First Review: Meiji’s Fran Whipps

Pocky was a staple food of my youth. Or maybe that’s an exaggeration. Pocky, if you haven’t visited any asian supermarkets in your area for the past forty years, is Japanese snack first manufactured by Glico. Since then, many companies have copied the “pretzels dipped in icing” design of this snack. My pocky favorites are the Dessert category from Glico and the Fran category from Meiji. Recently, I bought the strawberry cream Fran Whipps <3

I shared the whole box with my fellow library monitors; it was a huge hit! The strawberry cream was beautifully speckled with candy bits (I didn’t really taste it, though.) There is vanilla cream icing underneath, all surrounding the chocolate ‘pretzel.’ I hesitate to call the thin cracker underneath, although that is what wikipedia calls it, because I think of pretzel as an unappetizing, dry and salty joke of a snack. But back to Fran Whipps, they are relatively inexpensive, around $3. It’s much thicker than regular pocky, (where the icing is so thin you need to eat 4 to get the same amount of flavor you can get from one Whipp,) so a box comes with four individually wrapped sticks in groups of only three. The packaging is also cute and attractive. The only thing I would complain about it is the amount, I can’t stop at one package >.<

Overall, it is a great choice who any occasion, especially during study sessions ^-^ You might have to stock up on boxes because they are addictive.