My new supervisor James has also been there, and knew to put in a request to bring back some treats for us worker bees. They brought back some funky-looking Kit-Kat candy bars! They are green tea flavored, check it out!!
I took photos of the box, the Japanese writing, and the packaging, before pigging out on them:
The Kit-Kats were individually wrapped. The Japanese are all about food styling and presentation. So formal and neat! This is also supposed to properly portion your food -- i.e. you only eat one green packet at a time, and the other two will remain fresh until you open the packets and eat them. In America, none of these would be individually wrapped, and you'd eat them all in one sitting. ;-)
.....James acutally explained to us, while our eyes were bugging out over the green Kit Kat bars, that Nestle sells the Kit Kat brands in a BUNCH of different flavors.
The U.S. only knows the standard milk chocolate, and, during the upcoming Halloween season, we go out on a limb and sell white chocolate Kit Kats.
However, in Japan, did you know you can get THESE flavors, and it is considered a typically normal thing?
- Milk and red bean filling with green tea coating
- Blood orange Kit Kat
- Chestnut Kit Kat
- Pineapple
- Caramel macchiato
- Red beak soup flavored Kit Kat
- Apple
- Espresso
- Pumpkin (now this one, I'd want to try!)
- Toasted soy flour
- Muscat of Alexandria grape-flavored
- Salt & caramel
- Potato Kit Kat
- Watermelon and Salt
- Sweet Corn Kit Kat
- Apple vinegar
- Candied sweet potato
Seriously! Check out the pics I found simply by Googling, here.
Give me a break, give me a break.....break me off a piece of that Kit Kat Bar! Who'da thunk you could get some culture from junk food?! Thanks, Nestle!
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