Target Find: Petite Chocolate Chip Cookies

In case some of you aren't aware, super mega store Target has its own line of grocery store products, Archer Farms. If you think about it, Archer Farms is just a fancy rooster sticker on the generic white store brand, but that is beside the point. The point is that though I knew about Archer Farms, and though I go to Target on a regular basis for "stuff," I never actually stopped to try any of their foods. The only thing I ever eat from Target is pizza from Pizza Hut because really now, I could never, in good conscience, eat Pizza Hut outside of a discount superstore.

This week, my Slashfoodie friends, it is "Sarah Tries a Lot of Foods From Target and Blogs About It!" Week because I somehow found myself with all kinds of "rare and wondrous foods" from Archer Farms ("rare and wondrous" are their words, not mine) in my pantry and my countertop.

First up, it's the Chocolate Chip Petite Cookies -- "rare and wondrous" indeed!

Let me explain first that I hate it when there are pictures of the food I am going to eat on the front of the package because always always always, I am disappointed by what i find inside. The picture has a pretty little brown-trimmed plate with a few cookies very jauntily piled on top, as if your kids are going to come skipping into the kitchen at any moment to grab a few before running off to softball practice.

I don't have kids. And even if I did, they'd play soccer, not softball.

When I opened the box, which is not a traditional type of packaging, but a half-box/half-envelope type things made of very stiff paper that protects the cookies inside. It probably doesn't help to protect that pretty little plate from breaking though. Oh bummer, the pretty little plate in the picture was all just a sham. There are only cookies in a sealed silver foil bag inside.

The cookies are small, hence the name "petite cookies." They're smaller than Chips Ahoy, but bigger than those little Famous Amos Cookies that I know everyone here has eaten out of the vending machine in their offices at one point or another. In transport, most of the cookies were still intact. Not sure if that's a good thing (great packaging!) or a bad thing (hard cookies!)

The chocolate chip cookies taste like...chocolate chip cookies. No revelations nor innovations there. They are crisp, bordering on crunchy, with a more sandy sugary texture than say those old standbys, Chips Ahoy. I was fairly impressed with the number of chips there were in each cookie, but then again, these are small cookie to begin with.

Would I buy these again? Probably not, even though they are cheap. They're from Target for God's sake.

I have no idea where this Archer Farms Week will go. Perhaps nowhere, or perhaps Target will send me a life-time supply of Chocolate Chip Petite Cookies in individual serving boxes.