Kev's Snack Reviews

As promised in my first Blast From The Past post , here is part 2 featuring many other product spinoffs Nestlé did in the mid 2000's. During that time they had brought in a new manager whose strategy was to flood the market with lots of new products. It was rather similar to the endless new product releases from Cadbury, the only difference being that many of these products went unnoticed due to limited distribution. If you remember any of these yourself please do get in touch via the comments! Rolo Irish Cream: These were a bit sickly sweet, as I recall, and didn't have a strong irish cream flavour, but made for a nice change from regular Rolos! Rolo Florida Orange:  These contained orange-flavoured caramel. They were interesting but the orange flavour wasn't very strong. McDonald's did a Florida Orange Rolo McFlurry when these were available which was nicer than the actual chocolates! Milkybar Choco Mousse: These were available in 2004 and contain...

In the early-mid 2000's, Nestle UK went a bit mad and tried lots of different Kitkat flavours and varieties. I thought it'd be fun to compile a list to remember them by here. I plan on doing more features such as this in future as I love to reminisce over snacks that are long gone! These Kitkats were all released over a period between around 2003/2004 until about 2006. Kitkat Blood Orange (Halloween Limited Edition): This had a blood orange flavour cream in-between the wafers. I don't remember it tasting anything special. The tagline was "Have many spooky breaks". Kitkat Christmas Pudding (Christmas Limited Edition): These were only available in multipacks and tasted horrible. The "christmas pudding" flavour was achieved through the use of artificial flavours and was very unpleasant. Kitkat White Lemon and Yoghurt: This was the first new Kitkat variety launched in the early 2000's and was expected to boost flagging ...