Oranges Aren't The Only Fruit (Kit Kat Editions - Seville Orange)

Member Name: utero

Product:	Kit Kat Editions - Seville Orange
Date:	31/10/05 (247 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It was cheap

Disadvantages: Nasty sour taste, too chunky

Throughout the years the humble Kit-Kat had graced the cool box of our fridge at home. It’s simple combination of wafer and chocolate in a two or four finger combo would often be the staple of Sunday night teatime. Sometimes you would feel like Charlie finding a golden ticket when you’d get a kit-kat that was wafer less and just chocolate. I used to say that nestle should produce a Kit-Kat that was purely chocolate, I now realize that was an incredibly stupid idea as it would just be a chocolate bar.

But fear not, Nestle have tried to spice up the Kit-Kat range. The Kit-Kat editions are chunky luxury versions; they’re a bit like the upper classes. Now normally I wouldn’t buy a Kit-Kat from a shop for my quick chocolate fix. But one time I was filling up with petrol at the local Sainsburys, these Seville orange bars were reduced to clear at only 19p. It would have been rude not to buy one, even if it was just to see what they were like.

After one bite I can now see why they were reduced in price. This was simply one of the worst tasting chocolate bars I’ve had in over twenty years of being on this planet. For starters the chunkiness of the bar is pretty tough to bite into. Beyond the chocolate layer you are then greeted with a biting, sour taste of oranges. I can only compare to the taste to licking the worktop in a school chemistry lab after someone spilt some of the chemicals they were messing around with. Only the wafer could save the experience but it was too thin to overcome the orange goo. I see the notes under this category call the orange a jaffa cake style substance. It’s more like thin goo and tastes nothing like jaffa cakes.

This experience has put me off trying any of the other Kit-Kat editions available on the shelves. They are pretty pricey at £1.25 for three; you’re better off with a Snickers bar or maybe a nice double Decker. Health wise they’re not the best either with a sizeable amount of calories and fat. If you have to take the plunge then best do it as a last resort treat.

Should you require any more information on the history of the bar and it’s various incarnations then point your browser in this direction.

http://www.nestle.co.uk/

It’s got far more than you probably need to know as well as facts you can bore people with in the pub such as this gem.

Launched in 1935 as Chocolate Crisp, Kit Kat was supposedly named after the Kit Kat Club, an 18th century Whig literary club. As the building had very low ceilings, it could accommodate only paintings that were wide but not too high. In the art world, such paintings became known as “kit kats”. It is therefore conceivable that the Kit Kat derived its name from paintings, which had to be snapped off to fit into low ceilinged rooms.

So in closing. Kit-Kat is good, but with Seville Oranges it is bad, very very bad.

Summary: A rancid tasting new kit-kat which defies the word luxury