Tina Wafer
The Tina Wafer - strange name for a biscuit, isn’t it? - disappoint me a little.
I was recently quite positive about the Gaiety, if you can forgive me for getting a little existential about the hedonic treadmill that is our human condition in the review. They are, in short, a Tina Wafer covered in chocolate. At the time of writing that review, I didn’t know that today’s biscuit existed; I instead compared it to generic, home-brand wafer biscuits, which the Tina clearly shares a common ancestor with. In fact, I harshly described it as “three thin pieces of edible sawdust held together with the minimum viable amount of what technically passes as cream."
Say hello to your biscuity best friend, with Tina’s yummy, light and crispy cream-filled wafers in scrumptious raspberry, vanilla and chocolate flavours.
And frankly, the Tina Wafer critically does not perform the minimum set of common ‘Arnotts enhancements’ that raises its sibling biscuits to a premium level. It still constitutes an incredibly dry, thin, and one-dimensional flavour profile that leaves little enjoyment. The only real difference between this and the classic 60c Woolies option is that these are roughly square, rather than rectangular; but where the Gaiety represented the next step on the inevitable human march of technological biscuit progress, the Tina is a disappointing side-step, upstaged by its more economical competition, that feels ultimately like a plain-and-simple rip-off.