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OFFICIAL SNACK REPORT
Sanctioned By WASAW Snack Committee

Reviewed By: Kid Nougat Location: Office Vending Machine, Stamford, Connecticut OFFICIAL NAME OF SNACK: Nestle Toll House Soft & Chewy Cookie Candy Bars (Individually Sold. For a review of the 11-pack, click here) PRICE: $0.55 WEIGHT: 2 oz DESCRIPTION OF SNACK: “Two” square chocolate chip cookies covered in milk chocolate. (The wrapper’s description - “soft, chewy cookies, caramel & morsels covered in creamy Nestle chocolate” – is a bit of an oversell.) Are they kidding me with this “two” business? Each “candy bar” measures an inch by an inch and a half. THAT AIN’T TWO BARS! THAT’S ONE BAR CUT IN HALF! SSI RATING (SNACK SATISFACTION INDEX - 1-10): 5.1 (a fraction better than average) UPSIDE:  They’re neat to eat and they’re cheap – just 55 cents. Nowadays, it’s tough to find a chocolate snack in a vending machine that’s less than $0.75. Trust me, I know. And why? Because it’s my job to know. It’s what I do. It’s in my blood. I’m a snack-pricing super-freak. DOWNSIDE: They look like something homemade, like a failed dessert experiment. They really, really look lame.  You know when your kids say, “Daddy! Mommy! I just made you something to eat! I made it myself!” They look like that.

Image stolen from taquitos.com (A fellow snack review site.)   1ST 4 COOKIE INGREDIENTS: Enriched Flour Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Sugar Brown Sugar   LAST 4 COOKIE INGREDIENTS: Maltodextrin Non-fat Milk Soy Lecithin Potassium sorbate

PACKAGING:

Not entirely awful, considering it looks like a traffic jam. You’ve got “NESTLE” in one font, “TOLL HOUSE” in another, “CANDY BARS” in a third, “NEW” in a fourth, and “SOFT & CHEWY COOKIE” in a fifth. Not to mention a miniature toll house atop “since 1939” and an image of the candy bar that bears no resemblance to the real thing. Despite the mess, it works. It kinda' looks cool, kinda' traditional.
 

DO YOU RECOMMEND THIS SNACK? (YES/NO - EXPLAIN):

Sure, I guess. It works best when you need a chocolate fix and there’s nothing else available. If you actually have other options, don’t be a nincompoop. Pick something else.
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WHAT THE HECK IS A TOLL HOUSE?

I think it’s one of those little box-rooms that toll collectors stand in. (In Manhattan, the rent for a toll house is roughly $1,600 a month.)
 

 

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