Ficosota Food Maretti Oven Baked Bruschette Chips Pizza

I saw this little 70g packet of crispy snacks when I ran down the road for the weekend newspapers. I thought we had tried this style of snack before, but I was fairly sure we hadn’t tried Pizza. And, no, we hadn’t.

We’ve tried Maretti Bruschette in Italian Ham, Mixed Vegetables, Mixed Cheese, Roasted Garlic, Mushrooms and Cream, and Spinach and Cheese. All back in 2016 and 17. Back then the maker’s name was Ital. And now here we have Pizza. 

It’s a pity the Pizza flavour isn’t as pizza-y as it might be. But it’s a tasty snack with a good crunch.

The Chef agrees. The taste isn’t quite right. But it’s still a very tasty snack. And I can’t help wondering if it might work very well with a dip.

Ital Food Bruschette Maretti Mixed Cheese

And... yes yet another of these Bruschette from Bulgaria!

Yes, yes, I know it can all get a bit monotonous for you but, well if you don't try them while you can sometimes crispy snacks disappear into the blue. Sometimes, indeed, whole shops that used to sell a delightful selection of crisps and crispy snacks can disappear into the blue. So grab your opportunity while you can because you might miss out otherwise.

I'm not sure the cheesy taste of this cheesy crispy snack is very real, and not really made out of actual cheese. And I have no idea what kinds of cheese it might possibly involve. The packet shows some Brie maybe, some Emmental or Gruyere perhaps, and a blue cheese. But it's kind of a pretence cheese taste. But what can I say? It's a very tasty cheesy crispy snack and I think all the reluctant taste testers rather enjoyed it.

Pretence taste? Who cares. We enjoyed this crispy snack.

Ital Food Bruschette Maretti Roasted Garlic

I'm not going to apologise for trying quite a lot of these Bruschette crispy snacks recently because they are rather good. Some of the flavours, of course are tastier than others (in the opinion of the reluctant taste testers), but that is natural. However, I think this Roasted Garlic flavour is incredibly tasty. Really very good indeed.

Lovely little fine cut crispy crunchy toasts, very salty, very garlicky and extremely good. The reluctant taste testers who tried this snack were impressed. Noble Friend wouldn't try because she said she doesn't like stinking of garlic all day (which I don't think she would have) and Tech taste tester somehow omitted to try. Maybe he doesn't fancy Bruschette; I must ask him, but he did say by the time he got to the snack bowl there was nothing left but crumbs.

And then I went home and praised this crispy snack to the Chef. He was a bit miffed he had missed out so I had to go back for another packet. 

I think he likes this crispy snack. I certainly do.

Ital Food Bruschette Maretti Mushrooms & Cream

And another intriguing flavour from Bruschette Maretti. Who would have thought of mushrooms and cream as a flavour for a crispy snack? What could the answer to this crispy conundrum be?

Apparently Bruschette Maretti (duh!) thought it a good plan. And we think they were right. It's an interesting taste this. A little surprising to the UK educated palate this mushroom flavoured crispy snack is really quite surprisingly mushroomy. Giraffe Fan taste tester suggested mushroom risotto, I think it was Senior taste tester who thought mushroom soup.

I think Giraffe Fan was pretty much on the spot, and several taste testers admitted that while their first taste was a mega surprise and they really aren't sure they liked this crispy snack, a second and third taste demonstrated that this is a very pleasant tasting crispy snack.

So if you spot it, give it a try.

Ital Food Bruschette Maretti Italian Ham Flavour

Another tasty snack from the new and improved local food shop. And they seem to have quite a selection of these Bruschette from Bulgarian (I think) company Ital Food.

Excellent. Because I really liked this crunchy little crispy snack. Quite a lot of breakages in this packet, not sure that's a good sign but maybe it is just this particular packet, but lots of very tasty flavour dust. And I loved the taste. I thought it was very true to the advertised flavour. Italian Ham. Yum. And Dutch taste tester liked this a lot too.

However, Noble Friend and I think it was Tall Elegant taste tester didn't like the taste at all. Noble Friend said the taste was far too strong. And overwhelming.

I expect Noble Friend wouldn't have cared for the aroma either if she had sniffed the bag. I was really impressed; the aroma was the same as the taste. Now, you might say how silly, of course this crispy snack smells the same as it tastes. But not silly at all. It is remarkable how many crispy snacks smell quite unpleasant when you open the packet. Don't try smelling your packet of crisps unsupervised unless you are an experienced taste tester.

I spotted the Chairman taste tester sneaking a tasty morsel from the kitchen as he passed by and worried a little as I know he keeps quite strict kosher. But luckily I am fairly sure this crispy snack is vegetarian. The ingredients are mostly in languages I don't speak and probably never will but there is a little sticky label in tiny type which does not list ham. Just ham flavouring.

A very nice crispy snack. I look forward to trying other flavours. I think the reluctant taste testers do too.