It’s Wrapper Wednesday! And Easter is just around the corner, so I thought it was time to post some Easter-related confectionery content – this week featuring a mini Japanese KitKat wrapper.
This ‘Easter Banana’ flavour features a rotund, egg-shaped bunny in a floral dress, with four (count ’em) bows! Surrounded by blossom and sporting fresh green and polka-dots this wrapper is alive with all things spring time.
Said bunny even has the KitKat logo printed in the left ear.
KitKat (then owned by original creators Rowntree of York, England) was launched in Japan in 1973. Japanese KitKats have become world famous for their wide array of flavours and designs including green matcha, sakura sake, fall chestnut, strawberry cheesecake, rum and raisin and sweet potato.
Due to how the wafer bar is pronounced in Japanese, ‘kitto katto‘, the chocolate bar became very popular as a token or gift of good luck, especially for Japanese students, as it sounds very similar to the phrase ‘kitto katsu‘ – which means ‘you’ll surely win’.
I hope you all have a lucky Easter!
The British Candy Connoisseur 