Pocky Talky - Blog Posts

Feeling tropical this week with mango pineapple! I think the idea and packaging is great, and vaguely remember the fruit bits being a bit too chewy. Also, it had more of a generic tropical/mango-y flavor, and the pineapple was pretty much lost in the mix. I think this tends to happen a lot with the two-fruit flavors, it’s hard to let both shine instead of being part of a generic fruity taste. ★ ★ ★ ☆  ☆ ( 3 / 5 )

Continuing the midi series, this time with lemon! Midi lemon was made in an adorable packaging collaboration with a drink that can be seen here  ! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to try the drink, but this flavor was fantastic. I am a big fan of lemon desserts, and think the packaging idea was super cute and new for Glico. I’d love to see more creative packaging ideas like this in the future! If you come across these, just be careful- eating a ton may end up being a little too sweet for your stomach (hubris).  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ( 4 / 5 )

If you’ve been following my blog for a while now, you’ll probably guess what I have to say about this flavor. A lot of more artificial flavors can be enhanced by adding a new element- and these fresh strawberry fruity bits are no exception. They make a common flavor (the standard pink strawberry) much more natural and interesting, to give me everything I wish the normal strawberry flavor is. Glico did us right with this upgrade ~

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ( 4 / 5 )

Banana sundae is making a comeback, this time with a chocolate biscuit stick. Both of the flavors are a little too faint/artificial to actually taste like a chocolate banana split, but the addition of the banana chunks makes this version one step up from the chocolate banana flavor thats just a solid cream coating (yet to be reviewed here, the box seems to have snuck off somewhere). It’s a nice idea, but I’ll just stick to banana flavors with vanilla biscuits. 

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ( 2 / 5 )

This week’s flavor is vanilla whipped cream! Although the concept is interesting, it just…does’t taste very good. Whipped cream is light and fluffy, which is hard to capture in a solid chocolate based coating. Like other white chocolate/vanilla flavors, this was too sweet and overall left a lot to be desired

★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ( 1 / 5 )

Hmm... stale. If you let a pack of Oreos go stale, they become all soft and chewy and yes. I guess the same cannot be said for Pocky :(

After last week’s beverage-inspired flavor, we are moving on to milk tea pocky, covered with crushed almond pieces. This flavor was so exciting, but I wasn’t able to fully enjoy it, because I ordered it online only for it to arrive long past its expiration date. I tried it because I spent good money on these uncommon flavors, but it tasted off. Let this be a lesson! Most flavors come and go in cycles, and are pretty hard to find once they are gone. More unusual flavors offered online are likely quite old, from back when the flavor was in regular circulation.

Back to the review! I’m going to give the flavor the benefit of the doubt, because I love milk teas, and love flavors that introduce a crunchy element (ie, delicious almond bits). The cream was nice and bittersweet, with milky overtones that still made the box not too bad despite being stale.  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ( 3 / 5 ) - skewed due to being stale

This week brings you one of the many macha or green tea variations glico has put out. This special, extra fine macha with a macha biscuit stick is, well, not the best flavor for someone who doesn’t like macha (like me). That said, this richer flavor was more natural than the normal green tea flavor, which I find a little waxy tasting. I was apprehensive at first, but I think you really can taste the difference in quality that they are claiming on the box. 

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ( 2 / 5 )

(only because I just don’t love macha, if you do like the flavor this will probably be 5 stars for you!)