Category: Product Review

The Blind Taste Test

We did a Blind Taste Test involving a series of unfamiliar, or downright bizarre foodstuffs – and we got it all on camera.

The menu on offer (in no particular order)

  • T&T Pineapple Cake
  • Egg tarts
  • Niongshan Onion Rings
  • Ube Stick-O’s
  • Jalapeno cornbread
  • S’mores Poptarts
  • Peanut butter on orange slices
  • Tabasco-sauce blackberries
  • Pan-fried spam on Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream
  • Served with: various kinds of alcohol

What’s your favourite offering on the menu? Let us know in the comments below!

Review: Ruby Kit Kat

“Ruby” chocolate is the fourth kind of chocolate, but what is it and is it any good?

Japanese packaging for a Ruby Kit Kat.
Credit: Nestlé Japan

In 2018, Nestlé released a pink-coloured Kit Kat in Japan, a country filled with special, one-of-a-kind Kit Kat varieties such as green tea, sweet potato, banana, and sake. What made this specific release stand out was that the chocolate is naturally pink. This innovative foodstuff has been called the “fourth kind of chocolate.” (It also cost 400 yen per stick, about $3.60 USD at the time.)

Canadian packaging for a Ruby Kit Kat.
Credit: Nestlé Canada

A year later, in 2019, Nestlé Canada released the Ruby Kit Kat. The rose-tinted packaging boasts these special beans and having ‘no added colour’ which is important when talking about a pink-coloured chocolate bar. Canada is already host to a bevy of different chocolates, even beyond Kit Kat’s impressive domestic portfolio, but this was the first pink chocolate bar to be commercially-available. To understand the difference, one should look at the origin of the cocoa bean itself.

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