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Today I tried unusual Japanese Kit Kat flavours. It was very expensive but also very enjoyable. Let me know any other unusual foods you'd like to me try.
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00:00This is a KitKat that I bought from my local convenience store down the road from my house, 75p.
00:06What is this?
00:07COSYLIVESCRISIS
00:10But I get bored by all of the KitKat flavors we have here in the UK.
00:14We got what?
00:14We got regular, dark, white, chunky, chunky dark, chunky white.
00:22You know.
00:23But whenever I find myself in an Asian supermarket,
00:26there is always this wide array of flavors.
00:29So today, we're going to be trying as many of those as I could find online.
00:34And little did I know, as soon as I decided to do this video,
00:37they did this limited edition KitKat run with the most expensive KitKats you will ever see.
00:43So yes, I have spent like £250 on KitKats to try them today.
00:47For you and definitely not for me.
00:49I got a variety pack of Japanese KitKats to try first.
00:52Usually, you'd expect them to give you the names of the ones we're going to try.
00:57They didn't.
00:57So we're going to have to work that out as we go.
00:59But yeah, it's KitKat time.
01:02Welcome back everyone to Scran or Ban,
01:05where I tell you whether you should scran something or ban it from your cupboards.
01:09That's as good as I could come up with.
01:11Let's get into the video.
01:12Scran or ban?
01:14Scran or ban?
01:15I will tell you whether to scran it or ban it from your cupboards.
01:20What do you think?
01:21Not quite good bin bad bin, is it?
01:23I miss him.
01:24Out of all of these variety pack flavours, we've got about 20.
01:2715 to 20 to get through.
01:29This looks like a regular bog standard KitKat.
01:31We're going to try with this.
01:31We're going to start with this one.
01:34Yep.
01:36I'm glad we're starting with what we understand.
01:39I am a big fan of the KitKat.
01:41Brings me back to childhood.
01:42I would say one of my favourite non-British snacks.
01:47I'm going to go ahead and put it in Scran.
01:49This is a cookies and cream one.
01:50So we'll give this a go.
01:51It's trying to be a bit too Oreo-y, but it doesn't have the same satisfaction as an Oreo.
01:55The best part about the Oreo, in my opinion,
01:57the biscuit has its own section compared to the cream.
02:02Putting it all in one isn't for me.
02:04Ban.
02:04Next up, I'm assuming this is going to be the dark.
02:06So we're going to have the dark.
02:08I love dark chocolate.
02:09I'm a little slut for dark chocolate.
02:11Red hot Americano coffee.
02:13Dip this bad boy in.
02:15Scran.
02:16No.
02:17Damn.
02:17Now I know you all missed lightning.
02:19Now we have a new one.
02:21Because people were saying it rhymes with Scran or Ban, and I agree.
02:24So now it is Scran, Ban, or...
02:27Damn.
02:30Damn.
02:30Do you want some?
02:32Damn.
02:33Because you're having some anyway.
02:35That was really...
02:36That was really sensual.
02:37Sorry, Sam.
02:39Scran, Ban, or Damn, Sam.
02:41That's...
02:42No, it's making an uncomfortable workplace relationship, isn't it?
02:45Maybe we need an HR.
02:46You know what?
02:46We're going to go for the ones which, again, I just don't know what they are from the outside.
02:49This is KitKat Original and Strawberry.
02:51Do you want to take a look at that, Sam?
02:52Sorry, I have not been showing you these properly, have I?
02:57What?
02:58Hang on.
02:59Just stop wiggling it.
03:00Why?
03:00You can't...
03:00You're not...
03:01I just...
03:02You want to be a cameraman, Sam?
03:03Just stop wiggling it.
03:04Stop wiggling it?
03:05I can't.
03:06I was born to wiggle it.
03:07To my new song.
03:08Today's video is not sponsored.
03:10I'm in a hole financially.
03:12So please stream my song.
03:14It's called I Don't Want to Live Like This.
03:16And if every single person who watches this video goes and streams the song just once,
03:21maybe I'll be able to afford all of these f***ing KitKats.
03:26Give it a try.
03:27If you don't like the song, that's okay.
03:29You don't have taste.
03:30If you do like the song, add it to a playlist.
03:33Or two.
03:35And send it to a friend.
03:40And give me a kiss.
03:40Anyway, back to the video.
03:41Let's try this.
03:42Strawberry and Original.
03:43No.
03:46No.
03:46Strawberry and chocolate was never meant to be a thing.
03:49If you like strawberry and chocolate...
03:50I'm sorry, I've offended...
03:51I've offended an audience member here.
03:53They're shocked.
03:54If you like strawberry and chocolate, get out of my house.
03:57Sorry, I'm joking.
03:58You think I'm going to be talking to no one here.
04:00I promise there are...
04:01I do have friends.
04:02It's a no from me.
04:02Do you want this?
04:06For all you know, I've just thrown that to my cat.
04:08Oh, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew.
04:11Jesus f***ing Christ.
04:12Why?
04:13There was already a strawberry one with chocolate.
04:15I guess here, the thing is, is that it's a...
04:17It's double strawberry.
04:18But for me, that's just f***ing worse.
04:20Like, at least with the strawberry and chocolate one,
04:22there was a bit more KitKat-y-ness to it.
04:24And I fear the route we're going to go down in this video
04:27is a lot of KitKats that are trying hard not to be KitKats.
04:31Ban.
04:31Which isn't a good look.
04:33Like, we've had a lot of bans so far.
04:34We can go ban for ban.
04:36F*** it.
04:36We can go...
04:38Um...
04:39For...
04:42Let's do peach.
04:43Let's get rid of all of these fruity ones.
04:46Maybe, uh...
04:48Don't take that one out of context.
04:49Ooh, I don't like that I like that.
04:51That feels really wrong.
04:52You know Lipton iced tea?
04:54The peach-flavoured Lipton iced tea.
04:55Am I saying that weird?
04:56Lipton iced tea.
04:57It's like that, but in a chocolate bar.
04:58In your brain, it's like grapes and cheese.
05:01That shouldn't work, but supposedly it does.
05:03Really strange.
05:04Scran.
05:05Do you know what I mean?
05:06It feels wrong, but I don't hate it.
05:08Compared to the strawberry, the strawberry just didn't feel right and didn't taste good.
05:13This one doesn't feel right, but I would have them in my house.
05:16So it's got to be a scran, but it's not a dam.
05:18Me when I'm a beaver and I see a tree.
05:21It's a scran, but it's not a dam because they gnaw on trees,
05:24but they've not made a dam with them yet.
05:29This one seems to be probably half matcha, half chocolate is my guess.
05:34Guys, I've hit the nail on the f***ing head.
05:36Matcha.
05:37Big fan.
05:37You know how I like my matcha lattes, guys?
05:39Bit of oat milk, bit of vanilla syrup.
05:42Take notes.
05:43Not really getting much matcha from that.
05:44Getting a little bit.
05:45Bam.
05:45I'm gonna try just the matcha one and I think this one will be better.
05:53I'm getting nothing.
05:54There's some kind of creaminess going on here, but there's no flavour.
05:57That's a shame.
05:58Both of the matcha ones are a bad.
06:00Later on, we do have a matcha flavour in the special unique flavours.
06:05When we tried it, that is wasabi.
06:07That's wasabi.
06:09Wasabi?
06:10I don't know.
06:11But I'm pretty sure they sting.
06:23We're going to go to the karomi flavour, obviously.
06:26This is karomi, I believe.
06:27Karomi River.
06:29Like Justin Timberlake, if he liked cartoons.
06:32I wonder what this flavour is going to be.
06:34It looks awfully a lot like the strawberry flavour we just had moments ago.
06:38It smells an awful lot like the strawberry flavour we just had moments ago.
06:42And it tastes an awful lot like the strawberry flavour we just had moments ago.
06:47Ban.
06:47I don't like it when people come along and make these special unique flavours with characters
06:53and it's just the same flavour that you've already made me try multiple times.
06:58Stop it.
06:59Give me something new.
07:00Give me something to work with.
07:01Next up, we'll do milk tea.
07:03You know, we dip biscuits in tea here in the United Kingdom.
07:06So I understand why you would have a tea biscuit.
07:10But we don't do that.
07:11We have a biscuit which is a different flavour from the tea which we then dip in.
07:15Well, it's unique and it does more than the matcha.
07:17So I'm going to put it in Scran, tentatively.
07:19But I don't know in what situation I'd eat that.
07:21Like, realistically, I'd want to have that.
07:23There's no time where I'd choose that over another one.
07:26But I don't dislike it.
07:27So we're going to put it in Scran, but it's not going in our unique damn tier.
07:30Scran.
07:30Maple leaf.
07:31It's like the creaminess of the white chocolate flavour, but it has more zest.
07:35It has more pizzazz.
07:36A bit more action to it.
07:38So for that reason, it goes in Scran.
07:39Next up, we have a chocolate orange flavour.
07:42I'm surprised the chocolate orange flavour makes its way out of the United Kingdom.
07:46Guys, if you're coming to the UK, buy yourself a Terry's chocolate orange.
07:49People hate them and I do not know why.
07:51It's chocolate that's shaped like an orange.
07:54It's thick and it's heavier than an orange.
07:57And you take off slices of the orange and it's chocolate.
08:00Why are we not going crazy about this?
08:02This is one of the best things the UK has ever come up with.
08:05And people don't like it.
08:06Chocolate orange flavoured Japanese Kit Kat.
08:11Damn.
08:11You can tell it's orange oil, which I guess you need to use that.
08:14But you can really taste the orange oil.
08:16Still, it's a damn...
08:17But I think I just really like...
08:18I really like orange chocolate.
08:20So I don't think that says too much about the Kit Kat flavour.
08:22More so about my own palate.
08:23Big fan.
08:24Next up, we have Milo, which is an Australian beverage.
08:28But can you get this in Japan?
08:29Can you get Milo in Japan?
08:30Assuming yes.
08:31This is just a normal Kit Kat.
08:33This is just a...
08:36That's just a Kit Kat.
08:38That's just a...
08:39That's literally a...
08:40Scran, I guess, is a Kit Kat.
08:41But if you're paying any extra for it, you're wasting your money.
08:45I believe this is a chocolate cake.
08:47And then in the middle is some strawberry.
08:49Yeah.
08:50So it's like a chocolate and strawberry cake.
08:51It's the best strawberry flavour we've had so far.
08:53So I'm going to put Scran.
08:54Not by much.
08:55It's the most entry-level Scran we've had so far.
08:58Pumpkin pie.
09:00So this is one of the Halloween flavours we're trying.
09:02Oh, that's very bad.
09:04That's like top five, one of the worst flavours I think I've had in my life.
09:09I'm just going to double check that's what the f*** that is.
09:11Oh no, that's apple pie.
09:12That's why I don't like that.
09:13That's f***ing apple pie.
09:15Really ban.
09:16Like that should be banned, not just from your cupboards worldwide.
09:19This one is called the Trick or Treat Kit Kat, which I believe...
09:22Oh, it does have a different flavour.
09:24It's apple pie again.
09:25How the f*** are you making me...
09:27That looks completely different.
09:29The packaging is entirely purple.
09:31God, I swear to f***ing Christ.
09:33Do that to me again, watch what happens.
09:35This next one is called Kit Kat Gold.
09:36So this one is a Kit Kat I'm assuming that's kind of got like half white chocolate, half regular.
09:42No, it's kind of caramelly.
09:44Yeah, caramel and classic chocolate.
09:46Scran.
09:46This is something I would dip in a hot beverage and I would be happy to do so.
09:49That kind of does the same thing that the Whisper Gold did for the Whisper.
09:53You know, caramel you grow out of, which is why people started to introduce salted caramel.
09:58If I wanted umami, I'd text your mother.
10:01Sakura and roasted soybean powder.
10:05I'm a little soybean.
10:07I'm a little soybean.
10:08Do you want to try my soybean paste?
10:10You can have a lick of my sakura.
10:12Is that, is that insensitive?
10:13That's insensitive.
10:14Sorry, I'd like to formally make an apology to the sakura tree.
10:19I promise when I see you, I don't think about my balls.
10:22I don't like flower flavoured things.
10:25Flowers can smell good.
10:26I don't want to eat them.
10:28You know, why are you getting so close for?
10:29Sugar butter tree.
10:31Sugar butter tree.
10:32Oh wait, okay, hold on.
10:34This is good.
10:34Um, I was making out with some oak the other day, but then I realised.
10:38Sugar butter tree.
10:44Not getting much tree.
10:46It tastes like a custard cream.
10:48Do you not like that?
10:49How do you not like that?
10:50That's the least offensive flavour we've-
10:53He's, he's retching behind the camera.
10:54You look like you've just chewed actual arsehole.
10:58Why is that so bad?
11:00This is really, really horrible.
11:02It's not that bad.
11:02Come on, it's not that bad.
11:03It just tastes like butter.
11:04Yeah, sugar and butter and tree.
11:07I like that one.
11:07Scran.
11:08Oh, he's spitting it.
11:09Oh, the spit bag.
11:10Love a good spit bag.
11:11This is just the match one I've had.
11:13Yeah, mid.
11:14Here's our tier list as it stands guys.
11:16So now we're moving on to these unique funky flavours.
11:18Till we get to the most expensive one at the end,
11:20which is the blueberry cheesecake flavour.
11:22Uh, Mount Fuji edition.
11:23Mount Fuji.
11:24Fuji would have to buy me a drink first.
11:26So we have a roasted green tea flavour here.
11:29Uh, Hojicha it is called.
11:30The tea flavours from earlier didn't do fantastically.
11:34But I don't know.
11:35I feel fairly confident about this.
11:36Oh, and this is the best bit about these ones.
11:38They have these boxes now.
11:40And now whenever I host a movie night,
11:42I'm going to be able to go,
11:45have a Kit Kat.
11:45Wait, have a break.
11:48So let's try this green tea flavour.
11:50There's more notes to this.
11:52When the ones that have come out in this unique special edition
11:55have more flavour profiles.
11:57Bam though.
11:57I just don't really like green tea.
11:59But you know what?
12:00It tastes more biscuity than it does tea.
12:01And I think that's maybe what's putting me off a little bit.
12:04Next up.
12:04I know I will.
12:06Tokyo Shima lemon.
12:08This is the thing about this unique drop.
12:10Is that all very locational.
12:12What would be the Brighton flavour?
12:14Um, I wonder.
12:15Fish and chips?
12:16No, it's got to be sweet, doesn't it?
12:17What would be the Brighton flavour?
12:18Someone in the audience has just held up their phone and it says gay.
12:21So the flavour would be gay flavour.
12:23Come to Brighton and try our gay.
12:25Let's try this zesty Shima lemon.
12:29I actually don't hate that.
12:30The quality is good.
12:30It just feels slightly perverse to have a lemon flavoured Kit Kat.
12:34But I am enjoying it.
12:35So does that mean it has to be a scram?
12:36I think that means it has to be a scram.
12:38I'm gonna give it a scram.
12:39Yeah, I feel very put off by this.
12:41I'm gonna make you try some, Sam.
12:42Try some.
12:43Try some lemon.
12:44What do you think, babe?
12:45It's better than the one that tasted like butter.
12:48Butter flavour.
12:49Yeah, no.
12:50Well, yeah, I guess it's because it's a flavour which you should expect in some kind of sweet thing.
12:55Whereas just butter chocolate is probably not the one.
12:59Amao strawberry.
13:00I'm assuming Amao is another location in Japan.
13:04And not just the sound that my cat makes.
13:06Sorry, that was such a shit joke.
13:09Amao.
13:10What's your favourite flavour of Kit Kat, Otto?
13:17Otto, what's your favourite flavour of Kit Kat?
13:21Why does he look like such a geezer?
13:25I wanted you to meow.
13:26He can't do anything for me.
13:28Watch this.
13:31Bastard.
13:31Amao strawberry.
13:32Let's give you a go.
13:33It's just a strawberry flavour.
13:35They've added absolutely nothing to that.
13:37I guess it has more layers to it or whatever.
13:39It tastes a little bit more premium, but I just don't like strawberry flavoured Kit Kats.
13:43So again, it's a ban from me.
13:44Speaking of strawberry flavoured Kit Kats, why don't we try the strawberry cheesecake flavour?
13:48If you're doing 10 unique flavours from different parts of Japan,
13:52why are you doing strawberry multiple times?
13:54Strawberry cheesecake flavour.
13:55Let's give you a whirl.
14:00I'm sick of this.
14:01I'm sick of it.
14:02I'm sick of this.
14:03How many strawberry flavours is that, Sam?
14:04Tell me.
14:05Four.
14:06Four?
14:06Four.
14:07Come on.
14:07You're pulling my cock.
14:08There was at least six.
14:10There was at least six.
14:12No.
14:13And then it's another ban from me.
14:14I don't want strawberry flavoured Kit Kats in my house.
14:18No Kit Kat.
14:19Bad.
14:20Naughty Kit Kat.
14:22Purple sweet potato.
14:26You think this is going to be good?
14:27Well, at least it's going to be different from strawberry.
14:29It's very unique.
14:30It's a little too subtle to be a ban.
14:32For me, it's okay.
14:34It's not as offensive as the strawberry.
14:35It wasn't anywhere near as bad as the apple pie.
14:38It's grand.
14:39Takatsuro original momiji manju flavour, which is, I believe, a biscuit.
14:44A maple-y biscuit with like a soft filling.
14:47This is the kind of flavour I'm very excited for,
14:49because it's not something we have an equivalent of here in the UK.
14:52But I will, for your sake, try to make an equivalent comparison
14:56with a flavour we have here in the United Kingdom.
14:59Weird biscuit your grandma has in her house that you don't know what it is,
15:03but you eat it anyway.
15:04You know what I'm saying?
15:06And if grandma's involved...
15:08Scran-ma.
15:09Not my grandma.
15:10That was me to your grandma.
15:13Your grandparents.
15:14Scran.
15:14I'd scran your scran-ma.
15:16Scran-ma.
15:17No?
15:17Dead.
15:20Rest in peace.
15:23Or pieces when I'm done with her.
15:25Oh, guys!
15:26Hokkaido azuki and strawberry!
15:29It's kind of like a caramelised tart of some kind.
15:33Let's just get it over with.
15:34Oh yeah, tastes exactly the fucking same.
15:36Bam.
15:36All the strawberry ones get overwhelmed by the strawberry oil that they use.
15:40Change your strawberry oil.
15:41Or just, altogether, stop making me eat strawberry KitKats.
15:45I'm sick of it.
15:45Shinshu apple.
15:46Now, apple pie has been my least favourite flavour,
15:49so hopefully the apple flavour doesn't give me the same haemorrhoids.
15:53Wow.
15:54Okay, wow.
15:55That's like dark chocolate, but really subtle apple right at the end.
16:02Damn.
16:02I think the apple is very good.
16:08Damn.
16:08That's going in damp tear.
16:09Why are you...
16:10Have I got something on...
16:11Do I have something on my teeth?
16:13How about...
16:14How long has it been there?
16:15We're not going to talk about this.
16:17If that has been on my teeth this entire video, never mention it to me.
16:20Please do not tag me in photos.
16:22Azuki sandwich flavour.
16:23Let's have a look at what an Azuki sandwich is.
16:25Bean paste placed on top of toast and eaten as a sandwich.
16:28Bean paste I'm okay with.
16:30No.
16:31Oh, kind of Play-Doh.
16:33Kind of Play-Doh-y.
16:34Yeah, no.
16:34This tastes too much like Play-Doh.
16:36If I was five, I would have eaten the shit out of that.
16:38I can bet you some sincere money that the man behind the camera
16:42has eaten a decent amount of Play-Doh in his life.
16:44How many tubs?
16:45Be honest with me.
16:47Not like a tub.
16:48I wouldn't say like a full tub.
16:49It depends on the size though.
16:50To be fair, it depends on the size of the tub.
16:52Tub this big or that big?
16:57Yeah, probably one.
17:02Next up, we're going to go for the wasabi.
17:04I'm not going to enjoy this.
17:05I don't like wasabi.
17:06I like spicy food, but spicy foods that get up in your nose.
17:10I gave you no permission to go up there.
17:14It doesn't go up your nose.
17:15It just doesn't taste nice as a sweet treat.
17:18Bam, Tokyo banana.
17:19Oh my God.
17:20Are they going to be shaped differently?
17:23No, because look here, Sam.
17:25They show a different shape.
17:27Are we going to finally get a different shape of KitKat?
17:30Are you fucking kidding me?
17:31This is the most boring ass.
17:41Well, that's fucking useless, isn't it?
17:42It doesn't break like one.
17:43No, like how it attaches to the top.
17:45I know it's like a fucking banana.
17:46It's banana flavoured.
17:48It's banana flavoured.
17:49Oh, I don't know.
17:50I don't know.
17:51It's like dark.
17:51It's like the apple one.
17:52It's like dark chocolate, but it has banana tinge.
17:54Oh, but it is kind of growing on me.
17:55And I don't usually like banana flavoured things.
17:57It looks like Minecraft trousers.
18:00Scram.
18:01That might be one of the only times on the James Merritt channel
18:03where I rank a banana flavoured item in the scram tier.
18:06So everyone, round of applause.
18:08I want everyone clapping at home.
18:10Whatever you're doing while you're watching this video.
18:12If you're brushing your teeth.
18:15If you're having a meal.
18:18If you're rubbing yourself silly.
18:22Mount Fuji.
18:23Let's finish it off on Mount Fuji.
18:25Not finish it off in the sense of like rubbing one out.
18:28That wasn't the...
18:29Wow.
18:29Oh my God.
18:30Okay.
18:31Two toned.
18:32It's a duo tone.
18:36And the flavour of this is blueberry cheesecake.
18:39Oh my God.
18:40It's not strawberry cheesecake.
18:41They could have gone that so wrong.
18:43Wow.
18:44What does that taste like?
18:45It tastes like it should be banned in the UK.
18:47Damn.
18:48So we're ending on a damn.
18:49Very tasty.
18:50Probably my favourite fruity flavour we've had today.
18:52And there you go.
18:53That is every single Japanese KitKat flavour I could get my hands on.
18:56If you are from Japan and I've missed any out, do not leave a comment.
18:59It pisses me off.
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