American Reacts to UK vs US Kit Kat
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- In this video I react to UK vs US Kit Kat. The Kit Kat bar is definitely one of my favorite chocolate bars, but I had no idea they were originally made in the UK. I'm excited to try some of the UK Kit Kat varieties as I know Brits definitely make good chocolate.
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Terry's Chocolate orange
Should of Stayed terrys
@@liamspence4334 whattt?! The name changed?!
Deffo talking about a Terry’s chocolate orange ….. but it’s not terrys it’s mine 😂
@@liamspence4334 it is still Terrys
@@AntMorris beat me to it.
They forgot to mention that we in the UK also have a chunky kit kat single
We've had chunkys for a while now in the UK.
My favourite type of KitKat.
I was just about to say that, was very confused.
He mentioned that the duo was simply 2 2/3rd chunky bars. The US probably has a chunky bar
And mint... And cookies & cream
Many years ago I worked for Chrysler in London. My American boss had 2 children that had been born in the uk. He was going back to the USA for a holiday and was looking forward to giving them their first Hershey chocolates. When he came back I asked if they’d all enjoyed it. His reply, “why did I ever like this crap? It’s actually revolting and the kids thought so too”!!
Apparently the 'vomit' taste is a result of burning the milk during the heating process, and somehow it stuck as the 'American' way to make chocolate. You can experience something similar by trying to toast Parmesan cheese in the oven. Just put some on top of bread or something, and bung it in the oven. Mm. Enjoy the smell and try not to throw up.
@@o00nemesis00o
Ahh, the sweaty sock smell.
@@o00nemesis00o No - the vomit taste is actually a result of the chemical they use in the pasteurisation process - it's the same chemical found in human bile, hence the vomit taste - seriously worth researching that yourself as it does sound so unbelievable!
Butyric Acid (as found in vomit) is used by Hershey's as a milk preservative.
@@o00nemesis00oI was told they don't use milk to make it but actually a powdered milk flavouring
The Chocolate Orange, you said your wife enjoys, is British. It was first made by the chocolate company Terry's in the early 1930s. When I was young, they were a staple at Christmas time - don't think I ever had one at any other time of the year! Unfortunately, Terry's was sold to Kraft in 2005 and the Terry's factory in York was shut down. Our beloved Chocolate Oranges are now produced in France :(
Still an essential Christmas staple though
So not British then?
Ah yes, the Terry's chocolate orange. I once concocted a plot for a story my niece was writing for school where the murder weapon was a chocolate orange in a sock.
@@anderssorenson9998 That would be a pretty mean tool actually O_O
@@stevey5151 You should probably proof read before you commit to posting as you have contradicted yourself
I give Hersheys chocolate to the grandchildren if they've been naughty.
😂
Haha I'll remember that one!
That's cruel🤣
A perfect punishment! 😆🇬🇧
That's child abuse!
The reason why it says "May contain milk" is because the factory it's produced in will be using milk but they can't 100% say there's no cross contamination between the milk and that bar. You see it with other foods too
True, how many non-nut products say "may contain nuts"
To cover themselves incase of someone allergic to a particular ingredient. Some would try to sue the manufacturer but a well placed warning or mention of that ingredient stops any case against them.
Chocolate and Orange is a classic flavour combination. What used to confuse kids in the UK was KitKat was a chocolate treat but Kit E Kat was a tinned cat food.
Chocolate Orange is always a Christmas treat ! Children get them in their stockings ....
Delicious unadultered chocolate with a slight orange flavour. Probably the ONLY sweet treat that I eat,
and then only at Christmas.
Kit e Kat is a well know cat foot in the UK !
@@marycarver1542 Paw?
We had a cat growing up that would only eat kit-e-kat. Never got it confused with kit-kats.😂😂😂
@@Justabitnosey Was his name Arthur?
Kitkat was invented by Rowntrees of York UK around 100 years ago...the reason for stopping the foil packaging is simply because food packaging rules changed, the foil could be easily torn and the food contaminated
You can still get foil/paper wrappers in multipacks IIRC, just not as bars sold singly.
@@lucyj8204 yeah because they're safe inside an outer wrapper 👍
And the other reason was that two-finger bars in vending machines suffered from condensation, which caused the wafer to swell and the chocolate to crack (and fall off all over your clothes). This doesn't happen to the foil-wrapped two-finger bars.
It also sucked when it was slightly warm and bit of foil tore off on the Kit Kat. D:
Totally agree, the foil and paper wrapping on a two finger Kit Kat is iconic.
How can you take a break otherwise?
They conditioned us to drool when you crack.🤭
KitKats in the US are made under licence by Hershey and have a distinctly different taste than KitKats made by Nestle. Hershey was forced to reformulate their recipe for the basic Hershey bar for sale in Canada because the US version couldn't compete with Dairy Milk.
I'm pretty sure that when Nestle bought out Rowntree, the originator of Kit-Kat and many other brands, they "improved" the recipe to European standards and ruined the bars. The famous Yorkie bars became unpalatable until a new generation unfamiliar with the original took over.
@@photoisca7386 they also got rid of the jokey misogynist ads for them which were always a fucking laugh. my favourite was "you got the vote be happy with that"
@@bigbrexitdad879not for girls!
@@photoisca7386 It seems this is what happened to all of the original UK confectionery (well except for Swizzels!)
Terrys chocolate oranges. They are lovely. We also have Dark chocolate and mint ones which I got recently they are nice. Also we just call these biscuits sometimes used for dunking in tea.
Terrys chocolate orange also come in white chocolate (Terry's chocolate orange snowball) and Toffee flavour (Terry's chocolate orange toffee).
The popping candy one rules 👌🏻
And it started out as a chocolate apple.... but not apple flavoured if I remember correctly.
Yep, and they are British also
You dunk chocolate orange pieces in tea !!!!!!!!!!!!! Gross !
The best Kit Kats are the ones where the machine hiccups and the wafer is missed out, so its pure choclate. As for Hersheys, the local supermarket got some Hersheys stuff in for Halloween. Its still on the shelf, price cut after price cut. In the UK we say 'One bite of a Hershey bar gives you the strength to fling the rest away and the resolution to never try one again.'
I had some chocolate from USA and Canada as a kid and I thought it was made to put kids off chocolate it was so awful tasting
When I was in school a teacher brought back some American chocolate with her from her recent holiday there and gave me some as reward for scoring the highest on a test. It was so vile that it astounded me how so many Americans can eat so much of it. I've generally found the same with other American foods I've tried too. They must have really screwed up their taste buds with all that crap they stick in all their food.
That'll be the baby sick
Chocolate from the UK is so much better than chocolate from the US.
When u make chocolate with fermented milk like the US, yeah no surprises it tastes like literal baby puke
I think so too. The only American chocolate I like are Reece's because the sugary peanut butter taste is strangely good.
Most British chocolate was made by Quaker firms, such as Fry’s, Rowntrees, Cadbury and Terrys. Until the 19th century, Quakers were not allowed to go to university, so they started firms that made useful products and chocolate became popular.
No you're not, I always eat one finger at a time. Here in the UK we also have one not mentioned here, its the kit kat zebra, yes its striped, dark and white chocolate mix.
The Kit Kat advertising in the UK was iconic - "Have a break, have a Kit Kat" - I recall the "pop star audition" one well!
Hi Steve. Hershey's isn't available in many places in the UK. Kit Kat was originally made in my home town York by Rowntree Macintosh before that company was acquired by Nestle in the 80's. Where I lived from my early 20's near the factory you could smell the chocolate in the air!
Hershey's alleged chocolate is available in just about every supermarket chain in the UK except the ones like Aldi and Lidl. It's not good chocolate, in fact it's quite repulsive to someone brought up on European chocolate.
Hersheys is only a pale imitation of CHOCOLATE! Why do Americs use so many additives etc. !
Norwich also had a rowntree factory, oh the smell 😍😋 it is something you can never forget. Such a shame when it shut down
Going to work before 6am - the smell of KitKat chocolate can be quite a strain on the stomach...
I used to work at the factory in york, I have made the chunky kitkats, that was my favourite job because it was easy.
The most interesting part was working in the polo mints department as there was a permanent cloud of mint and sugar dust in the air that tingled your eyes and your throat then you breathed in (it wasn't unpleasant)
We had to use special p.p.e. because of the cloud of mint and sugar, the factory had exploded a few times when someone had accidentally created a spark because *sugar powder is explosive!*
Terrys Chocolate Orange. Originally from the UK in York!
Terry's. Of York ,. Now that's some serious old branding 🤣. Thanks for reminding me I'm old 🤣🤣🤣👍🫂
My nana worked at Terry's
@@xDANXR2ix mine worked at rountrees..... Always loved the big boxes of broken biscuits and miss shapes 🤣🤣
@@SteveT--UK ooosh yes boxes of broken biscuits, lovely with a few cups of tea , I actually prefer them to normal store bought. I work with a few lads on the bins that worked at rountrees, was meant of been of great place to work
@@xDANXR2ix no way .... Mine said exactly the same , they loved working for them .... I've also worked on the recycling conveyer belts and done my share of road sweeping . Seems we have a lot in common 🤣🤣🤣. Maybe one day we meet and share a cup o tea and a box of broken s to remember the old times 🤣🤣🤣. Take care my friend 🫂💜👍💪
We have 2 kinds of chocolate powder in the UK that are used to make drinks - 100% Cocoa (pronounced like the "coco" part of coconut) and "drinking chocolate, which is a mix of cocoa and far too much sugar.
Terry's Chocolate Orange, Terry's was a UK chocolate company, founded in York in 1767. It became part of the Kraft Group in 1993 then Mondelez in 2012 6. It changed hands again 2016 when it was bought out by an investment
company, becoming part of the Eurazeo group along with Carambar, a French company, All Terry's products are now made in the Carambar factory in Strasbourg, France.
Lotus is a Belgian biscuit company. Biscoff is one of their products, a small biscuit flavoured with cinnamon, often given as a free accompaniment to coffee in independent coffee shops in the UK.
"Cow cow"??! I'm guessing that's what we would call Cacao (pronounced Ca-COW), which is basically cocoa but made with unroasted beans (as opposed to roasted) and fewer additives.
We do have peanut butter here, but it's generally considered a savoury thing that you might spread on toast, rather than in combination with something sweet such as chocolate. At one place I worked we had a canteen that made fresh sandwiches, and I often used to ask for a peanut butter and (hot) sausage sandwich. It had a sort of pork saté flavour to it! 😄
Thanks for your fun and interesting reactions. Never apologise for pausing whatever you are watching. Your reactions are why I watch this channel!
Exactly ... It would not be a REACTION video if he didn't pause and give his thoughs and opinions on the video shown.
Yeah but too many times gets annoying when he pauses to ramble on about every random thought that enters his head
The flavour of Kit Kat is Kit Kat. When they were first produced there were a lot of rejects or miss shapes, these were ground up and used as a filling for the wafer.
They're still made that way.
It's always been a required ingredient.
It used to be that you could tell the difference in taste, between the two-finger and four-finger, as they were made with different chocolates. The four-finger was made with 'export' chocolate, which was all cocoa butter (it's not legal to sell chocolate without all cocoa butter in some overseas markets). Thankfully, they upgraded to all the same chocolate in the late 90s, improving the old Rowntree chocolate altogether.
Peanut butter chunky kit kat was made by the gods! 😂❤
Years ago I had a kit kat which was all chocolate with no biscuit inside. Obviously this was a mistake on the production line, but it tasted great .🙂
I've had a few like that. Wonderful.
@@helenwood8482same
The staff used to take / buy bags of miss haps, like the completely chocolate kitkats.
Yes had a few of those. Wonderful treat.
Not recently though.
I had one like that but for some reason the chocolate was terrible, like the machine had malfunctioned and added rancid ingredients
If you think the UK has a lot of KitKat flavours - you should check those sold in the Japanese market! They even have a Wasabi flavour one!
M&Ms (1941) were a diect US copy of Rowntrees' Smarties (1937 - although they were a rebrand of 'niblets', which dated from 1882), after Forest Mars saw Brits eating them in the Spanish Civil War. They were originally only produced for the US military (the sugar shell stopped them melting).
Terrys chocolate orange and kitkat are both from York in the north of England. Went to school in york and the smell was fantastic!
Lotus Biscoff is an oval biscuit that has become popular and therefore they also make a spread and many recipes using Lotus Biscoff.
I've eaten a Chunky in the UK many times.
They're just not AS chunky these days.
Phnarr phnarr.
Peanut butter isn't as popular as it is the US, but it's widely available.
Agree. I love peanut butter and always have a jar in the cupboard to put on my toast a couple of times a week. But i think we recognise that it's far more popular across the pond.
@@jacquim2267 I've discovered Marmite peanut butter to - I like both but together sounds yuk, but I tried it and it's lush.
@@stevenburgess2856 my two favourites for toast. Never thought of combining them but I will try that now!
@@stevenburgess2856 My mum was putting marmite peanut butter on her toast the other morning, i gave her a weird look and just left 😂
Until recently Crunchy Nut peanut butter was available in the UK but it looks like they discontinued it -- a shame because it was amazing.
Hi Steve, I enjoy a Kit Kat but I'm a bit of a purest, only 2 or 4 finger origionals for me, non of the fancy flavours, I don't even eat the Chunky. I agree with most Brits that a Kit Kat is a biscuit snack to have preferably with a cup of Tea or Coffee and not a 'candy' (how was my American accent there?)
Terry's of York (the same city as Rowntree who invented the Kit Kat), produce the Chocolate Orange and that is a firm favourite of mine, and for all those that whimsically say "it's mine, not Terry's" .... My first name is Terry, so they are all mine. 😛
A little known fact is that "The Big Three" in the confectionary world here in the UK (Cadburys, Rowntree and Fry's, plus Terry's were all started by the followers of the Quaker religion, along with many famous businesses, Clarks shoes, Barclays and Lloyds banks, Bryant & May matches and biscuit firms Huntley & Palmers and Carrs plus many more. You may wish to read this article news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8467833.stm it will talk about Fry's Chocolate Creme, the first every bar with a filling, and still sold today. It is a dark chocolate bar filled with a spearmint centre.
Peanut butter is widely available in the UK, but as you suspected, it isn't as popular as in the USA.
17:35 - Biscoff, that's a caramlised biscuit (I guess what American would refer to as a cookie), made in Belgium and often served (individually wrapped) as a gratuity alongside a cup of coffee in car show rooms or waiting rooms. I do buy a lot of them. They have released a caramel spread and an ice cream (oh & McDonalds now have a Biscoff flavoured McFlurry!)
and it's hardly worthy of the biscoff part, just has biscoff crumble and toffee/caramel sauce... u can melt down the spread and use it as a sauce like we do at our ice cream parlor its not hard just literally warm it up and it goes liquid like
Take a break lol (its the ad)
Can i just say that im really enjoying your channel, love your enthusiasm and really like that you speak very well, clearly and concisely. Keep it up 😊
Japan has taken Kit Kat to another dimension! I haven't tried Japanese Kit Kats and to be honest, I wouldn't know where to start.
I know finding a solid chocolate Kit Kat is a rare event, but it's always a cause for celebration whenever you find one as you know you've got value for money what with the more expensive chocolate not having been bulked out by the cheapo wafer.
Some of the Japanese kit Kats are SOOO sweet it's unreal, but some very interesting flavours. I was pleasantly surprised by the green tea flavours!
Someone gave me a Japanese wasabi KitKat.
It wasn't hot, but was light green.
So just said the same my dad brings me mad ones when he comes to visit
Some of the japanese flavours are great!
I've tried a few varieties of Japanese Kit Kats and I gave some out to my friends. The amount of variants of Kit Kats are INSANE.
Soo in the UK I bought some limited edition Kitkats
There was the following:
chocolate hazelnut spread,
Salted caramel,
Salted caramel fudge
Choc fudge,
Mocha,
Milk Choc Mint,
Lotus Biscof White choc,
Lotus Biscof Milk Choc,
Caramel
Caramelised Biscuit (Winter Edition flavour)
Orange
Cookie Dough,
Honeycomb,
Gold,
Mint Choc Chip,
Zebra (Mix of dark and white choc)
I also tried Kit Kat Pops which are small balls of kit kat pieces and even the 5 finger kit kat (yep 5.).
Terry's chocolate orange is also a British developed chocolate although god knows who owns it now all our traditional chocolate companies have been taken over but still made to our recipe in the UK, Twix & Starburst are also British
Kit kats are made at nestle in York where I live. My nana worked at Terry's where they made chocolate oranges
Terry's chocolate orange. Sounds like thats the one your wife likes. P.O Box would be cool. I'd send some stuff, from the UK. =D
The reason for the may contain milk warning is because it's made in the same factory as the regular bars, similar to the may contain nuts warning.
Peanut butter is almost a staple food in most South African households. By the way, if you haven't tried a sandwich with butter, peanut butter and golden syrup you haven't lived! LOL That's a favourite memory from my childhood.
They brought out a limited edition a few years ago with coffee flavour. Delicious, but they discontinued those. I like peanut butter kit kats, and the dark chocolate ones are great. Terry's make the chocolate orange.
Well it WAS limited
When i was in the US, i tried a kitkat and it was not nice. US chocolate taste a little bit like wax to me
Don't know where it is made but I bought Kitkat in Hungary and it was not nice.
A few years ago there was a TV series in the UK that challenged top chefs to duplicate various snacks - Snackmasters. In the first episode the snack they were trying to reproduce was a KitKat. Highlights are at th-cam.com/video/yOy_TurXCOA/w-d-xo.html
chocolate is different in the UK because we use fresh milk in the ingredients. the US uses dried milk.
something to do with transportation costs of fresh milk givin the long distances in the US.
Also the milk used in US chocolate is sour
My favourite Kit Kat ad is where two women are doing the housework when they stop to hav a Kit Kat. The baby does the vacuuming, the washing up and cleans the kitchen. When the women finish their coffee break they find the house work has been done. “Have a Break Have a Kit Kat”.
The UK also has the mint version, which is very different to your mint version. The chocolate orange you mentioned is made by Terrys
The closed captions have got me giggling, they can't handle cacao. "Cow cow" :D Joe is a MONSTER, what a way of eating a KitKat! Eat it a finger at a time!
Hahaha.. so pleased you pulled him up on eating the kitkat like a savage... each finger is broken off..and I even nibble off the edges... also love it when you get a 4 finger kitkat and one of the fingers is pure chocolate where the machine didn't put a wafer in... had that a couoke times but it's rare.
You should have a PO box..
Terry's Chocolate Orange
Was never a fan of orange chocolate myself, though I've had dark chocolate with orange and it's V good.. I think it was cheaper brands or something, maybe taste developing as I get older..
Still hate Jaffa cakes tho.
These kinds of bars.. If I have time (and am alone) I tend to eat the chocolate off the outside first.. Only works when cold and it cracks off.
Minty or nutty and dark chocolate with low sugar & palm fat etc (not usually cheaper brands unfortunately :( tho there are some great mid priced ones)
tastes significantly better to me.. and isn't nearly as unhealthy.
Peanut butter (and nut butters in general) is gaining popularity. But it's not close to the US, especially in your bars(Bars of chocolate as we would say)..
Aldi & Lidl do a big (for us) tub of peanut butter thats just nuts.. nothing else added like most the jars have.. tis great and safe for dogs
(dog safe peanut butter is 10x the price and is the same stuff, 100% nut)
Saying the largest kitkat (or most calorific) is a single peanut butter chunky is just wrong.. He showed the double bar earlier too after showing only 3 size options for the UK, none of which were the chunky..
Think they are portraying the sizes poorly, Also multi-pack snack sizes are far more popular here than single bars.. You get twice as much for the price
Single bars that are generally near the checkout(till) here in Ireland have gotten silly expensive.. €1.20 for a bar of 35-40g, 7x25g multi-pack is €1.50..
Same for Crisps (chips)
Cadbury chocolate isn't what it used to be.. Not made in the same place and most production isn't even in the UK..
It's still better than Nestle.. But it's just not quite as good as it used to be
You should check out the history of Cabury and Bourneville.. They were V worker focused and morality driven..
Having worked within drug rehabilitation in the UK, there was a reason that the old tin foil kit kat was the number 1 biggest selling chocolate bar in the UK and it was not for the chocolate, but the tin foil. Since the change it lost that spot on the selling list.
That’s really interesting. I had no idea about the foil and why it was changed. I know I miss running my thumbnail down the foil to open it. Those were the days.
The way he eats that KitKat should be a crime
The 24 Pack is sold to shops (not the public which is why he couldn't find one) to then sell the bars individually.
They stopped using foil as it does not seal & gets damaged very easily.
The Chocolate Orange is 'Terry's Chocolate Orange'
The flavoured 2 finger KitKats also come in 4 extra flavours not mentioned, 'Dark Mint', 'Milk & White' (like your Duo), 'Cookies & Cream' plus new this year we have 'Salted Caramel'
Our Chunky's come in 2 extra flavours not mentioned, 'Hazelnut' & 'Salted Caramel'
'Biscoff' are small biscuits (Cookies) flavoured with Cinnamon, Butter & Caramel that you serve with coffee
We also get the Tubs of KitKat Ice Cream
As well as the 'KitKat Bunnies' & 'KitKat Santa's' we also have 'KitKat Reindeer'
I like the Kit Kat chunky the peanut butter one.
Kit Kat used to have 5 finger bars in the U.K.
That would make so much more sense. 4 bars are just slightly too small.
@@reactingtomyroots they dropped the five finger bars and made the Kit Kat smaller in an effort to reduce the sugar and calorie content the only thing that increased was the price
The chocolate in a shape of an orange is called Terry's chocolate orange. Here they come in original, white, dark and milk with popping candy!
And now Mint
Fry’s chocolate in the uk was the worlds first commercial chocolate bar.
My old Art Tutor, designed the Original KK wrapper.(true story!)
Ohh
Terry,s chocolate orange always had one of those in my Christmas stocking , tap it and unwrap it that was the advert jingle lol
takes me back to my childhood back In the 70,s
Thank God for TH-cam....such a great topic!
Kitkat wrappings have changed as they are now recyclable ♻️ at certain supermarkets. For example, I shop at an online supermarket called Ocado, and they buy back carrier bags. So I just add any food packaging that says it can be recyclable at stores to my bags and send them back. I do miss the foil though, used to make a great cat toy 😅
I'm pretty sure the tin-foil and paper wrapper were both recyclable. And you could do the advert thing with a 4-finger bar, where you score it with your finger and break it half. Miss that.
@@hikariyouk I was about to say the same thing. If anything, its easier to recycle the foil and paper wrap. I suspect it is more likely a cost thing and they use "recyclable" as an excuse.
@hikariyouk My mistake, I didn't realise the foil was. I used to recycle the paper and throw the foil in the bin! Slap wrists! Even though i miss the old way, the new way has made me think before I throw away anything now. I hadn't realised Walkers crisps packets were recyclable until I really started looking following the Kitkat change. So, it has done some good.
Kitkats are a UK product made in Yorkshire since 1935.
Love your channel Steve!
Terrys Chocolate Oranges, a very english chocolate, used to get them in xmas stocking sometimes instead of an actual orange.
Oooh a Terry's chocolate orange, yes please
Rowntree's!!
4:50 I miss that packaging too. Apparently multipacks still have that.
I also remember when it used to say Rowntree's on one 'finger', and Kit Kat on the other.
Wikipedia says Kit Kat Chunky came out in 1998, probably near the end of the year as I first remember seeing them in college.
KIT KAT is NOT candy. It's a BISCUIT !!
Kit Kats are best straight out of the fridge with a nice hot cup of tea.
TERRY'S CHOCOLATE ORANGE ! A big seller at Christmas in the UK.
Dark chocolate is supposed to be far better for you health wise. The higher % of cocoa solids the better.
Peanut butter is not as popular in the UK. I have a jar of crunchy in my cupboard but hardly ever use it.
Lotus Biscoff is a brand of biscuit, usually served with coffee in cafes, that seems to be making it's way into a lot of products in the UK lately.
I tend to avoid chocolate because for some reason it makes my throat feel all clogged up, but on the rare occasion I do get it, I'll have a chunky peanut butter KitKat or a Cadburys fruit and nut
Jacob club are yummy too! Very similar and have orange, mint, currant varieties. Wagon wheels are a childhood favourite aswell here
Kit Kat was named after the Kit Kat club in London
Terry's Chocolate orange. The chocolate orange ball that breaks into wedges... We do also have kit-kat mint and some others (can't remember exactly which). And just like you Steve, I take a stick from the bar. I couldn't just much through multiple sticks - it just doesn't sit with me haha As for peanut butter - I love the stuff. I don't like it with jam (jello) or anything else though. It's also very nutritious and very healthy. It is popular here in the U.K.
Kit Kat made in my home city , by Rowntrees long before Nestle bought them out . My dad worked there 52 years . It’s still made here in York , the chocolate City . Worlds biggest selling choc bar . Unfortunately Terrys that made the chocolate orange has closed and is made somewhere else . At its peak Rowntrees a Quaker family concern employed 14,000 people , founded in 1862 . 5 million Kit Kats made in York every day !!
We have the Kit Kat Chunky which is that larger bar after the 4 bar pack.
At work they had Kit Kats in the vending machine and they sold okay. Then they put them in the chilled vending machine and were constantly having to refill it.
Can't beat a nice kit kat ,
Good video steve you stay safe 👍
Back in the 1960,s kitkat did have 5 fingers wrapped in silver foil and a band round it. the thing you were on about is cadburys chocolate orange
Cadburys was bought out by international shareholders and now they use dried milk instead of fresh milk as they did when an independent British company and now they've have added chemical - not so good anymore
The list of weird oils in the ingredients that really shouldn't be in anyones food never used to be there and did it always stick to your mouth like glue?
@@wullaballoo2642 They reduced the size and upped the price & I noticed that after eating Cadbury's chocolate a horrible tickling sensation in my throat really unpleasant - haven't bought Cadburys since that near the buy out time.
I’ve now watched the entire video and thought that I would add to the comments. I haven’t had Kit-Kats for some time because of having become a diabetic and consequently removing most chocolate products from my diet, but I am sure that at one time you could find KK bars in other sizes including a 5 finger bar and a short lived 10 finger pack which was actually 2 of the 5 finger bars wrapped together and it was only available at Christmas time or Easter. It is possible that this size of product was only available as a trial run but as I have stopped buying the product I have no idea what changes were made or when they were implemented. My clearest memory about KK bars was of discovering that they could be purchased from a vending machine attached to the wall of my local railway station but it only held the 2 finger sized pack.
In Japan they have even more varieties
In case no-one said, that ball of chocolate orange is called "Terry's chocolate orange". Now owned by Mondelēz International, under Kraft. But I suppose it keeps it's English recipe.
USA Chocolate has a lot of Soy milk in it where as the UK milk is mainly dairy milk used which makes it taste a lot better than American chocolate. Also the American chocolate I've had is very waxy and coats the inside of the mouth UK chocolate doesn't do that nor is it waxy
Some US chocolate has no cocoa butter, only vegetable fat.
The milk in chocolate is spray dried skimmed milk powder.
In UK we used to be able to get Kit Kat Cornettos, but they were discontinued and eventually replaced with Kit Kat cones that aren't as good
The word candy in England means something savoury sweet and syrupy. It would be pouring treacle over a pudding or something. But in America candy means chocolate bars or anything similar.
the reason tge packaging changed in UK was 'apparently' complaints from small shopkeepers that junkies would buy a Kit Kat (cheap) then use the foil to 'chase the dragon'
Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard? 😂
We already have a chocolate bar in the US called Chunky. It’s that square bar with peanuts and raisins.
Dark chocolate mint are my fave KitKat's 😋 Scrumdiddlyumptious!!!
Kitkat is so iconic that from a tax point of view it is classed as food ( no tax) rather than a biscuit ( taxed)
I'm with you Steve. One stick at a time.
Exactly, I mean we aren't savages. LOL
KitKats have a cult like status in Japan and there are special editions that are released. I have only tried green tea but there’s a whole load more, only available from Japanese outlets in the UK or you can get them online. Very expensive as they come from Japan.
You may be surprised how many different confections (candy) that you have aren't originally American. Amongt others, Mars bars are originally British but you call them Milky Way, which is something different over here again. Skittles are British too and there are plenty of others.
even M&Ms are British, kind of, as they were a direct attempt to make Smarties for the US market. If you ask me, Smarties as SO MUCH nicer but I know that many people prefer M&Ms .... weirdos
Starburst were also originally sold in the UK (opal fruits) and a few years later introduced in the US as M&M fruit chewies.
Mars was an American firm.
@@Joanna-il2ur Mars is the company, but they do a chocolate bar called a Mars Bar in the UK
@@davebirch1976 of course, since the 1920s, but it’s not the same as the American version, which I recall from when my husband bought us one has nuts in it. The British one doesn’t. Ours is much like the US Milky Way. Our Milky Way is a light mousse in chocolate.
Fun fact my brother dies a lot of research on his foods and because he moved to L.A years ago he actually found out hersheys have an ingredient in their chocolate that is supposed to taste like vomit! Yep it's true they put it in there because use guys apparently love that taste. ❤❤❤
The chocolate orange you mentioned is Terry's chocolate orange.
Terry's was a British chocolate manufacturer (like Rowntree's, Cadbury's and Fry's).
Iv never heard someone pronounce cacao like that 😂 cow cow! It’s ka-cow 😂 also your wife likes terrys chocolate orange it’s British! She has good taste!
You are not alone .., one bar at a time dunked in tea 😋😊
22:37 The Rowntree company.
R.I.P. Kit Scott Esq age 10½, the young adventurer searching for the fabled Rowntree who died -on his way to the sorceror [sic]- after Loreth parted ways with him at the end of their journey through Mount Aramir 😔
The chocolate you was talking about 11:05 is called Terry's Chocolate Orange. My wife loves them alot.
There's also a honeycomb KitKat here in the UK and there has been a mint Kitkat.
They missed the Kit Kat easter eggs. I was gutted when Rowntrees was bought by nestle, they closed the chocolate factory in Norwich.
I remember Roundtrees, near the bus station..all those lovely smells I remember as a child 😊
4:50 The four finger packaging had the same paper and foil wrapping too.
I love peanut butter and have it most days. However, from what I know, it probably isn't as popular here as in the US. I think that the best thing to come out of America is the peanut butter and jam (jelly) combination. Hmmmm!
Several people have mentioned Kit Kats in Japan. There they are called "Kitto Kattu", which sounds almost like "kitto katsu", the Japanese for "good luck". Kitto Kattu became common as a gift before exams, and so on. As a result they became very popular. They have over 300 varieties! These include Green Tea, Purple Sweet Potato, and Wasabi.