Kit Kat Caramel

I still say it's a shame that the KitKats made for our Japanese friends come in so many different flavors, and yet the KitKats made for the U.S. are so boring. We don't get special addition flavors. OK, sometimes the portions are different or they will have seasonal imprints on them, but that's about it. I am sure the root cause boils down to the manufacturer. KitKats made for the U.S. are made by Hershey, whereas the rest of the worlds supply is made by Nestlé. Whatever the reason, Hershey isn't big on special editions (with the exception of the Kisses line, which does have frequent variants). What I am getting at is that while the U.S. versions are good, they are not quite worth reciting French poetry to.



This Kit Kat Caramel bar has actually been out for several years. I have just never gotten around to trying one. The bar is in the same format as the KitKat Extra Crispy bar -- rather then being four fingers with a few layers of wafers, this bar is one solid finger about the length of an average candy bar, and has several more layers. The Extra Crispy bar is my favorite U.S. version. The flavor is the same, but the texture is really dense and gives you the sense that you are actually sinking your teeth into something. If you had to keep eating the same candy bar over and over and over again, there are certainly worse ones to be stuck with.



The KitKat Caramel has a puddle of caramel that lies on a slab of chocolate above the wafers. Because they have made room for the caramel, this bar has a slightly smaller wafer layer than the normal Extra Crispy bar.

The chocolate is standard issue Hershey's milk chocolate. A little grainy, a little too sweet, but cool on the tongue.

The wafers are crispy, very sweet. If you've ever had a KitKat (any version) there is just not all that much to say about it.

The caramel: I wasn't expecting world class caramel, and I didn't get it. The overwhelming flavor of this caramel is salt. Normally I would call that a good thing, but in this case it was just a little too much. There is also a buttery thing going on. I didn't like that either. It wasn't like I was eating real caramel, but something that was flavored to taste like caramel. The texture was pretty liquid -- that part I liked.

As you can guess, this bar did not exactly get me excited enough to make chipmunk noises.



I want to eat this bar again about as much as you want to read this review for a third day in a row. I do thank you guys for hanging in there and letting me be a smart ass and do my little homage to the movie "Groundhog Day." (Much like the movie, the repeat of the review was similar to the first one but not exactly the same.)





PURCHASED FROM:
Albertsons Supermarket