/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13544252]

why does japan have so many kit kat flavours and we're stuck with the generic ones?
matcha kit kats are delicious

[Anonymous No.13544291]

>>13544252
Japan is incredibly boring and monotonous. They compensate via false variety. Spend 3 months on a Japanese candy subscription box if you really want to explore your weeb side, and I can almost guarantee you'll quickly realize how boring and bland it all is, despite the pretty colors.

[Anonymous No.13544797]

Because a westener won't pay up for this shit. Also matcha kitkat tastes awful.

[Anonymous No.13544805]

>>13544252
>March kit Kat
These aren't yummy.

[Anonymous No.13544837]

>>13544252

[Anonymous No.13544851]

>why does japan have so many kit kat flavours and we're stuck with the generic ones?
>matcha kit kats are delicious

[Anonymous No.13546421]

>>13544252

I really wish green tea kit kats were available at the price of normal ones. They're tasty, but they're a ripoff at the import price.

[Anonymous No.13546434]

>>13546421

They're available in canada and they are utter dogshit, get some taste

[Anonymous No.13546445]

>Kit Kat is easily the most popular chocolate brand in Japan, for the simple reason that the name sounds like 'kitto katsu', which is a common Japanese expression of good luck. As such, Kit Kat is commonly given as a gift to school children taking their exams, or anyone really who needs a little boost of luck.

[Anonymous No.13547852]

>Go to the land down under to confront the shitposters at the source
>Find out they have dark chocolate kit kats and we don't

[Anonymous No.13547962]

Huge difference between the green tea ones and the matcha ones, matcha ones are darker and way better (less sweet)

Americans generally only buy the same candy bar, can't really justify variety like that if it's not going to sell

[Anonymous No.13548381]

>>13547852
Are you US? Because we have dark chocolate kit kats.

[Anonymous No.13548393]

>>13544252
Is the most popular kind of candy in Japan.
>>13544291
>false variety
Go fuck yourself. Variety is variety. How the fuck is variety false?

[Anonymous No.13548407]

>>13546434
>>13544252
chances are if you're not japan, you might not even be eating the real matcha kitkats from japan
kitkats are created and distributed differently between the countries, so the demand for matcha probably caused the American side to try producing their own verision to keep import costs down

furthermore, there are multiple different levels of matcha kitkat
there's definitely a more bitter, flavorful verision that isn't nearly as sweet

[Anonymous No.13548423]

the sake ones are real tasty

[Anonymous No.13548436]

>>13544252
Because they're made by different companies. Nestle produces Kit Kats for Japan (and most of the world supposedly). But in the US, Hershey's got a license to run the kit Kat game

[Anonymous No.13548437]

>>13546445
that's so cute 8)

[Anonymous No.13548438]

>>13544252
I tried a bunch of those in Japan, they get boring fast. would rather eat just dark chocolate kit kats or regular milk chocolate.

[Anonymous No.13548519]

>>13548393
mmmm that yubari king flavor looks good

[Anonymous No.13548533]

>>13548519
It is my favorite by far. Runners up are wasabi, strawberry tiramisu, and lozenge.

[Anonymous No.13548629]

>>13548533
lozenge, like a cough drop?

[Anonymous No.13548635]

>>13544851
Soyjak posters should be shot.
>>13548393
False variety in a philosophical sense. Choice between a massive amount of products, but very little personal agency. I don't see his point- it's almost the same in the US.

[Anonymous No.13548640]

>>13548407
Doubtful. They would have advertised it if they were producing them for the American market.

[Anonymous No.13548651]

>>13548629
Yes. It was like a weird tingly mint flavor.

[Anonymous No.13548767]

>>13548640
like when American coke switched from cane sugar to high fructose and Mexican coke stayed the same?

There's no specific reason to think that announcing that the American kitkats are inferior would be a good advertising strategy

[Anonymous No.13549012]

Japan cares more about cute or nice looking foods over taste. Not saying it doesn't taste good, but they focus more on the look of food.

[Anonymous No.13549108]

>>13544797
>>13544805
>>13546434

>IT SUCKS BECAUSE ITS NOT SUPER SWEET LIKE THE OTHER KITKATS I WANT SWEET SWEET SWEET SWEET

fixed that for you, fatty boom booms

[Anonymous No.13549448]

>>13549108
it is just as sweet as a chocolate kit kat with none of the good chocolate flavor
it's literally just a white candy bar

also do you really think eating weeb kit kats makes you less of a fat fuck?

[Anonymous No.13549473]

>>13549448
>just as sweet as a chocolate kit kat
its not
dont confuse green tea kitkat with matcha kitkat

[Anonymous No.13549504]

Americans prefer NUTS

[Anonymous No.13549758]

>>13548393
Well, for instance if in Japan KitKat swamped the chocolate candy market so that they represented 90% of all chocolate candy, then you could legitimately say it's a false variety. Of course there are many other brands as well as vast numbers of artisanal pâtissiers and chocolatiers in Japan just like in Europe, so this isn't actually true.

[Anonymous No.13549777]

>>13544252

How are these the best apple flavored candy? How do they do it? I love the Shinsu apple ones with Red bean sandwich and purple sweet potato as my second and third fav.

[Anonymous No.13550136]

Japanese chocolate, all of it, is the fucking pits. Green tea flavored anything is fucking shite and only closet weeaboos would ever try to claim otherwise.

[Anonymous No.13550193]

>>13544252
I had great memories of matcha kitkat from my trip to japan so when I saw one in a supermarket recently I bought it. It was oversugary and nothing like my memories. I'm guessing it's not the matcha taste specifically, it's just that these candy bars are too sugary for adult consumption.

[Anonymous No.13550214]

>>13546445
Oh shit, I was looking for a charm in my next mahjong game! KitKat it is then

[Anonymous No.13550538]

>>13550193
There are various kinds of green tea and matcha KitKats, as has been stated in this thread. It's more likely you had two different ones.

[Anonymous No.13550568]

>>13548423
>sake
Pretty much at least it has a strong different taste, most of the others are very subtle / non existent with white chocolate just overpowering everything.
>>13550193
>it's just that these candy bars are too sugary for adult consumption.
Bingo

[Anonymous No.13550608]

>>13549504
thos are fuckin good

[Anonymous No.13550962]

>>13550538
Thank you anon, I wasn't aware of that.

[Anonymous No.13551508]

>>13548533
w2c print of the art that guy did on the white kitto katto

[Anonymous No.13551528]

>>13551508
No idea, but here ur is again in the anniversary box. I almost bought it, but it's just fuckin kitkats.

[Anonymous No.13551538]

>>13544252
Match a kit kats are dank

[Anonymous No.13551763]

>>13544252
KitKats are a cultural thing. They sound similar to the phrase for "good luck" so sometimes you get one when you're about to take on a test or accomplishment or something.

>>13544291
I slightly agree with you. Nearly all the chocolates taste the same, though good. Milk and matcha flavors can only go so far. Most of the candies really rely on a gimmick, but many are similar because I assume production methods are just really copy paste for most of the candy manufacturers. Dagashi was very popular after the wars so I assume most flavors just evolved from that time.

[Anonymous No.13551857]

If you don't live in flyover states the sake flavored ones are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.13551876]

>>13551528
>60+ dollarydoos

[Anonymous No.13551958]

>>13551528
is that Ube kitkats? wtf?

[Anonymous No.13551976]

>>13551958
Okinawan sweet potato; similar, but not the same as ube.

[Anonymous No.13552073]

>>13551976
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