Hi, my name is Philip. I have a fake PHD in KitKat studies, and a few months ago, Hershey in the US announced a new flavor of KitKat. I got very excited—almost as excited as I am to tell you about our sponsor! (Just kidding, I don't know sponsors; I'm just here for fun.)
So KitKat Duo is a brand by Hershey in the US here, and their newest flavor is Strawberry Dark Chocolate. This new flavor has a lot of potential, and I can tell you it looks absolutely beautiful, but the real question is: How does it taste, does it taste good, and more importantly, does it taste like strawberries and dark chocolate? Today I'm going to do something very different and very scary because I don't have anything scripted out from here on forward, and that's terrifying.
A lot of people have told me, “You should do taste test videos,” and I usually say, “That's dumb” and walk away—but for this new flavor I have decided to make an exception, and I'm going to be doing a taste test today to see if this is actually a good flavor. (That's a lie, I've already tasted them.)
This KitKat looks absolutely gorgeous: That color of red, that nice line… *SNAP* Do you hear that snap? The snap of perfection. This is supposedly strawberry and dark chocolate flavored. I am confident that Hershey, a company known mainly for its chocolate, has managed to get the right consistency and the right flavor of dark chocolate into this KitKat.
The big question in my mind is: How does a strawberry flavor taste? Today I'm not only just taste-testing this strawberry dark chocolate KitKat, I will also be comparing it to actual real strawberries dipped in dark chocolate. Shall we begin?
In order to cover all of the bases and to give Hershey the benefit of a doubt, here I will also be comparing dark chocolate KitKats with strawberry flavoring, as well as strawberry wafer cookies I didn't know existed paired with Hershey's specialty dark chocolate—the same dark chocolate I used to melt down and make these chocolate-covered strawberries. Some of you may think that this is just a stupid excuse for me to eat a lot of KitKats, eat a lot of chocolate, and have a couple strawberries—and you're right. This is.
Shall we get down to the tasting? I love how cool these look. I can smell the dark chocolate, that bitter cocoa smell, and I get a little whiff of the chemicals behind the strawberry here. They aren't as strong as this extract though. And this extract at the very beginning is very fruity, and I get a hint more strawberry in this than I do with my KitKat finger. Great, now my hands are going to smell like strawberry forever.
So I just try this now? Is this how this works? I've never done this before.
Honestly I don't find myself to be very impressed with the strawberry flavor in this KitKat. I taste chemicals—I taste a chemical that was told its whole life that it was strawberry flavored, and it grew up thinking it was strawberry flavored until it went off to college, graduated, got out into the workforce, realized that its special skill set of being strawberry flavored that it had been working towards its entire life no longer needed
Still gonna finish it. I haven't really thought this part through at all. This is an extract—this stuff is extremely concentrated. I probably don't need much of this at all, so I am bound to be overdoing it when I put a drop on here. Put one little drop… Is that enough? Do I do more than one drop? I don't know, what do the people at home want me to do?
Okay I forgot what the first one tasted like.
Man, I don't know. Maybe I should put some inside here? Drops inside the wafer, let it soak in… There's a sweeter flavor to this extract. I don't know, I think that was worse. Do not really get any strawberry flavor out of that at all. Smells good, it smells nice. I don't think I just got any, I think the rest of the KitKat overpowered it.
Next up are the wafers. I've done the work, I've pre-coated them. They're strawberry wafers covered in dark chocolate. Left them in the freezer for a couple minutes so they could cool down/settle down.
I don't know that I taste strawberry or—there definitely is strawberry cream in here. It's a lot more creamy, a lot less crunch than the KitKat. It's also not particularly good. Cheers. This is a really good idea. This KitKat—this flavoring is actually really good. I think it just needs more strawberry… or a better strawberry… or a different strawberry.
And here's the secret, the thing I haven't told people. (Well, I've told one of you. Maybe two of you.) Okay, a couple people know that for the past year—more than a year—I have been researching on and off for a video that hasn't been released yet, so stay tuned! I'm gonna edit that out, but the real reason, the real reason you're here, the real reason you're watching the part you skip to in the video right now because the thing you really want to know about is: how does this compare to this? That's right, we're down to the actual strawberry tasting part.
I keep forgetting what it tastes like. And I keep taking a bite out of it, and I keep thinking, “Why did I just take a bite out of that?” It doesn't taste good. If you like these strawberry dark chocolate KitKats, don't let me dissuade you from your enjoyment thereof. You're allowed to like that taste, you're allowed to enjoy that taste, you don't have to agree with me at all (most people don't). So take this as you will, but I am just not here for that flavor at all—the longer I eat it, the more it lingers, the more it tastes like strawberries, but that initial chemical blitz on my tongue is just not where… no….
So I saw a very interesting video recently (and I will link to it in the description maybe on a card here if I can figure out where or what that actually means) talking about how difficult it is to get flavors correct, and why flavors don't taste like other flavors. Very fun watch if you're interested in that sort of thing—but hey, I'm here for the strawberries now, you're here for the strawberries, let's do the strawberries.
I'll take this one. I forget you're not… but it has… It's stuck to the plate! Oh, it's… it has really stuck to the plate. Okay. Oh that's what a strawberry tastes like. This is really good. Are you supposed to eat the green part? Some people say you can eat the green part. These are two completely different experiences as you might expect—and as they should be, mainly because this one is a hard, crunchy chemical snack, and this is a soft, juicy chemical snack because—let's be honest, it's all chemicals. It's all chemicals. Just some are different, some better, some grew up outside and some grew up in a factory. I don't really want to eat anymore of this, I'm—I'm done. This is, this is a lot of chocolate, and a lot of fake and real strawberries.
Total ranking? Strawberry dark chocolate KitKat got a solid meh on the scale. Strawberry extract on dark chocolate KitKats definitely a “no thanks.” We're gonna put dark chocolate on these weird wafer things. I'd rank it between those last two, you know, but definitely these go on the top—and if I'm gonna be completely honest, give me the strawberries or just give me the chocolate.
Uh, don't really want these mixed… Okay that's where things stand, that's how things go. People were asking for it, I do what people—I'm just kidding, I do whatever I want. And you can do whatever you want! If you would like to, you can like and subscribe, comment on this video, tell your friends, or visit me at blue coffeepanda.com where I continue to catalog all the different flavors of KitKat that I can find.
Until next time!