Pretty, Pretty Marshmallow (AKA: Tonight's Japanese Candy)

[thistlechaser]

"Pretty Marshmallow", "pretty candy" -- words that tend not to go together.

"Chocolate-covered cookie marshmallow candy" and "beauty tips" do not exactly go together either, do they?

Until now.

Meet Pretty Marshmallow. (Front of box.) The candy that comes with beauty tips! (Back of box. The details didn't show in the photo, but she has what appears to be either a hot or scented cloth (it has little "vapor lines" coming up off it) held to her face by arms too skinny to be described as stick-like. How to Pretty Style indeed!)

Pretty Marshmallow has an advantage in the taste test: I'm starving. And hey, how could two cookies stuffed with marshmallow and covered in chocolate (picture) go wrong? I opened up the foil wrapper, trying to avoid ripping the baby angel's head in half because God probably wouldn't like me if I did that (even though that angel is clearly evil). Then it hit me. A smell. Try to picture burnt black oil, plus burnt rotten plastic. And the chocolate smell is strong, but also smells bad... as if it's really some fake chemical masquerading as chocolate.

However, as I said, I'm hungry ...and I have a post to get up! So, brave woman that I am, I took a bite. The good news is, the taste isn't anywhere as bad as the smell. In fact, if you're careful not to inhale with it close to your face, it's almost okay. The cookie is really, really moist, as if it was pudding instead of a cookie. (Heck, for all I know it might be.) What little chocolate taste there is to it is that bad, cheap bitter taste, but the marshmallow seems to just as I'd expect it here. The whole thing is really not too bad at all.

Pretty Marshmallow gets a 7 of 10. One point lost for the silly name/beauty tip on the box, one lost for the god awful smell, and one lost for the cheap chocolate.

Comments

[fealu-bryne.livejournal.com]

... Ew. The other stuff you've done so far doesn't look half bad, in my own opinion, but this just looks gross! Yuckyuckyuck. Besides, who puts beauty tips on chocolate/marshmallow food? I mean, I could see beauty tips on healthfood, but junkfood? Heh, Japanese people are so weird.

Still lovin' your 'Candy of the Night!' column. ;)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Aw, heck, I think a silly name ought to be worth a point, not lose one.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That'd work as well! Okay, how about we give it one point for the name, but take away three instead of one for the sickening smell?

[ash-ketchum.livejournal.com]

Heh. You should talk to the guys of www.bad-candy.com and see if they'll hire you to do candy reviews. ^_^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee. I was thinking of something like that, but instead might just collect them and stick them up on Catlove or something. Who knows! :)

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks for THAT website. I haven't laughed this hard in weeks. The "circus peanut" recap alone was hilarious, but now I'm reading about "fizzy milk" tablets, and, well, it just keeps getting better and better.

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[ash-ketchum.livejournal.com]

Beware of My Love!

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

"...like carrots marinated in vinegar that had been strained through a dirty jockstrap..."

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait...

You only lose one point for smelling like a tire fire? No offense, but your rating system seems a smidge...off. And I'll have to agree, a name like Pretty Marshmallow should be worth a point.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay, I'm guilty. I figure out how many out of ten that the candy gets, and then I make up a reason for the lost points.

Mmm, tire fire.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

It's basically a Japanese version of a Moon Pie, it looks like? Except that the cookie parts of Moon Pies are flakey and dry, not puddingish, and Moon Pies don't smell that bad unless you've dropped them on the asphalt of the gas station where you bought them.