{"id":1478,"date":"2011-02-05T00:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:25:53","slug":"shall-we-zeitaku-butter-short-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Shall We? Zeitaku Butter Short Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ShallWeShorbread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ShallWeShorbread.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ShallWeShorbread\" width=\"400\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ShallWeShorbread.jpg 400w, https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ShallWeShorbread-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile on our snack food blitzkrieg, we picked up several varieties of snacks so we could &#8220;do the line&#8221; more or less.  Today I have the second Shall We? which seems rather plain next to short bread chocolate chip green tea cookies.  These plain cookies too are a little small but you can at least see them through the packaging.  I&#8217;m not sure which I like better, the solid wrapped green tea cookie with the kinda arty pic or the clear see through window of these cookies.  I might be leaning toward the prettier green tea but I wish they had made the wrapper a little more snug to the cookie.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we cracked these open expecting the usual Japanese short bread cookies, which are a bit light on the thumpy.  Instead what we got was the most delicious Japanese short bread I&#8217;ve ever had.  It might even be close to the best short bread I&#8217;ve ever had, although I think Walkers might juuuust edge out for top spot in the short bread cookie world.  Still, it was a delight to finally find a Japanese short bread which does the flavor proud.<\/p>\n<p>The Shall We?s cookies are buttery crisp with a nice solid short bread thumpy to follow up.  If Walker&#8217;s short bread were the 10 on short bread cookie scale (or substitute your grandma&#8217;s short bread cookies if she made the best short bread ever.  Mine didn&#8217;t) these are easily a 9.5.  They aren&#8217;t quite as solid and dense but they are equally as crisp and crumbly.  <\/p>\n<p>My Favorite Guinea Pig and I were waffling between a 5 pea and a 4.5 pea rating for these and when I looked at what snacks showed up in which category, I settled on a 4.5.  They are, however a very tasty 4.5&#8230;almost a 4.75 if I did such a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\">Rating<\/a> of <b> 4.5 Wasabi Peas<\/b> out of a possible 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45-peas","category-cookie","category-sweet","category-zjapan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}