Hershey’s Kit Kat

America has a habit of messing about with instituionalised systems for no reason. From the English language, to the metric system, and now Kit Kats, they like to do things entirely different to the rest of the world to suit their over inflated ego and…boy did I go off on one there. This is an American Kit Kat, hence made by Hershey, and not Nestlé.

I had a Christmas edition but I doubt it makes a difference except for the pattern etched into the Kit Kat. They had “3 cool designs”, whatever they mean by cool. Let’s see, crisp wafers in milk chocolate, the same sort of wrapper, it seems like a regular Kit Kat from the looks of things. Ingredients – Sugar, Wheat Flour, Nonfat Milk, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate. Lordy lord, why is chocolate so far down the list? I hate Hershey so much…

Open it up and it’s almost a regular Kit Kat. I’m sure that when it’s not a Christmas edition it’d be normal. Mine though was divided into two rather than four, with each pair of sticks culminating in one big stick at the bottom. Hard to explain I know, nevermind, forget I even mentioned it!

And there is a definite difference in the taste. What is the difference you ask? There isn’t much to a Kit Kat is there, it’s just wafer and chocolate…wait, chocolate, that’s it! Yeah, the chocolate here just plain sucks. Am I surprised? No. Are you surprised? Probably not. I mean, it tastes like chocolate, but it’s ever so slightly off, and it’s because it’s bad quality, basically. It has no creaminess to it, no milky flavour, it’s just chocolate with too much sugar.

I’m disappointed, but not surprised. It didn’t taste bad, just not as good as a regular Nestlé Kit Kat. Those guys know how to do it right. Hershey should take their greedy hands off the Kit Kat and let Nestlé sort it out, for your sakes.

Each bar has 210 calories (100 from fat), 3g Protein, 28g Carbohydrates (22g of which sugars) and 11g Fat (7g of which saturates).