KitKat Chunky Peanut Butter
‘A bit of a mouthful’. That’s the best way to describe this. Both in terms of the name and the contents of the bar.
KitKat may be one of the best selling chocolate bars in the world, but I’m quite sure that this particular bar isn’t contributing a great deal to the sales figures.
Why? Because it’s awful.
I’ve never been a particular fan of KitKat, finding them a little bland, but this takes blandness to new levels.
The bar consists of a single, very large ‘finger’ of chocolate (which is more like a brick than a finger) with a thick wafer and a layer of peanut flavoured ’stuff’. I’m not sure what the stuff is, but it’s certainly not like any peanut butter I know. It has a vague peanutty flavour, but it’s really just a thick, slightly dry, artificial tasting paste.
The chocolate is bland, the wafer is dry and the peanut stuff is icky. And all this is made worse by the design of the bar. You can’t just take a small chunk, and when you bite it, bits of wafer go everywhere.
I really don’t understand how or why they came up with this. But they did - and I feel it my duty to warn you away from it.
This is the first time I can remember that I’ve actually thrown a half-eaten chocolate bar away. Ick.
Posted by Dom on 23 Jul 2006 at 10:07 PM
| 34 Comments
Filed in Reviews
July 24, 2006 : 4:08pm
Here for click and comment Monday from Its About Dawn.
Have a great day, but I have to leave before I eat something.
July 24, 2006 : 10:26pm
wow.. it must be AWFUL.. you actually THREW OUT chocolate?
July 26, 2006 : 5:42am
Wow - a Chocolate Blog - I must be in heaven….a chocoloholics dream (or nightmare) come true!! I will be back - and I will be looking for that chocolate/peppermint thingy…do they have them in the U.S.? I will find out…
January 1, 2007 : 7:46pm
I could not disagree with you more on this one! I adore Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter (yeah I do agree that it is a lot to say in one go!). I love peanut butter and I do like Kit Kats so this was a definate YES for me. I did not feel the same way about their bitter Orange flavour.
Hmmmm where can I get a one of these at 8pm on New Year’s Day?????
Best Wishes
HM
England
February 10, 2007 : 4:45pm
I think you are so wrong about Kitkat chunky peanut butter bars, they’re delicious!
February 24, 2007 : 9:44pm
You’ll be pleased to know that the same kind of nut-brick bar version was released in Australia a couple of years ago and died an ignominous death. The last I saw of them was in a ‘Not Quite Right’ store trying to give them away at the cost of three for one dollar and they were well past their use-by date.
March 6, 2007 : 4:55pm
How can you slate this bar so? It is devine! Peanut butter-y tase, thick scrummy chocolate, balanced out with the waffer-y bit. It is truly yummy! I was so excited when these first hit the shops, and I still love them. They tick all the right boxes a chocolate bar should, in my mind…
Sarah
March 6, 2007 : 7:45pm
just wondering does the peanut butter taste like praline or is it really nutty? i like peanuts and i like praline but i dont know whether i would like this any thoughts?
March 6, 2007 : 8:26pm
Chocaholic: Neither really - it was just a dry artificial tasting paste. I found the whole thing dry and franky rather disgusting. But that IS just my personal opinion.
March 17, 2007 : 8:12am
sorry but could you tell me do you know the nutritional info on this bar?
March 19, 2007 : 7:44pm
ok i found this bar at my lucky esso and i had to try omg its absoluty gorgeous! mmmm:p im off to buy another one!
March 25, 2007 : 6:37pm
Hi,
I read this and I wonder if your description of the filling is really ojective. If so - you have my sympathy. Here in Poland KitKat Peanut is produced locally (by Nestle Polska) and perhaps this is the whole difference. “Our” waffer is light, the peanut filling is more like light-soft peanut butter and the chocolate is an actually nice, but perhaps not to be eaten separately, milk chocolate.
I’m of this awful kind of people, who eat bars by first skinning them of chocolate, and then eating the parts by layers, if possible. And in case of KitKat Peanut I did this more than once and I tell you - it is really, really good.
The problem with the one you bought may be:
1. The factory has its own procedure and the outcome is not the best that may be
2. The batch may have been overheated (this makes the nuts go oily and may react somehow with the waffer)
3. The bar has been stored in bad temperature (all nuts are terribly vulnerable to heat)
I hope someday you meet the right KitKat Peanut :)
March 25, 2007 : 6:45pm
Srebrna: I think you may well be right on all counts. At some point in the future I may see if I can try another one of these from a different source.
And the only Polish-made chocolate I’ve tried (Goplana) I absolutely loved - so maybe you just have higher standards over there. :)
April 1, 2007 : 12:52am
Hi,
The difference may be - don’t laugh - that when a new company (Nestle, whatever) comes, they install new machines. With well-known procedures and ways of working, totally new machines and new crew who sticks to the rules - BECAUSE THEY WERE JUST TAUGHT THEM - the product may be a totally new quality. In old factories, where crew think they know absolutely everything by heart this may be not so well.
If you were to try this KitKat again, do check if it comes from Poland or any other country where it has actually been introduced recently (not the Peanut one, but all Kitkats). This may be the change :)
Of course, the new owner may overdo and actually spoil the product. This - allegedly - happened when Cadbury bought Wedel. They put their new procedures in use on old machines and - wow, surprise - the chocolate went bad. Totally. So they fell back to the old procedures and they were back to good chocolate.
My personal suspicion is that they cleaned the vats after so-many-years they were accumulating the chocolate layer :>
April 1, 2007 : 1:01am
And, sorry for second post - this Goplana you tried is actually the better kind from this factory. We have our dose of crappy chocolates (if you ever come across something called Terravita, do not try it… good only for melting with lots of spices), but there are well-known producers:
- Goplana (once owned by Nestle, now by a Polish company), makes everyday and slightly-more-elegant chocolates and pralines
- Wedel - everyday and luxury (Maestria) chocolates and lots of other chocolate sweets (alcoholic filling bars, wafer bars, also have chocolateries around the country and produce their own drinking chocolate mix, filled chocolates)
- Wawel - everyday, slightly-more etc, filled chocolate, pralines, non-chocolate sweets, bars and own brand of cocoa powder
There are other Polish producers who do pralines, chocolates and bars, but if you come across these three - they usually do good, “dependable” chocolate. With so many Polish shops in England now you may be able to find probably most of their products.
April 1, 2007 : 7:44pm
ahh kit kat peanut is soooo yummy mmmm=P i have to have one everyday! yum yum yum lol=)=)
April 10, 2007 : 11:38am
I love kit kat peanut it’s so nice!
i could eat one everyday it’s so good!!!
=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)=)
April 10, 2007 : 7:37pm
yay!! someone who agrees with me they are sooo moreish! mmmm =)=) i am no longer alone haha! :)
April 13, 2007 : 6:49pm
My husband LOVES THESE, keeps him quiet every time i buy him one!!! .
May 17, 2007 : 12:55am
The kitkat chunky peanut butter from Switzerland is actually very nice. Comment from Malaysia.
June 8, 2007 : 12:02am
Hey
Peanut Butter Kit Kats Are AMAZING!!! :O:O:O
The Peanut Taste Is Made From Creamed Peanuts By The Way Lol
Ema -x
June 8, 2007 : 7:45am
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm i love kit kat peanut and reeses peanut butter cups…the best choc in the land :D :D
June 26, 2007 : 12:26am
If you shorten it’s name to p-nunky it becomes less of a mouthfull, it is also very nice.who allows such rubbish about one of the best chocolate bars around to be published. a paerfect combination of chocolate, goo and crispy stuff. mmmhmm
July 6, 2007 : 11:05pm
Strange, I found it to be really nice. The wafer isn’t dry at all and when you bite it it doesn’t go everywhere.
Maybe you just had a shit bar? Hehe.
July 7, 2007 : 12:09am
Chrish - that’s certainly possible. I’ll look out for another bar and if necessary, do another review.
July 7, 2007 : 7:44am
i love this kit kat but i once picked up a bad one *laughs* the wafer cracked and was hard and the chocolate tasted like cheap chocolate does..you know the stuff? and the peanut was hard and chewy..lucky for me it was just the once..the rest have been fine! phew :D *chuckles*
July 7, 2007 : 8:19am
i admit i really wasn’t a fan of peanut butter.. BUT this KITKAT BAR changed my mind !! Honestly, it’s that GOOD! too bad your first peanut kitkat was a “bad one”.. I haven’t encountered a bad one yet though.. I’m simply addicted to them XD I wish they sell them back home, I only get to buy them in these 3 in 1 kitkat chunk set packs [original chunk, white chocolate chunk, and peanut butter] at the HongKong Airport.. -_- sad..
September 22, 2007 : 7:50pm
I’m from Poland too and I agree with Srebrna :D
Personally, I don’t like KitKats. They are too sweet. Bur my friend love them, especially this peanut one :P
October 7, 2007 : 8:25am
unbelievable, how can anyone not like these? just nicked one from my other half and its chilling in the fridge as we speak
November 6, 2007 : 2:06pm
KitKat is great
March 22, 2008 : 10:57am
I love them and would gladly eat them instead of any other choc bar….my idea of choccie heaven indeed!
C
June 22, 2008 : 8:56am
I want to try it, but if you want to try one that really is bad…try the caffeine snickers bar… Its really bad… The first bite is okay but after the second or third bite, the aftertaste kicks in and it takes like the syrup of ipecac (you know, the stuff to make you vomit)… very bad stuff…
Chris
July 10, 2008 : 8:50am
I’m another Kit Kat peanut butter fan!
July 10, 2008 : 8:29pm
i had da duo one today eat it many ways yum! :)