Cadbury is a British confectionery manufacture that is currently owned by Mondelez International, formerly Kraft.  Mondelez is the second largest global snack brand behind Mars.  Cadbury got its start in Birmingham England by John Cadbury.  A few of the British snacks we will carry made by Cadbury include Curly Wulry, Flake, and Fudge.

Nestle is actually a Swiss snack company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland.  So why are we featuring Nestle as a British Snack company?  We’ll over the years they have purchased several snacks that were initially invented in England.  They are also very well known throughout the UK and are often mistaken as a British brand.  A few of the British Snacks made by Nestle that will be sold online include Kit Kat, Lion Bar, and the White Lion Bar.

The British Walkers Brand is a snack manufacture that operates throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.  This foreign snack company is best known for their crisps, or chips in the US.  In fact, Walkers holds 47% of the crisp marketing in England.  Walkers is a subsidiary of PepsiCo which owns FritoLay.  That’s why our US customer will notice the resemblance of the two logos.  World of Snacks is set to offer 4 flavors of their crisps at the launch of our store.

Although its parent company just recently sold to a German snack brand KP is still well known and loved in England.  KP is short for Kenyon Produce and was initially launched in 1853.  Eventually KP moved into the movie snack business and then a full blown producer of grocery snack items.  Our British Snack store will offer all flavors of KP Hula Hoops and hopefully Skips.

As you’ve guessed, we are reviewing a snack from the Philippines.  Our snack under review today is produced by a company called Tita KC’s Creation.  Other than their location in San Juan and a Facebook page with very little information, we were not able to find much about this Filipino snack company.  This may be common with snacks out of the Philippines, we ran into the same lack of details for our King Choc Nut Review.  Nonetheless, lets take a closer look at Tita’s KC’s Creation Puto Seko Coconut Angel Cookies

Our international snacks blog is heading to Germany to explore a snack offered by the beloved Kinder!  Kinder for non-German speaking confectionery lovers translates to “children” and we cannot think of a more appropriate name.  This brand is personally a favorite of mine.  When I was a child my dad would treat the kids to a Kinder Surprise Egg.  It was a delicious milk chocolate egg filled with a surprise toy inside.  Generally the toy had small pieces and you had to put them together.  From what we’ve heard that has changed.  Now with strict guidelines around the world small toys inside food are generally not allowed.  Unfortunately, still today the Kinder Surprise is banned in the United States.  That’s why we are taking a look at Kinder Friends Chocolate Assortment instead!

Lindt chocolate is outstanding, and in the Strawberry Cheese Cake Stick it is near perfection.  The center tastes as if someone has placed fresh from the baker strawberry cheesecake inside a creamy and soft stick of milk chocolate.  The cheesecake is moist and decadent with a few crunchy pieces within.  The quality of the snack makes us believe this Swiss candy bar is under-priced, leaving us a little room to purchase it and make a little money for ourselves.  So far Lindt Hello Strawberry Cheesecake Stick is among the best tasting candy bars we have tasted from anywhere in the world.  

Our sample group all tested the snack individually and at separate times.  The first reaction was the same from all the reviewers.  They thought the Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer Biscuits would be crunchier.  I agreed but even though our first impressions were off we all really enjoyed this treat.  The waver is moist and slightly chewy.  It’s layered with thin ribbons of caramel and covered in a sweet milk chocolate.  The consistency reminded me of a Hollandase Stroopwafel.   Chances are if you are reading this review you may not know what I am referring to.  That’s OK, go read our other post and get caught up.  Back to the snack at hand- we really like it!

Trappist Mango Bars are pleasant.  They taste like a coffee cake with the flavoring of a biscotti (a hard cookie used to dip in coffee).   The mango is dried but has remained plump.  This Filipino cake is topped with Cashew Nuts, which add a little crunchy texture but does not over power the main attraction. The treat is sweet and has a tinge of butterscotch to bring it all together.  If packaged differently, we’d assume this is a high-end snack.   Our taste test panel consisted of 3 reviewers and everyone enjoyed Trappist Mango Bars and mentioned they’d consume it if it were stocked in their homes.

Our snack review today is for the Japanese Vanilla Ice Cream Kit Kat!  This is our fifth Kit Kat from Japan that we are reviewing. Our previous samples of Japanese Kit Kats included the Brown Sugar Kit Kat, Blueberry Cheesecake Kit Kat, Pumpkin Pudding Kit Kat, and the Black Kit Kat.  So far we have really enjoyed each and every one of them with the Blueberry Cheesecake flavor being our favorite snack to date.  Let’s see if the Vanilla Ice Cream Kit Kat compares. 

Awesome!  We cannot begin to understand why this flavor is not sold worldwide.  The bar is creamy and sweet with the trademark Kit Kat crunch.  The cone flavor is subtle and you really have to look for it, but we like it that way!  We are not sure if we prefer this Japanese candy bar over the Blueberry Cheesecake Kit Kat.  It’s too close to call a clear winner.

Will World of Snacks offer the Japanese Vanilla Ice Cream Kit Kat as a part of our normal inventory from Japan.  We hope so!  We intend to sell all Japanese Kit Kats to everyone in the world.  However, we are still in negotiations with our supplier.  Don’t worry; we will not stop until everyone can buy these delicious Japanese Kit Kats online in the US and around the world. 

Our sample group for the Sweet and Spicy Squid taste test was rather large.  In fact we had 13 tasters sample this Thai treat.  The demographics, background, and age all differed.   Generally when this is the case there is a wide and varied review of the foreign snack in question.  However, for this Thai taste test everyone agreed.  The Sweet and Spicy Squid, although it sounds interesting, is completely horrible!  Hands down, this is the worst tasting snack we have encountered anywhere in the world!  Upon opening the bag you are presented with an overpowering rotten fish smell. Personally I am a fan of seafood and often eat calamari, which is squid as well.  The Sweet and Spicy Squid taste nothing like calamari.  One of the reviewers stated it tastes like dried fish fins.  The texture of the treat does lead toward that statement and the sweet and spicy does not triumph the base of the snack.  Overall, not one of our reviewers could even finish their sample.