Kit Kat Tourism: Muscat of Alexandria
Something very exciting happened the other week. My friend Chris Botman went to Japan - home of the most varied and dynamic selection of Kit Kats - and he brought me back the most crazy Kit Kat he could find. While most other Kit Kat flavours have pretty generic names like Mint Chocolate or White, the flavour Chris brought back for me is a very hilarious and specific flavour of grape. Not only is it muscat grape flavoured, but it’s muscat of Alexandria flavoured. Awesome. I can only hope this the start of a new era in Kit Kat flavours - Overripe Tomato of Lexington, Wisconsin or Crunchy all Natural Peanut Butter of My Fridge, perhaps?
I once had a grape flavoured gummy candy that was coated in milk chocolate, and it was about one of the 
Best Things Ever. I was hoping for a similar taste experience with Muscat of Alexandra. Sadly, Muscat of Alexandria is just grape flavoured white chocolate (which isn’t even real chocolate anyway). The Kit Kat came in two individually wrapped packages (two standard finger sized bars in each, pictured right), snuggly packed in a larger cardboard box (pictured above). This seems to be the standard with Japanese Kit Kats (the Japanse do love their pretty yet totally unnecessary packaging), whereas the ones in Australia and Canada are just one standard bar in one wrapper.
Now, I’m not usually a fan of Kit Kats that aren’t chocolate based. I like 
my Kit Kats with milk chocolate and caramel and/or some other delicious creme filling. However, I found the grape flavour refreshing (good for a hot day, when milk chocolate is too heavy) and rather realistic in the way that Jelly Bellys taste exactly like what you’d imagine the candy version of Pear or Peanut Butter would taste. However, I can’t really say that it tastes specifically like Muscat of Alexandria, which is supposed to have a sweet (check) and earthy taste (definately not check). Yes, I know this seems ridiculous to point out (we aren’t talking about wine here), but if you’re going to make a very specific flavour like this one, don’t forget the slight earthy flavour!
So, not my cup of tea (or… box of chocolates?), but definately worth trying once. If you love grape flavoured candy, you may just fall in love.
Kit Kat Tourism: Cookies & Cream
There is nothing more exciting than going to Coles and seeing a new flavour of Kit Kat. But it also kinda sucks, because you realise your old favourites like Kit Kat Cookie Dough are never coming back. It’s sorta the fucked up appeal of Kit Kats - they’re always getting rid of flavours you like to make room for new ones that you might not. But you just have to try them all. It’s a neomaniacs dream. Especially in Japan. They have like 50 million different flavours, and weird ones too, like Fan and Black Sugar. Okay maybe not Fan, but that’s certainly what it looked like from the package. Black Sugar looked and kinda tasted like turd. Anyway, yeah, Cookies & Cream - the latest Australian Kit Kat Flavour. It’s in the chunky bar format, rather than the classic four stick style. I like the chunky better. The official description from Nestle’s Kit Kat site:
Smooth Filling with Crunchy Cookie Pieces over a Crisp Chocolate Wafer Finger Covered in Smooth Milk Chocolate.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. You can even taste the unnecessary capitalization, which is probably why I found it overwhelmingly creamy, and not in a good way. It’s supposed to be milk chocolate, but the abundance of creamy filling (which I think is supposed to have something to do with Oreos) makes it taste like white chocolate. And I hate white chocolate. It’s not even chocolate, anyway. Overall, Cookies & Cream is okay, but it’s more like a failure version of my all time favourite, Cookie Dough, which had delicious caramel to temper the creaminess, and just the right amount of salt. But that said, it’s still heaps better than Mint or Black Sugar. Worth trying, but probably not destined to be your favourite.
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