Kit Kat: coffee
If you’ve been abroad, you know Kit Kat spinoffs are old news. But as cybele detailed in a recent posting, international Kit Kats = Nestle. US = Hershey. (A company that, for a long time, resisted change; no more.) If you’ve been abroad, you also know there’ve been café latte and cappuccino kit kats in japan, yearned for by coffee fiends. So: yay for the new limited edition coffee Kit Kat which has a great coffee flavor btw now available here in the USA
posted by TG @ 12:10 PM
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34 Comments:
superT, on outer aisle w/ the vintage candy, after much scouring up and down, wading thru new halloween merch etc.
Those sound really, really good, but also very fattening, right?
I keep my kit kats in a very secret place. Then I make katie try and find them. They almost fell out on the Oprah show.
You can't be scouring up and down for too long. I've seen these at conveneince stores. Not the big deal you make them out to be, IMHO.
Having grown up in Canada, I still miss the good old originals from Nestle!
And Tom, People reported that when you were jumping up and down on Ms O's show, what looked like a single Kit Kat finger was dangling from your Calvins... better watch that risky business now that you're engaged again...
it is hard to believe, but those kit kats are about the same age as me! some things -- and people -- just age well.
kit kats aren't something i would jump out of a plane for
not something i would even go to super-t or 7-eleven for
May I propose that TG do a comparative tasting between Kit Kat Coffee and Coffee Crisp? Last I checked, Coffee Crisps were available at Central Market in Plano. In my opinion, they are the sine qua non of this genre. And they taste damned good, too!
kirk, i like coffee crisp, too - i have a couple bought (along w/ special mocha and maple editions) on ebay - risky but the seller was A+.
since you've had both, you know that, overall, coffee crisp's ratio is big on wafer and small on choc, while kit kat is more choc than wafer
as to the flavor, i get a generic sweet coffee flavor from the coffee crisp, versus a more intense coffee flavor from the KK coffee. and w/ the KK, the coffee lingers for a fair spell after you've finished eating it.
were i to put it in starbucks terms: if coffee crisp = "regular coffee", kit kat = "espresso"?
emmmjay: i went to that republicans abroad web site. it claimed that bush carried florida in 2000!!! i wouldn't trust any info from a site that believes that!
I wasn't going to say anything about that gross Republican website. But I'm glad Red Ennk brought it upu. I believe in freedom of speech but I wouldn't complain if someone deleted that comment. It is so pathetic. Why must people be so petty and insecure.
Teresa - Miss you more than ever at the Dallas Morning News. Dotty just reported yet another restaurant closed (and the building demolished, for an interesting little twist!) that is not only still standing but open for regular business. Why does she still have a job? Pix of Robert Decherd w/a donkey or some such?
May I ask Kirk, what exactly is a Coffee Crisp? I assume some kind of candy bar? I've never seen it. (And TG's "scientific" explanation of wafers and ratios didn't help much. No offense, TG!)
Peanut Gallery:
Coffee Crisp is one of Canada's contributions to confectionery chaos -- along with an easy source of alliteration.
And TG's description/comparison is very accurate. Its taste reminds me of a very sweet cafe mocha (not of the Sbux variety, but with chocolate in it).
If you are interested in more information, including the rather sad idea of a petition to have it more widely distributed in the U.S., you can find it here:
http://coffeecrisp.org/
Chocolate and coffee . . . so passe!
I don't know what a coffee crisp is, but I do know what a Toffee Crisp is. They had a really neat TV ad about a seance and the psychic asks "is anybody there?" and down from the light comes a Toffee Crisp!
I hope your chosen career isn't advertising, Dean.
Or food writing.
m.b.: your comment doesn't make it clear, but i certainly hope it is me that you are calling petty and insecure. i may disagree with emmmjay politically, but you can tell those adjectives don't apply to her. didn't she try to soften her reference to "fair and unbiased reporting" by adding another comment that she loves kitkats? i think your comment, whomever it was directed at, was anti free speech.
anonymous: missed the closed restaurant mention. what place was it?
Jess, the restaurant that Dotty said was closed and demolished is Urbano in Uptown. It's still there. Had lunch there today.
i support free speech, even if it pains me to have anything republican on NYCE. even if it says something not-so-nice about someone else. even if it's not accurate since the comments section is just a place to post comments. (i do always try to make sure my blog items are factually correct, becuz i'm deluded enough to think that i'm actually reporting things here.) i think one of the things that makes this comments section so much fun is that people do say whatever. i myself have posted comments that i later regretted but it's all part of the little dialogue, and i'm glad that everyone keeps posting comments (no matter HOW MANY people they're offending!)
as for dotty's reporting on urbano, i did not see her original item, so i can't speak to what it said. but to work at the DMN is a hell of its own, and i can't imagine anyone truly STRIVING to remain there, with or without decherd pix
it kills me that i didn't get to post my item today. i did have one but i JUST finished my deadline story and it seems silly to post now. sigh
now you've done it emmmjay. don't you know misspelling a name is considered a cardinal sin in journalism? however, since you caught it yourself,i'll let it slide this time
Yeah but it's okay, TG said mistakes are ok in teh comments section!! haha
YOU PEOPLE BETTER STRIVE TO BE OFFENDED, OR YOU'LL FORCE ME TO GET NASTY.
fyi: the times has an article on iceland cuisine today. fermented shark, yum! we can hope greenland is coming soon.
Polar:
What are some of the highlights of Greenland's cuisine?
kirk: there are a lot of danish influences as well as the inuit. protein foods include caribou, seal, whales, musk, ox and seafood.
You can get Coffee Crisp HERE... at CM??!!
AWESOME... I just finished my stash from last Christmas in July. They go great right out of the fridge with a cold glass of milk!
There most memorable ad line from my childhood was "How do you like your coffee?"
"Crisp"
Thanks for the tip!
BK's blog:
As of 7:30 tonight, CM Plano had Coffee Crisps. They were in a recognizable yellow box near the check-out island on aisle 10. Price: 99 cents. Cheaper than a trip to TO, but nowhere near as enjoyable, IMHO.
P.S. What part of Canada did you grow up in?
I tried the coffee KitKat. Fantastic.
Kirk... thx for the Coffee Crisp heads-up! Since I work in north Dallas I'll head there at lunch today.
Grew up in Calgary and Edmonton.
I'm good at advertising, Kirk. And food writing:)
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