Review: Cookies and Dream By Mini Mart

Smoking session review of the Cookies and Dream cannabis strain released by Mini Mart.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:23

You're here with the professor and skipper, and today we are reviewing Cookies and Dream by Minnie Mart.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Minimart, a subsidiary of New York Farm Company out of Walden, New York, proprietors of brands such as Grocery and Tyson 2.0. Wow. Also Holiday, Minimart, Boutique, and Nova. Quite a few there.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

As far as the strain goes, Cookies and Dream is a 70-30 sativa dominant hybrid. Its effects are happy, uplifted, and tingly. Flavors are blueberry, berry, and blue cheese. Terps are lemonine, cariophyline, and mersine. Leafly has it at around 20% THC. All bud has 15 to 24%. And Minnie Mark themselves say it's 30.2% THC.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Three and a half or one eighth in a Ziploc Mylar bag. Average price $25 to $30. This haul here comes from our good friends at Herbwell in Midtown Manhattan. Right off 53rd in Madison. Definitely. Ready for the roll? Ready for the roll, skip.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Let's do it. And we're back.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

How's it go, pro? Well, it broke about even, so that wasn't a problem. However, the problem was that the sample itself was barely enough, with very little left over after we made our rolls.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Pretty skimpy. How did it look, Skip? Uh medium-sized nugs, pale greens with red and orange hairs, coated in tricombs, not much of a smell. Pretty dry or drier than I'm more comfortable with. And uh it's pretty recent harvest, according to its COA, so I don't understand why it's so dry. Yeah, if something was packed a month ago, it shouldn't be this dry. Yeah, well, let's see how it goes into the smoke. Ready for the smoke? Ready for the smoke, Skip. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

I don't smell the berries or the blueberry or the blue cheese. It smells more like earthy to me. Maybe we like slight diesel undertones? First taste was the caryophylline, a pepperish kind of taste. That was the first thing. So, according to our friends at Leafly and All But, Cookies and Dream is itself a hybrid. And the hybrid we're looking at is Cookie F2 and the popular Blue Dream. Blue Dream in the house. Which I'm apologies for not mentioning that earlier. Uh Blue Dream, of course, as we know, is also a hybrid, um, which is blueberry and haze. So I guess that's where it gets the blueberry flavor. Right. There's not much about F2, even though All Bud disagrees and says it's Blue Dream with Girl Scout cookies. Well, it's in the realm. Interesting. So there's a some disagreement there between our two our friends at All Bud and our friends at Leafly.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

It's not a lot of information here. I mean, trying to prepare before the show was pretty difficult. Took kind of longer than usual.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

So looking up Cookie F2 is a cross between cookie and cookie.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Cookie to the second power.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Cookie to the second power. I guess that's what we mean by F2.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

And this is a sub brand of grocery.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Yes, it is. Uh Minimart is a sub brand of grocery. And it looks like grocery itself is a subbrand of Flowerhouse New York. Right. Which they are a subsidiary of New York Farm Co. So it's the subsidiary of the subsidiary of the subsidiary. And if you are familiar with, it looks like they make a lot of vapes. So Holiday is a vape brand, Nova's a vape brand. I think boutique is a vape brand. I know that Tyson 2.0 is the one that makes those edible ears. Yeah. Yeah. Like I know they're famous for that. Yeah. The ears, because you know Tyson being popular for biting ears. Um, so it looks like grocery and mini mart are their flower brands. Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

A lot of reviews state that. Um, I mean, that's what it got our attention. A lot of reviews say that it's a pretty, you know, good smoke compared to their top brand of grocery. Some even say it's the same thing. So I guess our next step is to check out grocery.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Make a comparison. It's a pleasant smoke. Yeah. Well-balanced smoke. Ironically, I taste like pinene. A little bit of pine. And it did say it had pinene. It just wasn't one of the top three terps. But it's really loud in this. Yeah, piney and then cariophyline in the back end. Cariophyline, yes. I don't taste the lemonine.

unknown 5:54

No.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

I don't taste the mercine.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Well, yeah. They say you feel it more than you taste it.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

Well, mercine, yes. But that the lemonine is usually loud.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Strange, you know, having a smooth smoke, but not much taste or notes. Like, you know.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Like I said, pinene cariophyline. Yeah. So it's not even touching the blueberry or berry or blue cheese or anything like that. I'm not getting any of that either. No. Slight relaxation. Yes. I do feel a mildness behind the eyeballs. Yeah. A slight fogginess starting to set in. I'm about a third in. Uh nothing strong, but something present.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Yeah. Then how to even label this level? Because at this level for three and a half, it's $25 to $30. I mean, it's a great price. It's a great price, but again, apologies for not mentioning that earlier. You know, um, the prices is as at uh considered at a low level. I don't even know what's the correct term for it, but there's a level of these where it almost touches, you know.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Wow, Skip, we're off today. We're not mentioning parent streams, we're not mentioning price public.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

I mean, you know what? I think uh honestly, I think we were a bit worn out in the research side. It was a little bit daunting today. Here, not a lot of info.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

As crazy as it sounds, which really it doesn't sound that crazy at all, it seems like some of these companies want to make it hard for you to find out who they are and where they are from.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

True, true. That and but you know, the COA is supposed to cover parts of those things. And even in the uh in the labeling, a lot of people understand like uh the licensing and how the um the prefixes of the licensing tells you what kind of company it is, if it's a distributor, if it's a producer.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

And it seems like Flowerhouse or New York Pharmco is a what? Uh PROC right there. So producer, right there. Looks like a producer. Now, the question is this there are some companies that are wide open and they have websites and everything, and you can go in there and read about them. There are other websites or companies that have websites that are very uh vague, vague and ambiguous. Yeah, and then there are companies that either A have a defunct website like Flowerhouse. Here's looking at you, Flowerhouse, or uh don't have a website at all.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

And yeah, that's not a good look. Well, I mean, I did a quick check and found a little history of Flowerhouse through other reviews, and some people say that they have a checkered past. I don't want to get into it because that's fodder for probably another podcast, but yeah, it it has its uh its story there. Well, I mean, it does have a lot of different brands, yeah. And you know how it is. A lot of these companies uh try to get around the fact that to sell weed in New York it has to be cultivated or you know, anyone can can correct me if I'm wrong, but cultivated and or produce or distribute it only in New York, where a lot of these are MSOs, multi-state organizations. So to get around that, they make they have these practices of having a New York brand, but not necessarily New York grown weed. Yeah, that's not a good look. Well, that's not all everyone, you know, those are just opinions, reviews.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

Well, I mean, I'm I'm willing to support any practice that will deliver the highest quality product for the lowest price.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

I mean, yeah, as we are all. And so and some companies that are already big in other states are arguing that because of New York laws, they can't, you know, they're they're limited. So they're saying that if they weren't limited, they'll be able to bring quality weed again, but from a grown and from another state. Yeah, but is it gonna be, you know, they could say they say it'll be good. I mean, Colorado.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

The problem with that is also, you know, that's breaking federal laws when you cross state lines with this project.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Definitely, definitely. But either way, I mean, there's no real reason why anyone with the infrastructure here can grow good weed here. Well, I mean, I I can imagine that compared to California, there are challenges as far as climate. Right, and things like that, and that's why here there's uh favorites for indoor versus outdoor, but even then, well, getting back to the actual review, folks.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Sorry about that. Um, about a little bit over halfway in, and I do feel a high settling in. Yeah, yeah, it's a little buzzy, kind of foggy thing in the frontal lobe. Um, feeling a little what's the word I'm looking for? I guess a little lost for words. And uh, you know, just having that little bit of a foggy feeling. It's not very strong. I'm not smacked, right? Um, but it's getting somewhere, I'm not gonna lie. And I'm feeling it mostly physic in the physical sense. I'm feeling it mostly in the back of my eyes and in the frontal lobe area.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

That's where it's at. I'm wrestling with, like, you know, I'm feeling the high, but I'm like, is it like mid or it's I mean it's clean, it's a clean high here.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

Like it's big. I feel expansive. I feel expansive here in the front of my face. Like I feel an expansiveness. That's but the strange feeling is I feel not in the back of my head. Oh, I it's like half of my head feels it. Yeah, it's a very strange high.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Not necessarily bad. No, not bad. It's just a little mild and like elusive at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yeah, it's like you'd you're you would want to say it's mild, but then you stop yourself from saying it's mild because it's not necessarily mild, right? It's just like strange. Yeah. Because I think the the more apt term that you used was elusive. It's like it's one of those elusive highs, you know, that if you try to pay too close attention to it, it doesn't feel like it's there, but then the moment you turn around, it's like fluttering around in your peripheral vision. Yeah, it's that kind of high so far.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

I don't know if you concur with that. Well, definitely. In fact, I was starting to call those on paper the phantom highs.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

You know, I call those the peripheral vision highs, you know, that they're like, you know how that is, like in the side, but then when you turn it's not there, it's not there, yeah. The peripheral vision highs is what I call them. But phantom high is a good word for it, too, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

A good term for it. You know, and uh sativas are good for that. That's why, you know, those sativas are best when they have a high THC because of the weight, they're not elusive, but when they're in the low THC, they tend to have that because it's more heady than body. Yeah, I could see that.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

That's why a lot of times when I get a really strong sativa or a sativa that really that's really heady, yeah. Sometimes I like to anchor it with a small bit of an indika at the end. That's true. It's like a tiny pinch, just to like kind of anchor it a little bit. Because you don't you want the sativa to dominate, you want it to be the main, you know, ingredient, but you just want that little bit of indika to like because I love sativas, but man. It's like a rope around the hot air balloon, you know, just sitting there. You know, make you fly. And so that little tip of Ndika is like a rope on the hot air balloon, you know, just anchoring it down. It kind of helps. If that analogy helps at all. Kind of uh describes this high too, right? Yeah, it's kind of like a hot air balloon, but with like an anchor, you know, like a rope tied down so it doesn't get to too high. It's um interesting high. With a ceiling, you would say, or no? I'm not gonna say that yet because I'm noticing as I'm smoking, I'm getting higher and I'm not finished yet. Yeah. Do I see myself getting smacked in the in the speed and direction that I'm traveling? Yeah, uh, probably not smacked. Yeah, but I know that I'm not sure where I'll end up there. You know, it might be close to smacked.

unknown 14:30

Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Hey, it might actually be smacked. I don't know. Past the halfway point, haven't reached a third point yet. So I'm somewhere in between those two points.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Where are you at, Skip? Yeah, man. Yeah, but a little bit more than a third left. Uh, but yeah, I'm feeling it to relax. The highest there is just different. So does it make you feel happy?

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Not much. Relax mostly. Yeah, I feel like relax. Does it make you feel uplifted? Does it make you feel tingly? Uh no, no. I gotta say, I'm really feeling like if uh this is mislabeled, like they dropped the wrong marijuana into the package, because so far everything that it's saying, we are not feeling, right? So happy, uplifted, tingly, we're not having any of those. Now we are high though. Yeah, I feel like a relaxed, right? Yeah, do you feel that too? Like relaxed, high, just different. Um, unfocused, yeah, high. That's what I'm feeling right now. Do I feel any euphoria? You feel any euphoria? No, I don't. I guess that's where they would have got happy from, but I'm not feeling any of that. Then the flavors, blueberry, berry, blue cheese. Did you taste any of that at all? No. Inhale or exhale? No. Me neither. So it's like, was this mislabeled?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

I mean, who knows? Had it been more supple, you know, have more moisture. It had no moisture at all. Very dry. It didn't grind into a powder, but it was almost yeah, it wasn't completely dry.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Yeah, it was crackle, it still had like an inch of suppleness left, you know, but it was uh, but it was definitely, you know, dry. And this is for something that, according to the to the COA, was packed a month ago.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

Yeah. How does that happen? I mean, it's a lot of variables there, man. Even the packaging, you know, it's right. Typical Mylar, nice, but it's different.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

And what if it's like had a pinhole in it or something like that? That would definitely reduce the quality. That's one advantage over glass jars, yeah. That you can puncture, like with a pinhole, you can puncture this, and you know, it'll start losing its potency a lot faster.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

And also a lot of my lars like you know, have no uh nothing, you can't see the butt. This one has a little window there. Has a little window you can't.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

That's definitely a plus. So we gotta give you thumbs up for that, Minimart, that you put a window on it. You know, people like to see what they're getting. Yeah, that was that was impressive. However, the the hugeness of the package, uh, like you could probably save some money making the package smaller. So the price ain't bad either. I mean, $30. Down to my last third. Definitely a high, an indeterminate, un unything. Because it's like unidentifiable. Yeah, man. But I'm high, it's foggy, you know. I feel it, I feel the denseness in the the lower part of my brain, like I feel it weighing on top of my uh skull cavity. You know, I feel a little weight on that. Um, feeling it on the back of the eyeballs where it all started, um, and it graduated into like this this brain fogginess. It's a it's a decent high. Yeah. Um you know, but as far as grabbing the full thing, like it's very difficult to do so. It's more like sitting back and letting it just affect you peripherally and like you know, wash over you is kind of the the way it's. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

You gotta let it just take you there.

SPEAKER_02 18:22

You notice that? Like when you start talking about something else, or yeah, it's like you start feeling the hi, and then but when you're like hi, oh there it is, and then it's like no, it's not, and it starts running away. So, yeah. Many, many kinds of strains we've had that does this. And like the skip said, you know, the skip is a very experienced sativa guy, sativaologist. I'm trying to be so he knows sativa as well, and uh, so yeah. Sativaologist? That's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

That's a new one. Even though nowadays it's rare to find, you know, you're gonna get hybrids everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

What was that adage that uh we heard that old uh bud guy say that if you want a pure strain nowadays, you better go find it in the jungle. It's you know, it's inching up a little higher by degrees, but again, in the speed and trajectory that it's going, yeah, I don't see myself getting smacked on this. However, uh as the skip said, I also agree that uh price point, wow, very good uh effects and uh high for the price point. You gotta definitely say uh but yeah, it definitely feels like uh that analogy about a hot air balloon with a rope attached to it. So, what would this high be good for, Skip? Yeah, relax, you know, after work stuff, you know, want to take the edge off. Yeah, I I concur. It's uh, you know, you don't want to go to sleep, you don't want to be couch locked, but you want to like just be home, you know, you don't want to do anything crazy. Maybe it's a really cold day outside or a freezing full snow day, and you know, New Yorkers, we don't like snow, so uh with that in mind, right? So we basically like to stay indoors in those times, and this would be a good weed for that, you know, staying indoors, you know, not necessarily being couch locked watching television, you know, doing stuff at home, but really not being social. Purposeful, but not social. It's probably the best way to put it. Wow, skip. It's like today we are so locked in and serious. I don't know what's going on. We're like all business today. Usually, you know, sometimes we're a little more loosey-goosey than others, and sometimes we're a little most of the time, we're a little bit in the middle, yeah, you know. But today we are all business. Hey, it's a manic Monday, you know. Yeah, we're trying to make it happen. So we're figuring it out, and uh Cookies and Dream here is helping us out. Funny enough, it seems like the actual actual perfect kind of strain for this kind of day, you know. Like you said, like a manic Monday. Monday is the beginning of the week, you know, there's still a lot to do, even when you get home from work, you know, because you know, you try to relax during the weekend and maybe a couple of things piled up. Uh yeah, this is a good strain for that. So Minimart is a offshoot of grocery.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

And so how many, how many strains does Minimart have? Uh quite a few, quite a few. And they both label them accordingly, you know, to their dominant strain, so sativa and they have Indika, and they're various uh crosses.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

And uh grocery also has various strains.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Is is grocery a higher price point?

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Yeah, it's a higher price point.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

I see, I see. Big shout out to the king of uh cannabis reviews and Reddit. Reddit, you know. Reddit has thousands and thousands of people talking about their experiences. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

And the New York area, in the New York dispensary and rec medical very invaluable stuff, guys.

SPEAKER_02 22:32

Here you have another forum to drop what you think and what you say. We value what you say too, you know. Always drop us something. In the comments section, you know, send us emails, whatever you like. Contact us, let us know what to try, you know, what you think. You know, do you disagree with what we said about a strain? Let us know. That's the the funny thing about you know trying out strains, you know. We might not all agree. Something we say is great, you might think it's terrible, or vice versa. Okay, so I'm rolling into my just finished segment, and my just finished segment basically feeling what I've been feeling all this time. There's this high, it's an indeterminate high. Feels good, you know. I feel great, feel relaxed. Um, I'm even gonna go so far to say there is a slight euphoric feeling, even though, you know, as the skip said, it might be I might be uh stretching it a little bit there. But, you know, I'm even gonna say that. Okay, I'm even gonna give it that. And that it's a slightly euphoric feeling. Now, the problem we're having here is that it is nothing as advertised, right? So, you know, we're figuring out if maybe we'll feel this later. I don't know. But that's right now it's relaxed and slightly euphoric. So I'll I'll even you they called it uplifted. So let's say uplifted, okay? Let's give them one uplifted and relaxed. That's what I'm feeling right now. Am I smacked? No. And but it's a good high, it's a fun high, and it's an indeterminate high, an unidentifiable high. Something that's just vague, right? No, no real marker, right? Excellent.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Definitely say the same. It was a decent smoke. Uh the high, yeah, no direction, but it's there, and um and it's decent, you know, especially considering you know the price point and everything else, and uh how it's readily available almost anywhere. That's also pretty cool. And let's see how it goes one hour later. One hour later, and we're back one hour later. How does it go, bro?

SPEAKER_02 25:09

Well, Skip, it was a nice high, pretty good high. Uh, didn't get to smack level, uh, but really good high. Um and it was an enjoyable high, uh chatty kind of vibe. Uh, like I said, felt it in the frontal lobe, no real body sensation. Uh, and it kind of came down a little bit, no doubt about that. But um it had remarkable staying power, like it just came down just a little bit and then held steady past the hour. Um, so I can say that it definitely did not taper too much. Now, like I said, it didn't get me smacked, but it didn't fall towards the end of the hour, which was impressive.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

What do you think, Skip? I gotta agree. I mean, it it was a decent smoke throughout, and um, and it tapered a little bit, but it held on. Yeah, I can say the same. I felt high all throughout. Of course, hitting the one-hour mark, the high is gone, but for what it was, it did what it had to do. Definitely.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Wow, it sounds like we're ready for the smack a meter, Skip.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

We're ready. Let's do it. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Definitely failing this. This is alright. This is actually all right, definitely failing this. This is alright, this is actually alright, definitely all this is good.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

And we're back with the smack emeter.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Skip, what are your final thoughts? Like I said, man, I mean, I like this. Uh, the price point is is great, uh, $25 to $30. Uh, it's not a lot, but it is enough to do what you got to do, and it got me where I needed to go. It was a bit dry, but it's not much you can be expected of at this price point, and it did pretty well. So I would have to give it a 7.2.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Okay, I think we're a little bit in sync there, Skip. As far as I go, let's do the breakdown. Um, yeah, when we opened it, it looked a little dry, and the tur profile was not very strong. So that was uh, you know, a little bit discouraging in the start, but it wasn't completely dry, it wasn't powder, it was this slight little bit of suppleness, uh, enough to like you know have actual nugs that you're breaking up when you're rolling something. Uh one another downside that started was the actual amount that was left over once we rolled our usual rolls. There was almost nothing left. So, you know, there was no, yeah, hey, let's have a second round and see how that goes. So that wasn't gonna happen. Uh, but then from there on, everything seemed to go straight up. Um, there wasn't a really serious turf profile in during the smoke, but the smoke was pleasant nonetheless. It wasn't a choker or a throat tickler, just slightly. Uh, and it was a good smoke. Uh, very indeterminate high. It wasn't something that was easily identifiable, but there was a general fogginess, a general face numbness, and it was enjoyable. Uh, it was something talkative, not something to probably be running around doing social stuff, but definitely something for post work. You know, I want to do things, but I am not going out to do things, uh, kind of vibe. And so, with all those things, I will give it my final note, which is basically very pleasant for its price point. Not gonna reach high peaks, but you'll definitely hit a nice zone where you can enjoy yourself past the hour. And with that, I give it a 7.1. So I think we're kind of in sync where we left off.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yeah, pretty good stuff, folks, for the price. Pretty good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

Yeah, you know, not perfect, but definitely something you can work on and build on. And, you know, definitely something you can use in a pinch, no doubt about it.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

And good mates, this is our review. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or just want to drop us a lifeline, log on to our YouTube page or to our comment section.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

And with that, thank you again for visiting us at Gigland Highland. See you on the next trip.