Tag: Chocolate

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In Japan, X sounds similar to Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as “You will surely win”. The company behind X has tried to leverage this by positioning the product as a good luck charm, especially for students.
The people can also write messages on X & directly mail it via post for good luck.
Also, the product has 70+ variants in the country.
Can you identify X?

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Kit Kat
Some of the flavours of the chocoloate in country are Apple, Banana, Butter, Cheese, Edamame, and one of the top selling ones...Soy Sauce.
Read More about the fascinating story of Kit Kat in Japan.

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How is the mountain below related to the world of confectionery?
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It is called the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Alps between Italy & Switzerland & is featured on the packaging of Toblerone chocolates. There is also a report stating that the mountain will be removed from the packaging, as the company will be moving production away from Switzerland.
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1879 turned out to be a damn good year for chocolate, when chocolatier Rodolphe Lindt supposedly (possibly accidentally) left a chocolate mixer running over a weekend and came back to realize he’d created a chocolate that tasted far smoother and richer than ever before, owing to the cocoa butter mixing evenly over granules of cocoa.

What is this process called (and why’s it called that)?

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Conching, so called because the rollers in the mixer (known as a conche) were initially shaped like conch shells