The truth about KitKats

[magid]

Thanks to Scholargipsy, I now know that pumpkin Kitkats are hazardous unimportable food items, which is why one cannot send them from Japan to the U.S.

Makes me wonder what's in the local KitKats...

And what are "milkshake" flavor KitKats supposed to taste like?

Comments

[cutieperson]

strange. pheromone didn't have a problem bringing me back weird flavored KitKats when she went over there...

[magid.livejournal.com]

And I haven't had a problem shipping candy overseas, either. It's just weird.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

According to　my boss, the Japanese post office is remarkably inconsistent about these sorts of things -- if I sent the package again, it might well not raise any eyebrows. Possibly the problem was that I declared the contents truthfully on the outside, or maybe the package was simply singled out for close investigation, or made into an example of the stringency of export controls, or something else I can't even guess at.

[magid.livejournal.com]

So there's plenty of scope for speculation, anyway, the little stories of the might-have-beens.

(I bet they didn't refund you however much the postage was, either.)

[cutieperson]

according to Wikipedia, "Kit Kat MilkShake — US limited edition — extra creamy malt milk chocolate coating".

i... want to collect them all. except mint, which is gross, and all the ones with passionfruit, as i am allergic.

also, it looks like JBox will sell you the pumpkin ones...

[magid.livejournal.com]

I had orange KitKats from England, which I very much liked.

I didn't know you don't like mint!
Nor that you're allergic to passionfruit. If you're going to be allergic to something, at least it's something that's very avoidable.

Thanks for the link. The strawberry and nut ones look like they'd have lots of fake strawberry scent/flavoring, like those nasty strawberry Kisses Hershey's tried a while back.

[cutieperson]

i like mint in things like mojitos or in lamb dishes and such. but the whole chocolate-mint combo thing makes me gag.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Ew.

I had a French Toast milkshake the other day. (Shared with someone with a more adventuresome attitude towards oddly flavored shakes, and also with more of a desire for a shake, period.) It was just a milkshake flavored with nutmeg and perhaps cinnamon and vanilla. Pretty tasty, and no actual toast blended in there that I could tell.

[magid.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a nice milkshake.

I recently read a recipe (where, I don't remember, but paper, not online) for cinnamon toast ice cream, which included both little bits of toast and toast crumbs, so I don't know that I would've been adventurous enough to try the milkshake... Though the way it was written up, the ice cream sounded pretty good.