Choco Time is a Quick Time

Chocotime Strawberry

Brand: Morinaga

Price: 90 yen

Place of purchase: 7-Eleven

Rating:

This product is small: roughly the size of a baby’s hand. If that doesn’t give you a good metric, it’s enough to finish within two bites, one if you have a hungry man bite like me. Now, the name of the product is Chocotime, but the main star is the strawberry flavour. It isn’t sweet enough to make your tongue burn like some artificial strawberry flavours, but it’s evident enough for one to appreciate. Since the snack is quite small, I’d say it’s also good for controlled rewarding; something to relieve the 口寂しい (literally “lonely mouth”) or a treat after doing something good.

But why get this when there’s Black Thunder available in the same aisle for cheaper? The crunch on Chocotime somehow isn’t as satisfying as Black Thunder, yet it is about the same size. Sure, Black Thunder doesn’t have any strawberry-flavoured variants (that I know of) but if someone is craving that strawberry sweetness, there are a bunch of other products that could potentially scratch that itch. Looking at it from the chocolate perspective, all of the Black Thunder variants win out over Chocotime as I don’t feel the chocolate at all with Chocotime.