I’ve been trying for the last six months or so to get ahold of European-wrapped Kit-Kat candy bars. I know they are wrapped and distributed by the Nestle company in Switzerland (and wrapped much differently than the Hershey company does in the US), but I need a way to contact someone who can get me these specially wrapped goodies. I’ve tried their 800 number and it didn’t work. Multiple searches for their website turned up fruitless. I’m beyond exhausting all the possibilities I see. I know what you’re thinking “gimme’ a break.” (Sorry, bad joke) but seriously, I’m at my wit’s end (yes I only have one–help me!
Well, you can try and contact Foreign Candy Company
They don’t appear to carry them but might know where you can get them.
After reading some search results it’s obvious that you aren’t the only person jonesing for these bars though.
<<<HIJACK>>> Since when do competing companies release the same brand-named candy bar in different countries? HUH? Wow- Nestle’ makes Kit-Kats in Europe, and Hershey’s makes ‘em here. I had no idea. So, it does beg the question- WHO OWNS KIT-KAT? I’d wager that the jonesing comes from the idea that Nestle’ milk chocolate has a VERY different tactile and lingual feel. It chews, smells and tastes very different than Hershey’s. ( I grew up in Philly, and so am legally bound to prefer Hershey’s). But, I do at least understand why there might be a preference. I’ll contact my people in the Swiss Confectioner’s Underground Militia ( S.C.U.M.) and see what I can see…
Cartooniverse
If you want to kiss the sky, you’d better learn how to kneel.
Isn’t anyone else curious to know what it is about European wrapping that makes such a difference? I sure am. zerO?
Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places
if you look at it right…
Don’t some of them have a golden ticket inside? Or am I confusing fiction and reality again. Too many chocolate bunnies…
The wrapping (from what I understand) is done with paper and string only. I’m trying to get ahold of them for my girlfriend, who lived in Europe for most of her life and says that she misses the European Kit-Kats. “They just aren’t the same…” she always says as she drifts off. As for who owns them, I called the Hershey helpline and they said Nestle owns the rights to the recepie and Hershey is liscensed to use it. Why Nestle USA doesn’t just use their own freakin recepie is beyond me but…
and thanks for the help guys
I just got back from Europe a week ago, and the Kit-Kat bars we saw in Italy looked exactly like the North American wrapped versions - foil with a paper sleeve.
Really savage? Hey, Weren’t you just in Europe?
Your girlfriend is right, chocolate in Europe does taste better. I don’t know if they use less processing/preservatives (no FDA standards?) or just better ingredients. Try and get ahold of a Cadbury Flake. Heaven!
Toblerone is available stateside. Maybe it’ll take the edge off.
I was just, uh, nowhere near your neighborhood - Campbell Scott
FYI Kit-Kats were originally made by Rowntree in England where they have been the most popular confection for many decades. Nestle bought Rowntree in the late 80s or early 90s when the globalization of the brand took place. I would suspect that the type of chocolate used follows local custom so continental Europe will have diferent Kit-Kats to us in the UK whilst you in the US will have to put up with your own inferior stuff 
Do you have the new style big Kit-Kats? Just a single giant finger. Yummy!
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a LION bar. They’re by Cadbury, and they’re like a Kit Kat with a 1,000 Grand bar wrapped around it.
I had them once stateside about 15 years ago, and it was called a “Big Cat” bar.
Here in Redmond there’s a little store called The British Pantry that sells all sorts of Euro candy. Yummeh in mah Tummeh!
Leslie Irish Evans
Leslie Irish Evans’ Home Page
My Fiance (canadian) loves these little chocos called “smarties”, or something like that…just like M&M’s I thought, but they ARE somewhat better…
PS, what was the name of that other Kit-Kat, the all choco one that “tamed the choco beastie in you”? What happened to it?
Well ,I’m amazed (easily I suppose)that at least some US folk find British chocolate preferable to yours.
When I visited the US it seemed to me that everything was real, as in real orange juice real ice-cream, real burgers and real size pizzas and steaks.
All our stuff in these categories was far inferior but now we import some of this-at a premium.
Just lately British choc has been under attack from Euro snobs who decided that it did not meet the standards required by label description legislation and threatened not to allow its sale outside the UK. Bloody peasants!
Finally an agreement was reached that altered the labelling slightly and guess what, UK choc is now a massively expanding product in Europe .Suspicians were raised that the continental choc industry was simply lobbying so as to protect its own markets .Methinks if Euro citizens hated our stuff so much then they would not be stuffing their faces full of it.
My fave is Galaxy choc but the Belgian stuff is a real treat to be taken very sparingly, that way it stays special.
If you can get your hands on it then you simply must try Thorntons chocolate my dahlings mmmmmmm Who cares about sex when you’ve got a mouth full of that!
(maybe I could combine the two hmmmmmm)