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LITTLE DEBBIE PUMPKIN DELIGHTS COOKIES

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Welcome to day 10 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today we’re checking out Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights Cookies: 

The pumpkin on the package is different than the ones so far — it’s a grinning jack o’lantern:The package contains some interesting information about pumpkins.  I didn’t know (or truthfully, care) that the word “pumpkin” comes from the Greek word “pepo,” meaning “large melon.”  I also learned that pumpkins are a fruit, but are often referred to as vegetables when it comes to cooking — kinda like tomatoes.  The largest pumpkin recorded weighed 2,624.6 pounds.  One step closer to being Cliff Clavin!

The ingredients include pumpkin puree and spices:

The cookie comes in its own body bag:

And here’s Jackie:

Don’t worry about the cookie getting smashed in a lunchbox — it’s apparently pre-smashed.  Seriously — it’s got a reasonable facsimile of a jack o’lantern face, but why has the top of its head been cut off?  I guess it would be an appropriate snack for a Smashing Pumpkins concert.  I kinda liked this cookie, although it’s never gonna take the place of something made in my kitchen.  It’s soft, but not wet and gummy like the Lenny & Larry’s cookie, with a mild pumpkin spice flavor.  I’m not sure what the — I don’t know what to call it, gel maybe? — filling is, but it was ambiguously fruity and not offensive.

Rating: 3-1/2 pumpkins (out of 5)

LENNY & LARRY’S PUMPKIN SPICE COMPLETE COOKIE

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Welcome to day 6 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today we’ll take a look at Lenny & Larry’s Pumpkin Spice Complete Cookie:

I have so many questions.

First, who are Lenny and Larry?

I think they may be related to Carla Hall:

Second, what’s up with the “Holiday Recipe” surrounded by snowflakes?  What “holiday” are they talking about?

So wrong

Third, while nearly every pumpkin product I’ve found has at least one pumpkin on the packaging, this one doesn’t have any.  The only “pumpkin” thing on the wrapper is this:

Be honest — did you know what that was at first glance?  I didn’t.  But after studying it for a few seconds I realized it’s a forkful of pumpkin pie.  They couldn’t even spring for a wedge of pie?

The cookie is a “complete package” that contains no soy, dairy, egg, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, or sugar alcohols:

So what is in it?  Well, there’s pumpkin puree and cinnamon (and chicory root fiber?):

I was kinda surprised to see that one cookie is a whopping 440 calories (you and I both know that no one is going to eat half a cookie):

And here’s the complete cookie:

I didn’t like this cookie at all.  Although it had a pumpkin flavor, it also had a grassy flavor, I assume from the chicory root, and it was damp and cold and gummy, no doubt due to the addition of vegetable glycerine, guar gum, and xanthan gum.  I wouldn’t recommend blowing 440 calories on this cookie for breakfast — not when you can have an Egg McMuffin for 300 calories.  Then again, I’m not vegan.

Interestingly, however, my dogs went bonkers for this cookie, staring my husband down until he shared.  Maybe the H-E-B pumpkin dog snacks whet their palates for pumpkin.  Or maybe it’s just because they’re pumpkin-colored dogs.

Rating:  1 pumpkin (out of 5)