SCIZOPHRENIC CHOCOLATE BAR (Kit Kat Caramac)

Member Name: stuleg

Product:	Kit Kat Caramac
Date:	13/03/06 (301 review reads)
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Advantages: A nice take on a classic chocolate bar

Disadvantages: None, it ` s Chocolate!

I'm sure they do it just to annoy me! Taking a couple of perfectly good, perfectly profitable chocolate bars and combining them to produce some sort of bastardised conglomeration that is neither one thing nor the other. Listen Nestle, Cadbury et al - If I get the urge for some Kit Kat and Caramac then I will simply buy a bar of each!

You don't see other food manufacturers combining foods in this manner; I've yet to be served a pie that is one half cheese and onion and one half cherry, it's just not needed! So incensed was I when I stumbled upon the Kit Kat Caramac (henceforth to be known as KKC) that it took all of my strength and self control to pop two bars into my shopping basket and part with the 39p price needed to procure each bar for later consumption.

A little later, and I had calmed down sufficiently to examine the KKC bars at closer quarters. The red wrapper is still prominent but some golden yellow has crept on at each end and the word "Caramac" is scrawled in a jaunty font. The rear of the wrapper is given over to Nutritional, Ingredient and consumer information as is common with most food produce, with each four finger 48g bar notching up a not unreasonable 259 calories. Of more concern however is the fact that 14 of the 48g are fat! That means that over one finger of the four is pure unadulterated fat, two thirds of which are saturates!

A look at the ingredients does little to appease me either with the two most prominent being sugar and that fat. Unusually for a chocolate bar there are no warnings about the possibility of the bar containing nuts although those who have an allergy to milk and lactose are advised to steer well clear. Finally, an address is given along with a quality and trust assurance so that anyone who is less than pleased with their bar can put pen to paper.

Enough of this procrastination then, let's get the wrapper off and look at this hybrid. Tearing open the foil wrapper (what happened to the paper sheath and silver foil under wrapping?) releases a rather pleasant toffee chocolate scent. This cannot be right! This is meant to be a disgusting tasting and smelling chocolate bar! Another sniff and I have to say my mouth is salivating in anticipation, oh dear, I cannot like the KKC bar can I? The bar itself is set in the traditional Kit Kat four finger format but the big difference here is that the covering is a toffee brown colour, the scent is even more appealing close up so I delay no longer and take a hearty bite determined not to enjoy the experience at all……..

….but enjoy it I did!

The wafer of the KKC is delightfully crisp but the real boon of the bar is the Caramac coating in place of milk chocolate - it is gorgeous. A distinct toffee fudge type flavour gradually envelopes the taste buds as the coating melts in the heat of your mouth. The wafer is a delicious after thought that you find in your mouth when you finish sucking the Caramac, and it crunches well under pressure. The two constituents do work well together though as I found out with a second bite which I chewed up as a whole; the sweetness of the Caramac sits nicely with the almost savoury taste of the wafer with each part not trying to drown out the other.

Of course it is impossible to have a kit kat in your hands and not eat at least some of it by nibbling the chocolate off first, so in time honoured tradition I set about the Caramac coating with my teeth while leaving the wafer until last. The Caramac is easily dislodged and melts in the mouth easily with no wafer to hold it in shape. The wafer sans Caramac coating is still a delight to chew on and leaves you wanting more.

I do have to say though that after eating the two four finger bars I do feel a little sick, but that is no doubt more to do with my piggery than the kit kats themselves. Amazing at it may be after my early determination to dislike these bars I think I actually prefer them to original kit kats. There is something slightly decadent about them, sort of a luxurious aura masquerading in a Caramac coat. If only all chocolate bar hybrids worked as well! The full five stars from me.

Summary: If only all chocolate bar hybrids worked so well!