About Nestlé KitKat Orange Santa
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The story of Nestlé KitKat Orange Santa
The Santa with a famous surname
Every stocking needs a chocolate Santa, and every family has someone who eats theirs before breakfast. This one wears a name you grew up with. KitKat, dressed as Santa, with orange right there in the title. You know the slogan. Have a break. You can finish it yourself, and you probably just did. On Christmas morning a familiar wrapper at the bottom of the stocking says a British Christmas louder than any carol, especially when home is a long way off.
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Born a chocolate crisp
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. Not a bad upgrade. The firm behind it traces its roots to a cocoa and chocolate business Henry Isaac Rowntree bought in York in 1862, and Smarties came from Rowntree's in 1937. Kit Kat is still produced at Nestlé's factory on Haxby Road in York, which is about as close to a hometown as a chocolate bar gets.
Two Yorkshire firms and a pharmacist
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. Over in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Mackintosh's launched Quality Street in 1936, named after a J. M. Barrie play. Mackintosh's merged with Rowntree's in 1969 to form Rowntree Mackintosh, and Nestlé acquired Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988: Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties, Rolo and Aero.
Have a break, have a Santa
The 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat' line dates to the late 1950s and is one of Britain's best-known confectionery catchphrases, which is why somebody always says it out loud the moment one appears. At Christmas the break is mostly the gap between the presents and the dinner. Wherever this Santa ends up, stocking or pocket, keep an eye on it. Nobody ever admits to eating someone else's. It is always the dog.