About Nestlé KitKat Advent Calendar
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The story of Nestlé KitKat Advent Calendar
One door a day, allegedly
You open one door a day. That is the rule, and everyone knows somebody who broke it by the fourth of December. A KitKat advent calendar turns the countdown to a British Christmas into a small daily negotiation with yourself, and the KitKat behind each door is the same one you snapped in half at school, at work and on the bus home. For anyone spending Christmas in Canada with home a long way off, it is a familiar bit of December, one door at a time.
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A wafer from York
KitKat began life in 1935 as Rowntree's 'Chocolate Crisp,' a four-finger wafer bar, and was renamed Kit Kat within a couple of years. Rowntree's goes back further still, to a cocoa and chocolate business Henry Isaac Rowntree bought in York in 1862. And the bar has not wandered far from home. Kit Kat is still produced at Nestlé's factory on Haxby Road in York, which is a nice thing to know when you are eating one a very long way from Yorkshire.
How the Swiss got involved
Henri Nestlé was a German-born pharmacist who settled in Vevey, Switzerland, and developed a powdered milk-based infant food, Farine Lactée, in 1867. The modern Nestlé company was formed in 1905, when his firm merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. Meanwhile, Rowntree's merged with Mackintosh's of Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1969: the firm behind Quality Street. Nestlé bought Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, and with it came Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties, Rolo and Aero.
Have a break, have a door
The 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat' slogan dates to the late 1950s, and most British people can finish it before you get to the second half. It suits December rather well. A calendar like this is a small break every morning on the way to Christmas Eve, and it makes a good Christmas gift for someone who misses home. Or for you, quietly, if last year's went missing by the twelfth.