I bought this item because it’s, you know, cookies. That’s enough reason, right?

The back of the box got me curious about two things: What was the ingredient that was crossed out and more importantly, did someone go through box after box after box with a silver fine-tipped marker? Boy, I thought parts of my job were tedious.

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I should really know better by now.

See, when I picked up this small tube of candy, I expected to be biting into coffee beans, the kind that are ground to make coffee. Yeah, my mind works in weird ways. (And why would I want to bite into those coffee beans???)

Before I get to what was actually inside of the tube, let me talk about what I saw when I untwisted the top. Some little animal drawings with Japanese words ending in an exclamation point. Now this I would be surprised not to find.

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I like the flavor of tea. And I like the consistency of coffee with milk or half-and-half. I got this drink because of the promise of both those things.

I just want to point out something that I think is pretty ingenious about this item—the advertising found on both sides of its neck. Here you see an ad for a Green Tea N’ Cream drink (the other side displayed a picture of Thai Tea Powder).

The advertising doesn’t involve only pictures, though. It also includes the words, “Made from finest ingredients.” (The distributor of this drink is a company called Taste Nirvana.)

So did this drink meet the hype?

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What is it about miniature-sized things that make them look so much more appealing?

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