Gak-a-rama with a product that never should've made it out of the 1980s (Caramac) (Kit Kat Caramac)

Member Name: worst_trip

Product:	Kit Kat Caramac
Date:	01/09/09 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Presumably another of Kit-Kat's "limited editions" so may not be on sale forever

Disadvantages: The overall taste of the Caramac - & its incorporation into an otherwise innocuous product (Kit-Kat)

Caramac Kit-Kat? It's CARAMAC Kit-Kat? Well that explains a very great deal, becasuse I thought they were selling a caramEL flavoured version of the popular snack bar when I bought one yesterday, and thus was sorely disappointed with my purchase as it contained no caramel whatsoever - just this thick layer of ghastly, sickly-sweet cheap-tasting yellowish, slightly gritty - yet at the same time strangely, almost waxy-textured - stuff. That'll be the Caramac I was eating, then.

I was swayed by advertising, I admit it. I saw a poster for this product for the first time by the side of the road yesterday. It showed what I assumed to be a caramel-flavoured Kit-Kat and that seemed to me to be a really good idea. I was expecting the new chocolate bar to contain layers of chewy caramel interspersed between the usual wafers you get in a Kit-Kat - something like a Tunnock's Caramel Log only with better, thicker, chunky chocolate. I still think that'd have been brilliant.

I saw another advert for the new Kit-Kats in Morrisons' and with a closer look, was slightly concerned seeing the product depicted in cross-section, because even on the poster the thick layer of yellow stuff that it contains (ie, the Caramac) did not look good to eat. Bought one anyway, mind you. 42p it cost, for a 'chunky' Kat-Kat style bar, which I thought was a bit on the steep side - especially after eating it, when I realized I'd completely wasted my money as I got no enjoyment whatsoever from eating this horrid abberation disguising itself as confectionery.

Caramac, for anyone lucky enough not to be familiar with the product, is sweet yellowy-coloured chocolate-textured stuff, that has a lot in common with the 'white chocolate' mice you used to be able to buy loose for 2p each in newsagents' shops. Caramac is a product out of exactly the same stable as 2p 'chocolate' mice in my book, which is to say that there's no reason for anyone who isn't a small child to eat it because it is completely rubbish. And I don't care if you ARE a drug-addict suffering from 'the munchies'; nor is Caramac consumption excusable even if you are figuratively taking a nostalgic stroll down through the memories of your 1980s youth; Caramac is not socially acceptable stuff in any sane person's book.

What the heck were Nestle thinking, putting Caramac on their Kit-Kats? What'll they bring out next? What other dreadful marriages of a so-so chocolate bar with all the left-over rejects of the processed food industry will Kit-Kat devise as their encore to this latest horror, and duly trot on sale to a gullible general public? Kit-Kats dipped in Bovril? Or smeared all over in Shippam's Meat Paste, perhaps?

The blasted chunky Caramac Kit-Kat doesn't even have those handy gradations you usually get on chunky Kit-Kats - the ones that allow you to break the chocolate bar into more easily handle-able bits. Caramac Kit-Kat all comes in just the one big, smooth, nauseating square-sided / angled log. And that just makes things even worse, if you can believe it.

Summary: An abberation in terms of popular confectionary