Whoa! How’s things? Been up to much lately? Just staying
in the house mostly yeah? Cool, cool.
There’s still a bit of a bug going around apparently, and
2021 isn’t turning out to be the partyfest we all seemed to think it’d be. We’re all looking for something a bit different aren’t we? Something to break
the monotony.
So, I got myself on that internet we’ve all been hearing
about so much, and ordered myself the most novelty thing I could find. But how
different am I willing to go? Sweet Potato Kit Kat different? Well, probably not
if we’re being honest, but in the end, as always, there’s only one way to find
out…
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| See? I'm not as high as you think, they do exist. |
Taste
The packaging suggests we're looking at a Japanese product, so
maybe they just like sweet potato a lot in Japan, but if you ask, me these are just straight
up bad tasting (Sorry Japan!).
I mean, imagine a chocolate bar that tastes of sweet potato.
It’s not a good idea is it? Why? Because obviously it’s not, that's why. Why would anyone thing it
might be? Who made these?
It’s not that someone came up with this idea that astounds
me, it’s that enough people agreed with that idea to make it actually happen.
Can you imagine that? Mad.
Maybe it says more about me that I had to purchase the
product and taste it myself, rather than intuitively knowing it like any normal
person. We all have our flaws don’t we? But if I don’t go on and on about your big
old bug eyes, maybe you can shut up about this for a bit yeah?
Texture
If you can get past the fact that this is a chocolate bar
that tastes of sweet potato, then I guess it’s Ok.
They have maintained the basic texture that has served Kit Kats
so well over the years, and well done to them for that. It would have been a
shame to add an off putting texture to a taste that’s basically a crime against
nature.
Packaging
Soo-Perb.
Absolutely classic novelty packaging. Kit Kat logo
front and centre, right next to a big fat sweet potato.
If you’re not sucked in by it, you’re reading the wrong blog
buddy, because I would absolutely marry this in a heartbeat if that was the
sort of thing that’s allowed post pandemic (fingers crossed).
The Beautiful Japanese writing only makes the whole thing
better.
I want to wear this packing it looks so good, and if I did, I would easily be the world’s most stylish man.
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| Art- Pure and Ssimple. |
Marketing
Well, here’s the thing- once I ordered from the website, there was a suspicious amount of advertising trying to get me to order
again.
Funny that isn’t it? I haven’t seen an advert for these in
my life, I click on one link, and suddenly I’m seeing 2-3 adverts
every day.
Maybe this internet malarky isn’t as innocent as it’d have
you believe.
Novelty Factor
It can’t be beat here can it? I mean this sounds like the kind
of novelty food you’d make up, and then dismiss for being too novelty.
‘No! That’s too novelty!’ is what they’d say. And they might
be right.
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| No Amount of mundane framing will lessen the sheer world shaking novelty of this product. |
Final Scores
Texture- 7/10
Packaging- 9.5/10
Marketing- 3/10
Novelty Factor- 10/10
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