A documentation and review of limited time, special edition, or otherwise hard-to-find noms.
This is a Presumptive Ephemeral Nom.
Product circa: 2026
I'll keep it short. This is a regular Twix bar with some cinnamon flavoring added to it. It's the same type of cinnamon added to "apple cinnamon" flavored food products. And... it doesn't pair well, here. This is a miss.
Product circa: 2008 (!)
Indeed, I still have this bag of snacks! Unfortunately, the chocolate has gone rancid, and they are inedible.
This was a promotional product released for the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was a regular Snickers bar base with the added flavors of coconut and chai-like spices... why they chose those flavors to promote this movie, I do not know.
I recall the candy having a subtle coconut flavor that accented the original very well. I personally do not recall any flavor of spices at all, though some concurrent sources did.
Product circa: 2022
I like almost all food, but many folks are surprised to hear that I don’t like blueberries, or really any food/candy that they’re in. I guess it’s a strange dislike to have.
With that said, this candy is impressive and delicious. They’ve used white chocolate instead of milk/dark, thank goodness. Upon opening the wrapper, you’ll see that the white chocolate is visually tinged with blue/purple, and olfactorily tinged with a fragrant blueberry smell.
The taste has the perfect amount of blueberry flavoring in the chocolate, and a natural flavor at that, which is not often found with blueberry products. The wafer of the Kit Kat also has what I might deem as cinnamon added to it. At the very least, it is not quite the regular Kit Kat wafer in this.
Anyway, this is good as hell, my own preferences notwithstanding.
Product circa: 2021
Fun fact: when it comes to cinnamon buns, the distinct taste we know and love is arguably more about vanilla than actual cinnamon.
Well, Snickers took that tack here. The only change to this product is that the nougat is more heavily flavored with vanilla, with only the slightest bit of cinnamon flavor. If you ate this without a wrapper, you might have a hard time knowing it’s not an original Snickers.
Product circa: 2025
The meta shit here is really getting screwy. The brands are getting cheeky with it, and I'm here for it.
Reese's Oreo - A Reese's cup, half of whose chocolate is "white creme" in the style of Oreo, with Oreo cookie bits embedded in the peanut butter filling. While the white creme is likely just white chocolate, upon the bite I find that it really doesn't taste much different than the original peanut butter cup. The Oreo bits add a nice crunch, but on the whole, this snack is perilously close to the taste and experience of the original.
Oreo Reese's - A completely different conclusion than the one above. Allegedly regular Oreo cookies with a peanut butter filling that is mixed with Oreo cookie crumbs/dust, much like the Cookies & Cream Oreos of old. As coincidence would have it, I just so happen to have regular Peanut Butter Oreos on hand to compare. The cream for this product is not the same as the PB Oreos; both my tongue and logic would say that this product's creme is more like Reese's, which is to say crumbly and salty. It feels softer and fattier as well. Along with the Oreo crumbs, it's delicious, much better than the PB Oreos. The cookie is where these truly stand out: they are more brittle and less crunchy than your average Oreo cookie, in a way that is very pleasing to eat. I find myself reaching for more in a fashion that I don't do with regular ones. This product is special.
Product circa: spring 2021
The top layer of chocolate is white, but it's hard to tell if it’s white chocolate or something else. The bite is notably different than the original. It's hard to discern a marshmallow flavor present, but otherwise it's very tasty. What an odd snack.
Product circa: 2022
Supposedly there is cookie dough-flavored nougat in this, but I honestly don't taste a difference between this and the original.
Product circa: 2020 and intermittently after
I suppose this is the natural evolution of the Reese’s Cup. With Reese's being the champion of the cross-play of salty & sweet, the logical next step is to make it saltier, as I imagine making it sweeter isn’t a great idea.
The result is a truly decadent snack. Sodium and sugar levels are off the chart as this somehow manages to be even more unhealthy than the original. The additional salt is not unwelcome; it’s novel, and even enjoyable. As for the crunch, I don’t think it adds much for me, but I’m sure many would love it.
Product circa: 2017
A variation on Nutrageous!, which has always been one of my favorites.
This version is simply Reese’s peanut butter, rolled in Reese’s Pieces, and then covered in chocolate.
I’m not even a fan of Reese’s Pieces, but I really like this. Whereas I’m used to the crunch of peanuts in a candy bar that looks like this, this one instead is soft, almost brittle. The taste of the peanut butter “creme” in the Pieces is drowned out by the Reese’s peanut butter next to it, and in the end, it’s a real joy to eat.
Product circa: 2013 and 2015
Cute little fun-size-only candy bars that popped up a few times in the 2010s.
As perhaps could be expected, the only difference here is that the nougat has slightly more chocolate flavor than usual. I was hoping that these would nail the “cereal marshmallow” flavor that some snacks have been able to do, but they do not. With that said, they’re just as delicious as the original.
Product circa: 2020
An interesting iteration… I guess it was just a matter of time until these were made.
There is no “cake” in these snack cakes. They consist of brownie bars topped with a small amount of peanut butter and are chocolate-coated. These are also slightly overly sweet. If they had made the brownie more like cake and bumped the peanut butter ratio higher, I think these would have been a hit.
Product circa: 2014 and intermittently after
Nice! A snickers that swaps its nougat for more peanuts. A PayDay wrapped in chocolate. A lean-in to their marketing of Snickers as a cheeky meal replacement. A bit more plain tasting than the original, but heartier and a nice change.
Product circa: 2022 intermittently after
Instead of caramel like in the original product, there is a “cookie dough flavored creme”. It’s basically frosting, or a very light nougat. If it weren’t for the crunchy and chewy bits of cookie in said creme, you’d barely be able to tell that it was different from the original caramel. Occasionally on the swallow I can detect some vanilla that isn’t in the original.
Product circa: 2022
I suppose that strawberry and chocolate aren't a strange combination, but they are when the strawberry is the same artificial flavoring used for hard candy and soft drinks. They tried to dial back on too much strawberry, but it ends up being unremarkable.
Product circa: 2020 and occasionally since
This basically tastes like a white chocolate Kit Kat with a bit of vanilla and cute sprinkles in it (the crunchy kind, not the waxy kind). Should I have expected more? Hard to say. When it comes to birthday cake flavored snacks, I yearn for that uncooked flour taste. Am I strange? Probably.
Product circa: 2023
Honestly, this tastes exactly as expected. A white chocolate Kit Kat with a heavy dose of cinnamon added to it, and also vanilla. Vanilla and cinnamon seem to be a cheat code to make things taste delicious. These are utterly fantastic.
Product circa: Halloween 2024
Nice use of an arbitrary rhyme to make this arbitrary snack themed for Halloween.
The white chocolate coating has been colored an alarmingly bright shade of orange. This tastes like if the Cinnamon Crunch Toast cereal were made into a candy bar - and it's absolutely delicious. A great combination, perfectly balanced with sweetness and texture. A home run!
Product circa: autumns 2012-2013
One of those instances where brands trying to use a very small amount of green apple flavoring, along with sugar, to approximate a "red apple" flavor, seeing as red apple flavoring in candy basically doesn't exist. These aren't the greatest, but I'm glad they tried. The flavor combination works well enough.
Product circa: 2022
A variation like this feels a little lazy. It's a Milky Way bar with the nougat changed to chocolate nougat. It's not bad. It's reminiscent of a Milky Way Dark bar, but it's not as good, because almost nothing is as good as a Milky Way Dark bar.
