Nobody has ever snapped a Chunky in half to share. That is not what it is for.
The Nestlé KitKat Chunky Giant Carton is the big British box of the one you actually wanted: one fat finger, no polite breaking into four, straight in.
If you grew up with a Chunky in your school bag, or rattling about in the car on a long drive up the motorway, you already know how the first bite goes. You also know you bite the top off first, whatever anyone says.
A giant carton means you do not have to ration it. You will anyway, for about a day.
Frequently asked questions about Nestlé KitKat Chunky Giant Carton
Q: Is this the UK KitKat Chunky?
A: It is, the British one in the British carton, and it ships to you from within Canada. No suitcase smuggling required.
Q: How big is the giant carton?
A: It is a 320g carton, so a good deal more Chunky than the single bar you would grab at a petrol station. Plan accordingly, or do not, and enjoy it.
Q: Does it make a good gift?
A: Very much so, especially for someone in Canada who still talks about the Chunky they had on the way home from school. It is the sort of present that gets opened immediately.
Q: How should I keep it once it arrives?
A: Somewhere cool and dry, out of the sun and away from the heating. Hiding it from the rest of the house is optional but recommended.
More about Nestlé KitKat Chunky Giant Carton
In Britain the Chunky lives by the till in every newsagent, petrol station and corner shop. It is the one you grab when four thin fingers feel like too much faff and you just want one solid bar to get on with.
People in Canada go looking for it because it is the KitKat from home: the vending machine at work, the walk back from school, the bar a parent slipped into a packed lunch. Same name, same red wrapper, the one you remember.
This is the giant carton at 320g, so it is a cupboard job rather than a pocket one. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the sun and the radiator, and it will sit happily until someone finds it. It goes down well on a desk at work, on a film night, or posted to someone who has not had one in years.
It tends to end up in the same basket as a box of Yorkshire Tea and a bag of crisps from home, which is about the most British shopping list there is.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
Say "have a break" in a room full of Brits and somebody will finish it for you before you have closed your mouth. That line dates to the late 1950s, and it is one of Britain's best-known confectionery catchphrases for a reason. A Kit Kat was the lunchbox bar, the tea-break bar, the one snapped and handed over without a word. And everybody has a method. Chocolate off first, nibble the edges, straight in like an animal. Nobody ever changes method, and nobody ever agrees.
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Born in York, still in York
Kit Kat began life in 1935 as Rowntree's "Chocolate Crisp", a four-finger wafer bar, and was renamed Kit Kat within a couple of years. Sensible call. Rowntree's goes back further still: in 1862 Henry Isaac Rowntree bought a cocoa and chocolate business in York. And here is the bit that makes people smile: Kit Kat is still produced at Nestlé's factory on Haxby Road in York. Same city. Different century. Same argument about how to eat one.
A Swiss pharmacist walks into Yorkshire
The Nestlé half starts with Henri Nestlé, a German-born pharmacist who settled in Vevey, Switzerland, and developed a powdered milk-based infant food, Farine Lactée, in 1867. In 1905 his firm merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company to form the modern Nestlé. Over in Yorkshire, Mackintosh's merged with Rowntree's in 1969 to form Rowntree Mackintosh, and in 1988 Nestlé bought it, bringing Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties, Rolo and Aero into its British portfolio. Not a bad afternoon's shopping.
Good company in the cupboard
Kit Kat keeps respectable company. Smarties were introduced by Rowntree's in 1937, and Dairy Box was launched by Rowntree's in the 1930s as a boxed chocolate assortment. Quality Street was launched in 1936 by Mackintosh's of Halifax, West Yorkshire, its name taken from a J. M. Barrie play of the same name. Still, the Kit Kat is the everyday one: the desk drawer, the kettle on, the last piece that somebody swears they did not take.
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