And since the Roasted Sweet Potato Kit Kat was surprisingly good I had pretty high hopes for the Corn Kit Kat. Corn is sweet. It's delicious. Thus it should be good as a Kit Kat. I would be very very wrong.
I got this box of Kit Kats as omiyage from my Japanese friend Marie (mah-ree-ay) who bought it in Hokkaido. It's another mailer box that came with 5 Kit Kat minis and let me say that that was four Kit Kats too many. Each one is 68 calories. They are white chocolate but colored a nice buttery yellow color. They smell very nice - a mix of white chocolate and sweet corn.
But as nice as they smell, they taste horrible. I gagged on the first bite. It was all I could do to finish one mini. Normally, I eat at least two when I'm writing a review but the thought of eating another one was unthinkable. It tasted exactly like buttered corn. There's even a hint of salt at the end. And while that sounds good when I'm thinking of summer barbecues it is not good when I'm thinking of chocolate. The texture was all wrong. My brain tasted buttered corn and expected crunchy goodness and instead it got creamy chocolate with wafers. In this instance, Nestle went too literal with the taste, way way too literal. I think a milk chocolate bar with a hint of sweet corn might actually taste good but the Corn Kit Kat went too far. I cannot recommend this Kit Kat to anyone and now I have four Kit Kats sitting in my kitchen that I will NOT be eating.
Final Score: 2
Final Score: 2
Surprised you didn't like these. Would it be the white chocolate perhaps? I had the milk chocolate version last year and my husband and I really liked it.
ReplyDeleteWhat you're describing the taste is like a corn cream stew. Would that be a good approximation?
That's a pretty good approximation. It reminded me of the creamed corn my grandma makes. I thought maybe a milk chocolate version would be much better and it sounds like that's true. Where did you get a milk chocolate corn Kit Kat?
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA, I can imagine your facial expression. Was it as bad as Rose or worse?
ReplyDeleteWorse I think. With the rose I was kind of confused and chewed on it a bit before deciding that it tasted like soap. This made me want to spit it out. I could hardly get through one. Truly awful.
ReplyDeleteI had a similar KitKat a year or so ago, and it tasted like butter. Bad, bad, bad.
ReplyDeleteI would love to try these corn kit-kats. I was wondering, if you still have them around, if you could send them to me?
ReplyDeleteMy e-mail address is nmorris@sfu.ca and I live in Vancouver BC.
Anonymous - sorry but any leftover Kit Kats I have are sent to the friend who inspired this blog. If you want to try anything you see here then I suggest checking out www.napajapan.com or www.jlist.com.
ReplyDeletethey taste like frosted flakes.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds exactly like Jelly Belly's popcorn jelly bean. Have you tried them? The brain knows the flavor of buttery popcorn, but the mouth feel is chewy and overly sweet, haha.
ReplyDeleteFor me, I kind of like the flavor. The corn kit kat sounds so interesting.
This was a llovely blog post
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