. The color is like most chocolate biscuits. It’s like some agreement was made by the snack companies around the world to have the same dark chocolate brown color; but even so it looks quite appetizing.

The wafer is not something worth more than a couple of sentences; it is a simple chocolate colored sugar wafer and its taste is not particularly noteworthy. The cream filling is unsurprisingly smaller than the packaging lets go.

Now for the taste, as I bite it the first bite it I noticed how the hard cookie eventually gave way to the softer wafer and cream filling. The wafer did a good job of emulating a moist center by being some soft compared to the cookie. The cookie barely tasted like chocolate at first, while the cream hit my mouth with a very sugary-sweet chocolate flavor. It was more sugar than actual chocolate.

Then as I chew more of the cookie sandwich, the flavor of the cookie is released and is the dominant flavor in the after taste. It is chocolate flavor that is less sweet than cream. It also made my mouth feel dry. It tastes similar to Cream-O’s chocolate cookie and how it makes me thirsty.

I am giving it a commendation for at least trying to be something new but at the same time degrading it for being thing special in the cookie-biscuit world.

Its flavor are all familiar: chocolate, wafer and cookie, have all been done before most notably in other Rebisco cookie sandwiches ,like other Combi sandwiches, and is too sweet with sugar making up for a third of the weight.

Rating: :-| Nothing special but not too terribly bad.
Price: Around Php 5 for a pack of 3 sandwiches at my local supermarket. (10 packs for 49.50 pesos)
PS: Will update with nutritional info.

Goya Max^3 Triple Choc Review

Actual first impression (I recorded myself):

Oh my, the chocolate is weak. The rice crispies aren’t crispy at all. Its kinda soggy.   <takes a bite of one of the crispies>. Oh wait, it is kinda crispy. It’s the wafer! Unlike some other wafers like Rebisco’s wafer and some other brand did the chocolate covered wafer well. This one, the wafer is soggy. <takes bite>.  I think the idea here is basically you have a lot of chocolate-flavored goodies (* the wafer and crispies) so that you can have less quality chocolate coating.

Apparently Goya wanted to remove a letter of 'choco' to save on money, and while sounding hipster at the same time.

Initially, Max^3 looked pretty good. The chocolate coating was nice dark chocolate brown but when I touched it there was something off. It felt a little greasy which hinted to the taste later. When halved the inside look good as well. There were several layers of wafer with chocolate filling. The rice crispies that covered it look good too. They had a hint of brown which is probably the chocolate flavor.

Taking my first bite, the first thing I noticed was the lack of chocolate flavor. Sugar is the main ingredient of Max^3 but it wasn’t sweet. The chocolate barely tasted like chocolate but tasted more like oil, a normal taste for cheaper chocolates. The wafer wasn’t crispy and wasn’t a sugar wafer which I was expecting for a snack like this. In fact it was a little soggy, and ruined the feel of the snack. The crunch came mostly from the rice crispies, which did taste a little like chocolate.

I didn’t enjoy it. I was expecting a competitor to choco mucho, which is a classic Filipino snack. I got the big bar, there was a smaller bar half the weight (20g) and size of this bar.

Rating: :-(