{"id":330,"date":"2006-01-29T23:31:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=330"},"modified":"2007-08-05T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T15:08:16","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-choco-chipu-24-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Choco Chipu 24% Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chocochipu24.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/Chocochipu24.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a strange name for a very tasty little cookie.  I&#8217;m not sure whether the 24% is New!  Extra!  Chips! or maybe the Japanese are trying to cut back on the chocolate and there is <i>only<\/i> 24% chocolate in these fellas.  It could even be some sort of governmental RDA proudly boasted, like 5% saturated fats or 15% Vitamin B12.  Perhaps the former Guinness world record for chocolate percentage in a quarter sized cookie was 23 and they have surpassed it by one percent.  I have no idea where they are coming from with the percentage of chocolate but I can tell you that there is only so much room in a cookie that size before you begin to have some serious integrity issues.<\/p>\n<p>These little guys are chocolate on chocolate cookies or a chocolate dough sporting (mini) chocolate chips.  Again, the Japanese spring their fondness of the bitterer chocolate onto the consumer so the taste is less chocolaty than you&#8217;d find in the American version of a chocolate chocolate chip cookie.  This chocolate is more a dusky, fudgy, cocoa chocolate peppered with semi-sweet mini chocolate chips.  It&#8217;s pretty delish.<\/p>\n<p>The cookie is about a quarter inch thick as well as being about the size of a quarter (about an inch in diameter) and it tastes like cocoa short bread.  Mmmmm.  I rather liked the meltiness of the cookie (that&#8217;s what reminded me of shortbread) combined with the crunchiness of the initial bite.  Good crunch and if you let the bite sit on your tongue for a while it dissolves into a tasty cocoa-y bit of yum.<\/p>\n<p>The Guinea Pigs all enjoyed these immensely and one of them made a discovery!  These are made by Bourbon; the makers of many fine other tasty treats.  Of course it is.  It&#8217;s also tasty enough to get a<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45-peas","category-cookie","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}