{"product_id":"glico-pocky-gokuboso","title":"Glico Pocky Gokuboso Thin Chocolate Sticks — 2 Packs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe same chocolate as the red box, on a stick with about half the cross-section, so there is more chocolate against less biscuit, and it snaps harder rather than softer. Thin here means firmer, not more delicate: the opposite of what the word sounds like. Buy it if the chocolate is the part you care about; if you want something to get your teeth into, the red box is the thicker of the two, and people who compare them do split over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pack reads ポッキー＜極細＞: \u003cem\u003egok-oo-boso\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning \"extra fine\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout 30% narrower, not half as thick.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico's \"about 1\/2\" is footnoted on its own page as a \u003cem\u003ecross-sectional area\u003c\/em\u003e ratio, and half the area works out to roughly seven-tenths of the width. English pages about this product tend to call it thinner and leave it there. The difference is smaller than \"half\" sounds, and still enough to change the eat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMore chocolate against less biscuit.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is the whole difference, and it is why the same chocolate can read stronger here without being a different recipe. Some people taste it as more chocolatey and some taste it as identical: both are describing the same change from opposite ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Australian supermarkets don't have it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coles and Woolworths both range Pocky, and every line of it that states an origin says Thailand. None of it is this. Glico does not export the thin one under any name.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt will not enjoy a Sydney summer.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico says keep it under 28°C, and the chocolate is on the outside where the heat gets to it first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk, wheat and soy\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not a different flavour from the red box. The chocolate is the same chocolate and only the texture changed; the difference is the ratio and the snap. Glico prints プレッツェル on the box and Japanese buyers use the word too: it means this kind of thin baked wheat stick, not the twisted salty knot, so the quotes below calling it a pretzel mean the biscuit. Unlike the red box it has no fermented butter in it, which Glico adds to that one only.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296514060514,"sku":"SH-SNK-0041","price":5.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-pocky-gokuboso-white-box.webp?v=1788499844","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-pocky-gokuboso","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}