If you're not from Japan, the craziest Kit-Kat flavor you've probably ever had is white chocolate. In Japan, meanwhile, they're so Kit-Kat crazy, they'll throw basically any flavor into the mix, sell it, and it will probably make money.
According to CNN, Kit-Kats became huge in Japan due to a combination of expert marketing and linguistic luck: "kitto katsu" means "you will surely win" in Japanese, so every time they break off a piece of that Kit-Kat bar, they feel like the champion of the world.
There are currently over 300 flavors of Japanese Kit-Kats, and a lot of them sound like somebody made them up to troll the internet. You've got wasabi-flavored Kit-Kats, sake, pumpkin pudding, pear, soybeans, purple sweet potatoes, red bean sandwich, and roasted corn, among so, so many others. Most of these have no business being lumped together with chocolate and wafers. And yet, clearly people enjoy them, because Japan is still making them.
That said, they've also got some flavors that would probably rock America's world, like strawberry/blueberry cheesecake. That, mixed with chocolate? Yes, please.
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