Many people I know in Japan aren’t fond of the taste of chocolate mint. I’ve heard people say it tastes like mouthwash or cold medicine. I think of York Peppermint Patties or Junior Mints, when I hear of chocolate mint (nostalgic, right?) Maybe, you like it or you don’t.
7-11 convenience stores recently came out with a new chocolate mint sandwich. I haven’t tried it, but I think it sounds good. Crushed chocolate chips and mint are mixed with whipped cream and thickly spread on chocolate bread. It sells for 198 yen, plus tax and was released on August 7th all around Japan except Hokkaido and Okinawa.
I love 'After Eight', the after-dinner chocolate squares filled with mint cream. They go very well with a cup of coffee after dinner, as it is both sweet and refreshing. Most of my Japanese friends, however, say it is like eating chocolate while brushing one's teeth. When chocomint ice cream was launched in Japan, it soon became popular. I guess the reason is that mint is cool, and ice cream is cold, so they go well together. However, I am wondering if mint-flavoured whipped cream would match a chocolate sponge cake... I might have to try it, just for fun.
I shall wait to hear how this item tastes, makes me think of my grandparents who would take the cream from a cream cake and put it into a sandwich, I never did like that. I think it was something from the war years a way of extending the sweet stuff. I like mint choc chip ice cream, and Bendicks bittermints, and chocolate covered Kendal mint cake (which is not cake at all!) never was keen on Mint Aero. We have a lot of mint and chocolate combinations in the UK. Hmm we have a lot of chocolate stuff. Does that combination dislike in Japan mean that the mint kit kat is a less popular flavour? I guess there are a lot to choose from there, we have not that many kit kat flavours here at all by comparison.
I love 'After Eight', the after-dinner chocolate squares filled with mint cream. They go very well with a cup of coffee after dinner, as it is both sweet and refreshing.
ReplyDeleteMost of my Japanese friends, however, say it is like eating chocolate while brushing one's teeth.
When chocomint ice cream was launched in Japan, it soon became popular. I guess the reason is that mint is cool, and ice cream is cold, so they go well together.
However, I am wondering if mint-flavoured whipped cream would match a chocolate sponge cake... I might have to try it, just for fun.
I shall wait to hear how this item tastes, makes me think of my grandparents who would take the cream from a cream cake and put it into a sandwich, I never did like that. I think it was something from the war years a way of extending the sweet stuff. I like mint choc chip ice cream, and Bendicks bittermints, and chocolate covered Kendal mint cake (which is not cake at all!) never was keen on Mint Aero. We have a lot of mint and chocolate combinations in the UK. Hmm we have a lot of chocolate stuff. Does that combination dislike in Japan mean that the mint kit kat is a less popular flavour? I guess there are a lot to choose from there, we have not that many kit kat flavours here at all by comparison.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of mint flavored food, but apparently it's popular in Japan.
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