Pastry: Hard to classify as pastry 1/10
Presentation: Quirky piped icing, otherwise unappetising 2.5/10
Value for money: $5- Medium portion size, pastry and icing inedible 3/10
Overall score: 2.3/10
With nothing to lose I picked up the prickly and very rigid block, surprised to find the piped icing was also hard as a rock. Had this been frozen? The pastry resembled that of a frozen desert and was also hard And cold, and it felt like eating a cardboard sheet. The icing had a subtle meaty flavour to it that made me feel slightly uneasy, so I wasn’t sure if it had been stored in a fridge with savoury products and it had taken on a an additional, unwanted flavour. Nevertheless. I used a knife to cut the gelatinous custard out from its obsolete sandwich and ate about half. The custard was not the worst tasting custard ever, but the texture was just too much to handle.
Mrs B rightly asked “How can a pastry shop get a vanilla slice so wrong?”, to which I also agreed. One of the most memorable vanilla slices I’ve eaten (and not for positive reasons). Next...