KitKat

Last night I joined the select band of people who have enjoyed the exquisite pleasures of a waferless Kit-Kat. Don’t get me wrong—if they brought out an official waferless Kit-Kat tomorrow no-one would be the slightest bit excited. It’s not that good. It’s only the rarity, the almost forbidden-fruit quality, and the puzzling questions it briefly raises about how Kit-Kats are made in the first place that give them their star quality, although I also choose to believe it means I’ll now have seven years’ good luck.

But raise those questions it did, and, some brief research later, I had had them answered: Kit-Kat wafers are fired at enormous velocity into huge vehicle-mounted vertical panels of chocolate. It’s no surprise, therefore, that sometimes a wafer will miss.



It also turns out that, intent on not being outdone by Nestlé, Mars Inc. spent the 1980s concentrating on research and development, with impressive results: