# New KitKats! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199 "2003-04-22T01:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/1 "2003-04-22T01:32:50Z")
Dark chocolate and white chocolate Kitkats! And they are really freakin’ good too. They are a promotion right now, but I wouldn’t mind them sticking around for a while. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/2 "2003-04-22T02:03:55Z")
Ah, it’s a promotional thing! I’ve only seen them in a few stores (7-11, believe it or not). I’ve had em both and they’re good. 🙂 Hope the company decides to continue with them. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/3 "2003-04-22T02:10:40Z")
I saw these about a year ago, then they disappeared. They must be trying them out in different territories at different times. They were both **definitely** yummy. (There aren’t enought dark chocolate candy bars!) ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/4 "2003-04-22T02:58:58Z")
Did they ever make peanut butter Kit Kats? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/5 "2003-04-22T03:05:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Casey1505 \* > \*\*Did they ever make peanut butter Kit Kats? \*\* Not that I’m aware of, but it doesn’t sound like a bad idea! ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/6 "2003-04-22T03:05:42Z")
I saw them at school earlier last September and then about a month ago they got them by my SO. They’re very good, but are kinda melty. Which is normal for chocolate, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/7 "2003-04-22T03:25:15Z")
I first tried them last october. In fact I started a thread but I’m just no good at starting these things. The dark ones are really fun to pick apart. There’s supposed to be orange ones too but I haven’t seen them. ---
**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/8 "2003-04-22T05:39:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \* > \*\*Not that I’m aware of, but it doesn’t sound like a bad idea! \*\* NOOOOO!!! They must never add peanut butter to KitKat!! Too many good candy bars have been thoroughly ruined with the addition of peanut products. I think all companies should take a cue from Almond Snickers, and get rid of peanuts in their candy. Mmm, Reese’s Buttercups :D. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/9 "2003-04-22T09:33:01Z")
Over here, they briefly marketed Kit-Kats with fruit flavoring in the wafers. Strawberry was ok, pineapple was a miss, but the orange went rather well with the chocolate. And as for Snickers, the Espresso Snickers being sold now are yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/10 "2003-04-22T11:34:35Z")
Chunky KitKats…hmhmhmhm Sorry, you were saying? Dark and white chocolate? Very good, very good. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/11 "2003-04-22T12:29:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fern Forest \* > \*\*I first tried them last october. In fact I started a thread but I’m just no good at starting these things. The dark ones are really fun to pick apart. \*\* Sorry love, I guess I didn’t search far enough back to see if this was already covered. Out of shame and honesty I will admit I ate them to fast to even take the time to play with them and pick them apart. But the good news is I have another reason to buy two more! _Yeah, like I need another reason._ ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/12 "2003-04-22T12:38:06Z")
No reason to worry about it as even if you had seen it and saw the all of one other doper who posted to it you would have been forced to start a new thread on the topic anyway due to posting etiquette on bumping threads and the fact that the whole thing was only touched on. I just wanted to shake my fist in the general direction of doperdom and ask rhetorically “What happened?” Anyhoo the white chocolate ones were always a little to soft to take apart properly. You just never got a nice clean bite of the chocolate on the edge and always ended up nipping a little bit of cookie. So those I would say just chew up. Or you could suck it like a lollypop. In fact that’d be the best way to draw out the pleasure. The dark chocolate ones came apart quite nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Zenham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a5b964/32.png) [@Zenham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenham)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/13 "2003-04-22T13:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*And as for Snickers, the Espresso Snickers being sold now are yummy. \*\* Espresso… Snickers??? **HOT DAMN!** Wonder if these will ever make it overseas. Alas, I’d have to settle for a taste, being diabetic. _pout_ ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/14 "2003-04-23T05:47:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LtningBug \* > [BI think all companies should take a cue from Almond Snickers, \*\* Highly disappointed with these, I was. I wanted almonds; the nuts. Not slivers. As the vending machine screw turned, I envisioned a peanut snickers, only instead of the peanuts, almonds. Maybe half-almonds, suspended in that thick, toothsticky caramel. Get a plastic knife, slice off inches of chocolate caramel almond nut suffocation at my desk, at intervals throughout the afternoon. I got essentially a 3-musketeers nastyass fluff bar with almond dust on top. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/15 "2003-04-23T06:26:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LtningBug \* > \*\*I think all companies should take a cue from Almond Snickers. \*\* And rip-off a Mars bar? Whatever for? [Geezer Mode]I can remember when Mars bars had the almonds on the _top_ of the bar! Not sliced up and slurried about the middle![/GM] ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitkats/170199/16 "2003-04-23T07:09:07Z")
We just got the dark chocolate bars in today at the sandwich shop I work in. I’ll try one tomorrow and report back. -wm