My second and last Kit Kat post

Almost two years ago I did a post on my collection of Kit Kat packages, which you can see here. Now the collection has almost doubled and has 53 packages. In the past year though, I've found that new flavours have not been coming out as frequently and that living outside the city makes it more difficult to find the new flavours. Therefore, I've decided to give up collecting Kit Kat packages and thus making this the last post I will do on them. Below are the boxes that I collected in total:
I'll break down the different variety of flavours that we tried. I only kept the flavours that came in the boxes. At the same time, there are big bags of mini Kit Kats that are also produced. The flavours of the boxes and the bags are often not the same, and even if a flavour is produced for the bags, it might not be produced for the boxes (and vice versa). I have no idea why. In fact, Ayako and my favourite flavour, pumpkin, was never produced in the box variety, and thus doesn't show up in these pictures. Some flavours are slightly altered every few years. Some of my collection are of the slightly different flavours.

The first group are the fairly ordinary flavours. These include regular chocolate, vanilla, bitter, 60% cocoa, caramel, espresso coffee and milk (fresh from the cows in Hokkaido):
The second group contains the fancy (and slightly more expensive) varieties that had creamy fillings. The flavours here are apple, matcha green tea, chestnut, tea, and brandy & orange:
The third group has all fruit flavours including melon (from a small town in Hokkaido), strawberry, orange, apple, pineapple, grape, kiwi, and ume (Japanese plum):
The next group is made up of two traditional Japanese flavours, matcha green tea and adzuki beans. These are both quite tasty and popular, and thus a slight variation comes out each year as well as the combination of the flavours that you see in the middle:
Following this is the pink group. This is made up of peach and cherry flavours. Both of these come from trees that have pink flowers that bloom in the spring time. The cherry blossom trees are even popular enough for Kit Kat to have a cherry blossom flavour as well. The large box in the middle is contains some mini Kit Kats and is meant to be mailed to a sweetheart for Valentine's Day (or White Day):
The last three groups are the stranger flavours that Kit Kat has come out with. The first group are the slightly strange varieties including soy bean powder (kinako), chesnut, sweet potato in syrup (daigaku imo), ginger ale (nice ginger taste) and roasted tea (hojicha):
Our second last group is the quite strange flavours including apple vinegar, vegetables, sports drink and salt:
The last group contains the very strange but very Japanese flavours of miso and wasabi. Miso is used for making miso soup and comes from fermented soybeans. We found it didn't have that much flavour, which is maybe good since miso is normally very salty and has a very strong taste. Wasabi should only be eaten in small quantities since it is strong like horseradish. Luckily, just a little bit of wasabi is used in the bars to give it a bit of kick and tastes alright. We brought these two boxes over to Canada for people to try:
So there you go. The end of the Kit Kat collection. Fanatics in Japanese are called otaku. I've now stopped being a Kit Kat otaku, but Ayako reminds me that I'm still a birding otaku. Any conversation automatically stops when I see an interesting bird just outside our house ready to be photographed.