These cookies seemed to have a LOT going for them – first
off, the name itself starts with BROWNIE, that’s a good sign. Then CHOCOLATE CHIPS, hello, those are tasaty! And wait a minute – WALNUTS, TOO? Stop the goodness before you overload
me! There were a few varieties in the
same sweet, down home’y” looking packaging and they actually took up a bit of
prime real estate on the shelves. I
figured we might have hit a homerun with this one! I mean, who doesn’t like a good cookie?
Don't they look delicious from the packaging? |
Maybe that’s the problem – this is not a good
cookie. Turns out, these cookies are
bleck. The ingredient list swears
otherwise, but they taste really ARTIFICIAL.
The sugar in them does not feel all the way dissolved, either, so there
is a grainy quality. And David felt they
were undercooked. (I felt they were
UNDERWHELMING…)
We do not take returning products to Trader Joe’s
lightly. Seriously, we do NOT return
things very often. But we each ate one
of these and then said, “Nah, we do not need these in our lives. They are NOT good”. After returning them, we later found one of
the cookies at home that David had taken a bite out of and left on a plate not
finished. He THREW IT AWAY rather than
eat it. If THAT doesn’t tell you
something, nothing will. Because NOTHING
will get between David and a good cookie!!!
$4.29 is nothing to sneeze at - we took them back |
When we returned these, the nice guy working at Customer
Service suggested we TASTE the bag of cookies that we were exchanging these yucky
ones for before buying them. The replacement
ones were in the same cute packaging but were called Sutter’s Formula – peanut butter
cookies with milk chocolate chunks. I thought
for suuuuure they would be better than the Brownie Chocolate Chip ones!!
Same price, still yucky |
David was worried before we even opened the package and tasted these.... |
I was wrong again.
And boy was I glad the Trader Joe’s guy recommended we taste them before
buying, because in the end we just said, “No thank you! We will just stick to the big pile of stuff already
in our cart,”. So, although David and I each only ate part of
one Sutter’s Formula Cookie, this will be their only mention in this year long
blog. I don’t feel as if I can give them
a complete review on their own, or a score of their own, since we didn’t even
purchase the bag and take it out of the store with us.
The score below is based only on the Brownie Chocolate
Chip Cookies.
Price – $4.29
Rating – 2.25
The peanut butter chocolate chunk Sutter's cookies are really popular and super delicious...at least to many of us. :)
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