Lisa, the Kit Kat queen, has one more reason to come and visit from England during the holidays. Her favorite chocolate bar, the Orange Kit Kat, is finally here! I was paying my milk and orange juice at the d�panneur a few minutes ago, and a guy behind me was waiting to buy the new Kit Kat. Too bad the store was closing. I’ll go back tomorrow and give it a try.
Looks like there’s a real cult following for these chocolate bars. There are a lot of Web sites dedicated to the Kit Kat, and this one is even showing an orange PowerBook, I believe, getting friendly with the Orange Kit Kat. Nice match! Now THAT might be enough of a reason to switch.
I also found this info on some odd Nestl� Web site:
The chocolate crisp bar was made and originally launched in London and the South East of England in September 1935, and was called Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp. It only became ‘Kit Kat’ in 1937, two years before the Second World War.
Kit Kat was supposedly named after the Kit Kat club, an 18th Century Whig literary club. As the building had very low ceilings, it could only accommodate paintings which were wide and not very high. In the art world, these paintings were known as ‘kats’. It’s believed that Kit Kat derived its name from paintings, which had to be snapped off to fit into the rooms with the low ceilings.
Culture sometimes comes in very small and sugary packages…
So when are we going to see the Strawberry and yes, the Banana Kit Kat in Canada?
