Cottage Delight Garlic Italian Crostini Crackers

 

The Chef and I found this nice looking little snack in a local shop. It was just before Christmas and the shop was jam crammed with present buyers. Maybe buying some of these.

Although the Cottage Delight company seems to be based in Leek in Staffordshire, the little crackers are actually made in Italy. The label describes this crispy snack as ‘light and crisp hand crafted Italian crostini’ created by an authentic Italian family baker. Hmm… what a pity they aren’t actually light and crisp. In fact, and I really don’t enjoy giving a poor review, if you ask me this snack has a seriously heavy bite. And a very dull crunch. This is disappointing.

And what a pity they don’t taste of anything. Oh, there is a sort of garlicky aftertaste, but I can’t tell you how disappointed the Chef and I were. Because it’s nice to support small brands.

7 Days Mini Bake Rolls Garlic

 Back in 2015 the Reluctant Taste Testers and I tried 7 Days Bake Rolls garlic flavour. And they are pretty fabulous. And tasty.

But here we have a mini version. The mini bake rolls are far smaller than the usual size which is fine, but what is not fine is that the taste seems a lot less. Maybe it was just this packet, but they weren’t very flavourful. So I would buy the regular size. 

The Chef was disappointed. He hadn’t noticed he’d bought a mini size.

7Days Bake Rolls Garlic

7Days is a brand available almost entirely in the Eastern part of Europe (as opposed to Eastern Europe which sounds like something out of  a cold war novel). It's owned by Chipita SA, a Greek company, and is available in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. And Germany.

Except that you can also buy 7Days Bake rolls in the Tall Taste Tester's corner shop. Which used to sell fish and reptiles; a species of pet shop if you will. You can also find them in lots of little shops in North London so I imagine in other parts of the UK too.

You might suppose from looking at the packet that a Bake Roll crispy snack is rather like half a bagel. But it doesn't have a rounded back like a bagel. It's a flat snack. Like a slice of apple.

The Chipita SA website has a different section for each language. Rich! Rich! Rich! Taste (says the German page about Bake Rolls), while the Serbian page says Bogat! Bogat! Bogat! Ukas and features a fabulous commercial bizarrely in English with (I suppose) Serbian subtitles. There are other commercials in other languages and for other products so the website is worth a look.

Gazdag! Gazdag! Gazdag! Íz! (Hungarian). It's a great way to learn new languages although, unless you encounter a crispy snack fan, you might find your vocabulary somewhat limited.

Garlic Bake Rolls have a very pleasant garlic taste and a good hard crunch. The Bake Roll is a thin slice of bread, twice baked for extra crunchiness. And they are very crunchy. And they are very good. Particularly fabulous with a bit of butter.