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: Terrace House T2019 Episode 2 – “The Tempura Incident”

Not a spoiler: Yama-chan got married!

Made the front page and all.

The cynical and sarcastic commentator/comedian Ryota Yamasato has married actress Yu Aoi. We at Yeat wish nothing but the best for the happy couple and would like to remind you that true love exists off the set of a reality show. Their relationship will last a long time, especially since Yama-chan has seen all the worst things one can do in a relationship in his four seasons of Terrace House.

It’s been reported that Yama-chan may have started his advances with a first date under the guise of offering up the promise of Terrace House gossip. The second date was offering even more Terrace House gossip. We expected nothing less of Yama-chan to play to his strengths.

(A LOT OF SPOILERS AHEAD) Onto the episode!

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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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