KitKat

[webofevil]

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:
  

Comments

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

All pies are savoury. Fact.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

And so it begins...

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

I'm getting t-shirts made of this one.

[(Anonymous)]

"Ceci".

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

That's what I said.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

"çeci", shurely?

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

Not on the capital C.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

Blimey, I didn't remember that. No wonder I got a D for my French A level.

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure it's true. I just said it so that I wouldn't need to change the icon again.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

Bah. You chancer. You can keep your rotten pie, or flan, or whatever it is.

[ex-cornfedpi814.livejournal.com]

It turns out it is true. I am teh Frenchness.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

I know it's taking pedantry to the nth degree, but - well, we're all about getting the pie/flan thing correct, right? Anyway, the cedilla may be left of a capital "C", but it doesn't have to be, and apparently this no more true of the cedilla than any other French accent (in the punctuation, rather than the Clouseau, sense).