A SEVILLE-Y NASTY CHOCOLATE BAR (Kit Kat Editions - Seville Orange)

Member Name: stuleg

Product:	Kit Kat Editions - Seville Orange
Date:	11/11/05 (183 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None at all

Disadvantages: Taste, look, smell, price

You know, I have sat quietly by and watched as bastion after bastion of my life has been tampered with or bastardised. And no more so than in the food sector has this been apparent where I have had to accept the fact that Marathons are now to be called Snickers and Opal Fruits are to be forever known as Starbursts.

I grinned and bared it as Maltesers were produced in a vile white chocolate version and KitKats took on a steroid type look by going chunky, but now I’m going to stand up and shout “thus far and no further, stop tampering with perfectly good confectionary products!”

Why have I finally decided to break my silence you ask? Well it’s simple really, I have before me one of the most disagreeable and loathsome spawns of a household name in chocolate, it is called KitKat editions Seville orange and is without doubt the most vile piece of crapulence I have had in my mouth for a very long time.

It looks innocent enough! A pastel orange wrapper with the Kit-Kat logo and some sun ripened Seville oranges adorning it, while the back is given over to ingredient, nutritional and consumer information with the 45gram bar notching up a fairly low 227 calories but with nearly a quarter of the bar being made up of fat this is not a bar to entertain if healthy eating is your bag.

17% of the bars weight is made up of “tangy orange flavoured filling” and an alarming number of artificial ingredients including colours and flavours are listed, oh dear! Finally, an address and free-phone number are given should the product fail to satisfy! I`d keep that part of the wrapper if I were you.

Opening the wrapper releases a glorious chocolate scent with the merest hint of an orange undertone; the bar is similar in size and appearance to a chunky Kit-Kat although only about ⅔ of the size. Biting into the bar brings a moment of pleasure as the chocolate greets the taste buds but then the enjoyment ends. A noxious tasting liquid dribbles from the bar and assault the senses, it is supposed to be the Seville orange filling but it actually tastes like liquefied ear wax to me.

It is sour, sickly and actually makes my nose wrinkle while I am eating it, as I swallow it I am left with a sore throat and a chemically aftertaste on my palette. I cannot believe that anyone could actually enjoy eating this and why Nestle have seen fit to ruin the image of the humble Kit-Kat is a complete mystery to me. This really is the worst bar of chocolate I have ever tasted and I am still angry that I wasted 34 new pence on it.

Fair to say then that I’m not going to recommend this thoroughly nasty chocolate bar, I’m just sad that I have to give it one star as this is far more than this product deserves – a no star waste of time if ever I tasted one. For god sake food manufacturers stop trying to invent unwarranted spin offs of old favourites and spend your time and effort on producing those products that we actually know and love. Avoid at all costs!

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Summary: Avoid at all costs!