Green tea weetabix or lemon flavoured crisps?

In the food world nothing is more humble than the simple Weetabix or the flavour of a nice packet of cheese and onion. It has recently emerged that across the globe the foods we know and love have been given a very unique twist to adapt to an ever changing population of food tastes.

Weetabix

Green tea flavoured Weetabix are to go on sale in China to appeal to the savoury tastes of the orient. The popular cereal brand is hoping to crack the market by adapting its original recipe that we know in the UK to that of green tea, which originated in China. 

KitKat

Have a break have a sweet potato KitKat, doesn’t really have the same ring to it does it? But in Japan these seem to be being snapped up everywhere. In Japan alone there are 80 flavours of KitKat to choose from including miso, Earl Grey tea, camembert and peach, putting our measly peanut butter and mint varieties to shame.

McDonalds  

A few years ago in the UK McDonalds launched a range of salads in Britain that left people wondering ‘what will they do next?’. Well in Canada and other countries where lobster is cheap and plentiful you can sample a McLobster, "It’s the perfect combination of diced celery, light salad dressing and shredded lettuce all on a soft roll. You’ll miss it when it’s gone, so catch it while summer’s here.” Who’d of thought?

Walkers Crisps

Here you can argue that we have a huge range of crisp flavours to suit everyone. Each year Walkers seem to run a competition to either get people to  make up their own crisp flavour or to try and guess a new weird and wonderful flavour with past examples including ‘Cajun squirrel’ and ‘Piri Piri pigeon’. Across the pond it seems that weird and wonderful flavours are the norm with lychee, lemon tea and kiwi crisps all being sold in the US.

Coco-Cola

Coke Blak, “Coke effervescence with coffee essence", basically fizzy coffee is sold in many European countries including France and Spain. This drink is something that would definitely give you that morning buzz! I can see a petition to get this in the UK sharpish.

Have you tried any of these weird and wonderful takes on our British classics, or have you tried anything I haven’t heard of? Please get in touch and let me know.