Pastry: Soggy and pale 1/10
Presentation: School refectory styled - cling wrapped portion 5/10
Value for money: $3 - Huge slab, stale and poor quality 4.5/10
Overall score: 3.6/10
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Filling: Gelatinous, heavy duty custard 4/10 Pastry: Soggy and pale 1/10 Presentation: School refectory styled - cling wrapped portion 5/10 Value for money: $3 - Huge slab, stale and poor quality 4.5/10 Overall score: 3.6/10 I broke my own sacred rule with this one, purchasing a vanilla slice in a cling wrapped, pre packaged portion from a bakery. I selected this monster of a slice over a more sensible and in truth, neatly presented offering from the pie shop round the corner, purely based on the huge amount of custard in the portion. Nevertheless, I consumed what I could of this and discarded what was almost inedible. Starting with the positives; the price and the soft and sweet icing that stuck like super glue to my fingers. Now the negatives - the huge layer of filling was merely set milky custard, but it’s not good when custard breaks away like crumbling cheese. Lastly, the pastry; clearly suffering from its plastic wrapping, the pale layers were almost wet with moisture and could be peeled back like a used band aid. This was not worth finishing. Next...
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