YBC Noir Cocoa Cookies: These are the Japanese equivalent of Oreo cookies, which I tend to have about once a year at the MIT Mystery Hunt competition. Since Mystery Hunt was completely remote this year, I wasn't able to partake in the normal consumption of college-dorm junk food normally shared in person to fuel late-night puzzling, but I still wanted to capture the spirit, which led me to purchase this snack. The YBC snack packs are ubiquitous and can be found at basically all convenience and grocery stores. Overall, the chocolate tastes of the YBC cookies taste more bitter, and the cream doesn't seem quite as sweet as with the Nabisco sandwich cookie, so I actually prefer it overall. Otherwise, the format factor is exactly the same, even down to the decorations on the cookie (except for the word NOIR instead of OREO). 3.5/5.0

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