When I first opened this bag of fish shaped cookies covered in chocolate I froze. I wondered if Delfi had done the unthinkable and simply coated Goldfish Crackers with chocolate and sold them as their own. The shape and size are pretty much exactly the same as Goldfish, but fortunately it’s a cookie inside and not and orange cracker. It has both a crumbly texture and a sweet flavour, so immediately I was relieved.

After getting over my initial trauma, I was still a little confused about the theme of these cookies. While it’s subtly implied, it never really says that it’s fish shaped cookies covered in chocolate. Even when it is visually mentioned on the package, it’s represented by a clown holding a pitcher of chocolate with fish jumping out. You can’t deny that the premise is a little weird. Maybe there’s some kind of cultural puzzle piece that’s missing for me (since these are made in Asia).

As a snack goes, these are fine. The cookie is simple and maybe a little bit bland. I’d call it vanilla, but such a weak vanilla that the vanilla flavour doesn’t come through. In many ways the cookie is just there to give it some crunch and its peculiar fish shape. The chocolate is on the low end of average chocolate. It’s not the worst chocolate ever but a whole bar of it probably wouldn’t be great. It’s good enough that I ate the whole bag, but I was also happy that the bag wasn’t that big.

Do Goldfish Crackers make a chocolate coated version? Maybe something like that would be better. The salty and sweet would be nice, and the flakier texture of the cracker would also work. I guess you can see how “meh” these were when it mostly just inspires/muses something that would probably work better.