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a Kit Kat flavor for everyone's taste!!

Posted by mister.mori, 14 November 2008 · 515 views

Adventures in Japan
Kit Kat bars are a popular treat in Japan. Here's a quick tidbit from Wikipedia:

"In recent years, Kit Kats have also become very popular in Japan, a phenomenon attributed to the coincidental similarity between the bar's name and the Japanese phrase kitto katsu, which roughly translates to "You will surely win!" This has reportedly led to parents and children buying them for school examination days as a sort of good luck charm. However, transliteration is not always in Nestlé's favour - kitto katto (where 'katto' is taken to be a katakana transliteration of the English verb 'cut') is understood to bestow Kit Kat with the less positive significance of "you will surely miss the cut". As such, gifts of a single kit-kat are a running joke for senior high school students taking the University Entrance Examinations in some areas."

Japanese people love their gourmet food...and candy is no exception (although I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as "gourmet candy"):

"It is also in Japan that Kit Kat has in recent years seen a variety of different flavours emerge, although each for a limited time. Some examples include, maple syrup, melon, vanilla bean, grape, apple, banana, caramel, kiwifruit, azuki, green tea, and cherry blossom."

A few more flavors that I've seen are mango, watermelon, and muscat. I actually tried the watermelon Kit Kat, and it was...well...it tasted like watermelon flavored Kit Kat. :rolleyes: Here's a new one I just tried today:

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VERY GOOD!! But I love cheesecake, so it was almost guaranteed that I would like it. :GGRR: There was also Blueberry Cheesecake flavor (but I didn't try it). Another thing that really surprised me was that, as you can see, they're sold as a single bar. This was first time I'd seen single Kit Kat bars (which probably also added to me feeling compelled to buy this new tasty treat).




Nice, I saw some of those flavors of Kit Kat bars. I think I tried the mango one; sweet too. <3
We have single bars here (in the U.S.). They're about twice the size of a single bar. I forget what they're called; I think it's Big Kat or something like that... on the market for about a year or so.
ah~ cheesecake, i would try. the ones that i saw imported here; muscat grape and banana, no.
lol chocobliss, i think u meant kitkat chunky? well that's wat i've had here in canada at least. but nah, it doesnt matter :drool:

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