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I feel like this box of cookies is doing everything in their power to avoid using the words “dark chocolate”. The word “black” and “bitter” are written everywhere, but dark chocolate and even cocoa are not found anywhere. I’m not sure if this is a cultural thing, maybe Thai people don’t refer to their chocolate as dark chocolate. It could also be a language thing, maybe there isn’t a translation or maybe the word for dark isn’t appropriate in the Thai language. There are after all many words for black and dark that have become inappropriate in the English language, so who knows.
The only problem I have with the words “black” and in particular the word “bitter” is that these small koala cookies are none of the above. When I think about bitter chocolate, I think about something that is more bitter than it is sweet. These are in no way more bitter than they are sweet. If there’s a legal amount of cocoa that a treat needs in order for it to be bitter chocolate, I feel like these aren’t even close. Sure it’s a little more bitter, or cocoa flavoured than regular Koala’s Marchs, but nothing that far out of the range of the regular chocolate version. As far as the word black goes, I feel these are much closer to a brown, darker brown but nowhere near black.
While I don’t really think these fit the dark (or black or bitter) chocolate category, they are pretty tasty. I would have been happier to have tried something a little bitter, but I’m not sure I would have enjoyed eating it as much. What I’m saying is, these cookies didn’t fit the description, but might be better than what might have been. They still have fun designs on each cookies, they’re still crunchy, and they still certainly taste very chocolaty.
I would most certainly recommend you try these out, however, I wouldn’t recommend them over any other Koala March cookie. It’s about average when it comes to those.
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