First off, don’t ask Harry Chapin to deliver them anywhere.
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Speaking of crushed KitKats, fun fact-- the insides of KitKat bars are made of the crushed-up remains of KitKat bars that were rejected on the asembly line.
It’s perhaps the world’s only recursive candy!
Just in case anybody else was confused as I was.
This passage is not a quote of something Zohran Mamdani said. It’s a quote of something SDMB poster Mighty_Mouse said in a discussion about Mamdani.
Now I am seeing stories that they were a special edition in the shape of an F1 car.
The Kit Kats or the bananas?
And “Mystery Flavor” Chupa Chups lollipops are made when production switches from one flavor to another, to use up the residue of the old flavor in the machine.
The next step is to acquire a couple thousand vending machines.
The molten chocolate used to cover lots of bars & nugggets and whatnot is recirculated. Liquid chocolate falls as a curtain as the goods are conveyed underneath them on a slatted or screened belt. The liquid chocolate that misses the goods (or drips off the goods) drops into a open tub below where it’s pumped back up top, rewarmed, and sprayed again on bars riding by later. So sorta recycled.
Solid chocolate confections like Hershey bars or the famous hollow or solid cast Easter bunnies get inspected at the end of the line and any defective ones get tossed aside to be dumped back into the melt tank at the head of the assembly line to be recast into new bars, bunnies, etc. So even more recycled.
Dum-Dums brand lollipops does that too.
As someone who has recently eaten a Kit Kat bar…they ain’t what they used to be.
(neither are Reese’s Cups)
mmm
Try again next year.
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I think if you have 12 tons of Kit-Kat bars that you’re putting somewhere, by defnitiion you’re lifting weights.
The Kit-Kats.
Agreed. I wonder if they’ve changed or if my tastes have changed.
Paulie Walnuts strikes again?
Take it across the border to Russia. The border is closed now coming into Poland, dunno about the other way, but they would have got out in time anyway.
I think that Augustus Gloop was behind the theft. He used the money he won suing Willy Wonka for safety violations to hire a crew of mercenaries and snag himself enough candy to last him for, er, at least several years, I would think.
Counterpoint: I hear there is a sudden demand for KitKat bars due to a recent supply chain interruption…
Or take a long break.
This made me curious.
Various sites / cites tell me annual KitKat production (and hence annual sales) is on the order of 5 billion bars. Some 400,000 were stolen. Assuming 24/7/365 production, that represents about 90 minutes’ worth of shiny fresh newly wrapped KitKats.
Now for sure there might be a local issue in whichever county / region / province those bars were destined for. But within a couple days a replacement truckload could be conjured up.
Of course if we start seeing a pattern of these thefts, maybe somebody is trying to corner the market a la the Hunt Brothers’ attempt on silver. Better hoard your own supply Kitkats now while you still can! 