How can you resist?

There’s a pharmacy here at work, and in this pharmacy, one can choose from an assortment of snackable goods.  This ranges from your everyday candy bars & chips to more niche options like pork rinds.  Every now & then, one will find something so odd that it practically begs you to try it.  One such item is the 7Day Soft Filled Croissant, chocolate flavor.  I was surprised to find that, completely independent of any idea I had, a friend also purchased the cherry filled version!

It was snackrendipity.  It demanded a taste test.

Fortunately, there are many people here at work that enjoy both eating and giving their opinion.  We gathered in the break room.

Upon opening, our first act was to smell the pastry.  We agreed that the chocolate smelled like something confectionery.  The cherry smelled like a fig newton.  So far so good.

Mmm?

They thought I was weird for taking pictures.  The thing inside the package was more breadlike than croissant.  It wasn’t flakey.  It wasn’t buttery.  It did, however, leave a film of something oily on the roof of ours mouths.

The chocolate tasted like pudding, and had the same consistency.  The cherry tasted almost completely unlike a cherry.  It was more like “mixed fruit” or non-descript thing that grew on a tree.  Not terrible or unpleasing in flavor, but not cherry.

So, will any of us buy this snack again?  No.  Was it worth the $1.27?  Sure.  My favorite part was the warning on the label that said not to microwave.  That’s an experiment for another day.

Up next in the “Snacks we’re gonna try” series: Big Az Chicken sandwiches.