NYCE has been taking a sabbatical from kit kats. furthermore, this ltd-edition Mocha Kit Kat is not revolutionary. I mean, they came out with a not-dissimilar cappuccino flavor last year. But this merits mention for 3 reasons
1. A pic had been taken (see left). hate to waste a pic
2. It actually tastes pretty good. not too sweet. better than the capp
3. It provides the opportunity to write about a much more-interesting flavor which unfortunately is not available in the US: a PUMPKIN kit kat released in japan. Which sounds great but, the japan thing, weird; isn’t Halloween like an American holiday?

To complain that Kit Kat’s releasing too many ltd editions is to bite the hand that feeds me, since new prods are the very lifeblood & all that. Any other wk (or any other new Kit Kat) and I’d wait a few days to avoid the disaster of having TWO kit kats in ONE wk. But we are ramping-up to val day - which means that the Ltd Ed Valentine Mini CHERRY Kit Kat will be avail barely a wk. Also, there’s been such limited sighting of this* that it’s practically a NYCE exclusive. But 2 notes: 1. Hershey seems increasingly addicted to the whole ltd ed thing (creating a sense of fatigue, no?) 2. they’re def on some kind of cherry kick, aka it seems 2B no coincidence that this comes right after the Xmas cherry-filled Hersheys kiss

*shout-out to stacy for spotting

Continuing the theme of Ltd-Ed Items That Only A Few People’ll Care About (and yet, care about passionately), here’s Kit Kat Milkshake, the newest and ostensibly coolest flavor ever … for malt fans, that is, since “milkshake” seems to imply = “malt“, yes? And when you eat it, you maybe do get a malty impression (tho one could also describe the taste as “dusty”). However, bait & switch alert, cuz there IS NO malt. There is sugar, milk, cocoa butter, wheat flour (?), & refined palm kernel oil (ick). There is yeast. But no malt

They’re calling this Kit Kat extra crispy but honey it ain’t all that extra crispy. More crisp, yes maybe, but extra choc too. To put it scientifically, the wafer:choc ratio doesn’t differ much from regular KK. It’s one big oversized stick instedda the 4-plex you get w/ a regular KK. Formerly a ltd edition (and was it not called “extra thick” back then?), this so-called extra crispy got promoted to permanent status. Methinks better candidates mighta been KK mint or KK coffee; but the biggest disappointment, Kit-Kat-wise, is the fact that it contains a big dose of evil palm kernel oil, highly saturated-&-bad-4-U.

a NYCE exclusive! no applause necessary. really. stop. i mean it.

Hot-hot-hot Kit-Kat spinoff alert! CVS has ‘em NOW: orange & crème Kit Kats. It’s a limited edition with an orangey cream coating (which ech consists mostly of artery-clogging palm kernel oil, but let’s not bogue our new-kit-kat-spinoff high, shall we). Orange Kit Kats are old news in Europe, but theirs is more sophisticated, w/ la-dee-da Seville and/or blood orange fillings. Guess they hadda dumb it down for Americans (outsida the U.S., Kit Kat=Nestle; but here it’s Hershey. weird, eh). The Kit Kat Thing is off the hook: wild spinoffs we can’t get and a Kit-Kat cult seen on candy blogs everywhere. In the U.S.: we briefly got mint Kit Kats last Xmas; a limited-edition triple choc came out in January (never saw that, tsk); and white choc graduated from limited-> year-round product. so much to say about Kit Kat!