This past Sunday, I found myself happily eating a large
stack of chocolate chip pancakes, surrounded by good friends, while celebrating
a very special 34th birthday. Life was good and my biggest problem
was trying to stand up and get out of the booth with such a full belly. It only
made sense that immediately after we walked over to the Asian market to peruse
the candy isle. Apparently, being a 10 out of 10 on the full scale is not
enough to stop a grown woman from barely making it out of the market before
opening up her newly purchased candy and shoving it in her mouth. On the
weekends, I don’t raise the self control bar all that high. Anyway, I digress.
Over the past couple of years I have heard a few people talk
about Green Tea Kit Kats and I have always been curious. Within the last six
months I’ve tried green tea ice cream and green tea Chobani Greek Yogurt, and
while I have found them both to be unusual, the taste has always been pleasant.
I’ve never been a “Kit Kat” girl per se, but I most certainly wouldn’t be upset
to find one in my hand. Sunday, opportunity knocked and I was eager as ever to
answer the door.
There’s a lot that I like about the packaging. It’s flashy
and I can’t read even half of it. The bag was lighter than it looked and for
$7, I felt as though I paid a premium. These Kit Kats won’t be a frequent
occurrence in my possession unless I win the lottery or start working for
Nestle. In the United States, Hershey makes Kit Kat, but all signs of this
packaging lead me to believe that in Japan, that’s Nestle’s job.
Each small package contains 66 calories and the serving size
is two packages. There are 12 packages total in the bag. I liked that you were “allowed”
to eat two of them without any incidental guilt. Unlike normal, where you
unwrap the candy and you’re supposed to save it for eight other occasions, just
in one sitting you get to unwrap two of these!
To be frank, I had NO idea what to expect here. These Kit
Kats are great, so great in fact I would pay another $7 for a bag. The most
prominent taste for me is white chocolate and a decent white chocolate at that.
My palette couldn’t detect the green tea, but nearly everyone else could. Nestle
described the candy as having “a sweet maccha flavor mixed with a creamy white
chocolate on a crispy wafer that Nestle has perfected.” The wafer tastes
exactly the same as in the original Kit Kat. These flavors work really well
together and there’s something about the white chocolate that seemed Easter
appropriate. Hopefully the Japanese Easter Bunny will find me this year and
treat me right with these.
Sometimes I wonder why I’m the one writing for the food blog
since everyone can always taste the faint traces of the things I can’t. Then I
stop questioning it because I have already eaten more junk in 2015 writing this
blog than I probably have in 2013 and 2014 combined. Here’s to making up for
lost time.
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