The last bite of the Cornetto ice-cream is said to be the best. It's the remainder of the cone, filled with soft chocolate and any sauce that may have run down the inside or outside. It's the headline act to the festival of summer.
And now you can have a whole bag of them to yourself!
I've seen these in a few places - best implemented by the Norwegian waffle crisps we had in 2013 on our visit that I still think about.
These however are much more faithful to the ice-cream cone experience - and they sell it as nostalgia and reminiscence, purely because Cornetto are no longer the premium ice-cream they once were.
As usual the bag is half full to protect them during transport and they all look pretty in-tact so it's worked here. The bag reseals too which is a premium feature and very much appreciated.
And they are fairly unassuming - very full of the chocolate and a little harder than their Wall's counterparts. And frankly - not quite as good. I think that I'd put this down to nostalgia but we had Cornettos in Wells recently as part of a Hot Fuzz visit, and while smaller it all still worked.
Here I think that to make it work as a snack they added too much choc, and it's not soft enough. It also doesn't have the ice-cream chill to it that the real thing does. Besides, they put it in to stop the juices soaking through the cone (which was choc coated all the way down) so it had a function unlike these which are pure indulgence.
In the end then this is like buying the medal for a marathon you didn't complete off eBay, the real prize was always the Cornetto and that last bite just the last step. So - worth a try? Absolutely, but don't be surprised if you get tempted to pop to the freezer and have a bowl of ice-cream with these on top as an indulgent treat. I'd ahve probably done the same if it wasn't absolutely pouring with rain today!
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